At long, long last I was ready to install Vista 64-bit build 5342. So I booted from the CD, got "Loading files", then the animated progress bar for about 10 seconds, then after that a black screen with the HDD light on constanly, whereupon it stayed like that until I got fed up and did a hard reset. So I thought I'd try build 5308 just to see if it was a bad download or a bad burn and I got exactly the same thing.

Any ideas? I was so looking forward to trying 64-bit Vista on a dual core 64-bit PC.


AMD X2 4400+ CPU
Asus A8N-SLI Premium mobo
2GB Crucial PC3200 RAM
Gainward 7800GT graphics card