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Can't Install Win 7 - BSOD on Completing Installation
Having problems installing Win 7 on to my computer (Abit IP35-E mobo and on to a new 1TB HDD, which I partition to 50gig for the Windows drive). It can get as far as the completing installation part (which takes ages), and then it will quickly flash a blue screen for a second and then reboot with an unfinished install on the drive and thus of no use.
Tried pretty much everything other places have suggested, such as going down to 2gig ram (even swapped diff types in and out), unplugging all USB devices, unplugging every bit of hardware i can. Even tried installing on an older non-sata dvd drive but with no luck, and also tried a friends copy of Win 7 (32bit this time) and that didn't work either.
Only other suggestion that gets mentioned a lot is to try turning ACHI on, but seems my mobo doesn't support that.
Anyone have any other suggestions? And is there a way to check out what the bsod is reporting as the error? I've seen mention of dumps to a minidump folder, but there isn't one of those in the c/windows dir of the unfinished install.