WINDOWS SEVEN INSTALLATION HELP

[»Xog]

SORRY FOR CAPS IM REALLY PISSED OFF. I JUST TYPED THIS WHOLE FUCKING THING AND IT GOT ERASED BECAUSE MY LAPTOP IS A PIECE OF SHIT.

 

Now that I have that out of the way, time to re-type it. I'll be FRANK.

 

I've been at this for 5 days now. I've tried so many different suggestions and crap from other people helping others on the internet. I have a problem installing Win7 Ultimate 64-bit. The computer keeps freezing at the portion of the installation where it says "Completing Installation...". It doesn't necessarly FREEZE - as the "..." keeps repeating after those two words - it just doesn't PROGRESS. I've left it on for 18 hours once and the progress bar hasn't moved an inch (I keep physical screen markers to see progress).

 

The solutions I've tried (and I tried installing after each singular change):

 

1) BIOS settings regarding:

a. PCI / PCI-E

b. Memory Cap 2GB

c. Fan Speed

d. I've disabled "freeze on errors"

 

2) Disabling all USB cables

Had to find USB=>PS2 Keyboard & Mouse converters.. was fun.

 

3) Took out physical RAM sticks, leaving only 1 stick (2GB)

 

4) Took out WiFi/Networking card

 

5) Downloaded + burnt another ISO to a DVD at my burner's slowest pace.

 

6) Opening / Closing DVD tray (this has helped a tiny bit, and I refuse to open/close it over 500 times in a night)

 

Nothing works. I tried 5 first, having similar issues with ubuntu. It was my first response. I'm thoroughly frustrated. The copy successfully installed here on my laptop, but my PC is completely fucked. I've quadruple checked to make sure my system meets and exceeds all requirements for Windows 7 64-bit.

 

I desperately need help. Please, if you have any ideas as to what this could be - LET ME KNOW ASAP. Thank you. I'm giving up for the night. I've easily put in over 30 hours into installing something that should take less than 45 minutes.

[Samapico]

You're doing a clean install, right? Booted from the disc and installed on a fresh partition? Is it a legit copy?

 

What happens if you just reboot it at that point?

 

Are you sure your hard drive is not dead? Can you run a full scandisk on it (or some other disk check utility) to search for defective sectors? (from another partition, from dos, or by installing it on another machine)

 

Does your computer look like it's doing anything at that moment? Is the CPU light on the case flashing? Is the hard drive light flashing?

[»Xog]

You're doing a clean install, right? Yes

Booted from the disc and installed on a fresh partition? Yes

Is it a legit copy? No, but I was able to install it on my laptop no problems and the hash checksum matched up.

 

What happens if you just reboot it at that point? It restarts, and says it shut down unexpectedly and I have the option of starting up in safe mode(s) and normal mode. Choosing safe mode always hangs on a specific file (forgot the name but you can google this problem im having and find it, it's extremely common but none of any of the suggested fixes work). Normal mode just hangs at a black screen after about 5 seconds on the "Starting Windows" animation.

Tried booting from CD and in the Installation screen I chose "Repair Windows" and it said there was a problem repairing windows after about 15 seconds and it restarts.

 

Are you sure your hard drive is not dead? Yes

Can you run a full scandisk on it (or some other disk check utility) to search for defective sectors? (from another partition, from dos, or by installing it on another machine) Yes, no problems found.

 

Does your computer look like it's doing anything at that moment? The screen is acting like it's still loading (the animated "...")

Is the CPU light on the case flashing? Constantly lit, not flashing.

Is the hard drive light flashing? Yes.

 

 

 

Funnily enough, I can't find a single "Thanks, that worked" to any of the fixes people suggest on the internet. I'm so fucking pissed off.

Edited November 25, 2010 by Xog

[»SD>Big]

make a bootable usb key with win7 and install from there.

 

 

optical media sucks balls.

Edited November 25, 2010 by SD>Big

[Cancer+]

Download and burn to a disc. They are .ISO

 

http://www.memtest.org/

 

This will test your memory to make sure it is good.

 

http://www.hitachigst.com/support/downloads/#DFT

 

This will test your harddrive.

 

I would run these first to make sure neither one of those are bad.

