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Windows 7 restarts PC before Installation...
I've searched all over the net for a problem like mine and although they seem similar, they always involve freezing/crashing, I don't get that. My problem is when I use my Windows 7 disc to install on a formatted HDD, I can get to the blue wallpaper screen with a mouse cursor just after the "starting windows" screen, but then after only a few seconds or up to 30 seconds (it's always random), my PC just instantly restarts itself. I've already successfully installed Windows 7 on this PC before, it messed up somehow and the user opted to re-install Windows 7 over this installation, but yet again it has failed so he came to me to wipe it and clean install.
Now I'm pretty sure the PC itself is fine because I've interchanged the graphics card, RAM, HDD's, DVD drive and un-plugged all unnecessary parts e.g. USB, wireless PCI card and even flashed the motherboard BIOS. Just to test the drive and PC in general, I installed XP SP3 just to see if everything was fine and it was. I then tried the Windows 7 disc again with XP installed on the HDD and it booted up fine. I don't see though why I have to have an installation of Windows already on the HDD when I installed it before fine on a formatted HDD. Also, with the Windows 7 disc there is only the option for a quick format, I only like doing full formats as I've had bad experience in the past with quick formats. The PC itself is fairly powerful and it had no problems running Windows 7 Ultimate before.