new build, Windows 7 Home 64 problem

jjones

jjones

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Hi,

I have just bought the following from OCUK:
"Argon Tarbosaur" Intel Core i5 2300 2.80GHz Bundle £239.99 1 £239.99
Corsair Force 40GB F40 2.5" SATA-ll Solid State Drive (CSSD-F40GB2-BRKT) £67.99 1 £67.99
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £66.66 1 £66.66
OcUK GeForce GT 440 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £61.66 1 £61.66
OcUK Battle 550W Dual Rail High Efficiency Modular Power Supply £36.59 1 £36.59

I have an old DVD-RW IDE running via a SATA converter to run the DVD drive.

I am trying to install to the SSD. The BIOS and Win7 install can both see the drive.

When i run the installation for Windows 7 it takes approcimately 40 minutes to get to the language selection stage. Eventually it got to the Extracting files part and i gave up at 3% after getting error messages about the media (as above it is a genuine new disk).

The exact same symptoms as here:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=17715180

I have also tried to install windows XP, this BSOD with a : STOP 0x00000007
The INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE bug check frequently occurs because of a boot device failure. During I/O system initialization, the boot device driver might have failed to initialize the boot device (typically a hard disk).

Tried to make a bootable USB but the stick i am using is not compatiable apparently with the boot process.

Also trying the install with 1 stick of ram removed as per many internet suggestions. Not looking any better so far, 25 mins in and not got to the language select yet (sat on hummingbird screen now for 20 minutes). Update: 30 minutes to the language select screen. I can see the Partiotion 1 (System reserved) and Partition 2 37.2GB (just asked it to format it and no errors). It is now back at the extracting files stage.

I only have one SATA drive (the SDD sata drive) and one IDE->SATA converter so i cannot run the install DVD and attempt to install to an IDE drive at the same time.

Now trying to make another bootable usb, but it is usb1 and is taking hours to attempt to make the bootable usb and i think it will fail as the other stick did.

I am also making a bootable CD in an effort to try to format the SDD drive - this does not seem possible from the MSI BIOS - if i use the "utilities" disk that came with the board all of the menu options take an age to load and eventually end up at a command prompt.

What is my next course of action if the "new" usb stick fails?

Thanks for your help
 
thanks, i will be buying a SATA DVD tomorrow and also a new USB memory stick. the DVD does seem to work ok with the converter (can see in BIOS and the XP install could rea from it before it BSOD'd).

installer is a "Expanding Windows files 3%" after 45 minutes :(
 
stulid said:
Have you set the BIOS sata controller to AHCI, this wont do anything to fix your issues, but is needed to run the SSD properly
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Yes thanks, I saw that in one of the posts and changed it over.

As predicted the older usb stick cannot be made bootable either so i will have to wait until tomorrow. The W7 installer is still at extracting 3% (got the error mesages again and have aborted the install)
 
This morning i plugged the old IDE XP disk in (using the same IDE -> SATA converter) and XP started to boot. It gets to the XP Splash screen and then BSOD a few seconds later and then resets. I think it is the same 0000007 error but it flashes passed really quick so cannot be 100%.
 
Thanks all for the advice.

The problem was the IDE -> SATA converter. I got a SATA DVD-RW and the install was done in well under 15 minutes from start to desktop - very slick.
 
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