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Please help: Installation stops at "Expanding Windows Files 0%"
Hello, this is driving me crazy so if you happen to know something or someone who knows something about this, please help:
this aftertnoon I tried to re-install some games on my desktop computer (a recently assembled computer with intel i3 cpu, kingston ddr 3 2gb memroy chip*2, western digital 1 TB HDD, and Pioneer DVD RW, running on windows 7 ultimate 32 bit) because I couldn't load my saved games properly, but I put my game disc in the DVD ROM, during the installation I had numerous instances of "corrupt data source" or "I/O Error" and the like. I had no such problem the first time I installed the games using these discs (about 1 month ago), I tried putting these discs in my other laptop everything went smoothly. I suspect it is something wrong with my OS so I started to re-install windows 7 (probably the worst mistake I made this week). i inserted the windows 7 disc, everything was fine at the beginning, computer loaded the files, went into installation screen, i selected the language & locations, accepted license agreement, selected the partition to install, then clicked next, this is where problem started: loading windows files finished immediatley, but expanding windows files took forever ! It stayed at 0% for like 10 minutes I thought maybe this is how it was supposed to be so I left it there and went to the market. I was back 1.5 hour later and it was at 1%. I thought this was rediculous so I powered off the machine and ran the installation disc again, same problem. I used the same disc on the same computer 2 months ago and everything was smooth! I tweaked my BIOS here and there and re-run the installation a few times the problem persisted. So if someone have experienced similar problems or know what caused this, please help. I suspect it's either a problem with the DVD ROM or memory chips, I'm considering buying new ones to replace them.
Forgot to mention, the computer was running smoothly before except for one minor issue: everytime I start the machine after it has been powered off for longer than 10 hours (estimated), it gave an error or blue screen while entering windows 7 welcome/logon screen. If it's only been powered off for a few hours, I don't get this problem. And when I get the problem, pressing 'reset' button only sends it in an endless loop of the same pattern, I had to power off and then power on again, then the computer runs smoothly like nothing ever happened. I've had this problem since day 1 (2 months ago) and tried numerous means but never managed to get rid of it. Because it wasn't too great an issue, and I couldn't even demonstrate it to my vendors because I bought parts and assembled them myself, and couldn't figure out which part is causing this (also because I have to leave it powered off for a fixed amount time and then press start for this problem to occur), I sort of learnt to live with it. But now i suspect it might also be the memory chips.
And my system specs is here:
Intel i3 CPU on Intel H55 Motherboard,
2 x Kingston DDR3 2GB Memory chips (which i suspect is causing the problem),
1 Western Digital 1TB HDD (SATA),
1 Pioneer DVD RW (IDE) ,
1 ATI HD5770 Graphic card (PCI-E)
Last edited by yangust; 05 Sep 2010 at 12:04. Reason: adding additional information