So I just had to prep my new computer and get vista and other applications installed. And the first attempt at installing pretty much failed. Expanding files was slow as hell and it eventually bluescreen'ed.

Why did this happen? Took me a long while to figure it out. I thought it was a configuration issue with the motherboard. Nope. Something was installed wrong. Nope. Bad DVD Drive? Nope.

It actually was the USB mouse I was using. A super old school Microsoft intellimouse explorer 3.0 was causing it to install super slow.

How did I figure this out? I attempted to install Vista 64-bit edition and it installed fast but I noticed the mouse wasn't working on it. The mouse didn't have the red LED on. I yanked the mouse out rebooted in Vista 32-bit edition and bam, installed correctly.