installation won t start booting dvd

Whenever I boot from the official Windows Beta 2 DVD from Microsoft, I get the "Windows is loading files..." screen. However, after this is finished, I get the windows vista blue background (with my cursor) and then everything just stops. It sits on the blue background for hours. Any help would be appreciated.
Note: I have also tried installing through windows XP, but when the computer restarts...I get a similar situation. So there is obviously a problem loading the DVD on startup. Perhaps because I'm on a laptop?

I have the exact same problem on a brand new desktop with AM2 Socket, AMD 64X2 4400 processor. i would really appreciate some suggestions too.
"ironj221" wrote:

Whenever I boot from the official Windows Beta 2 DVD from Microsoft, I get the "Windows is loading files..." screen. However, after this is finished, I get the windows vista blue background (with my cursor) and then everything just stops. It sits on the blue background for hours. Any help would be appreciated.
Note: I have also tried installing through windows XP, but when the computer restarts...I get a similar situation. So there is obviously a problem loading the DVD on startup. Perhaps because I'm on a laptop?

I have the exact same problem on a brand new desktop with 300 G hard drive and dual AMD processor. I would really appreciate any suggestions too.
"ironj221" wrote:

Whenever I boot from the official Windows Beta 2 DVD from Microsoft, I get the "Windows is loading files..." screen. However, after this is finished, I get the windows vista blue background (with my cursor) and then everything just stops. It sits on the blue background for hours. Any help would be appreciated.
Note: I have also tried installing through windows XP, but when the computer restarts...I get a similar situation. So there is obviously a problem loading the DVD on startup. Perhaps because I'm on a laptop?

try removing extra devices: i.e usb, cd drives and the like. I never could get mine to install ,just froze , until i remoced my secound cd drive vista install fine now every time "ironj221" wrote:

Whenever I boot from the official Windows Beta 2 DVD from Microsoft, I get the "Windows is loading files..." screen. However, after this is finished, I get the windows vista blue background (with my cursor) and then everything just stops. It sits on the blue background for hours. Any help would be appreciated.
Note: I have also tried installing through windows XP, but when the computer restarts...I get a similar situation. So there is obviously a problem loading the DVD on startup. Perhaps because I'm on a laptop?

I had a crazy idea of leaving it on overnight to see what happens, and it worked! It took about 2 hours to load the installation screen, who knows why! Anyway, now I have other problems now that it is installed...
"Volon" wrote:

try removing extra devices: i.e usb, cd drives and the like. I never could get mine to install ,just froze , until i remoced my secound cd drive vista install fine now every time "ironj221" wrote:
Whenever I boot from the official Windows Beta 2 DVD from Microsoft, I get the "Windows is loading files..." screen. However, after this is finished, I get the windows vista blue background (with my cursor) and then everything just stops. It sits on the blue background for hours. Any help would be appreciated.
Note: I have also tried installing through windows XP, but when the computer restarts...I get a similar situation. So there is obviously a problem loading the DVD on startup. Perhaps because I'm on a laptop?