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Windows 7 installation hanging/freezing
Hey...
When I'm trying to install Windows 7, it gets stuck, generally at "Completing installation", but sometimes before, at the first background screen... I can only get to "Completing installation" using the safe mode install. I've tried taking all unneccessary parts out, and used several different sticks of RAM.
I've also tried different hard drives, different DVDs (the current one is a retail disk), and a different graphics card. When it freezes, the monitor will just go black - into standby - and I can't turn it back on. I've tried disabling the USB ports in the BIOS.
Current Operating System, pre-install
• Do you have a single OS on your computer, are you planning on multi-booting with this installation? Yes, XP at the moment, and yes I'm planning on multi-booting.
• Are you multi-booting now? No
Current Hardware
• How many internal hard drives (HD) are connected to your system? 3
• Are they IDE or SATA? SATA
• How many DVD drives are connected to your system? 1
• Are they IDE or SATA Drives? SATA
• Any external HDs used? Nope
• Are they connected by USB or eSATA?
• Check Disk Management for any HDs listed with a yellow triangle and explanation point? Nope, all work fine.
• Is this a New Clean HD? The one I'm installing - or attempting to install - 7 on is, yes.
• Have you pre-formatted the HD? No
Windows 7 installation details
• Which build number and version of Windows 7 are you installing? Retail version, Professional.
• Are you installing a 32 bit (x86) or 64 bit (x64) OS? x64
• Where did you get the ISO file from? Retail disk.
Installation Media
• Using a USB memory key? Nope
• From another partition or hard disk? No
• From a DVD? Yep
The procedure and speed of burning the ISO to DVD has been the most frequent cause of installation failure
• How did you burn the DVD? Briefly describe the steps you used. Retail... :P
• Which ISO burning software did you use?
• At what burning speed and with Verify checked?
• A slow burn speed, lowest setting (example x4 speed), will ensure an error free burn.
Other
• Any Over Clocking of the RAM, CPU or GPU? No, not atm
The only real possibility I can think of right now is that the motherboard is dodgy... I read somewhere else a bit ago that one range of Gigabyte boards didn't like installing Windows 7, but can't remember exactly...
EDIT: Well... I just got further than I've been able to manage so far... got to the bit where I was choosing the time... then out of the blue the monitor turned off, same as before :|
EDIT 2: ...it's managed to install... I think... but it keeps on crashing frequently in Windows 7, so I've got a feeling that the RAM's dodgy... again..
Thanks in advance,
Barney
Last edited by barneyp; 01 Sep 2010 at 15:31.