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Installation worries?!
Hey everyone, new here so please be patient!
I recently purchased Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit OEM. I had a new custom build with AMD Athlon II X3 435, 4gb DDR3 1333 and an MSI 770 C45 Motherboard. I put the dvd in the drive on the first install and everything worked perfectly. Perfectly until it hung on installation. I left it for hours and hours and it was still frozen.
Long story short, I tried *everything* and i mean everything, and it would refuse to get past the same screen. I managed to get past that one screen once, but the installation froze on 'installing updates' at which point it froze again. I returned the cpu, mobo and memory to the vendor, and swapped it for an Asus P5P41D, Core 2 Quad E8300 and 4gb of Corsair DDR2 800, having heard of various possible problems with the Athlon's integrated memory controller having issues communicating with DDR3.
So basically I have one thing to contribute and one thing to ask.
Firstly, I would advise caution to anyone looking to install a fresh copy of windows 7 64 bit onto their PC (new build) with similiar or same hardware specs. It was horrific, I was tearing my hair out and even my local computer specialist could not make sense of it.
And secondly, will the new hardware make a new installation more likely to succeed? I really need some encouragement here because I haven't got a PC until this works! I'm writing this on a friends laptop!
Thanks in advance!