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The Usual Suspect, infinite reboot loop
I'm building a computer myself and I can't for the life of me get windows 7 to install. Here is my configuration and what I've tried..
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard Rev 2.0, BIOS version “FA”
Processor: Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz 8MB LGA 1366 L3 Quad Core Desktop Processor - BX80601930
Memory: Corsair XMS3 6GB DDR3 SDRAM Memory Module - 6GB (3 x 2GB) - 1600MHz DDR3-1600/PC3-12800 - DDR3 SDRAM 9-9-9-24 version 2.3a
Optical Drive: ASUS Black 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA 24X DVD Burner - Bulk - OEM
Power Supply: OCZ Technology GameXStream 850W ATX12V & EPS12V Power Supply
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS 500 GB - Hard Drive – Bulk
Graphics Card: GALAXY 70XKH3HS8GUX GeForce GTX 470 Graphics Card - PCI Express 2.0 x16 - 1.25 GB GDDR5 SDRAM
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 1-Pack for System Builders – OEM
Case: Cooler Master HAF 922 RC-922M-KKN1-GP Chassis - Mid-tower - 10 Bays – Black
What I first did to install:
I change the bios to boot from the Optical Drive
Put the Windows 7 CD into the optical drive.
Follow the on screen instructions for the windows install.
Windows copies the files, extracts and installs. The system reboots. When Windows attempts to start for the first time the windows logo comes up and does its animation. The system then reboots. The screen comes up that tells me windows didn’t start properly and do I want to try safe mode, etc etc. If I do safe mode drivers scroll until it gets to disk.sys. At this point it freezes for a minute or two and reboots.
Things I’ve tried:
I have pared down to 1 stick of 2 GB of the ram
I’ve tried using both of the other sticks of ram (individually) in case I had a bad stick
I’ve tried with an older ATI PCI video card in case it was a video card compatibility issue
I’ve tried reformatting and deleting the system partition and reinstalling
I’ve tried reformatting from another working computer and reinstalling
I’ve tried many windows repairs, often it says it can’t fix it, or tries something and restarts. Once it was “repairing disk errors” and it did that in about a minute. Didn’t work. Othertimes it gives me a failure during setup, tries to fix it, didn’t work.
I’ve reset the bios to optimized
I’ve tried manually changing the multiplier of the ram in the bios.
After about 25 -30 reboots bios resets and repairs it finally looked like it was working, did some more installation stuff, restarted, and started the damn reboot sequence over and over… Now when I run in safe mode the last line to come up is Loaded: \windows\system32\drivers\Classpnp.sys
Looks like it made it a step farther, for no reason, I really didn’t change anything except repeated attempts. Many more attempts at repairs and resets haven’t gotten any further.
I’m debating memtest86+ to test the ram, but I think it’s working fine, hard to believe all 3 would be broken.
Could it be a sata issue? My hard drive is supposed to work with no problems for windows 7.