Windows 7 Pro 64-bit Install Problems.

myzr7 said:

Hello Bo
Did you try completing the install by taking out your new graphics card and letting onboard handle the video. Then after install is finished and Win7 is booting for you then insert your new card and install driver? Again good luck to you with your problem.

Unfortunately no, as it was the sixth attempt I sort of got slightly angry and just threw XP back on (I'm getting very quick at getting my PC back to where it used to be now!). As a side note, the first time this happened with the old graphics card in, I did move my monitor connection to the onboard VGA connector, but as I had no operating system I couldn't disable the soundcard/enable the onboard. I never actually thought of physically removing the graphics card and seeing if the onboard took over.

I may give this another week or so as I'm sick to the back teeth of trying at the moment, but I'll remove the graphics card while running XP, set the onboard graphics as default and try again. I have read in a few different places that Windows 7 doesn't like ATI drivers, but that looks like it's been proved wrong right here.

One thing I did think of was that when you perform the custom install, on the page where you format whichever partition/disk you want to install on, there's a 'Get Drivers' option. Would it be worth inserting the ATI disk and trying that? I'm not sure what the option does as I've never clicked it.

Again, thanks for all of your input and putting up with my moaning

EDIT: I may have missed out a pertinent piece of information. The BSOD doesn't sit there permanently, it flashes up briefly before the system restarts itself and boots back into the Windows finalising process. Then it goes through the same routine over and over again. I had to watch the BSOD seven or eight times just to get part of the error message, that's how briefly it's on the screen.
I have tried booting into Safe Mode, but obviously Windows can't finalise the installation in Safe Mode. From what I've seen (although I'm probably completely wide of the mark) this is some sort of driver loop? I can't see it as there can't be any bad/conflicting drivers.

Hey Doc,

Luckily I do have my sticks of 1gb RAM still available, although the paired 2gb sticks seemd to have solved the problem that memory was causing me. I'm tempted to try the onboard graphics solution, like I said earlier if it fails I can get my XP setup back to how it was in roughly two hours, programs and all. I'm just tired of doing it right at the moment.

I do have the internet connected whilst performing the install so that shouldn't be an issue.

It's very frustrating as I haven't even seen Windows 7 in action yet and knowing it's sitting right in front of me is a killer!
I won't give up, that was eerily like you read my mind as I was on the verge, I'll just have a little respite for a week or so. But I will definitely persevere and keep you guys here updated.
And on that note, it's about time I thanked you all for your help so far and offer kudos for a very helpful and informative site. I have spent many an hour browsing through reading about different problems and solutions offered.

I have indeed tried the ASUS updater, but it reads: 'Warning! The date of BIOS image is later than the current one, please flash the BIOS using ASUS DOS utility if you still want to do this.'

I've always had automatic updates on BIOS settings before, but for some reason I never installed the updater on this PC when I bought it. It was a raw PC with driver discs as I had my own OS to install. My fault on that one, and I've never manually flashed my BIOS so I'm a bit in the dark on how to do it with EZ Flash. A bit more legwork is required I think.