Can't install windows 7, no dialogue box appears after booting from CD

Hello, I'm wondering if someone could help me out,

i have a new hard drive & I'm trying to install win 7 x64, however my motherboard was too old for SATA-600 devices and wouldn't recognise the HDD, I flashed the BIOS to see if this would correct the problem, but to no avail.

Now when i try to install windows, it'll boot from the cd fine, loads the installation files, then comes to a windows background with a cursor but the dialogue box wont appear.

I'm stumped right now, it used to have a dialogue box in the install, it's just after flashing the BIOS it wont work.

Where did you get the BIOS Update from?

i have a new hard drive & I'm trying to install win 7 x64, however my motherboard was too old for SATA-600 devices and wouldn't recognise the HDD, I flashed the BIOS to see if this would correct the problem, but to no avail.

So does this mean the HDD is still unrecognized? You need a disk to install Windows.

Here's the Asus download page, BIOS is not OS dependent (the utilities are though)
Motherboards - M4N72-E - ASUS

But BIOS won't change hardware.

I checked the manual on that board and it does support SATA drives. Try clearing CMOS memory then see if you can get into the BIOS. Check to see what disk settings are stored. You might also check to see if there is an opton in the BIOS to "reset to default". Then try to install the OS.

drewshki said:

..... i have a new hard drive & I'm trying to install win 7 x64, however my motherboard was too old for SATA-600 devices and wouldn't recognise the HDD......

carwiz said:

I checked the manual on that board and it does support SATA drives.
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Motherboards - M4N72-E - ASUS

Asus Specs said:

Storage
NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI chipset
- 1 x Ultra DMA 133 / 100
- 6 x SATA 3Gb/s ports (Legacy IDE operation is only supported on drives 1–4.)
- NVIDIA® MediaShield™ RAID supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5, and JBOD

I couldn't find the user manual (didn't look that hard though) and I didn't look at the install manual.

Ken, you're saying that the SATA III (6 Gb/s) HD should work on the SATA II (3 Gb/s) ports, albeit at a slower xfer rate?
That would make sense.

You won't even get the SATA II (3 Gb/s) rate though, unless it's an SSD

Bill
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I think we need to back up and get more information

What is the brand and model of the new HDD?
Are you trying to install Windows on the 320 GB drive or the new drive?
What drive(s) are in the machine now?
What BIOS did you install and where did it come from?

I'll wait for drewshki to help us help him before posting again.