Had the same problem. Burned 4 CD's to be sure. Ran CRC.EXE against both the ISO and the CD's. All valid. Ran the setup up until the point where it blacked out on an Intel machine with a Voodoo5 in it, no problems.
Did find something interesting. When I didn't load the HPT370 drivers (hitting F6 during install), instead of just a black screen, I'd get blinking, unreadable ASCII characters. After yanking everything out of my machine (except for the video card), I still had the same problem. In frustration, I hit my keyboard (not TOO hard) and I noticed that the pattern on the screen changed. <gasp!> It's alive! So... using what I remember from Beta 2 and my bazillion NT and Win2k installs, I go through the steps to create a 10Gig NTFS partition, and voila'! It worked! And once the GUI portion of the setup kicked in, it was back to normal.
Definitely seems to be a video issue of some sort.
Tom
