Screen goes black after second boot

[lordstyx]

Okay so I'm trying to install windows 7 Professional, but when it's done loading windows for the first time, the screen goes black, and it stays black.

Here's what I did:
I made a RAID5 setting in the BIOS.
I booted from the cd, agreed with the license.
Chose the custom(advanced) option and created 2 partitions, 160 GB and 50 GB in size. I chose the bigger one for windows to be installed on.
Next I loaded the x64 drivers for a raid config (I copied those to a USB drive from the disk that came with the motherboard (Asus P6T SE)).

It then started copying, extracting, installing and updating.
After the first reboot it continued the installation, and then I got some text saying it'd continue again after a reboot. It rebooted but I was too late with pressing a button, so it booted from the hdd, instead of the cd.

I don't know if it was supposed to boot from the cd, but as it didn't the first time, I guess not.

Now my screen is black, without a cursor and with 4 gray bars a bit below the center of the screen. It has been like this for about 30 minutes now, and I don't know how to fix this.


Can anyone help me?

 

[K3VL4R]

The RAID drivers should have installed onto the OS and the Windows installation would load off the HDD after the reboot. So I do not think that you even need the drivers anymore. If it is stuck you should reboot and it will just resume the installation. When you reboot, check in your BOIS settings (usually by pressing DEL at first screen) and check if your "boot from floppy" (or called similar) is disabled. I have had installations hang on me before and disabling the floppy fixed it for me.

 

[lordstyx]

My motherboard doesn't even support floppy, and I can't find such setting in the BIOS.

[edit]
In safe mode it did continue (getting an error that it can't install in safe mode tho), while in normal mode it still hangs after loading windows.

Oh, this is a x64 bit OS, and I have 6 GB installed

 

[K3VL4R]

I haven't done any Windows 7 installs on a RAID 5 setup yet so I did a little Googling. There is supposed to be built in support for nVidia RAID in Windows 7/2008. I also read that some of nVidia's drivers did not work well with Windows 7. So what I would try is to restart the installation and format the drive then reinstall Windows without using your drivers and see if that helps. It seems like a bit of work but it sounds like the install is corrupted anyway so you might as well try it.

 

[lordstyx]

Thanks for your effort, I found the problem.

One of my hdd's doesn't seem to work. Without it in the raid I was able to install it perfectly fine.

 

[K3VL4R]

OK, that makes sense now. Windows installed but did not recognize it because of the broken RAID from the drive not working. I will keep that in mind for next time.

 

[lordstyx]

Whoops.. I accidentally installed it on a solo disk.. Tried it again on raid 5 (Took the broken disk out), and this time it says "Error loading OS" after the first reboot..

 

[K3VL4R]

Yeah, you will have to install windows while it is in the RAID configuration to use it in the RAID configuration. If you did reinstall while in the RAID configuration, did you reformat the hard drive, because the old boot manager may have been still present.

 

[lordstyx]

That might be the problem, though it should delete all data on the disks when forming/deleting a RAID config.


[edit]
It all works now.

 

[gregrocker]

Windows 7 is somewhat allergic to RAID, which is dated technology now with built-in drive imaging.

 

[lordstyx]

Could that still be bugging me?
It seemed to work fine, untill I started updating drivers (like all of them, no clue which one can be causing trouble)

So currently, I can boot windows in safe mode, and everything works perfectly fine (as far as that is possible in safe mode) however, when I start in normal mode, it gets stuck after a certain amount of time.. I already tried removing my grphics card, and reinstalling the drivers from the cd, but that didn't help.

It's driving me mad for real, a 1.4k system and the OS isn't working as it should.. Maybe it's my fault, never built my own system before, but idk.. Btw, I didn't believe that one of my hdd's is broken, so I tried to reboot untill it finally got installed xD

[edit]
If this is off topic, please let me know and I'll start a new thread in an appropriate section.

 

[K3VL4R]

Try to use updated drivers whenever possible. Nvidia for your gpu and intel for your chipset, realtek audio etc.

 

[lordstyx]

I have found the problem, it had to do with my wireless LAN card. I think it was some utility that was installed along with the drivers, not sure though. Thank you all for the help!

 

[CarlTR6]

Glad you found the problem. Good show.

 

[gregrocker]

I have found the problem, it had to do with my wireless LAN card. I think it was some utility that was installed along with the drivers, not sure though. Thank you all for the help!

Always best to let Windows manage your network connections. When I remove the factory bloatware wireless manager on reinstalls, performance and startup time improve significantly.

 

[CarlTR6]

I have found the problem, it had to do with my wireless LAN card. I think it was some utility that was installed along with the drivers, not sure though. Thank you all for the help!

Always best to let Windows manage your network connections. When I remove the factory bloatware wireless manager on reinstalls, performance and startup time jump significantly.

+1 I agree with Greg. The router utilities work well with XP; but Win 7 does a much better job without the utilities installed.