Asrock 939NF4G-SATA2 - Vista RTM Freezing on Expanding Files!!

I have just about given up now trying to install this Vista thing!
I could install it no problem on my Mrs's pc ( which is an old pc ),
where as mine it always freezes on 'Expanding Files'.
Sometime at 1%, 4%, 6%, 7% and 8%. What the hell is going on?
My system is all newish parts as follows...

AMD 3000+ 64bit 939 CPU.
Asrock 939NF4G-SATA2 Motherboard.
NVidia 256Mb Gfx card.
600Gb of Hard Drives.
Pioneer 111D DVD-RW Drive.
Samsung DVD-Rom Drive.
1Gb (2x512Mb) Kingston DDR400 Memory.

My Mrs's pc which it DID install on is as follows...

AMD 2000+ XP CPU.
Asus AV600 Board.
NVidia 256Mb Gfx card.
80Gb of Hard Drive.
Pioneer 109 DVD-RW Drive. (Which is about knackered!!)
512Mb Generic DDR333 Memory.

No help on the Asrock Site as far as I can see. They of course promote
another board of a similar name which they like to boast Windows Vista
capable. They don't put mine under that catagory!! :-(
I have tried so many things to install Vista it's unreal. Burned 4
different dvd disks. DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD+RW etc.etc. I have turned off
things in the Bios which I thought might affect it. I even attached my
Mrs's dvd-rw drive to mine just in case both my drives were no good!!
Nothing doing.

If it happens that this means I have to purchase another board to run
this OS, then I dread to see what bad headlines there is going to be
come January next year. As there are going to be thousands of people in
the same boat as me that will have spent their hard earned money on a
copy of Vista, only to find that they are unable to install it!

NOT GOOD.

Anyone got any ideas at all?

TIA.

Hmmm, what kind of hard drives do you have installed, and how many of them?
Also, what version is your nVidia card? How old is your DVD ROM?

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"Rua" <ruaprik@blox.com> wrote in message
news:zrKdnXmTAbnVPx3YnZ2dnUVZ8t3inZ2d@giganews.com ...
>I have just about given up now trying to install this Vista thing!
> I could install it no problem on my Mrs's pc ( which is an old pc ),
> where as mine it always freezes on 'Expanding Files'.
> Sometime at 1%, 4%, 6%, 7% and 8%. What the hell is going on?
> My system is all newish parts as follows...
>
> AMD 3000+ 64bit 939 CPU.
> Asrock 939NF4G-SATA2 Motherboard.
> NVidia 256Mb Gfx card.
> 600Gb of Hard Drives.
> Pioneer 111D DVD-RW Drive.
> Samsung DVD-Rom Drive.
> 1Gb (2x512Mb) Kingston DDR400 Memory.
>
> My Mrs's pc which it DID install on is as follows...
>
> AMD 2000+ XP CPU.
> Asus AV600 Board.
> NVidia 256Mb Gfx card.
> 80Gb of Hard Drive.
> Pioneer 109 DVD-RW Drive. (Which is about knackered!!)
> 512Mb Generic DDR333 Memory.
>
> No help on the Asrock Site as far as I can see. They of course promote
> another board of a similar name which they like to boast Windows Vista
> capable. They don't put mine under that catagory!! :-(
> I have tried so many things to install Vista it's unreal. Burned 4
> different dvd disks. DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD+RW etc.etc. I have turned off things
> in the Bios which I thought might affect it. I even attached my Mrs's
> dvd-rw drive to mine just in case both my drives were no good!!
> Nothing doing.
>
> If it happens that this means I have to purchase another board to run this
> OS, then I dread to see what bad headlines there is going to be come
> January next year. As there are going to be thousands of people in the
> same boat as me that will have spent their hard earned money on a copy of
> Vista, only to find that they are unable to install it!
>
> NOT GOOD.
>
> Anyone got any ideas at all?
>
> TIA.

Sounds like your using alot of power.

Try using One hard drive
One DVD Rom
and if you have alot of fans, unplug some of them.

