Installing Windows 7 problem

[myzr7]

Hello Unsafe, Welcome to SevenForums
Sounds like you need to remake your dvd install disc. You download this from somewhere and then burned it how? What burning software did you use?

 

[wallyinnc]

Yeah I can load XP fine, it just doesn't respond to my failed install of Windows 7 version.
Also, what's an IDE drive and how to disable it?(I see people here that say it helped).

I tend to agree with the other post, your failed instllation might be messing things up.
Your drives can be SATA (small connector, a little thicker cable) or IDE (flat and wide cable).
You don't seem to be even getting to the installation step where it would look for the HDD, so, before you erase everything, try to re-burn your DVD as myzr7 suggested (suggest using ImgBurn: The Official ImgBurn Website)

 

[UnSaFE]

Yeah I diownloaded an ISO file and burned to my brand new disc at 4x speed, the program was ashampoo ver 7. And my drives are SATA. It's not my first time burning that install, I thought I messed it up or something, so I made 3 more copies, it's still the same, I also bought 5 more discs and burned different windows 7 versions to the discs (Profesional, home, and ultimate) on 86 and 64 versions, still the same.
I get a normal install popup screen with all 86 versions (thats how I made a messy install of professional 86bit) while in Xp windows mode (when i insert dvd into the rom). But when I boot from dvd its always the same story, I get the Windows 7 background screen wallpaper and only able to move my cursor, that's it.

 

[wallyinnc]

Unsafe, try the installation in safe mode (no pun intended...) . When it prompts you to press any key to boot from DVD, press and hold F8. It should bring you to the boot options where you can select safe mode. If nothing else it might tell us where it is stuck (it will list the drivers as they load).

 

[UnSaFE]

Unsafe, try the installation in safe mode (no pun intended...) . When it prompts you to press any key to boot from DVD, press and hold F8. It should bring you to the boot options where you can select safe mode. If nothing else it might tell us where it is stuck (it will list the drivers as they load).

Just tried to boot + safe mode. Didn't work, now, it only loaded a black background together with my cursor, nothing else...

 

[wallyinnc]

Well, we are making progress, now we don't get the blue screen, we get a black screen... Sorry, I know how frustrating it is, been there. Just trying to lighten it up

Re-reading the thread, I am not sure if you ended up getting rid of your failed installation, have you? Also, can you list your motherboard? Do you know if your BIOS is up to date? Also, do you have onboard video you could use instead of your Radeon 4870? Win7 should have drivers for this, but this is a common cause for problematic installs. The best is to try with the onboard video connected via VGA, not DVI.

Talking about the BIOS, also try disabling all devices unecessary to boot, such as LAN card, USB, audio. These also can cause problems. If it works you can enable them later.

Let me know.

 

[UnSaFE]

No, I have not rid of the failed installation, when I load it its suppose to rollback installation but it just freezes(waited 5 hours).
What do you mean by "can you list your motherboard"?
What's a BIOS and how can I check if its up to date?
I just tried to install with my 7900GS card but the same thing happened. And my 4870 is VGA just like 7900GS.
And disabling unnecessary devices to boot, do I just disconnect them from their sockets?(like my headphones/speakers) or is there more to it?

 

[QuackPot]

@OP

Without reading the rest of the posts, what I did was burn the ISO to a DVD at the slowest speed possible (2.5X in my case), then changed my DVD drive to be the primary boot in the BIOS then I was able to load up the windows 7 install disk.

I used ISO burner for burn the iso to the disk.

 

[wallyinnc]

Thanks Unsafe for the feedback. By item:

What do you mean by "can you list your motherboard"?

Can you tell us what your motherboard manufacturer and model number / name are? I am mostly interested in knowing whether it has an onboard video controller.

What's a BIOS and how can I check if its up to date.

Basic Input / Output System. Roughly speaking it is what starts your computer, telling it what devices are attached and how they operate (BIOS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). Then your operating system takes over and controls it (but it can't if the HD is not started by the BIOS, or something is not communicating correctly)
When you boot you should have a screen with a message telling you to press something to access the BIOS (Del, F1, F11, it varies). If we find out what motherboard you have we can help further. Once in, you will have the "DOS-like" screen, and usually one of the first options or screens will tell you what version you have.

