Hello,
I have had a lot of trouble trying to get Vista 32bit as well as the windows 7 installer to even start on a newly assembled computer. It will often randomly reboot or hang during the initial load of the setup files (before it even asks for what language and keyboard layout). A few times I have made it to this step where it asks for what language and keyboard layout but it took 10-15 minutes to get that far. To proceed past this step, where it says "setup is starting..." it stays at that screen 15-20 minutes, and often will hang. The few times I have made it to where i can select "install windows" it will hang shortly after. I never make it to selecting what hard drive to install windows on whatsoever.
Memtest 86+ (as suggested by Mushkin) informs me that both memory modules are working without any errors, even after letting the test run for some time.
The original bios that this board was shipped with was version F5, which I did flash the bios to F6 (version supplied from the website, recently released) in order to troubleshoot this problem (loaded optimized defaults, failsafe, and even resetting the bios itself). I have tried disabling as much as I could in the bios (serial ports, non necessary sata ports, onboard audio, etc..) but I have not had much luck in the matter.
I have also tried removing the memory modules, and trying each one at a time. I have tried even starting the windows setup from a USB drive instead of the DVD burner but no luck.
Also, just to confirm that it was not the burner or the install process, I moved the burner to another computer, booted from it and ran the installer flawlessly up to the point where it looks for a hard drive (none found there, but that is because of the way that comp is set up, raid drivers needed).
Do I perhaps have a bad motherboard or is there something else that I am missing that I could try?
Thanks,
Lightpaw
Here are the components of this computer:
GIGABYTE GA-MA790FXT-UD5P AM3 DDR3 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor
mushkin 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
EVGA 01G-P3-1180-AR GeForce GTX 285 1GB 512-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
CORSAIR CMPSU-850HX 850W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91 80 PLUS SILVER Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
**Corsair Extreme Series CMFSSD-128D1 2.5" 128GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid state disk (SSD)
PLEXTOR 24X DVD/CD Writer Black SATA Model PX-880SA LightScribe Support
COOLER MASTER HAF 922 RC-922M-KKN1-GP Black Steel + Plastic and Mesh Bezel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
**this hard drive has confirmed issues, but I do not even get to the point of selecting the hard drive during the install process.
I have had a lot of trouble trying to get Vista 32bit as well as the windows 7 installer to even start on a newly assembled computer. It will often randomly reboot or hang during the initial load of the setup files (before it even asks for what language and keyboard layout). A few times I have made it to this step where it asks for what language and keyboard layout but it took 10-15 minutes to get that far. To proceed past this step, where it says "setup is starting..." it stays at that screen 15-20 minutes, and often will hang. The few times I have made it to where i can select "install windows" it will hang shortly after. I never make it to selecting what hard drive to install windows on whatsoever.
Memtest 86+ (as suggested by Mushkin) informs me that both memory modules are working without any errors, even after letting the test run for some time.
The original bios that this board was shipped with was version F5, which I did flash the bios to F6 (version supplied from the website, recently released) in order to troubleshoot this problem (loaded optimized defaults, failsafe, and even resetting the bios itself). I have tried disabling as much as I could in the bios (serial ports, non necessary sata ports, onboard audio, etc..) but I have not had much luck in the matter.
I have also tried removing the memory modules, and trying each one at a time. I have tried even starting the windows setup from a USB drive instead of the DVD burner but no luck.
Also, just to confirm that it was not the burner or the install process, I moved the burner to another computer, booted from it and ran the installer flawlessly up to the point where it looks for a hard drive (none found there, but that is because of the way that comp is set up, raid drivers needed).
Do I perhaps have a bad motherboard or is there something else that I am missing that I could try?
Thanks,
Lightpaw
Here are the components of this computer:
GIGABYTE GA-MA790FXT-UD5P AM3 DDR3 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor
mushkin 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
EVGA 01G-P3-1180-AR GeForce GTX 285 1GB 512-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
CORSAIR CMPSU-850HX 850W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91 80 PLUS SILVER Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
**Corsair Extreme Series CMFSSD-128D1 2.5" 128GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid state disk (SSD)
PLEXTOR 24X DVD/CD Writer Black SATA Model PX-880SA LightScribe Support
COOLER MASTER HAF 922 RC-922M-KKN1-GP Black Steel + Plastic and Mesh Bezel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
**this hard drive has confirmed issues, but I do not even get to the point of selecting the hard drive during the install process.
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