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just a guess, 3 hours, for a 320GB drive. Just a guess, maybe sooner.
Yeah, it's getting late here and if being wired in will make the OS go get what I need automatically I will just wait until tomorrow and set up downstairs to do it. Seems like with all the frustrations and headaches this has been so far, if I can get it done and it will get the drivers I need that would be the way to go.
Thank you to everyone for all the help so far, I hope I will have good news tomorrow and can mark this as solved.
Being wired will help if Windows has a driver for your ethernet, in case it dosen't, have it and all your motherboard drivers downloaded on a USB flash drive or CD.
Hum go with essenbe Kev and maybe I am barking up the wrong tree but haveyou checked out the PSU volts yet??
Plus while you are at it you may as well get the GPU driver/s onto thatstick as well in fact whole sheebang might be good.
http://support.amd.com/US/Pages/AMDSupportHub.aspx
GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Socket AM3 - GA-MA770T-UD3P (rev. 1.4)
Try reseating everything including the RAM, leads, GPU, and if this does get going mate I would be doing a memtest too Memtest86+ - Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool
RAM - Test with Memtest86+
I don't know if I am going to help much here but there are a couple of things that spring to mind. In the bios make sure you have GFX card selected. (Sometimes PCI or PCI express 1 or 2 etc is selectable even on a systems with no internal graphics). I can confirm Windows 7 does have a driver for that card on the DVD as I have just installed Windows 7 on a machine with a HD 4250 internal graphics. That is not the latest driver though.
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AMD Driver Autodetect
These tools may help you out. The first one is invaluable. This runs the windows installer in safe mode. This may in itself fix the issue. I use this often when Nvidia drivers do crazy things.The second tool will find the latest version of AMD drivers for your card on the Windows OS you are using. Hope this is some use.
What driver were you working with ?
I would go ahead and install windows like you were but with out GPU drivers
Also the 4870 is a legacy card if you happen to use the current AMD driver that could be the issue it Isn't supported 13.4 is the last one to function with HD4000's and HD5000's cards now if you want a newer driver they have a beta driver that will help Legacy cards like yours 13.6 they give stability even though it's a Legacy card
So during reinstall disable any driver that may be loading and failing in Device Manager - Access During Windows 7 Installation so it defaults to Standard VGA (which always works). Then start normally, go online to get the driver Solar says.
A problem may be that you stayed in Safe Mode once you disabled failing driver instead of letting it boot to desktop with Standard VGA to work on installing the correct driver.
I believe he was going to install this morning sometime. We haven't heard from him today, that I know of. I think he had something on that drive that messed up his installs (like Grub maybe). If he did, it's gone now, he ran clean all on it. So, he should have a good base for a clean install.