Longhorn Install hangs...

[Brewzzin]

I tried installing longhorn 5048, but the damn thing hangs everytime at the setup screen that says it may take an hour. Most of the time it just sits there, with the progress bar moving but no hard drive activity. I thought because it says it may appear to hang, that it was fine, but I let ti sit for three hours last night with nothing. Most of the sites I read say it finishes in about 20 mins. One time it actually froze. But, it never makes it past that screen.

I know I know, its Pre-Beta...just wanted to see what its all about and was wondering if anyone else came across this issue.

[BoundToEarth]

I heard that the new install does that sometimes. Depending on your machine your trying to install on. They said they restarted it and it finished well so I don't know what else to say.

[Brewzzin]

Yea...I've restarted it many times. I started from scratch three times I think, and tried to restart a couple times for each. Kinda sucks...

[Rix]

Just leave it..it says at the bottom somthing like 'Although Setup may appear to hang it is still running', it also says Alt + Tab into cmd and run taskmgr to see if there is activity.

[Brewzzin]

Yea...I did that. It was still responding, but nothing was happening. No activity.

[Shagin099]

yeah, same experiance here... left it for 4 hours myself... and restarted it from scratch 3 times as well... dunno whats going on with it, after it does the resolution stuff it should end setup.exe and run some other crap, but instead for me setup.exe drops from 150mb ram to like 10, and no cpu and no HD activity... dunno why

[Brewzzin]

Exactly same thing I was thinking. My setup.exe is running at about 370MB's Memory, then it freezes for a couple seconds and it drops to 8MB's. After that, I figured setup should end, but it doesn't. Just sits there with 99 CPU Usage on The System Idle task and no HD activity. ****es me off...but I wasn't expecting much from it.

[PC_Xtreme]

Exactly same thing I was thinking.  My setup.exe is running at about 370MB's Memory, then it freezes for a couple seconds and it drops to 8MB's.  After that, I figured setup should end, but it doesn't.  Just sits there with 99 CPU Usage on The System Idle task and no HD activity.  ****es me off...but I wasn't expecting much from it.

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32-bit or 64-bit?

[huFFamOOse]

Mine hangs too, but after it restarts and tries to enter the Longhorn setup. Just a black screen and no activity, I gave up trying :(

[Brewzzin]

32-bit I'm running an Athlon 64 3500+ though. Possible problem maybe?

[PC_Xtreme]

32-bit  I'm running an Athlon 64 3500+ though.  Possible problem maybe?

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I'm not 100% sure, but have you tried installing the 64-bit version?

[Brewzzin]

No I haven't...maybe I'll check it out. Was there a 64-bit version actually?

[Lee G. Veteran]

Mine was on that screen for only half an hour :/ :)

[trance]

Update your bios if you can, and unplug any periphs you might have.

[PC_Xtreme]

Update your bios if you can, and unplug any periphs you might have.

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The bios should be fine concidering his spec, his machine seems pretty up-to-date.

The periphs bit is a good idea though. Now if you have time you could try stripping your machine down to its basics(Gfx card, moniter, mouse and keyboard) if this works then add 1 periph at a time.

Hope it works for you...

[Brewzzin]

Ya know...I never even thought of that. Thanks. I might try it out. I'll start with the easy stuff, like USB. I had issues with that in the past.

Thanks.

[wctaiwan]

Isn't Longhorn Support banned?

(No offense, I'm just curious)

EDIT: Never mind. I'm stup*d.

[Brewzzin]

I got it installed. It was my USB Printer.

[PC_Xtreme]

Cool i'm glad to of helped.

[Post-It Note]

Mine stops installing too. In fact, the mouse and keyboard stops working, although it does respond to caps lock and the such. I'll try installing again but this time removing un-needed peripherals.