This has in past proven to be an invaluable technique. The rest of the install went off without a hitch, and I've spent the day putting the final touches of what is intended to be a Christmas present for my Dad - his new photoshop machine.īasically, the underlying solution appeared to be for me to stop interfering and stay in my lane. I can't say how long it actually took, but when I came back to check on it this morning, it had unglued itself and had proceeded on to the following step. So this time, even though I had by this point already been staring at the stationary 'processing circle' for at least 20 minutes (and had previously let it run for 40 minutes with no signs of life) I simply left it overnight this time.

No change. Except, as Radium_Angelpointed out to check, it wasn't actually hanging at this stage - the keyboard was still fully responsive, and there was occasional activity on the USB and HDD LEDs, even if the UI gave every indication that it had halted mid-process. I made the above changes, restarted, and. it bloody well hung again. Plugged in the network cable (I had previously been installing solely off of the USB key) Memtest86's the RAM (came back fine) ( StDragon) Off of the basis of several suggestions above - and thank you all for your help - I made a few small changes:ĭisabled the XMP profile on my RAM to bring the speed back down during installation. Thought I'd report back in, both to close off the topic, but also add the solution should anyone else find them in a similar situation, because we are now up and running!

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