Win 7 32 bit Installation Freezing

I am running a custom built (myself) computer.

Asus P5n32 E Sli
NVidia 8800GT
Intel Q6600
WD Raptor 10k 72 GB
WD 250 GB
2GB OCZ Plat Ram (I got 4 but took 2 out for now)

This system no matter how many times I have burned Win7 or Vista, I get to the windows starting screen where the 4 colour window is flashing (looks like a waving flag) and after awhile it just freezes and will not go on from there.

Every other version of XP I have tried installs no problem. My DVD drive is fine, the Win7 ISO has not been touched by me and has been tested by thousands of people with all + feedback.

I would like to do a fresh install, but can't get past this. Any help? I am running the 1601 bios, its one of the newer stable releases for this board (back then), the newest bios is 1801 but not as good. I would much rather not lose my over clocking settings if possible.

Thanks in advance, Kevin.

Already tired, no luck

What build # & Version of the Win_7 ? 7600.XXXX
Where did you get the iso file from ? It has been Iso verifired, and from a very very legit source
How did you burn the DVD ? 4x with Nero
Any Over Clocking of ram or cpu ? There was, and I did take 2 gigs out
Suggestion, remove everything not essential to loading Win_7, from the system.


I got it to work. Before I even came back here to check up on replies, I was very impatient at 1am.

I took out my second HDD, removed 2 gigs of ram after the install since I kept blue screening for memory and pnf list errors. I updated my bios and removed the overclocking.

It made it to the blue window with the mouse then froze, I restarted and tried again and it loaded after about waiting 15minutes and I finally saw the install screen for the first time. The install was not to smooth and I had my doubts but it did make it through. How ever, since I was having blue screens every 2 minutes, it was a bitch to install drivers once windows was finally on. Most of the vista drivers did not work (there was only one actually designed for win7 that I could fine on nvidia) but restart after restart I was able to get them on and now windows runs really good.

Only crashed once since I got everything put on, all do to the updates. But I am loving it now and look forward to tweaking it.