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Failing Install (unlike the others
Originally had Vista on the machine working fine. Purchased Win 7 Ultimate retail disks.
First attempt was to do an upgrade from Vista 64bit to Win 7 64 bit.
Vista read the disk fine it went through it's normal activity, choose Upgrade and than it said it was ready to reboot.
Reboot > BIOS boots up > disk starts spinning, it says it's loading data > screen changes to "Starting Windows". It's at this point the lights on my usb Keyboard and mouse go out, HD activity stops. 10 seconds later HD activity lights starts flashing for about 5 seconds and than flat lines. Hangs like this for hours.
Steps i've taken so far.
- Tried 64 bit disc & 32 bit disc: results same
- Getting ps2 keyboard/mouse :results same
- getting new video card with VGA out : results same
- unplugging all peripheral devices: results same
- made usb boot of win7 64 bit: results same
- tried my vista disc: boots fine
- confirmed DVD drive is Master : results same
- numerous Bios changes and complete resets: results same.
No matter what I do I can't get past "Windows Starting"
It doesn't make sense. A friend of mine has almost the exact same hardware in his computer. We bought the same parts at the same time. He had no problems at all upgrading from vista to win 7
Any suggestions or help