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    Black Screen On Vista Installation

    I am trying to install vista and get a black screen during the final restart, no hdd activity, nothing. I am trying to install it on a 3rd hard drive the other two have xp and the other is just for media storage.
    Can anyone help please?

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    Re: Black Screen On Vista Installation

    remove one of your sticks of ram. there is a bug with the vista installer when trying to install with more that 2Gb of ram
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