Solved Stuck at "Setup is loading" screen.. :-(

[karthik3161999]

Hello all..
Trying to install windows 7 on a different partition to multi-boot with windows xp sp3.
Downloaded the "7600.16385.090713-1255_x86fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GRMCULFRER_EN_DVD.iso" file and burned a DVD.
Booted from the disc and all went well with the "press any key to boot from CD or DVD" / "setup is copying files"..
Post this screen, the windows logo appeared and it took about 3 minutes for the screen where you choose your language,etc to appear.
Then comes trouble The screen remained idle for about another 3 minutes before the "Setup is loading" appeared and it stops here forever.... pls help!

Note: I tried installing from my pen drive as well..., but the same exact result..

The information requested as below:

Current Operating System, pre-install

• Do you have a single OS on your computer, are you planning on multi-booting with this installation? - Yes
​

• Are you multi-booting now? - No​

Current Hardware

• How many internal hard drives (HD) are connected to your system? - One​

• Are they IDE or SATA? _ SATA​

• How many DVD drives are connected to your system? - One​

• Are they IDE or SATA Drives? - IDE​

• Any external HDs used? - No​

• Are they connected by USB or eSATA? - NA​

• Check Disk Management for any HDs listed with a yellow triangle and explanation point? - Checked and none found.​

• Is this a New Clean HD? - No​

• Have you pre-formatted the HD? - Yes, the partition im trying to install Windows 7 on is an empty 100GB NTFS partition.​

Windows 7 installation details

• Which build number and version of Windows 7 are you installing? - 7600.16385.090713-1255_x86fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GRMCULFRER_EN_DVD.iso​

• Are you installing a 32 bit (x86) or 64 bit (x64) OS? - 32bit​

• Where did you get the ISO file from? www.mydigitallife.info​

Installation Media

• Using a USB memory key? - Tried this one too​

• From another partition or hard disk? - No​

• From a DVD? - Yes​

The procedure and speed of burning the ISO to DVD has been the most frequent cause of installation failure

• How did you burn the DVD? Briefly describe the steps you used. - Inserted a blank DVD into the writer, just clicked the ISO and clicked Next.​

• Which ISO burning software did you use? - Nero 7 startsmart​

• At what burning speed and with Verify checked? - 16x​

Other​

• Any Over Clocking of the RAM or CPU? - No​

 

[karthik3161999]

Anybody any suggestions? I have seen a couple of threads with the same problem but no solution has been mentioned there as well

 

[Perrybucsdad]

I see you burned the DVD at 16x.... how about doing it at the slowest speed your program will allow. Sometimes burning that fast can cause issues. That's the only thing I can think of if it is stuck on Loading startup... at that point I don't think it is looking at your hardware.

 

[karthik3161999]

Hi.. thanks for your reply.. guess the dvd is ruled out as the trouble causer... a few hours back, i tried running the same setup via this dvd on my other intel p4 system.. And it worked like a charm..! (I just proceeded with a few steps to test it and not finish the entire installation, noticed that the stages were much much faser than it was on my AMD system)
What could be conflicting with this system?

 

[chev65]

Try clearing the cmos first. Worked for me and I was having the same problem.

Just be sure and renable your SATA drives and other important stuff.

 

[karthik3161999]

I read somewhere that updating the BIOS would help and found that mine was a bit old version.. so had the BIOS updated (which is equiavalent to having the CMOS cleared...) i got the "BIOS checksum error, press F1 to continue " message during the next reboot which is an indication of a successful flash...
any other suggestions?

 

[Jonathan_King]

Well, as others have suggested in separate threads, try disconnecting all non-essential hardware from your computer and running Setup again.

 

[myzr7]

Karthik, Welcome to SevenForums
Thanks for taking the time to enter all your specs and answer the questions. Have you tried to remove the 500 gig stick of ram. Win 7 has been seen to have problems with odd ram configs. Good luck to you with this .

 

[Tews]

500 gig ram stick?? I gotta get me one of those!!! :roflmao:

 

[karthik3161999]

try disconnecting all non-essential hardware from your computer and running Setup again.

All that i have connected apart from the 2 ide optical drives and the SATA hard disk is the ps/2 keyboard, usb mouse, the graphic card and a tv tuner card..

will try disabling the usb mouse but i'm afraid i dont have the expertise to have my pci & pci-e cards removed from the mobo.. is there a way to have them disabled?

also, read somewhere that you need to have proper SATA drivers installed in case you are using a SATA HDD? Is there really something called a SATA driver as xp/vista/7 automaticallly detects them.. i searched the entire net and was not able to fine one provided by either seagate or asus...

Additionally, i just updated the driver for my tv tuner card...

 

[karthik3161999]

Have you tried to remove the 500 gig stick of ram. Win 7 has been seen to have problems with odd ram configs.

Hi.. guess you were referring to the 512 mb ram stick.. okay.., will do that as well.. try the installation again and post back...

 

[myzr7]

Have you tried to remove the 500 gig stick of ram. Win 7 has been seen to have problems with odd ram configs.

