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Win 7 installed perfectly. But will not boot.
Hi all,
My system config is:
- Intel Pentium D 925
- MSI G33M 7357 motherboard
- Transcend 2*1GB DDR2 800 + 2GB DDR2 800 RAM
- Western Digital 250GB SATA boot disk.
- Sony IDE DVD-RW
- CoolerMaster Case and CM 500W PSU.
The system was running XP SP2 very fine. Till, I decided to migrate to 7 and thats when the long story started. . .
To begin a clean install, I wiped my HDD (on another machine) using HDD Wipe.
Then i proceeded with installing Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit. The installation (took about 20 mins) proceeded smoothly. After finishing, when I try to boot my PC, it gets stuck on 'Starting Windows' screen. One interesting thing to note is that at this screen, till the animation (4 dots merging to form windows logo) is on, the HDD light on the case keeps flickering (i guess something is loading). After this point, the light stops and the screen is stuck here. I read online that first time might take time, so I tried leaving it on for about an hour too.
In BIOS, I have tried disabling the floppy drive, and on board stuff like firewire, LAN, sound. I did not try disabling USB cuz I have a USB keyboard and mouse.
I have absolutely no clue as to what must be going wrong. Can someone please help me out?
Razrman
P.S. I did run the Win 7 compatibility adviser and only went ahead when everything was fine.