Hi. I am installing Vista on an HP Media Center PC. I have an NVIDIA 6800GS video card and 1 gb of ram. The installation was going very smooth. Copied files. Expanded Files. Installed upgrades and features. It had rebooted a couple times and was on the Completing Installation task. The screen flickered and went dark (like the machine was rebooting). It has stayed dark for quite a while now (over 15 minutes). There is still hard drive activity, so I was wondering if this is normal at the end of the Vista install, or if I should try rebooting. I don't want to interrupt it if it is still installing files.

Any help would be appreciated.

I am also using DVI output for video. It seemed to work fine throughout the install. Do I need to switch to svideo for Vista until I can select DVI?

Kevin

Try a clean install, seems to be the one tried and true method

download latest driver for Ur graphics card Nvidia
and burn a CD . Remember .iNF at the root of CD
at the installation process when u select drive to install
use intsall driver select apropiate driver and do installation normally

Ur Screen may flick but come after a time while

and installation goes smooth

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Another way
Boot in SafeMode Vista
and install Ur Grapichs driver get the fact.....
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the reason of this is WDDM driver form MS is not comaptible
for ur Graphics Card


Ramesh Kumar PiLani India

Ramesh K