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Installation Problems: Build 7100 on GA-EX58-UD5
I am out of ideas and would appreciate any help or insight.
Windows 7 x64 RC does not want to complete installation after it's first reboot. The "starting windows" animation appears and just keeps going.
A boot into safe mode shows it stops after:
Loaded: \Windows\system32\DRIVERS\disk.sys
Not sure if this is part of the problem or the next driver to load after it is the real culprit.
My System:
Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 - Updated BIOS F7
6GB (3x2GB) Corsair 1600
Core i7 920 (no OC)
2x300GB Velociraptor drives
1xDVD+-RW IDE
Diamond ATI Radeon HD 4890
HDD's are attached to SATA0 & SATA1 on the Intel ICH10R
DVD drive attached to the first port of the JMB322 JMicron/Gigabyte SATA interface
I've tried the following while installing:
Installing with all Fail-Safe Defaults
Install to a RAID 0 array of the two drives with and without AHCI enabled on the JMicron controller and with the ACPI settings to S1 and then S3
Installing to the first HDD with AHCI mode set for the ICH10R with and without AHCI enabled on the JMicron controller and with the ACPI settings to S1 and then S3
Installing to the first HDD with the AHCI Disabled (IDE mode) for the ICH10R with and without AHCI enabled on the JMicron controller and with the ACPI settings to S1 and then S3
All configurations tried with native mode both on and off for the ICH10R SATA interface.
When installing I've tried no extra drivers and then every combination of using the latest drivers from Gigabyte's website at the disk selection menu of installation:
Intel Storage Driver for OS Installation and no JMicron Driver
JMicron driver for OS Install and no Intel driver
Both Intel and JMicron Drivers loaded
I've confirmed the MD5 sum of the ISO on two different machines (after transferring via USB stick
I've burned 4 DVD's on two different machines using two different brands of known good media, 1 burn of each brand per machine on two different DVD burners at normal write speed and then at 1x.
Also, thinking that the optical drive might be the problem, I disconnected both power and data to it and rebooted to no avail.
I then disabled the JMicron interface in the bios altogether (with the DVD drive still disconnected) to no better result.
The system will boot an operating system. I had successfully installed the Xubuntu x64 9.04 Linux CD that I had on hand (w/o RAID of course) and it did work.
I really hope I just missed something stupid and obvious and any help would be appreciated.
Thank you in advance!