Solved: I can't install Vista!

[Don_Yonda]

I'm trying to install Vista Ultimate on my computer. It installs normally untill it has to restart. It starts back up and starts to "finish the installation" (or something like that) but it freezes up after a few minutes and won't install further. If I restart at this point and try to boot from the hard disk (the one I just tried to install Vista on), it loads for ten seconds or so and then says that I need to restart the computer and reinstall Vista. If I boot from the Vista DVD and try to repair the installation, it says that it can't find any problems with it. I formatted the drive using another computer and tried again with the same results. I thought it might be a problem with my DVD drive because I recently got a new one, but I tried a different one and the same thing happened. I know my computer can handle Vista, so I doubt that's the problem. What's going on?

 

[Timmy69]

are you definitely sure that it froze up during the installation and that nothing is running in the back? as some vista installation seems to not respond, and then it come back up.

 

[Don_Yonda]

I was wondering that too, but I'm pretty sure it's frozen. It stops responding, and I can't move the mouse. I waited for a couple hours and it didn't do anything. In fact, it's frozen up right now and has been for the last hour or so.

 

[Cg13]

have you check your hard drive? how old is it? is there any bad sector on it? have you tried to change the vista dvd? is that dvd is unstracthed?

 

[lunarlander]

What peripheral cards do you have in the PC ? Try removig them and let the install work on the 'basic' PC and see if the install would finish that way.

 

[Don_Yonda]

I've got a 56k modem and a 9800GT Video Card. I was going to remove the video card, but my motherboard doesn't have integrated graphics so I can't. I'll try it without the modem though.