Re: Vista Install freezes at the end
 

Broadbandking,

Well done on the fix. The chances are it was the USB devices that caused the problem. You did the right thing though starting to disable/remove stuff to troubleshoot.

I had a similar problem recently after building myself a new box (Athlon X2, 4GB RAM, Asus board, Nvidia PCIe video card and Vista 64)

Vista 64 or Vista 32bit would not install, it started to drive me nuts.

To troubleshoot I tried Windows 7, XP, W2K3 and a couple of Linux distros to eliminate a hardware problem with the motherboard, CPU and RAM they all installed with no issues.

I then started disabling some of the onboard devices in BIOS. It finished up being the on board audio that was causing the problem. Vista installed when it was disabled, once the OS was on I re-enabled it an all was well.

Re: Vista Install freezes at the end
 

Works out it was the USB devices that was causing the issues as I put the memory back in my PC total 3Gb and Vista install worked.

Thank you everyone for your help.