Whats wrong with this?

[MasterPlan1]

I got my board back from RMA yesterday, and I thought "yay! I can finally build my PC at last and get my server back online!" I built it, got it all neat and tidy. Went to install w7, and it kinda hangs... No errors, it just doesn't do anything. Do modern day ISOs still suffer from the "if you burn me too fast, I won't work" syndrome of older ones?

I believe it wrote at 4x, which is the max my media could do. They're bulkpack yellows, which are about 2yrs old, I don't burn that many disks... I'm currently burning off Vista Buzinez from work to give that a whirl tonight, going to try this tonight, burn the ISO at 1x and hope for the best.

Failing that, anything that could be wrong with this setup, it boots, I configured my raid array alright, picks up all the memory, CPU speed etc:

Asus Rampage Formula
OCZ StealthXStream 600w
Q6600
2x2Gb Kingston HyperX 8500
2x500Gb Seagates
WinFast 8800GTS 320Mb

 

[StevenRaith]

If the Rampage is anything like the P5Q [I'm happy to admit it may be entirely different in every way, but I'm willing to bet they share certain parts] then loading an NT6 installer [Vista/Win7] takes aaaaages. At least it did on my P5Q. Literally had to leave it for about an hour to get through the initial parts of installing.

Once installed though, it flies.

P5Q/8gb 1066 RAM/Q6600.

I used the same ISO and DVD Drive to do a test install of Win7 on my AMD T3 barebones, and it went perfectly, as expected.

It's an odd glitch, but one that I recall not being unique when I built the P5Q based system.

Set off the installer, go have a cup of tea and a couple of bourbons, and see how it goes.

 

[MasterPlan1]

I'll give it another whirl when I get in tonight, I had the system built by 3am (got in at 1 from work) so I just couldn't be faffed looking at it any longer. I gots the vista x64 business ed burnt at 1x now, so that'll eliminate old media\badly written ISO.