New Member, help please with problematic Windows 7 install.

[Freegs]

Dear Ocuk,

I find myself in a slightly ridiculous situation when attempting to give my old
trusty gaming rig a new lease of life. I swept the cobwebs off of my old IP35-pro, Q6600, 8800gt, corsair dominator system and purchased a new HDD off of here so I can stick Windows 7 on it. I appreciate this is all positively prehistoric from the point of view of the modern I.T. enthusiast but I am on a strict budget and for the sake of a £50 refresh (maybe some more RAM in the future) it is all I need.

Anyway, my problem is this...I had a microsoft security fingerprint reader installed on the system in the past (it was running XP by the way) and have subsequently managed to lock myself out. To remedy this I attempted to log on using safe mode to create another user account but no luck as I had major problems with my USB keyboard not being recognised in BIOS and having no PS2 keyboard lying around. I decided to scrap my old
HDD and stick the new one in with the Windows 7 ISO file on a USB stick. I now am getting no BIOS boot even, in fact no display on the monitor. Any ideas?

I am sure you will need some more details about the configuration etc. but please any input greatly appreciated as I am out of my depth and want to get this sorted.

Cheers,

Tom

 

[flying grouse]

I presume you have removed fingerprint reader meantime?

you can reset BIOS from external switch at rear, and I would boot into BIOS without usb drive and set-up the new drive or at least see if it is recognised in bios

Just a thought, you did burn the ISO to the thumb drive?

 

[Freegs]

Cheers Grouse,

All sorted now. Had a couple of crashes but it's running very quickly and generally smoothly so we'll see what happens.

Thanks for your help.

Tom

 

[russell664]

In regards to the new drive, is it a mechanical drive, or an SSD?

 

[bledd]

q6600 and 8800gt are still great.

Both awesome bits of kit, Nvidia kept releasing better and better drivers unlocking more performance in the 8800gt.

 

[lucifer-mnm]

My main gaming rig is based around the q6600, abit ip35, 4gb ddr2 ram, mechanical hdd and an ati 5850 (my 8800gt died.) It runs everything great at 1080p and like Bledd says were and still are very good parts.