Stuck at "Setup is loading" screen.. :-(

karthik3161999 said:

myzr7 said:

Have you tried to remove the 500 gig stick of ram. Win 7 has been seen to have problems with odd ram configs.

Hi.. guess you were referring to the 512 mb ram stick.. :) okay.., will do that as well.. try the installation again and post back...

Yes thats right. Sorry for any confusion. hope it works for you

Sorry this has not worked for you! In regards to your TV Tuner did you remove this in add and remove programs and then reinstall?

karthik3161999 said:

Anybody any suggestions? I have seen a couple of threads with the same problem but no solution has been mentioned there as well

My system did this on first install too. I thought it had stalled out, tried several times. Finally I gave up and went to bed..... in the morning it had continued. Try waiting longer.

karthik3161999 said:

Guess i did a great mistake by even thinking about installing windows 7 it seems as though this OS was not built for AMD systems ! especially the athlon 64 series.. im not the only one suffering with this problem from what i have seen on various forums..
here is what i did and it ultimately screwed up my tv tuner card..!

enter BIOS and diabled USB ports
removed the 512MB ram
swapped the 1gb with the 512mb ram alone
removed the video card & the tuner card ! (was the mistake that i did)
disconnected the other optical drives
removed my mouse etc
LASTLY even disconnected my SATA HDD!!

so ultimately what was left with the computer was the dvd drive (that had the bootable disc within) and the cpu along with the motherboard and RAM.. what else is there to cause any kind of stupid hardware conflict?!! im going mad with this..!!!!!

While i thought i could put the pci cards back in properly (which i actually did), once done there was no problem with my video card but tv tuner card got screwed up it was detected as a multimedia controller but even installing the driver, it would not be detected as a "tuner card" and the yellow exclamation still remains in the device manager... tried re-seating the card on the slot (dont have any other available slot to swap with) also tried uninstalling and re-installing the drivers atleast a dozen times but the tv software says the card is not installed ... no video capture devices detected!

looks like i have got myself into deep **** trying to install this OS... now anybody who can help with either of my problems?!

First, welcome to Seven Forums,
Thanks for filling in your specs and giving us the Installation detail answers.

If you didn't finish the test install (on your 'other intel p4 system') with your DVD, then try with the USB stick.
+90% of install problems are from burning DVDs, sometimes they will fail at the start and sometimes fail at the end. It will depend on what data was corrupted.

Leave these hooked up or connected:
This is the minimum to install with.
1GB RAM
The DVD drive your installing with (If using DVD)
The SATA Hard Drive
Monitor
Keyboard & Mouse

You can try these one at a time or just remove all of them:
If you have integraded graphics, take out the Graphics card
Remove your TV Tuner card,

Don't stop the install, we have many reports of installs completing after 2-4+ hours of "just sitting there".

Are you connected to the internet during the installation?

Let us know your results.