I'm in the process of putting together a new AMD box, but I'm running into a bit of a snag. I have all the components installed, and everything seems to be running fine, except for when I go to load my Win7 CD. It will get to the screen with the floating Windows graphic, then freeze and not proceed past there. Being a computer tech by trade, I'm a bit stumped as to what can be the problem. All the parts listed below have been tested, and have either been working in the past, or tested working.
AMD Phenom II x6 1055T CPU with stock cooler (no overclocking done yet, so no need)
Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P Motherboard (6-core BIOS installed)
2 x 1GB OCZ DDR3 Dual channel RAM PC3-10666
EVGA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB (odd, I know, but It's off my old box, and known to be working perfectly. At least until I can get the ATI 5770)
Cooler Master Mystique Case
WD Caviar Black 1TB HDD going to be used for OS images and misc data
Seagate 160GB SATA HDD, going to be used for OS and apps. Formated as NTFS. Was previously being used as my OS drive on my old box.
Corsair 650W PSU, non-modular
Samsung DVDRW SATA drive
I thought the problem might be related to overheating in some sense due to the freezing, but I'm not seeing any temps out of the ordinary in the BIOS. CPU holds steady between 38-41 Celcius. I ran hardware test on both HDD's, the CPU, MoBo, RAM, and Video card using MRI's PC-Check. All passed. The only device I didn't test was the Optical drive, but being that it ran all the above test from CD, I'm assuming it is fine. see if it worked, and it froze at 20% formatting the HDD.
I know it's not the Win7 DVD either, as I tried installing XP to
Any ideas what could be causing this?
AMD Phenom II x6 1055T CPU with stock cooler (no overclocking done yet, so no need)
Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P Motherboard (6-core BIOS installed)
2 x 1GB OCZ DDR3 Dual channel RAM PC3-10666
EVGA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB (odd, I know, but It's off my old box, and known to be working perfectly. At least until I can get the ATI 5770)
Cooler Master Mystique Case
WD Caviar Black 1TB HDD going to be used for OS images and misc data
Seagate 160GB SATA HDD, going to be used for OS and apps. Formated as NTFS. Was previously being used as my OS drive on my old box.
Corsair 650W PSU, non-modular
Samsung DVDRW SATA drive
I thought the problem might be related to overheating in some sense due to the freezing, but I'm not seeing any temps out of the ordinary in the BIOS. CPU holds steady between 38-41 Celcius. I ran hardware test on both HDD's, the CPU, MoBo, RAM, and Video card using MRI's PC-Check. All passed. The only device I didn't test was the Optical drive, but being that it ran all the above test from CD, I'm assuming it is fine. see if it worked, and it froze at 20% formatting the HDD.
I know it's not the Win7 DVD either, as I tried installing XP to
Any ideas what could be causing this?