Trying to install Vista 5342 on the hardware listed below. The install starts and does the copy of all the files from the DVD. When Vista then reboots, I get the starting Windows screen, and then my monitor just flashes for lack of a better turn. It LOOKS like the screen is powering off and on, but the power light doesn't flicker in the least. Any thoughts on this?

Intel 848 chipset motherboard
Celeron D 3.06 Ghz
1 Gb PC400 RAM
2 hard drives, both ATA/133
-Drive 1: Windows XP SP2
-Drive 2: Windows Vista
Radeon 9600 Pro 8x AGP Video Card

Using BIOS to select my boot drive.

how long did you wait?

when i installed it, it copied files, started to flash, restarted, and then took like 5 minutes to start up completely.

i read somewhere that the initial boot of 5342 was alot slower than the rest.
try it again and see what happens

Waited over an hour. Hard drive light occasionally flashed.

i had the same problem with 5308 on my
inspiron 8600
pentium m 1.8ghz
1024 mb ram
40 gb hd

i know its been said a hundred times over but i find it quite funny that osx runs much better on my system than vista does

I was able to fix the problem, hope this helps others.

My video card in this system was an 8x AGP Mad Dog Radeon 9550. I had flashed this to a 9600 Pro BIOS. As a last ditch effort I relashed back to the original BIOS. Sure enough, didn't even have to try a re-install. As soon as booting began on Vista, there were a few flashes lasting under 15 seconds total and the intsallation completed.