black screen after booting vista dvd

Hi, everyone,
I hope someone can help me. I have a HP t.3360 nl (Pavilion) PC: Intel Pentium 4 processor 517 1 GB DDR2-SDRAM 200 GB (7200 RPM) including 6gb partition for system restore 1 DVD drive 16x 1 DVD writer 16x
Anyway when I boot with the vista dvd I see a black screen and at the bottom the message: "copying files". Also a steadily filling horizontal bar. When the bar is full the screen "blinks" twice and I get a black screen. I waited for 3 hours but nothing happens.
When installing from within XP everything goes OK: installing files, decrompressing files, etc. Then the PC reboots into a black screen which remains for 3 hours with nothing happening. After those 3 hours I simply give up that installation.
I tried burning the DVD at slower speeds, thinking it might be the dvd, but to no avail. I also used a virtual dvd drive with the iso image but still the same problem.
At one point I installed VMware and did the installation on a virtual machine. It worked but only when I used the iso image in the dvd drive.
Hope that someone has a good suggestion.
Regards,
Marc