I just tried to install with my 7900GS card but the same thing happened. And my 4870 is VGA just like 7900GS.
And disabling unnecessary devices to boot, do I just disconnect them from their sockets?(like my headphones/speakers) or is there more to it?

In order to disable devices you have to enter the BIOS and do it there. Just disconnecting them is not enough, since you will only disconnect the external device. The controllers, which are what we want to stop, will still be operating. You should have an option for the different devices to select "Disabled"
Do this before you start formatting partitions, if it solves your problem it is much less "invasive". You can start them back on later.

No, I have not rid of the failed installation, when I load it its suppose to rollback installation but it just freezes(waited 5 hours).

If you can, format the partition where the failed installation is (as long as you don't mess up your data). You might have to edit your boot options, we will tackle it if needed

 

[SquonkSC]

Hi Unsafe,

With all due respect, you clearly know so little of even the most basic things one needs to know to be installing an OS, I strongly recommend getting help from a friend who can guide you and teach you those basics.

If you don't know what a BIOS is, nor what IDE drive means, or a mainboard, then installing an OS is clearly not for you.

Good luck.

Greetz

 

[MrMegabyte]

I also want to add this to the solutions for installing windows 7, it happened to me, I would get all the way up to the splash screen for the win7 before you get windows install button. However, I didn't have a floppy in the computer(no one does anymore) though it was enabled in the bios and apparently the installer was looking for the floppy and just hangs, so disable it in bios and you will come up with no problems.

 

[UnSaFE]

I'm sorry but couldn't gather much info about my pc yet, but not so long ago I found a number of a guy who sold me this comp 2 years ago. Since it's night time I won't call him now. Tomorrow, after I had called him, I'll update the info.

 

[SIW2]

This will tell you everything you need to know:

http://www.gtopala.com/download/siw.exe

SIW | System Information for Windows by Gabriel Topala

Run the SIW.exe - in the left pane click on what you want info about - results displayed in the right pane.

 

[UnSaFE]

Property Value
Manufacturer MSI
Model MS-7250
Version 2.0

North Bridge NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI Revision A1
South Bridge NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI Revision A1

CPU AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+
Cpu Socket Socket AM2 (940)

System Slots 1 PCI, 1 AGP

Memory Summary
Maximum Capacity 8192 MBytes
Maximum Memory Module Size 1024 MBytes
Memory Slots 4
Error Correction None

Warning! Accuracy of DMI data cannot be guaranteed

Is that what you wanted to know?

 

[UnSaFE]

Oh yeah, also the BIOS thing:

Property Value
BIOS Vendor American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS Version 080014
BIOS Date 07/03/2006
BIOS Size 512 KB
BIOS Starting Segment F000h
DMI Version 2.4
Characteristics - supports ISA
- supports PCI
- supports Plug-and-Play
- supports APM
- upgradeable (Flash) BIOS
- allows BIOS shadowing
- ESCD support is available
- supports booting from CD-ROM
- supports selectable boot
- BIOS ROM is socketed
- supports Enhanced Disk Drive specification
- supports INT 13 5.25-inch/1.2M floppy services
- supports INT 13 3.5-inch/720K floppy services
- supports INT 13 3.5-inch/2.88M floppy services
- supports INT 05 print-screen
- supports INT 09 and 8042 keyboard services
- supports INT 14 serial services
- supports INT 17 printer services
- supports INT 10 CGA/Mono video services
- supports ACPI
- supports legacy USB
- supports booting from LS-120
- supports booting from ATAPI ZIP drive
- BIOS Boot Specification supported

 

[wallyinnc]

Unsafe, let's start by updating your BIOS (MSI Global – Computer, Laptop, Notebook, Desktop, Mainboard, Graphics and more) and your drivers (MSI Global – Computer, Laptop, Notebook, Desktop, Mainboard, Graphics and more).

