Stressed : Hang / Freeze installing Win7. Sherlock holmes, save me.

[facebook]

Hi all. I've been building PC's awhile but I'm starting to get quite stressed and hung up over an issue I'm having with my new build. I cannot get passed the initial start up during Windows 7 installation. Just as the "starting windows" animation gets going, it stops. The system stops responding. Tried on a USB stick as well as on DVD. Same problem.

Ugh.

My build is as follows...

Asus P8Z68m-Pro
Coolermaster G550M (Pulled from my previous working system)
3570k
4 GB Corsair DDR 3 1600
Evo 850 250gb
Win 7 Pro

As I type I'm running memtest86 on the system and it's coming out fine. I really don't know what else I can do. If this is a hardware issue, how an earth would I even begin to diagnose it. There's a complete lack of any sort of error message. The system just stops in its tracks. Bad mobo. Bad CPU. Bad Ram. Bad PSU?

CPU temps are OK. I can play around in Bios all day with no issues. I have crossed checked the settings so many times. See, I really enjoy playing a tweaking PC's, but when these zero-sum errors with no apparent causes run the show, I feel that this isn't the hobby for me

And no, I can't RMA anything. Bought all the parts second hand as I didn't see any incentive to pay the premium to upgrade to Skylake. I just don't need the 15-20 % improvement in performance.

 

[Lance1]

Hi facebook and Welcome to WSF. Did you set the bios Boot Device Control to UEFI and Legacy? And Boot from any devices to Legacy OPROM first? Just a thought.

 

[facebook]

Hi facebook and Welcome to WSF. Did you set the bios Boot Device Control to UEFI and Legacy? And Boot from any devices to Legacy OPROM first? Just a thought.

It's a good point, but I can't find any such option :-/