asus a8n deluxe sli install fails

Greetings,
I'm not sure how to get around this. This problem started with Beta 2.
I now cannot install Vista. I have tried upgrading from XP (MCE) by booting the DVD, or by booting to XP and then launching the installer. Every time I get through the process to where it's "completing the upgrade" (last line after "installing features") and the system hangs with the green bar about 75% complete. I've tried with SLI disabled in BIOS, enabled in BIOS, and with only one video card installed (nVidia 7800 series) (and the motherboard set to one video card). I've also attempted to install on this system to a fresh new hard drive (same hardware combinations as above) and have had no success. No devices are attached except for the monitor, mouse, and keyboard. I've also tried the latest production and latest beta BIOS.
Any ideas what to do/try next would be appreciated, I'm out of ideas.
Thanks, P

Well, you have done all you can, I can only recommend you report the issue to ASUS and file a feedback report using the following link and utility.
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"PeterC" wrote in message

Greetings,
I'm not sure how to get around this. This problem started with Beta 2.
I now cannot install Vista. I have tried upgrading from XP (MCE) by booting the DVD, or by booting to XP and then launching the installer. Every time I get through the process to where it's "completing the upgrade" (last line after "installing features") and the system hangs with the green bar about 75% complete. I've tried with SLI disabled in BIOS, enabled in BIOS, and with only one video card installed (nVidia 7800 series) (and the motherboard set to one video card). I've also attempted to install on this system to a fresh new hard drive (same hardware combinations as above) and have had no success. No devices are attached except for the monitor, mouse, and keyboard. I've also tried the latest production and latest beta BIOS.
Any ideas what to do/try next would be appreciated, I'm out of ideas.
Thanks, P

Odd problem there Peter. I also use the A8N-SLI Deluxe, but vista installed flawlessly. You using onboard audio? I think it gets disabled by putting a sound card in, so maybe try that if you are.
"PeterC" wrote:

Greetings,
I'm not sure how to get around this. This problem started with Beta 2.
I now cannot install Vista. I have tried upgrading from XP (MCE) by booting the DVD, or by booting to XP and then launching the installer. Every time I get through the process to where it's "completing the upgrade" (last line after "installing features") and the system hangs with the green bar about 75% complete. I've tried with SLI disabled in BIOS, enabled in BIOS, and with only one video card installed (nVidia 7800 series) (and the motherboard set to one video card). I've also attempted to install on this system to a fresh new hard drive (same hardware combinations as above) and have had no success. No devices are attached except for the monitor, mouse, and keyboard. I've also tried the latest production and latest beta BIOS.
Any ideas what to do/try next would be appreciated, I'm out of ideas.
Thanks, P

"Marauder" wrote:

Odd problem there Peter. I also use the A8N-SLI Deluxe, but vista installed flawlessly. You using onboard audio? I think it gets disabled by putting a sound card in, so maybe try that if you are.

OK, this tip pointed me in the right direction. After disabling SLI and the sound it still crashed at the same place to a clean drive (at least for the betas it would be nice to have more specific information displayed on where the install is working - base, network, desktop, whatever?!) so I ended up playing with multiple combinations of disabled devices and finally came up with: Disable SLI, 1384, and Marvell LAN. I had already disabled the nVidia and Silicon RAID options since this box only has one hard drive. Now upgrades and installs work.
Hopfully as more drivers are bundled into the distribution this kind of problem will go away....
Luck all.

"PeterC" wrote:

"Marauder" wrote:
Odd problem there Peter. I also use the A8N-SLI Deluxe, but vista installed flawlessly. You using onboard audio? I think it gets disabled by putting a sound card in, so maybe try that if you are.
OK, this tip pointed me in the right direction. After disabling SLI and the sound it still crashed at the same place to a clean drive (at least for the betas it would be nice to have more specific information displayed on where the install is working - base, network, desktop, whatever?!) so I ended up playing with multiple combinations of disabled devices and finally came up with: Disable SLI, 1384, and Marvell LAN. I had already disabled the nVidia and Silicon RAID options since this box only has one hard drive. Now upgrades and installs work.
Hopfully as more drivers are bundled into the distribution this kind of problem will go away....
Luck all.

