Problem booting Windows 7 - Please help! :(

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GFXZombie

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Hey guys. I built my new PC last night (i7-2700k, 16GB RAM etc.), and i have tried installing windows 7 via the optical drive.

I successfully installed it, set up username and password, and it went to the desktop. Everything seemed to be ok, mouse was working fine. Then, after 10-20 seconds, it suddenly said "Logging off" and "Shutting down". The PC shut down, and restarted.

The BIOS flashes up very briefly, then "Press any key to boot from CD/DVD..." very quickly, then the monitor loses its input and goes blank. Whilst this is happening, the fans in the PC are going slow then suddenly fast for a second, and the various POST red LED's around the motherboard turn on and off in turn. It appears that the one for the boot device stays on the longest, but i'm not sure.

It may be hard to understand what i'm saying, so i've uploaded a video so you can see what's happening: (it's uploading now, i'll post the link later today)



I've tried formatting the SSD and reinstalling windows 4 times now, with no success.. If anyone can help, i would really appreciate it. Thanks!
 
I can't get safe mode to work either, it comes up with an option to choose boot device or setup, then does the same thing again no matter which device i choose
 
Sorry, i'm new to this...

Every time i've reinstalled windows i have first formatted both the partitions on the SSD. Is that the same as a secure erase?

How would I view the event log?

Thanks
 
Ah ok maybe i can try that from the family pc then.

Yeah i kind of spam F8 because there's no indication of what point i'm supposed to press it
 
I've tried reinstalling a few times :/

Ok guys, update: I swapped the SSD for the HDD in my laptop. The install of Win7 on the SSD works perfectly fine on the laptop. I allowed it to do 109 updates, no problem.

The HDD also works in the new PC, so it obviously isn't a hardware problem (i think?).

The only thing that i have noticed is that in the Windows rating index thing (1 - 7.9), both the laptop (with PC's SSD) and the PC (with laptop's HDD) say that the Graphics and Gaming Graphics have a score of 1.0. So now i'm almost certain that it's got something to do with the graphics drivers, but i don't know how to fix that. I tried downloading Intel's newest driver (i think it was the right one) on both setups, but both gave an error that said something like "Your system is not suitable to install this"

Just now, i tried the SSD back in the PC, but with exactly the same result as before...

This is getting really frustrating now :/

Thanks for any answers
 
No i haven't yet, i'll try that now.

Hmm ok.. i think i installed the Intel chipset driver from the mobo disk and the wireless network driver, but that's it. I'll see what else there is
 
2 sticks of RAM didn't work (i tried in slots 1 and 3 with 1 being the closest to the cpu)

I looked through the various drive options and didnt see anything that appeared to be what i want.. but i'll put the SSD back in my laptop now and install them all
 
I just tried putting the mobo cd into my laptop with the ssd but, unlike when i put it into the PC with the HDD, it only gave me 3 options in terms of installing drivers (google chrome browser, norton internet security solution and realtek audio driver) so.. i tried to install them separately from where they are stored in a folder on the disk, but it gave me the error: "this computer does not meet the minimum requirements to install this software"
 
Intel Core i7 2700k
Asus P8Z77-V PRO motherboard
Corsair H60 CPU cooler
16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM
NZXT Phantom 410 case
Corsair ZX 850W (80+ Gold Certified) PSU
Crucial M4 128GB SSD

Ive just spent the past hour playing aorund with drivers. I updated the Intel HD Graphics drivers to their 2012 version (from 2006) on the hdd inside the pc, then used DriverMax to back them up and then restore them onto the SSD on my laptop. STILL the same result
 
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