Windows 7 troubles with booting up

[GreenWood]

I've gotten the Windows 7 RC 7100 x86 iso burned to a DvD. I have a spare HDD (30gb). I unplugged my main (XP) HDD so I wouldn't have an conflicting problems (if any) during the install.

I put in the CD and rebooted. I booted from the CD and went through the install process. It all went well, no problems, it made its main partition with the reserved system partition on the HDD.

The computer I tried putting it on has:

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ - 2.2ghz
1.5gb RAM
nVidia GeForce 6600 Graphic Card
[eMachines model: T6209]

After the initial file copy and 'expanding' it says I have to restart the computer to continue. So I did. Starts up like normal, then all I can get a glimpse of on the screen is "Loading ..." - dunno what else it says
then I get the Windows Boot Manager telling me "Windows has encoutered a Problem communicating with a device connected to your computer.

File: \Boot\BSD
Status: 0xc00000e9
Info: Unexpected I/O error occurred.

I got frustered cause this happened multiple times (kept reformatting, then reinstalling) so I put it in a computer and was gonna intend to put windows 2000 on it (Pentium 3 1ghz Processor w/ 328mb of Ram)
Once in that computer Windows 7 started up normally and finished the install process and works on that computer. Which is below the requirements.

I have another eMachines computer [Model: T3256] that I put the HDD to see if maybe its a eMachines type problem or not. Windows 7 booted up just fine on that computer too (AMD Athlon XP 2.2ghz Processor. 1gb Ram. AGP graphic card {ATI Radeon 9600})

I want to know why I cannot get Windows 7 working on the computer I originally wanted it to be on. Theres no real difference between my eMachine computers besides one has FireWire port (which I disabled during the many installations) and 1 PCI-Express slot.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I don't know what the problem is, hopefully someone can :/

 

[jfar]

Hi, just reading your post and you say, that during the install it says,
After the initial file copy and 'expanding' it says I have to restart the computer to continue.

I've installed a lot of versions of windows 7, and I have never had to do one single thing while it was installing, except fill out the windows that it needed information on,
so try again, and this time do not do anything until it asks you for a name for the PC, or whatever, and see if it works .

 

[Cyberium]

I don't know where you got your iso from but you can check the hash files in order to make sure that the iso is not corrupted in any way. The hash files of the original iso's as they are available for download from technet and MSDN are published on the respective page.

 

[GreenWood]

checked the hashes and its correct.
The reboot happens by itself, I dont make it do anything. it does it after the step before completing installation. when I moved it to the other computer, it booted from where it left off and asked me for the PC name and all that jazz (user acct, etc.)

 

[Night Hawk]

Hello GreenWood and welcome to the Se7enforums!

The one thing to be paying the closest attention between the two systems would be the...
"File: \Boot\BSD
Status: 0xc00000e9
Info: Unexpected I/O error occurred".

That would seem to suggest something as simple as a dried up old ide cable on the intended system. When moving the drive into the next and using a totally different one everything came to life? Unexpected I/O error = Unexpected Input/Output error suggesting the cable as a common problem, bad connection in the ide socket, or other board problem on the first older system.

 

[GreenWood]

Didn't occur to me about the cabling. The intended system is newer than the other computers so the cables should be fine. I did swap them out though, and tried the ones from the other 2 computers. Same error

 

[DocBrown]

How many ram sticks in the 1.5gb ? What size is each ? How many ram slots on MB ?

What size is the Hd you are trying to install it to ? IDE or sata HD ?

I did a similar spec box like yours on sunday. Here is the posts :

http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/24755-new-technet-rtm-7600-install.html#post267860


" Doc "

 

[Night Hawk]

Sounds like an old Socket A(462) board with 2 dimm slots there. DocBrown That would be one 1gb with a 512mb to see 1.5gb there according to specs on that model eMachines. Tech Data Memory Configurator

You can see what a replacement board looks like at eMachines Motherboard (MS-7145 RS480 754P K8 IXP400) - MBEM103777MS#

Anyways you could be seeing a problem like this for a few different reasons on an old system like a simple need to replace the battery on the board if that's now weak or the ide socket is seeing a loose connection there since you tried other cables.

 

[DocBrown]

I think this is the MB & the specs

 

[DocBrown]

I think I would pre-format the HD you want to install win7 on with NTFS file format.

Insert win7 DVD, Boot & start install. Remember that win7 does automatically reboot several times during the complete install process. Just let it take its time to do the complete install. Dont have any extra stuff attached, USB, printers, webcams, memory readers, flash drives, etc. Those will always install later.

