Major help needed please!!

BiGT- · 29 Jun 2009 at 22:23

hi, so I bought a motherboard, Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H, I have connected all my hardware to it, I have burnt a copy of windows 7 to a dvd, but cant get it to load, i have changed my bios settings from first boot drive which was CDROM to Hard Disk, but nothing happens, when I try boot from the CDROM, it says "disk boot failure" then it goes on to windows repair and says it has not found any errors and it just repeats, does anyone know what could be the problem?

also I have tried about 4 different CD/DVD drives.

My specs are currently:
Intel Pentium Dual CPU E2160 @ 1.80GHz
2Gb Kingston Ram (2x1Gb) - Kingston 9905399-003A00LF 1GB DIMM DDR2 PC2-4300U DDR2-534 (4-4-4-12 2-16-4-2)
Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H Motherboard
Nvidia Geforce 7600GS 512MB

Thanks, help is very appreciated.

theheyes · 29 Jun 2009 at 22:35

Try burning the DVD again. You might want to try and verify the download as well.

raptormonkey · 29 Jun 2009 at 22:44

Looks as if the Disc could be iffy. Obviously, make sure that the boot sequence is pointing at CD and then, as above, verify the download and burn another copy.

BiGT- · 29 Jun 2009 at 22:46

I think i deserve the face palm images, I inserted another older windows 7 DVD that i had and it works, I will just download and burn the new one again, thanks for your help guys.

Quick question, can i install windows 7 from a USB stick? it has the ISO on the stick?

Fire Wizard · 29 Jun 2009 at 23:01

BiGT- said:
Quick question, can i install windows 7 from a USB stick? it has the ISO on the stick?

Yep, that's perfectly possible. If you follow this guide here to prepare your USB stick. After you have completed the steps in the that guide, extract the contents of the ISO file using a program like WinRAR and then copy the extracted files onto the USB stick.

Note: Be careful with the "Clean" command. Make sure you have selected the correct drive, the one you wish to install Windows 7 from.

BiGT- · 29 Jun 2009 at 23:22

Thanks very much guys, I really do mean it, is there not a rep button or thank you button :confused:

theheyes · 29 Jun 2009 at 23:41

BiGT- said:
Thanks very much guys, I really do mean it, is there not a rep button or thank you button

Nope, if you really mean it you'll have to get a tattoo of our usernames on your face and post the pics. Just don't claim to have fallen asleep in the tattooist's chair if you don't like it.

BiGT- · 29 Jun 2009 at 23:45

LOL, ill end up with 53 different usernames :eek: