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I have already checked my HDD with seatools. My hdd is Barracuda 7200.10.
What is irritatingly surprising is that XP installs and runs very smoothly, but not these installations.

I have check the hardware and all of them are easily compatible with Vista.

This is really strange. You mentioned having 3gb of ram. Does the BIOS detect the complete 3gb?

Yes, it does. Even windows does that.
I will post my hardware configuration here :
1) Mobo : MSI K9N Neo V3, nVidia 560 chipset.
2) Processor : AMD Athlon X2 5000+.
3) HDD : a) Seagate Barracude 7200.10 SATA 250 GB ( here is where Windows goes )
b) Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 IDE 250GB. This is where Linux goes.
4) RAM : 2 X 1GB Dynet 667 MHZ DDR2.
1 X 1GB Transcend 667 MHZ DDR2.
Total 3 GB.
5) Optical Drive : LG DVD writer.
6) Graphics Card : Point-Of-View 7300GT 512 MB DDR2.

One more thing I would like to tell is that while I was trying to play UnderCover, the machine would just hang up for a moment or two and then restart.

Is all this installation error becasue of RAM ?

It could be because of the RAM, but if the ram is being detected then there should be no problems with it. How many slots does your MoBo have for RAM?

Also is Linux already installed on the machine?

Maybe, just maybe, you should unplug the 3(b) HDD and try again to install Vista.
IDE somehow always shows up at the top of a heap. SATAs follow.

4 slots. Initially when I had not installed the transcend module, the RAM was in dual channel mode. After installation of Transcend module, its no longer in dual channel mode.

Yes linux is installed in ide drive, but whenever I am installing either Linux of windows, I disconnect the other hard drive.

Whenever I am installing either Linux of windows, I disconnect the other hard drive.

@vikram_d, anupmathur:
I have tried various combination with ram configuration. Keeping those two dynet in dual channel while installation, keeping one dynet and transcend in single channel, only one dynet, only one transcend, but no success till now.

I am struck with a machine that is now only XP machine. Linux is also not working properly.

Are all the RAM slots the same colour or are they different in colour?

When you change the RAM, are there any BIOS settings that need to be altered? Maybe, BIOS needs to confirm the change before accepting it.

I would feel that the dynet RAM in dual channel mode should be the best.
Please confirm that BIOS acknowledges this mode.

NO they are of different color for dual channel configuration.
The colors are
1) Green
2) Orange.

Whenever the Ram is shifted to dual channel mode, BIOS comes to know about it. I need not alter anything.

@anupmathur, vikram_d :
I have been keen on hardware, but this time I am not able to trace the problem. What are you able to foresee as reason of this problem.

I am assuming the 2 dynets modules are plugged into similar colour ports and the transcend is connected to one port of the other colour.

If not try this configuration. Put both the dynets on the green ports and the transcend on the orange port and try. Also try vice versa of this. Dynets on orange and transcend on green.

All these have been attempted. But still I am not able to install Vista.
In fact I was so irritated that I tried installing Vista with only one single module of Transcend, but still it would not install.
This is very annoying and weird behavior from my computer.

Hi, the green & orange slots indicate channels A or B respectively. With MSI, the channels are usually printed on the boards themselves.

Have you tried getting the install done on just 1 GB (i.e. single-channel mode) possibly using Dynet ?

P.S. - Very many years ago we ran into a peculiar problem with a network engine on which we could install Win2K only if the RAM wasn't Transcend !?! :)

As mentioned earlier, I have tried installing even with 1GB ram and the module was first trancend, then Dynet and again Dynet, so total three times I tried installing with one gb modules and each time the module would be different.

I am aware of the dual and single channel, and again I repeat, I have tried each and every available and possible combination.

Small confession.
Normally due to ram divider, the 667 mhz ram was running at 333mhz ( came to know about this from CPU-Z ). BIOS showed 667. I overclocked the RAM to 802 in BIOS ( cpu-z was reading 400 mhz ). Is it that the RAM chipset is spoiled ?

Where does the Windows installation hang / crash exactly? If i remember right, there will be a log file in the root of the drive Windows is being installed.

Try installing with minimal hardware - least possible hardware combo, no add-on cards or USB devices. And reset the BIOS to fail-safe defaults (or equivalent) if available.

I would say it is one piece of hardware that is biting your butt, as Fedora, Vista, as well as 7 dont install smoothly...

As mentioned earlier, the installation will hang just after the " Windows is loading files ". Sometimes even the menu where we select the language,etc. wont come. Sometimes, it does come, but after the installation starts, it just hangs up.

I have tried so many combinations with hardware, like keeping only one ram module, disconnecting extra DVD writer, etc. Generally when I am installing any OS, I make sure that there are only three connections from mobo back panel. They are mouse, keyboard and monitor from graphics card. Nothing else, not even the network cable.

I dont know what is exactly wrong with my hardware configuration that itself above average IMO. The most surprising bit is that I am able to install and run XP with all 3GB of Ram and I even tried installing with network cable, usb devices plugged in and still the installation went through easily.

I dont think that MSI mobos are not good and this one is rock stable with XP. I think its my nVidia chipset that is playing spoilsport.

Any idea about nVidia MCP65 giving these errors/problems ?