Installing windows 7 hangs

So strange because I was able to boot to bios, Corsair makes good PSUs and watts is way more than I need right now! Tried a different PSU and Windows 7 booted without a hitch. RMAing the TX. Thanks to everyone for your help and suggestions and a happy Thanksgiving!

Thanks Stentorian. Delete all partitions and perform a new install under "compaitibility" or using the initial BIOS settings. Verify if the machine boots up OK.

I don't even get to the option to select what type of setup I want to do or load drivers. The systems freezes during install before I even get that far. Here's exactly what I'm doing: 1. Everything possible is disabled in bios, USB, sound, etc. Boot priority set to DVD first.

Turn on computer. Windows 7 DVD loads and immediately goes to the "windows is loading files Progress bar fills 2x 9. Hi Stentorian ,. It seems that you have not ever tried installing other systems like Windows XP and etc on your new built computer.

It is difficult for us to determine if the computer actually works. In addition, since the installation process has not even passed first stage to copy the installation files to the memory. The issue is likely to be caused by incompatible hardware such as the incompatible motherboarad, RAM and etc. Therefore, it is strongly recommended contacting with the hardware manufacture or the retailer to help you check the issue cause you may spend too much time on testing the issue by yourself.

Or you can also try installing Windows 7 on one hard drive and plug in one memory card 2MB, 4MB and 6MB respectively to check if it works. NOTE: During the installation, please unplug all the unnecessary hardware devices to avoid any conflicts. Well, I was having a similar problem - first time boot up with the Windows 7 DVD, and once I got past "windows is loading files", the sytem hung on the "Starting Windows" screen did not get to the 4 colored balls.

Windows is now installing and appears to be cruising along. Slight problem getting it to boot to the new hard disk after the files are copied instead of the DVD , but should get past that. I finally narrowed this down to the actual pciex1 usb expansion card itself.

You are required to make use of all the possible solutions to solve the issue of system hangs experienced in your system during installation of Windows 7.

The users should scan their system using effective virus scanned which would easily identify the presence of virus and its infections in your system. You can make more space in the available system memory by deleting all unwanted and unused files, folders and software found in the system.

I was doing a clean install no recovery partition just a brand new hard disk of windows 7 starter on my. I think the battery alone is not enough power to install. Note : I tried the compatibility hard disk mode in bios alone and it did not work. When I connect the laptop power supply it worked like a charm. I had the same problem and I googled the problem like crazy and I found a bunch of answers. I tried nearly everything. Now I don't have onboard LAN.

All I can see is the standard Win7 background and the mouse cursor which I can move around. The DVD I burned the image to is also fine as it works when I try to use it to install win7 on a virtual machine.

Have you tried disconnecting all the hardware, USB and the like? Those could give a conflict as well. In case anyone else comes looking for a solution here, I've had success by ejecting and reinserting the DVD after the hang.

I'll try disabling FDD on my next reinstall however. In my case I needed to unplug the smart card reader to get past the stuck install. Thanks however to the OP for leading me down the right path. Fogetting to unplug my iPOD caused the hang on my machine, it seems to be an issue with it checking the disks on the machine and not being able to determine the format of the disk! For example; on my Gigabyte PUD4 i made the RAM run at mhz instead of mhz along with some other "lower the speed of "x" stuff and it worked.

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