frustration

[tanzanos]

I installed win7 home premium x64 the first time and it worked fine until i restarted the pc. It refused to boot. I tried all the repairs etc. After failing to reinstall 9 times I bought 2 brand new HDs. I am on my 14th attempt at installing. The new drives are totally unusable it seems. I am frustrated and Microsoft has yet to reply. I am reinstalling XP and throwing W7 into the Rubbish bin. I wasted a lot of money for nothing!

 

[wilson1980]

where did u get the copy off windows from. if you,ve bought 2 new hard drives then it cant be them bud.

going by your specs. nice computer and welcome to the forum lol

 

[Dave76]

Welcome to Seven Forums.

Sorry your having troubles.

We've seen several issues with similar MOBOs.

If you can get the Win7 DVD out of the rubbish bin, We can help you get it installed.

Good job on filling in the system specs, nice machine

To give us a better idea on what hardware you have and what you have done up to this point.
Can you go to this Seven Forums sticky thread Questions to use for help with Installation Issues, answer as many questions as you can, this will help us to give better suggestions.

First suggestion, go to your BIOS and turn off the Quiet & Cool, we've seen this cause a lot of installs to fail.
Have you updated the BIOS? The new versions will be compatible with Win7.

Win7 64bit is very finicky with RAM, take out all but one memory card.

Any Over Clocking of the RAM, CPU or GPU?
Reset to defaults.

Disconnect all peripherals except monitor, keyboard and mouse.

Try the installation with the above suggestions.

If your still having difficulties, try these further steps.
Run the Microsoft Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor, this will find any hardware and devices that might be causing the problem.

Then let's look at the graphics card.

Is it connected with a DVI cable?
Use a VGA cable if you can.
If you have on board graphics, take the card out and try the installation.

Let us know if these suggestions help, if not we can go further.

 

[tanzanos]

Welcome to Seven Forums.

Sorry your having troubles.

We've seen several issues with similar MOBOs.

If you can get the Win7 DVD out of the rubbish bin, We can help you get it installed.

Good job on filling in the system specs, nice machine

To give us a better idea on what hardware you have and what you have done up to this point.
Can you go to this Seven Forums sticky thread Questions to use for help with Installation Issues, answer as many questions as you can, this will help us to give better suggestions.

First suggestion, go to your BIOS and turn off the Quiet & Cool, we've seen this cause a lot of installs to fail.
Have you updated the BIOS? The new versions will be compatible with Win7.

Win7 64bit is very finicky with RAM, take out all but one memory card.

Any Over Clocking of the RAM, CPU or GPU?
Reset to defaults.

Disconnect all peripherals except monitor, keyboard and mouse.

Try the installation with the above suggestions.

If your still having difficulties, try these further steps.
Run the Microsoft Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor, this will find any hardware and devices that might be causing the problem.

Then let's look at the graphics card.

Is it connected with a DVI cable?
Use a VGA cable if you can.
If you have on board graphics, take the card out and try the installation.

Let us know if these suggestions help, if not we can go further.

On my last try i managed to get it installed. What I did was to use the sata cable on pci slot 2 instead of slot 1. Apparently there is some problem with either the cable or the pci slot of the motherboard.
I am very wary of updating bios. I am not a hard user and if I make a mistake I could ruin my MB.
Now I shall change the cable and try to boot from slot 1. If the problem dissapears then ok otherwise time to replace motherboard.
Damn nuisance if you ask me. I would prefer a less finicky OS. XP worked and installed fine on pci slot 1 and the same cable.
Now to figure out a way to make a clone of the whole HD for backup!

Thanks guys!

Screw physics! Murphy REIGNS supreme!

 

[aem]

Was that Murphy's Law? lol

There are a dozen ways of cloning your HDD, if you don't have no third party software, use the built-in tool.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/663-backup-complete-computer-create-image-backup.html?filter[2]=Backup%20Restore