New System wont run windows 7 - Help

toony12

toony12

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My new system is as follows

Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem)
Kingston HyperX 6GB (3x2GB) Intel XMP DDR3 2000MHz CL8 Triple Channel Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 Intel X58
XFX 5850 graphics
Zalman GT1000 Z-Machine Titanium Case - Silver
Intel X25-M Mainstream 80GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive
Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme Rev. C CPU Cooler
Samsung SH-S223BRSMN 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter

Tried installing windows 7 and everything goes ok until it resets at the last hurdle and tries to load, the windows balls logo circle on the screen and then it begins to put the mouse icon on the screen and the computer resets. My first attempt did simlar but i got a warning message stating my hardware was incompatible with windows 7 :confused:

trying to install windows 7 professional 64bit.

Just spunked 1500 on a new computer because my old one had problems trying to install windows 7 and now im back to the same problem.

The only thing i ihave done prior to install was flash the SSD to the lastest firmware and everything went fien with that.
 
I dont see why any of your hardware would cause the problem so maybe you could try updating your BIOS, but be careful and you wouldnt want to break it.

~Danny
 
Well if its an 'original' disk, you can't install it on more than one machine.

Does sound like faulty media, unless you've got it overclocked?
 
Hi, i recently bought a new system, with windows 7 64 bit.
It was running fine until the one morning it kept restarting over and over.. and i think i had similair problem to what you are experiencing..

I have Intel Core I5 750
Asus P7P55D LE
Corsair ddr3 4gig 1066
1tb western digital hardrive
Blue Ray /dvd rw drive
ATI 5850 Powercolor.

Basically it would come to the window logo badge... and reset itself, and it was this point i was scared, so i tried to run the windows 7 cd from boot (after going into bios and changing boot device) and went to repair, it would scan to repair but it would crash on the repair, i tried several time and it kept crashing, so then i was like right im going to have to format (re install windows 7) so i tried doing this and as it was formatting the hardrive it crashed and i had to reset, so i did it one last time and luckily it installed this time. it was a bit of a pain and scary.. try re-installing ure windows 7 again. as this is what i had to do.

The last thing to be connected to my comp the night before was my friends creative zen.
Till this day i do not know what caused it.
 
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If its crashing as its trying to load the desktop, it could be a power issue, what PSU have you got, and will it boot ok in Safe Mode?

Secondly, is the CD/DVD drive your using to run the W7 disc from your old build, as you said the disc failed to install on the old build, it might be a drive problem?

Thirdly, unless you have more than 1 licence or a volume licence key, you Should Not be Installing this on another PC while it's currently loaded on your Dads.
 
i have a new SATA cd drive, not used in old system.

The win 7 dvd is only to be used for installation, i will not use the same reg details with microsoft, the computer is not even connected to the web at the moment so that wont be the issue.

i have mentioned above i have a brand new ocz 850 xstream as my power supply. I have a dell 1210 24" monitor. Do i have to set anything up in the bios for 64bit operation? what multiplyer should i select?
 
win 7 never finished a full install so the safe mode tells me its going to reset and continue installation. \i asssume windows 7 will not have any drivers for the 5850 graphics card, could this be the issue?
 
@toony12 - No, because Windows 7 will install a generic VGA driver if it doesn't find the exact one in its extensive database. So long as the default automatic driver install is enabled and you're connected to the internet then Windows will load and install drivers for your new card anyway.

If your PC is crashing as it loads the desktop then there are a number of things you should try to do/check:

1. Boot to the Windows DVD, open the command prompt and run CHKDSK on the drive you're installing to, presumably, the SSD. If there are any errors reported then try formatting the drive and run CHKDSK again. If it still reports errors then you've found your problem.

2. Run the memory diagnostics utility from the Windows 7 DVD to check that it isn't the RAM that is faulty.

2. If the drive and memory are OK but Windows 7 will still not load to the desktop then you could try disconnecting/removing as many devices as you can such as the DVD-Rewriter and disabling audio/LAN etc. in the BIOS. This will allow you to eliminate those devices and their drivers as a possible cause. If Windows 7 boots successfully then you can connect/re-enable those devices one at a time until you identify the culprit.

3. If that doesn't work and you're sure you have everything connected up properly in your PC, including your PSU, then it may be the graphics card that is defective. Can you try another card?
 
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By the way, you say you had similar problems installing Windows 7 on your old PC? You aren't using any components from that PC, are you? Is it a brand new machine?
 
pcAnywhere said:
Do you have a multi-user license version of Win 7?
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I don't know, but shouldn't we help him diagnose his problem rather than worry about if his Windows is fully licensed? :p

Even if you use a dodgy 100% illegal copy with no key entered, Windows will still boot up and give you 30 days to play with it.

There is no reset-loop behaviour built into Windows' activation systems that I know of.
 
Run memtest and a hard drive test first, make sure you arnt just unlucky with some faulty hardware. Also DO NOT overclock before installing windows - reset bios to defaults just to make sure and then try again.
 
thanks for the advice, just one thing, when i installed windows 7 it asks me where to put it, i only have the ssd in the system so i selected that. I tried clicking on the format button for it but it was not highlighted and therefore i could not press it. Is this normal for SSD's?

I have it attached to one of the onboard gigabyte SATA II ports, is this the best place to plug it into?

How do you get to these Mem test and check disk applications when windows 7 initalises?
 
Don't know if this is correct not used a ssd yet but you could try this.

Enable AHCI in the BIOS put your SSD on the 1st sata port and try and install windows...I could be wrong in this.
 
got it running by reseting my bios to 12x multiplyer.

Can anyone point me in the direction to get my processor running at 3.8ghz, i have the right processor and the right memory to get to this speed from what i have heard but i just dont understand the overclocking settings in the bios and every overclcok i try just freezes my system.
 
Firstly IMHO, you should always install an OS with the computer running at stock speed, and then overclock later. Windows install is very touchy if the computer is not 100% stable.

Secondly no matter what parts you buy, no overclock is guaranteed, you cant just slap a few "recommended" parts together and just clock from 2.66 to 3.8Ghz. You need to take it gradually in steps, testing stability all the way.

Clearly something in your PC is unstable with such a large overclock, so work up more gradually. Remember overclocking often envolves tweaking voltages, carefull tuning of memory clocks and timings, to find the fastest STABLE speed.
 
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