Windows 8 RTM Setup hangs on the initial splash screen when trying to install. I'm trying to install the 64bit version of Windows 8 RTM.
The hardware is an Asus A8N-SLI Premium motherboard with an AMD 64 X-2 3800 processor. The video card is a Gigabyte 7600GS card, but other video cards have been tried as well. The motherboard has been stripped of all other hardware/cards, except for memory, a keyboard and an IDE DVD drive. I have even tried unplugging the hard drive (an IDE drive), since the install doesn't even get to the point where it's writing to the hard disk.
I have checked the hash of the download and burned a disk twice...I don't think it's a corrupted iso file issue or a bad disk.
Note: this same hardware runs Windows 7 Pro, 64bit without an issue.