Recent content by BARFLY

Got another Vista disc and it worked. My disc looks almost mint yet it doesn't work. Can't believe after all the messsing about with drives, ram and bios that it turned out to be a damaged DVD. Thanks for the help.

Yeah it always freezes at the same spot. I've tried all combos of HDD and DVD drives and it's still the same. Thought about what you said about the Vista disc being bad and dug out an old copy of XP. As I type it seems to be installing ok after a sucessfull format. So that means the Vista disc...

First person to solve this gets sent some good karma.

Tried different makes of Ram some of which I bought just to rule out a faulty stick. The Vista disc is in fairly good nick so I don't think it's that either. It's driving me mad.

My first post, and it's a cry for help. Trying to install Vista with my new P5Q in place of my old Gigabyte DS4 on a new hard drive and I keep getting the same problem. I get past the 'Press any key to boot from CD' then onto 'Windows is loading files' and finally the Vista loading screen...