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Installation hangs on black screen
I thought I'd move with the times and picked up a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. I had Vista installed before.
Booted from CD, delete/recreate partition and did a clean install.
The installer hangs on a black screen after the first reboot. Even left it overnight without progress. Forcing a reboot and going into Safe Mode the setup tries to continue, then comes up with a prompt saying 'Setup cannot run in Safe mode, rebooting your computer', whereupon it hangs again.
These are my specs:
1 x Seagate ST3500320AS 500GB Hard Drive SATA II 7200rpm *32MB Cache* -
1 x MSI P35 Neo2-FR iP35 Socket 775 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard
1 x Intel Pentium Dual Core E2160 Socket 775 (1.8GHz) 1MB L2 Cache OEM
4 x OCZ 1GB DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Platinum XTC Memory Kit CL4 2.1V
1 x Sapphire HD 2400PRO 256MB DDR2 VGA DVI HDTV out PCI-E Graphics Card
1 x Sony AD-7200S 20X DVD±RW/DL/RAM Internal SATA Bare Black Drive - OEM
1 x LiteOn 20x DVD±RW Dual Layer & Ram SATA Black Bare Drive - OEM
My 500GB hard drive is split into 2 partitions, 100GB boot partition and the rest (350GB or so) as storage.
This is the sequence I tried:
1. Boot from CD, delete boot partition, new partition, clean install (HUNG)
2. Disconnect router, then as 1. (HANG)
3. Reset BIOS to factory defaults, then as 1. (HANG)
4. Disconnect external hard drive and printer, then as 1. (HANG)
5. Disabled on-board chips like sound, legacy USB etc, then as 1. (HANG)
I've tried booting to the CD and doing a 'repair windows' but that comes back without problems.
The only other thing I could think of is that the graphics card is incompatible... but I don't have onboard VGA and I don't have another card just lying around.
I've never had a problem doing a clean Windows install. I'm really disappointed they're making it so difficult. Does anyone have any suggestions? I might have to just go back to Vista...