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First, I want to Thank You ALL Very Much!
Second, I want to apologize for my tone. In the light of morning and after a good night's sleep I can see that I was very tired and irate, (to no one’s fault but maybe my own), when I typed that last night, I meant no offence.
I want to say that I have resolved the problem. But I also want to point out that I had 5 hours to try everything you all suggested before I posted. I even did the DVD test and copied the 3+GB files and folders to a USB and back to a fresh DVD for which I then tried booting from... No Go!
I even cleared the CMOS, updated the BIOS, (twice), and disabled everything but that DVD reader, (and yes, I did try opening the Boot Order screen, F11 in my case). Which reminds me; I built this system and listed the mobo and cpu and I think I even listed the GPU as well, (please see “BTW” below).
Finally, I decided I had nothing to lose and allowed the disk to run after I had booted into the present Windows 7 that I was planning to overwrite.
THAT'S when I was finally given the option to choose the 'Custom' Setup and delete the present Partitions, install a new Windows 7, etc, etc.! I pride myself at being very good at following instructions and therefore I strictly followed the ‘Clean Install’ how-to’s I found on the web as well as the small print that came with the Disc.
So it never occurred to me to try allowing the darn thing to open in post-boot mode! That was what my wife kept telling me to do but that was NOT what the instructions said to do. So yes, the disc gave me every single option and stayed in step with the ‘Clean Install’ how-to’s on the web.
I’m looking for a way to click Kudos to you all and to claim this matter resolved but I guess if I didn’t open the Topic I don’t get those choices, huh?
Thanks again to all and please forgive my unwarranted tone in my original post from last night.
Rich
BTW:
There was nothing left to list about my system that could have helped yet it seemed that some of you felt there was some info that I didn’t mention that you would have liked. I don’t know what that could have been but aside from the hardware I already posted: I have a OCZ 700W PSU, I use a Corsair H100 closed-looped liquid cooling system for the CPU, My HDD is a 1 TB Seagate Barracuda and the OS I presently have is the same as the OS I plan to install: Windows 7 Home Prem 64bit.
Incidentally, I have been successfully using the system’s new hardware for which the mobo, CPU & GPU as well as the OS HD were all installed within the last 3.5 weeks and within days of each other. It was an AMD based system that I had made from an originally purchased HP p6230f. That is, I bought an HP p6230f, a year later I replaced all the hardware, (including the case), except the 750 HD and DVD reader and I kept it as an AMD based system which is the way it was when I bought it.
Then I replaced all of that stuff to what I listed and of course, changed it to a Intel based system. There is nothing left of the HP 6230f except the DVD reader. So that’s a brief history of the system.
My BIG Mistake was not doing a Clean Install when I changed those hardware items, (in both AMD & Intel mod stages), and the “Strange Little things” that would occur now and then started building up and getting worse. So here I am with a fresh Windows 7 DVD. You know the rest