new pc build, some first time start up problems

LukeMiller86

LukeMiller86

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Hi

Ive just finished building my new PC, well the mobo,cpu,ram and gfx are new, the HDD and DVD are from a previous pc.

it turns on fine and goes though to the bios screen where it says it needs a DVD to boot from. So i put one in, it restarts, goes through the verifying (i think?) loading bar screen and then goes to the "windows is starting" screen. however at the end of that screen it reboots.

the hard drives were in my previous PC and have not been formatted yet, I thought they would be able to be formatted as part of this procedure. Is that the problem or does this point to something else? Ive tried with both my existing windows vista disc, and with the latest windows 7 RC burned to a dvd.

This is my first pc build from scratch by the way, so go easy :o
 
dont have another pc to try it with.

however theres two drives in here, both were fine before i changed over the mobo/gfx/cpu/ram ect, and the same thing happens regardless of which of them i try to boot into
 
yeah i selected the dvd drive as the primary boot drive

it comes up with the black screen with white bar and 'windows is loading files...' message

that runs thought and it moves to the next screen where it says 'microsoft corporation; and theres a loading bar (this is on vista, with the windows 7 dvd in it has the windows 7 equivalent). and then at the end of that screen it reboots
 
psu is about a year or so old.

temps are fine i think, showing at 43 degrees when its just sitting with the bios open. all the fans are spinning fine too.

could it be RAM or is it really just likely to be some kind of hard drive problem?
 
tried each stick of ram individually and the same thing happens every time, so its either not the ram or theyre all 3 sticks busted, which seems unlikely.

i have no idea what else to try, is there any other ideas at all? no matter how dumb they may seem, this is my first time building from scratch so i could have overlooked something you'd all think was obvious.
 
nope, never used linux before

i pulled out an old windows xp sp2 disc though and tried that, it allows me to format the main hard drive and then begins to install, it gets as far as the blue screen telling me about windows xps exciting new look and goes from 39 minutes left down to installing devices and 34 minutes left then it reboots :( when it comes back it resumes at 39 minutes again and this cycle continues.

now im more confused than ever


and ya both HDs are recognized in the bios
 
i wonder, could it be graphics card?

ive not seen the windows 7 install section and i dont remeber vista, but are they likely to use the graphics card in a way that the the windows xp one doesnt until it installs the devices?
 
nope hasnt fixed it :( it takes longer now to get past the 39 minutes to go stage of the xp install, but it still reboots at the 34 minutes devices installing progress bar.

theres a slightly odd noise right before it reboots, like a faint clicking? but its only faint and it only happens right before the reboot.
 
tried with another graphics card just to rule that out, and it made no difference.

this has really perplexed me, it seems to me like it must be something quite minor thats not set right or surely there would be masses of beeping, or refusing to boot up at all.

or one of the components is defective but i dont have a stock of parts i can switch out to see
 
chrispystix said:
And a quick google suggests driver issue. What hardware are you using?
Click to expand...

Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail
Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
Patriot Viper 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600MHz) Low Latency Tri-Channel (PVT36G1600LLK)
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4890 1GB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Hiper 580W HPU-4M580 SLi Certified ATX2.2 Power Supply

the hard drives, one is a 250gb maxtor and ones a 640gb western digital.


Ive tried it again with different SATA cables and the SATA settings in the BIOS are correct to what youve said, and its still no different.
 
ive checked and double checked all the connectors, im sure everything is properly together to the best of my knowledge. all the fans spin up too on the cpu, graphics card and the case fans.

the 24pin power connector on the mobo was a bit of a weird one too, my psu has a 20 pin and a seperate 4 pin that comes from the same wiring bundle and conforms to the shape of the final 4 slots on the motherboard. so i plugged it in there, i assume thats the right thing to do?

i havnt looked at the processor voltage and settings as i dont know what im looking for really, never overclocked so never messed with that kinda stuff before.

thanks for trying to help me out with this, dont worry about patronizing me i have a feeling that this is something quite simple that ive missed somehow due to it being my first build. i just dont know what :(
 
i dont get a BSOD it just reboots and i dont know how that slipstream thing works :(

the mobo doesnt have onboard graphics, but i do have an old gfx card which i tried and it was the same thing as with this one.
 
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