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If prompted for drivers when booting the Win7 installer it almost always means its a bad installer. So confirm or redownload the ISO and write to stick or burn to DVD using the ISO and tool in Steps 1 and 2 of Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7.
You will get and keep a perfect install to the exact extent you stick with the tools and methods in the tutorial.
Let us know how it goes.
Watch the restarts. If it boots back into the stick you may need to unplug it. Some are self-booting. If not then you don't want to choose it to boot during restarts, after the first time it copies files.
Eventually loaded Win 7 but I had quite a struggle with it. Having setup a user account and password I carried on and on the next restart it wouldn't recognise the password. Also the machine slowed down considerably showing signs of the original problem.
I'm almost sure this is now a hardware problem and as it's under a year old I'm going to send it back to Asus for repair.
Thanks to everyone's help, I've certainly improved my Win 7 knowledge and also have a Usb flash drive with a Win 7 setup on it for future use.
Bill
Did you bother installing all of your Windows Updates including drivers, as this can often resolve issues and assure you get the drivers Win7 wants? If not go ahead and do them to see if a performance update or 7 driver smooths things out.