7 will not boot after install

flibble666 said:

well thats for all your help guys ive tried removing all non essential hardware including all my hdds appart from my c: sata which i install windows on and i have reinstalled windows 7 and it now wont compleate install its stuck on first reboot and wont go past the loading windows screen i had troble with vista so im comming to the conclution it may be some hardware issue i will try and reburn the dvd and try again but i think im just going to sell my eletric drum kit and build a new system

Fibble, try clearing the cmos and setting the bios to defaults, after that reenable your SATA drives and other important settings to how they were. If you havn't tried this yet it's worth a try because it has worked for me on two other machines so far.

than ill try and report back also ied just like to thank everone thats helped relly good commuinty nice to see theres still people out there that are nice and helpful

I have been installing Windows 7 on quite a few prototype and legacy boards and virtually every time I have seen issues getting Windows 7 to boot properly, it turns out to be a bios/driver issue. At my house I have two "older" machines running the ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe, with an AMD X2 4800+ and 2GB ram. Both have the same issue of installing Windows 7 and then freezing on the boot.

I opened a case on this issue with ASUS Tech support and here is their response as of 9/14/2009:

"Dear Valued Customer,

At this time there is no driver support for Windows 7 on this motherboard. Please check back after the official release of windows 7 and we may have drivers available then, but unfortunately we cannot guarantee that this model will gain Windows7 support."



Having assumed this board was having bios/driver issues, and it was old enough that ASUS was not going to support it, I have moved on and replaced these two older machines with systems built around Core I7 processors, which are all running fantastic on Windows 7.

yer thankyou for all your help everyone but i to have decided to move on and build a i7 system thanks again and keep up this wesome commuinty

Intel Core i7 920
6GB ( 3 x 2Gb) 240Pin DDR3 1600Mhz
Antec Nine Hundred - 2
OCZ StealthXStream 700w Silent Power Supply
£559.98 inc vat

ill let you know how she runs

I am not quite sure if it is too late to answer your question. In my case the AHCI-mode was the problem. Windows 7 needes a driver to use the a8r32-mvp deluxe in ahci-configuration.
You could use the windows vista driver version 1.0.5.8 for the uli chipset. You can find this one on the nvidia home page (nvidia bought Ali some years ago). The package is called integrated2.20. Use a zipper like 7-zip to unpack the exe and use the included sata driver. Use it during the installation when windows is asking for the target hard drive. Helped in my case.
As an alternative you could set the sata drives to ide mode. Worked for me as well.

Greets
cunhell

it is to late but ill be selling the old bits so ill chuck the drivers and info in with the mobo thx

Try updating your Bios to 0701 I have read in other Forums that this works