 

Check the motherboard for swollen or blown capacitors.

 

If all that passes, try a Windows XP cd. If that installs fine then it is something with that CD.

[»Xog]

My memory is fine. My hard drive is fine. All sectors are clean without errors.

 

I'm going to try downloading the video driver for my video card as this was suggested. There is a DRIVER option before the install, I suppose I should put it to use. Is there a specific driver I should be looking for besides the latest and greatest one for the card I have?

 

GeForce 9800 GTX//GTX+

Edited November 26, 2010 by Xog

[»SD>Big]

normally the option to install drivers before you install windows is meant for special hard drive setups with funky raid cards

 

 

try installing from a usb key!!

[»Xog]

alright. now how do I get the .iso from the CD to a .iso onto my laptop? I burned the file from my PC to a CD and now my hard drive is wiped. :\ I guess since nobody has any other suggestions I'm going to have to re-download and try installing it from an object that was suggested to be disconnected during the installation. Sigh.

[»SD>Big]

it's called google, my friend. google

 

http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-install-windows-7vista-from-usb-drive-detailed-100-working-guide/

 

and for more info

 

http://www.google.ca/search?aq=0&oq=copy+windows+7+dvd+t&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=copy+windows+7+dvd+to+usb

[»Xog]

it's called google, my friend. google

 

http://www.intowindo...-working-guide/

 

and for more info

 

http://www.google.ca...ws+7+dvd+to+usb

 

 

First link's results:

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/2527/faildi.png

 

Apparently, I'm not allowed to copy a 64-bit version from DVD to USB using 32-bit Windows 7.

 

Second links results:

Will post them as soon as I re-download the Windows 7 ISO file.

 

Edit:

Well, it appears link 1 is just a manual way of doing what link 2 does. I got the same result, but doing further research on it I discovered I needed to get an older version of the bootsect.exe. I got it, threw it in the folder i needed to, and it was able to make a bootable USB.

 

I have the USB in my computer now, it's going extremely slow. I'll probably just leave this on while i sleep and pray for good results for when I wake up.

 

Read: http://forums.whirlp...archive/1279161

I disabled floppy disk support and anything else floppy related - fixed slowness . It's 4:30AM im probably going to fall asleep before this is done anyway lol.

Edited November 27, 2010 by Xog

[»Xog]

installation did not finish.

 

I followed this person's advice: http://www.phuket-data-wizards.com/blog/2010/04/22/windows-7-x64-setup-freezes-at-completing-installation-solved/

 

and it fixed everything. wow.

[L.C.]

OK Frank, what did your laptop do when you pressed the power button?

 

Right. Xog, contact me.

 

EDIT: Nevermind, your problem is already fixed. Good for you!

Edited November 27, 2010 by L.C.

[»SD>Big]

installation did not finish.

 

I followed this person's advice: http://www.phuket-da...llation-solved/

 

and it fixed everything. wow.

 

sweet!

[»Xog]

For anyone else from google that is in dire need of a fix to this problem, there was something a little different for the aforementioned link. When you press F8 to go to boot menu, choose your Hard Drive. I did not have the option to go to Safe Mode, so I did all of this WHILE THE INSTALLATION WAS IN PROGRESS. The trick is doing it fast enough so that you disable your video adapter in the device manager before the installation starts trying to find the driver for your video card.

 

I brought up cmd.exe by using shift+F10 RIGHT WHEN IT RESUMED INSTALLING AFTER THE INTIAL REBOOT.

Typed in compmgmt.msc and pressed ENTER.

Took about 15 seconds for the computer management program to execute. Once inside, I clicked DEVICE MANAGER (bottom of list on left) in the Computer Management program. The option for VIDEO ADAPTER IS NOT THERE. Go to "Unknown Devices" - Look for anything relating to VGA or VIDEO. There should be 1 item there if you have 1 video card, 2 if you have 2 video cards. Right click on them and select DISABLE.

 

The installation should complete. You should try getting this down in under 2 minutes during the installation. If you don't, your computer will freeze. My mouse and keyboard started locking up intermittently right before I finished doing what I had to do. Good luck, warrior.

Edited November 27, 2010 by Xog