I see your board has a nifty driver / BIOS updte program (" Live Update 4 is a single utility software that automatically checks BIOS, driver and utility updates and installs for you , which can save your time for searching and lower the risk while updating." ). Look for it in your applications or download it: MSI Global – Computer, Laptop, Notebook, Desktop, Mainboard, Graphics and more

I am worred bout a couple of things. There is remark on your board's page that says:
MSI Reminds you :
Because of the limitations of chipset, this MB does not support Win98/ME.

Instead of downloaig the chipset (Nvidia nForce 570) from MSI's site, try going to NVidia's site and have it recgonize and update your chipset drivers. Their site does a good job on that. They do list drivers for Win 7 32 and 64bits

Let us know how you progress

 

[UnSaFE]

Okay I updater my drivers(first) and then my BIOS with this program from the link you gave me http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/6666/wibndodsf.jpg
But I think I mightave messed up the BIOs update part cause I have a new pic(of MSI) when my pc loads, it says below - press Del (and some other button) to get a bios install screen or whatever, I don't understand.
And the program also doesn't show that my drivers/bios is up to date before and after I installed them.

And I don't understand what you mean here:

Instead of downloaig the chipset (Nvidia nForce 570) from MSI's site, try going to NVidia's site and have it recgonize and update your chipset drivers. Their site does a good job on that. They do list drivers for Win 7 32 and 64bits

 

[Snufffed]

Okay I updater my drivers(first) and then my BIOS with this program from the link you gave me http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/6666/wibndodsf.jpg
But I think I mightave messed up the BIOs update part cause I have a new pic(of MSI) when my pc loads, it says below - press Del (and some other button) to get a bios install screen or whatever, I don't understand.
And the program also doesn't show that my drivers/bios is up to date before and after I installed them.

And I don't understand what you mean here:

Instead of downloaig the chipset (Nvidia nForce 570) from MSI's site, try going to NVidia's site and have it recgonize and update your chipset drivers. Their site does a good job on that. They do list drivers for Win 7 32 and 64bits

1. Flashing the BIOS is not recommended unless you know exactly WHAT you are doing...
If it boots then LEAVE IT ALONE.
2. in BIOS turn of Bios shadow allowed. recommend for installationof Win 7 or any new OS.(If your not sure then FORGET THIS> makes it harder to do by can be done.
3. make sure you have a FORMATTED PARTITION that is named and labled.
( d:\ Volume-2 ) or what ever.
4. F2 at the logo sign, change the BIOS to allow DVD or USB drive the first allowed Boot Drive. if you have a DVD.
5. Make sure the ISO is bootable... many are not. (you can download and use to open your ISO. - UltraISO... when you open the ISO see if it says BOOTABLE UDF.)
YES your good to go. NO your scewed. It simply will not work. to make a CLEAN INSTALL.
==================================
question 1.
Do you have a clean partition - formatted and ready for Win 7?
question2.
Is your Win7 ISO bootable or not?

 

[UnSaFE]

question 1.
Do you have a clean partition - formatted and ready for Win 7?

What's that and how do I do it?

 

[wallyinnc]

Okay I updater my drivers(first) and then my BIOS with this program from the link you gave me http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/6666/wibndodsf.jpg
But I think I mightave messed up the BIOs update part cause I have a new pic(of MSI) when my pc loads, it says below - press Del (and some other button) to get a bios install screen or whatever, I don't understand.
And the program also doesn't show that my drivers/bios is up to date before and after I installed them.

You're good, that message means you have to press del to enter the BIOS setup screen, which is a normal behavior. As Snuffy said, it is updated and working, no worries.

And I don't understand what you mean here:

Instead of downloaig the chipset (Nvidia nForce 570) from MSI's site, try going to NVidia's site and have it recgonize and update your chipset drivers. Their site does a good job on that. They do list drivers for Win 7 32 and 64bits

Go to www.nvidia.com, click download drivers, then Option 2 (Automatically find drivers for my NVIDIA products.). It should tell you if it is updted or not.