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Installation Problem
Hi folks,
I thought that I would try last night to see if I could get W7 to install on my system, before I go ahead with the triple boot. I shrunk my C: drive, and created a blank partition to install W7 on. I didn't format this partition, so in effect it was a blank drive. I restarted the machine and allowed W7 to boot up from the DVD. On the install page, I selected Custom and W7 recognised the RAID array, meaning that there should be no problem driver wise. It correctly saw that Vista was in a partition of 650 GB, and the blank partition on which I was going to install W7.
So far, so good. I then selected the blank partition and W7 proceeded to commence installing. Again, no problems. It went through the first restart and came back to the installation routine with no problems. However, a couple of minutes or so after this restart, my monitor went blank. The mouse was still responding (lighting up when moved) and the keyboard was also responding (NumLock key operating and toggling the indicator). The system was still on, and the HDD activity light was still blinking. I should also point out that I had done nothing procedurally different to any of my previous OS installs - all peripherals except mouse, keyboard and monitor were switched off, although not unplugged. The power supply to my router was also switched off.
I waited a short while, and, because nothing was coming up on my monitor, I decided to restart my system using the Reset button. It then restarted, went back into the installation routine and basically said that there was an error and that it could not continue. This happened a couple of times, at which point I decided to boot back into Vista by pressing F8 during boot up to go to the W7 boot menu and then Esc to go to the OS selection menu. Once back in Vista, I deleted the W7 partition and expanded the Vista partition back to its original size. Vista now boots up as if nothing has changed.
I shall probably have another go at this tonight. What I want to know is this: Is this normal for W7 installation, and if so, how long roughly does this blank monitor phase last? If it is not normal, is it possible that my DVD is corrupted, bearing in mind that it got through the first phase as described above?
Just a thought. Would it matter which port on the graphics card the monitor is connected to?
Last edited by Dwarf; 23 Jan 2009 at 02:46. Reason: Added a thought.