I've running vista now as well, I removed one of my 6600 GT card, unplugged my sata raid, and turned off firewire, sound and sli in the bios.
Hardware is Asus a8n sli deluxe motherboard, 2gig corsair ram, 2x74 gig WD raptors in raid 0 (currently unplugged), a maxtor 120 gig hdd, 2 x leadtech 6600 gt tdh (one currently removed). I've tried installing nvidia's nforce 4 AMD chipset drivers and I get blue screens of death. (had to reinstall vista). Has anyone managed to successfully install the nvidia chipset drivers on vista64?
Cheers voigtstr

"PeterC" wrote:

"Marauder" wrote:
Odd problem there Peter. I also use the A8N-SLI Deluxe, but vista installed flawlessly. You using onboard audio? I think it gets disabled by putting a sound card in, so maybe try that if you are.
OK, this tip pointed me in the right direction. After disabling SLI and the sound it still crashed at the same place to a clean drive (at least for the betas it would be nice to have more specific information displayed on where the install is working - base, network, desktop, whatever?!) so I ended up playing with multiple combinations of disabled devices and finally came up with: Disable SLI, 1384, and Marvell LAN. I had already disabled the nVidia and Silicon RAID options since this box only has one hard drive. Now upgrades and installs work.
Hopfully as more drivers are bundled into the distribution this kind of problem will go away....
Luck all.

I've running vista now as well, I removed one of my 6600 GT card, unplugged my sata raid, and turned off firewire, sound and sli in the bios.
Hardware is Asus a8n sli deluxe motherboard, 2gig corsair ram, 2x74 gig WD raptors in raid 0 (currently unplugged), a maxtor 120 gig hdd, 2 x leadtech 6600 gt tdh (one currently removed). I've tried installing nvidia's nforce 4 AMD chipset drivers and I get blue screens of death. (had to reinstall vista). Has anyone managed to successfully install the nvidia chipset drivers on vista64?
Cheers voigtstr

I have the same motherboard and I am having the same issues that you were experiencing. What exactly is 1384?
"PeterC" wrote:

"Marauder" wrote:
Odd problem there Peter. I also use the A8N-SLI Deluxe, but vista installed flawlessly. You using onboard audio? I think it gets disabled by putting a sound card in, so maybe try that if you are.
OK, this tip pointed me in the right direction. After disabling SLI and the sound it still crashed at the same place to a clean drive (at least for the betas it would be nice to have more specific information displayed on where the install is working - base, network, desktop, whatever?!) so I ended up playing with multiple combinations of disabled devices and finally came up with: Disable SLI, 1384, and Marvell LAN. I had already disabled the nVidia and Silicon RAID options since this box only has one hard drive. Now upgrades and installs work.
Hopfully as more drivers are bundled into the distribution this kind of problem will go away....
Luck all.

1384=firewire
"Marc" wrote:

I have the same motherboard and I am having the same issues that you were experiencing. What exactly is 1384?
"PeterC" wrote:

"Marauder" wrote:
Odd problem there Peter. I also use the A8N-SLI Deluxe, but vista installed flawlessly. You using onboard audio? I think it gets disabled by putting a sound card in, so maybe try that if you are.
OK, this tip pointed me in the right direction. After disabling SLI and the sound it still crashed at the same place to a clean drive (at least for the betas it would be nice to have more specific information displayed on where the install is working - base, network, desktop, whatever?!) so I ended up playing with multiple combinations of disabled devices and finally came up with: Disable SLI, 1384, and Marvell LAN. I had already disabled the nVidia and Silicon RAID options since this box only has one hard drive. Now upgrades and installs work.
Hopfully as more drivers are bundled into the distribution this kind of problem will go away....
Luck all.