Hello,
I bought several new parts for my computer a few months ago, and had them all working perfectly with Windows 7 up until a few days ago. I put the computer to sleep one day, and when I tried to wake it up I found that it appeared to be on, but was completely unresponsive. I had to hold the power button to shut it off. Then, I began to see random blue screens occasionally when starting up, but usually it would work fine.
Well, after a while it wouldn't start up at all, giving me blue screens 100% of the time. I had to format, and when I tried to reinstall Windows 7 I got a new problem all together.
Right at the beginning of install, I would click "install now" and when it progressed to the next page I would get an error saying "Load Driver: A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing." It would ask me to point to the driver, but it was nowhere to be found.
So, I tried installing from a USB flash drive, and even disconnecting the CD/DVD drives altogether, but the error still persisted. At this point, I could at least install Windows XP. I tried installing Windows 7 from XP, and it appeared to work, but upon booting into 7 it would hang during startup. Before I knew it, neither the XP install and 7 install would boot.
After wrestling with this error for a few days (to no avail) I tried to update to the latest BIOS for my motherboard.
Now, whenever I try to install any version of Windows it hangs. Specifically, in 7 (64-bit btw) it goes through the "Loading windows files..." progress bar, then displays "Starting Windows" where the 4 colored balls would show up, but it hangs before they are allowed to do so. When I try to install from DVD, it does the same except it hangs at a black screen before the "Starting Windows" screen can even be displayed.
My setup is as follows:
Mobo: Asus M4A785-V EVO
Memory: G.SKILL 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 635 Propus 2.9GHz Socket AM3
HD: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
GPU: 8800 GTS
I have tried booting with 1 stick of memory, integrated graphics, no USB devices plugged in... no luck. I have run a memory test with no errors. I left a HDD regenerator going last night, and it scanned about 15% of the hard drive with no errors, but I broke it off early because it was on pace to take about a week.
I have googled relentlessly about this, and none of the remedies I have found have worked.
Please help before I rip out what remaining hair I have! Thanks in advance!
I bought several new parts for my computer a few months ago, and had them all working perfectly with Windows 7 up until a few days ago. I put the computer to sleep one day, and when I tried to wake it up I found that it appeared to be on, but was completely unresponsive. I had to hold the power button to shut it off. Then, I began to see random blue screens occasionally when starting up, but usually it would work fine.
Well, after a while it wouldn't start up at all, giving me blue screens 100% of the time. I had to format, and when I tried to reinstall Windows 7 I got a new problem all together.
Right at the beginning of install, I would click "install now" and when it progressed to the next page I would get an error saying "Load Driver: A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing." It would ask me to point to the driver, but it was nowhere to be found.
So, I tried installing from a USB flash drive, and even disconnecting the CD/DVD drives altogether, but the error still persisted. At this point, I could at least install Windows XP. I tried installing Windows 7 from XP, and it appeared to work, but upon booting into 7 it would hang during startup. Before I knew it, neither the XP install and 7 install would boot.
After wrestling with this error for a few days (to no avail) I tried to update to the latest BIOS for my motherboard.
Now, whenever I try to install any version of Windows it hangs. Specifically, in 7 (64-bit btw) it goes through the "Loading windows files..." progress bar, then displays "Starting Windows" where the 4 colored balls would show up, but it hangs before they are allowed to do so. When I try to install from DVD, it does the same except it hangs at a black screen before the "Starting Windows" screen can even be displayed.
My setup is as follows:
Mobo: Asus M4A785-V EVO
Memory: G.SKILL 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 635 Propus 2.9GHz Socket AM3
HD: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
GPU: 8800 GTS
I have tried booting with 1 stick of memory, integrated graphics, no USB devices plugged in... no luck. I have run a memory test with no errors. I left a HDD regenerator going last night, and it scanned about 15% of the hard drive with no errors, but I broke it off early because it was on pace to take about a week.
I have googled relentlessly about this, and none of the remedies I have found have worked.
Please help before I rip out what remaining hair I have! Thanks in advance!