Hi.. guess you were referring to the 512 mb ram stick.. okay.., will do that as well.. try the installation again and post back...

Yes thats right. Sorry for any confusion. hope it works for you

 

[karthik3161999]

Guess i did a great mistake by even thinking about installing windows 7 it seems as though this OS was not built for AMD systems ! especially the athlon 64 series.. im not the only one suffering with this problem from what i have seen on various forums..
here is what i did and it ultimately screwed up my tv tuner card..!

enter BIOS and diabled USB ports
removed the 512MB ram
swapped the 1gb with the 512mb ram alone
removed the video card & the tuner card ! (was the mistake that i did)
disconnected the other optical drives
removed my mouse etc
LASTLY even disconnected my SATA HDD!!

so ultimately what was left with the computer was the dvd drive (that had the bootable disc within) and the cpu along with the motherboard and RAM.. what else is there to cause any kind of stupid hardware conflict?!! im going mad with this..!!!!! :devil:

While i thought i could put the pci cards back in properly (which i actually did), once done there was no problem with my video card but tv tuner card got screwed up it was detected as a multimedia controller but even installing the driver, it would not be detected as a "tuner card" and the yellow exclamation still remains in the device manager... tried re-seating the card on the slot (dont have any other available slot to swap with) also tried uninstalling and re-installing the drivers atleast a dozen times but the tv software says the card is not installed ... no video capture devices detected!

looks like i have got myself into deep **** trying to install this OS... now anybody who can help with either of my problems?!

 

[myzr7]

Sorry this has not worked for you! In regards to your TV Tuner did you remove this in add and remove programs and then reinstall?

 

[RichB]

Anybody any suggestions? I have seen a couple of threads with the same problem but no solution has been mentioned there as well

My system did this on first install too. I thought it had stalled out, tried several times. Finally I gave up and went to bed..... in the morning it had continued. Try waiting longer.

 

[karthik3161999]

Sorry this has not worked for you! In regards to your TV Tuner did you remove this in add and remove programs and then reinstall?

Yes, i did....

 

[karthik3161999]

My system did this on first install too. I thought it had stalled out, tried several times. Finally I gave up and went to bed..... in the morning it had continued. Try waiting longer.

Did the setup hang at the same screen that i had mentioned? It is at this stage to be very specific...

New Install Windows 7 - Wait for Windows 7 Setup to Begin

Even the earlier steps such as this one
New Install Windows 7 - Choose Language and Other Preferences
took ages to come up on screen.. did you have the same symptom? Just wanted to be sure... thanks..

 

[karthik3161999]

okay.. good news as far as my tuner card is concerned.. wiped off the contact points and re-inserted the card into the slot and that did it..!

will start the installation now and leave it over night ...!

 

[Dave76]

Guess i did a great mistake by even thinking about installing windows 7 it seems as though this OS was not built for AMD systems ! especially the athlon 64 series.. im not the only one suffering with this problem from what i have seen on various forums..
here is what i did and it ultimately screwed up my tv tuner card..!

enter BIOS and diabled USB ports
removed the 512MB ram
swapped the 1gb with the 512mb ram alone
removed the video card & the tuner card ! (was the mistake that i did)
disconnected the other optical drives
removed my mouse etc
LASTLY even disconnected my SATA HDD!!

so ultimately what was left with the computer was the dvd drive (that had the bootable disc within) and the cpu along with the motherboard and RAM.. what else is there to cause any kind of stupid hardware conflict?!! im going mad with this..!!!!! :devil:

While i thought i could put the pci cards back in properly (which i actually did), once done there was no problem with my video card but tv tuner card got screwed up it was detected as a multimedia controller but even installing the driver, it would not be detected as a "tuner card" and the yellow exclamation still remains in the device manager... tried re-seating the card on the slot (dont have any other available slot to swap with) also tried uninstalling and re-installing the drivers atleast a dozen times but the tv software says the card is not installed ... no video capture devices detected!

looks like i have got myself into deep **** trying to install this OS... now anybody who can help with either of my problems?!

First, welcome to Seven Forums,
Thanks for filling in your specs and giving us the Installation detail answers.

If you didn't finish the test install (on your 'other intel p4 system') with your DVD, then try with the USB stick.
+90% of install problems are from burning DVDs, sometimes they will fail at the start and sometimes fail at the end. It will depend on what data was corrupted.

Leave these hooked up or connected:
This is the minimum to install with.
1GB RAM
The DVD drive your installing with (If using DVD)
The SATA Hard Drive
Monitor
Keyboard & Mouse

You can try these one at a time or just remove all of them:
If you have integraded graphics, take out the Graphics card
Remove your TV Tuner card,

Don't stop the install, we have many reports of installs completing after 2-4+ hours of "just sitting there".

Are you connected to the internet during the installation?

Let us know your results.

 

[karthik3161999]

Yeah !!!!!!!!!! waiting for just 15 more additional minutes did the job for me last night...! thanks a ton to the all the around here...! '
Thread 'solved'..!