Windows 7 installation

Jimi777 · 12 Jan 2010 at 20:32

Windows 7 slow installation [Solved]

hi all

Had an i7 920, asus p6t x58 mobo and 6gb dominator 1600 ram arrive today.

i cant get windows 7 64bit to install. The installation just hangs on the first blue screen. after about 10 minutes the 'install windows' window appears. i can select the language and then click ok. it then takes about 15 mins to get to the drive select screen. when it does begin to install 1% takes a very long time.

anyone any ideas?

Regards
jim

Robert1986 · 12 Jan 2010 at 20:37

Make sure all your sata cables are connected right. Same thing happened to me when I noticed my hdd cable wasn't 100% in.

ejr22 · 12 Jan 2010 at 20:40

Try disabling the Floppy Drive (even if you haven't got one installed) in the BIOS.

Dom_UK · 12 Jan 2010 at 20:41

Robert1986 said:
Make sure all your sata cables are connected right. Same thing happened to me when I noticed my hdd cable wasn't 100% in.

Yeah and make sure it is a SATA drive. I've read a lot of people have had problems with IDE. Infact I did the other day aswell on someone else's system.

Jimi777 · 12 Jan 2010 at 20:50

thanks for the quick replies. i check all the cables and they are fine. not sure how to disable the floppy controller. i couldnt find any reference to it in the bios. the drives are SATA. WD 1TB Green and and WD 500gb. I have changed the optical drives but this hasnt worked either. any other ideas?

ejr22 · 12 Jan 2010 at 21:08

Jimi777 said:
not sure how to disable the floppy controller. i couldnt find any reference to it in the bios

It is in the Standard CMOS Features of the BIOS.

Maniacfest · 12 Jan 2010 at 21:09

Just a thought: try taking out the drive that you are not putting the install on.

Jimi777 · 12 Jan 2010 at 21:23

the floppy option is not listed there. maniacfest you have exactly the same system apart from i have the 850 hx psu. how do you setup the ram on this mobo? its really confusing!
Only one drive is connected and it still does the same thing.

ejr22 · 12 Jan 2010 at 23:26

Jimi777 said:
the floppy option is not listed there.

I'm sorry, I listed the area from my own motherboard's BIOS *hides in shame*. The option to disable to floppy on the P6T BIOS is on the Main Page under Legacy Diskette A:

Jimi777 · 13 Jan 2010 at 00:17

You are the man!!!!!!
It worked! hard to believe it was the floppy controller slowing down the whole process.

i had the whole thing in bits, tried a different psu, 2 sticks of ram instead of 2, replaced every cable, tried installing vista!

thankyou ejr22 its really appreciated!
Regards
Jim