Windows 7 64-bit installation question

Odhran · 28 Jul 2009 at 11:12

Last night I was installing this OS for a friend on a newly custom built machine. I've already installed it on my own system - which is almost identical to his one and it worked perfectly.

Installation seems to work fine - but when it gets to the final step 'Completing installation', it stops doing anything. mouse and keyboard are still responding, and the '...' animation is still moving on the screen. I left it there for an hour and a half, but still nothing happened. I rebooted, but obviously I got the windows message 'installation didn't complete, please do it again'.

I know this is the section where it tries to detect hardware, so I'm hoping one of the components isn't faulty.

Anyway, the hardware is as follows (purchased from OcUK last week):

*OVERCLOCKED* Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz @ 4.00GHz Max Gigabyte EX58-UD5 Intel X58 Motherboard Patriot Viper 6GB DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz DDR3 Bundle
BFG GeForce GTX 295 1792MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card (Single PCB)
OCZ Vertex Series 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-1VTX120G)
Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 1000W ATX2.2 Modular SLi Compliant Power Supply
Pioneer BDR-203BK 8x BluRay-RWDVD±RW Serial ATA Dual Layer Drive - OEM
Akasa Eclipse 62 Case - Aluminium (No PSU)
Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD10EADS)
Akasa SATA-2 45cm Silver Data Cable

Any help or other insights would be greatly appreciated.

antijoke · 28 Jul 2009 at 11:23

Might want to add info about which version of Windows 7 64-bit are you installing? The RC? Any other build?

Odhran · 28 Jul 2009 at 11:54

anticonscience said:
Might want to add info about which version of Windows 7 64-bit are you installing? The RC? Any other build?

Sorry - it's the RC1, not the beta.

this_is_gav · 28 Jul 2009 at 13:37

Trying load the Intel drivers for the SATA controller from a USB stick during the install process (the bit where you partition the drives).

Not saying it will fix the problem, but some boards do have this problem on Vista (some Dell laptops, an ABIT P35 board a mate has) and this has fixed it every time.

maddness · 28 Jul 2009 at 17:13

try installing it at stock speeds, not overclocked

Odhran · 28 Jul 2009 at 23:22

Problem solved. I formatted the SSD (where the OS was going to be installed), but forgot to format the other hard drives. Strange how it would just hang there though. Surely a message or something? Anyway, OS installed and we're up and running.