"Rua" wrote:
> I have just about given up now trying to install this Vista
> thing!
> I could install it no problem on my Mrs's pc ( which is an old
> pc ),
> where as mine it always freezes on 'Expanding Files'.
> Sometime at 1%, 4%, 6%, 7% and 8%. What the hell is going on?
> My system is all newish parts as follows...
>
> AMD 3000+ 64bit 939 CPU.
> Asrock 939NF4G-SATA2 Motherboard.
> NVidia 256Mb Gfx card.
> 600Gb of Hard Drives.
> Pioneer 111D DVD-RW Drive.
> Samsung DVD-Rom Drive.
> 1Gb (2x512Mb) Kingston DDR400 Memory.
>
> My Mrs's pc which it DID install on is as follows...
>
> AMD 2000+ XP CPU.
> Asus AV600 Board.
> NVidia 256Mb Gfx card.
> 80Gb of Hard Drive.
> Pioneer 109 DVD-RW Drive. (Which is about knackered!!)
> 512Mb Generic DDR333 Memory.
>
> No help on the Asrock Site as far as I can see. They of course
> promote
> another board of a similar name which they like to boast
> Windows Vista
> capable. They don't put mine under that catagory!! :-(
> I have tried so many things to install Vista it's unreal.
> Burned 4
> different dvd disks. DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD+RW etc.etc. I have turned
> off
> things in the Bios which I thought might affect it. I even
> attached my
> Mrs's dvd-rw drive to mine just in case both my drives were no
> good!!
> Nothing doing.
>
> If it happens that this means I have to purchase another board
> to run
> this OS, then I dread to see what bad headlines there is going
> to be
> come January next year. As there are going to be thousands of
> people in
> the same boat as me that will have spent their hard earned
> money on a
> copy of Vista, only to find that they are unable to install
> it!
>
> NOT GOOD.
>
> Anyone got any ideas at all?
>
> TIA.

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That is highly suggestive of a hard drive or memory problem, or possibly a
cooling fan failure. The file expansion process taxes your system more than
just about anything else you can do with it, and will find hardware faults
and crash handsomely to let you know. ;-)

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"Rua" <ruaprik@blox.com> wrote in message
news:zrKdnXmTAbnVPx3YnZ2dnUVZ8t3inZ2d@giganews.com ...
>I have just about given up now trying to install this Vista thing!
> I could install it no problem on my Mrs's pc ( which is an old pc ),
> where as mine it always freezes on 'Expanding Files'.
> Sometime at 1%, 4%, 6%, 7% and 8%. What the hell is going on?
> My system is all newish parts as follows...
>
> AMD 3000+ 64bit 939 CPU.
> Asrock 939NF4G-SATA2 Motherboard.
> NVidia 256Mb Gfx card.
> 600Gb of Hard Drives.
> Pioneer 111D DVD-RW Drive.
> Samsung DVD-Rom Drive.
> 1Gb (2x512Mb) Kingston DDR400 Memory.
>
> My Mrs's pc which it DID install on is as follows...
>
> AMD 2000+ XP CPU.
> Asus AV600 Board.
> NVidia 256Mb Gfx card.
> 80Gb of Hard Drive.
> Pioneer 109 DVD-RW Drive. (Which is about knackered!!)
> 512Mb Generic DDR333 Memory.
>
> No help on the Asrock Site as far as I can see. They of course promote
> another board of a similar name which they like to boast Windows Vista
> capable. They don't put mine under that catagory!! :-(
> I have tried so many things to install Vista it's unreal. Burned 4
> different dvd disks. DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD+RW etc.etc. I have turned off things
> in the Bios which I thought might affect it. I even attached my Mrs's
> dvd-rw drive to mine just in case both my drives were no good!!
> Nothing doing.
>
> If it happens that this means I have to purchase another board to run this
> OS, then I dread to see what bad headlines there is going to be come
> January next year. As there are going to be thousands of people in the
> same boat as me that will have spent their hard earned money on a copy of
> Vista, only to find that they are unable to install it!
>
> NOT GOOD.
>
> Anyone got any ideas at all?
>
> TIA.