installation reboot

I'm trying to install x64 on an IDE hd on my dfi nf4 ultra. The installation goes ok through all the steps until it needs to reboot. When it boots it gets to the end of the post screen and thats it. The curser blinks and the hd light is on but nothing happens. I've left it like this for hours but it stays the same. I've tried reinstalling it a few times but it's always the same. When I do reinstall it, it shows there are windows files on the drive and asks to rename them as old files but says nothing about a previous installation being in progress. Loading into xp on my sata drive I can see all the vista files.
Some people have suggested turning off raid and sata but I have already done this.

it's a PATA drive you're trying now ? Unless you get better ideas, here's some guess work of what might help: 1 Try see if there's BIOS updates then try reinstall if you updated bios
2 (if you don't mind losing all data on it) Try clipping the drive to 32 GB with jumper on the back. Delete the some 100 first "physical" sectors on it with disk editor. now try reinstall with no other hdd attached
since this is a beta test i'd rather though have the setup as normal as possible, let the stuff fail, gather all info possible and logs then fire off a well written report with Beta Client...
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I'm trying to install x64 on an IDE hd on my dfi nf4 ultra. The installation goes ok through all the steps until it needs to reboot. When it boots it gets to the end of the post screen and thats it. The curser blinks and the hd light is on but nothing happens. I've left it like this for hours but it stays the same. I've tried reinstalling it a few times but it's always the same. When I do reinstall it, it shows there are windows files on the drive and asks to rename them as old files but says nothing about a previous installation being in progress. Loading into xp on my sata drive I can see all the vista files.
Some people have suggested turning off raid and sata but I have already done this.