Check for your Bios Boot order: DVD/CD first HD second


" Doc "

 

[Night Hawk]

That's one of their older XP systems with the size of the drive right off pointing to an ide not sata there. The board looks about right!

I can telll one thing right away. Don't expect to find chipset and other drivers since most of the old boards as well as systems never even saw Vista updates to start with! I have a few old Socket A, 939 XP boats you can take away for that reason!

 

[GreenWood]

the computer im using right now IS the intended system I'd like windows 7 to be on (the T6209). Correct I've got 2 slots for Dimm Ram. I have one 1gb stick and 1 512mb stick installed.

I want to know what the issue is thats letting Windows 7 boot up on the T3256 computer and not my T6209.

 

[Night Hawk]

How do you have the hard drives set up there? Are you running both on the same ide cable with one master the other slave or the intended 7 drive on the second cable with the optical drive on the first with the original XP drive?

If you added the second one in for 7 as slave you may have to set the jumper to cable select if it's on the same cable. I used run into that problem at times on old XP builds here when adding drive on for 98 or even a Linux distro where the drive wouldn'r even be seen!

As far as planning to run 7 on the system there as a main OS don't bother to look for board drivers since there were no Vista updates found. You would need to upgrade the board along with the cpu. memory, video card in order to at least see Vista updates available unless found at the chipset manufacturer, install a separate sound card, and so forth.

Be prepared to find this typical of any old premade systems as well as on old Intel as well as AMD boards where the new socket series like AM2 for AMD and Intel Core 2 and late model P4 boards are what saw Vista support. The old stuff was simply disconitinued after a certain amount of time!

 

[GreenWood]

My optical drive's got its own channel. My HDD goes on its own channel as well. My HDD mount can hold 2 drives. I ONLY keep 1 connected at time. When I want to use the other, I shutdown and switch the cables.

"You would need to upgrade the board along with the cpu. memory, video card in order to at least see Vista updates available unless found at the chipset manufacturer, install a separate sound card, and so forth."
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That part I don't quite follow.
It ran on my 8 year old Dell Computer that was built for Windows 2000
Pentium 3 - with 384mb of RAM
It ran on my other eMachines computer
AMD XP Processor - 1gb of RAM
The system I want it on is newer than those other machines, so why it cant is baffling me. It's not making complete sense to me.
If my system truely cant run it, then thats fine, I'll accept that, I'd just like to know WHY. What is stopping it from working correctly.


"As far as planning to run 7 on the system there as a main OS don't bother to look for board drivers since there were no Vista updates found."

Don't think I followed that one completely either :/
What do you mean to not look for drivers since no Vista updates are found?

 

[DocBrown]

the computer im using right now IS the intended system I'd like windows 7 to be on (the T6209). Correct I've got 2 slots for Dimm Ram. I have one 1gb stick and 1 512mb stick installed.

I want to know what the issue is thats letting Windows 7 boot up on the T3256 computer and not my T6209.

Could the 2 different ram sticks just be off a little in speed ? What if you try to install with just the 1gb ram stick, first ? When you switch HD cables, is the HD set to master not slave ?

 

[GreenWood]

My XP hdd is set to Master - The Win 7 hdd is set to cable select (no jumper)
I've taken out the 512 stick and same problem continues. Since it worked on a 384mb Ram computer, I took out the 1gb stick instead, and same problem

currently I'm reformatting the Win 7 hdd with NTFS (not the quick format, the down n dirty format using my windows xp disk[at 98% now]) after that I'll reinstall Win 7 and see if that works.

 

[DocBrown]

I would set the newly formatted HD to master for the win7 install

 

[GreenWood]

Alrighty. I got the install started (expanding windows files now). Fresh formatted HDD. Only thing plugged into the machine is mouse, keyboard, and monitor. Did also set the jumper to Master. We'll see how this goes...

 

[GreenWood]

Finished the install. Did its first reboot, and got the same error, but the file changed from "Boot\BCD" to "\Windows\system32\winload.exe" then when I pushed enter to continue it changed back to "Boot\BCD"

 

[Night Hawk]

Hopefully you will now start seeing some working results with the few changes made. Did you previously have the formatted to Fat 32 or VFat or simlpy raw unformatted by chance?

When you mentioned now having it formatted to NTFS that brought up the alarm bells on not having the drive ready to go! That and now having the drive mastered are two things there that would stall the works.

You may want to check the boot order in the bios since you were booting from the optical drive to make sure hard drive is set first! Disable floppy search and the cd rom/dvd items to force boot from the main drive.