Windows 7 Setup Hangs

Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by colinzim, Feb 8, 2010.

  1. colinzim

    colinzim MDL Senior Member

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    #1 colinzim, Feb 8, 2010
    I modded an Award bios with HP slic 2.1 and after flashing Windows 7 freezes at the first blue setup screen.
    - removed cmos battery
    - set bios defaults
    I can run setup Windows 7 in the same machine before it is flashed and installs no problem. I flashed it back to original bios and still setup hangs.
    Win XP installs perfectly with modded bios
     
  2. fubar121

    fubar121 MDL Novice

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    #2 fubar121, Feb 9, 2010
    Possible bad media? mabye I ran into that with vista a while back.
     
  3. SCBrigth

    SCBrigth MDL Senior Member

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    #3 SCBrigth, Feb 9, 2010
    It can be. Burn another DVD in the slower speed possible and try to install again.
    Another possibilty is corrupted files, from where you grab your windows? Trusted source is essencial.
     
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  4. Animeniac

    Animeniac MDL Novice

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    #4 Animeniac, Feb 9, 2010
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    I get the same problem as well, with both 7 and 2008R2. The setup hangs at the first screen for about 5-10min (no activity on the HDD or DVD). Then after selecting Install it will hang again for ~5min. After that it's smooth sailing. On both my desktops it hangs, but my laptop doesn't. I only use untouched/verified ISOs.

    Just curious, what brand of motherboard do you have? Both of mine are Gigabyte.
     
  5. colinzim

    colinzim MDL Senior Member

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    #5 colinzim, Feb 9, 2010 (OP)
    My Bad

    I fixed the problem. The floppy must be disabled in the bios options !
    I was wondering if there is a way to change install .dll's to give verbose setup ?
     
  6. Dolorous Edd

    Dolorous Edd MDL Expert

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    #6 Dolorous Edd, Feb 9, 2010
    My wife is already verbose, wonder if there are any dll's I can hack to shut her up???
     
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  7. sam3971

    sam3971 MDL Guru

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    #7 sam3971, Feb 9, 2010
    One little thing I noticed after putting windows 7 on several machines. Sometimes (Like in my friends case) will need to update your bios first before installing or it will hang randomally. Another thing I noticed is that on some older computers(Ones that came with Vista OEM) will install fine but will take awhile to start for whatever reason. I am not sure on that but I know bios updates/hardware options can contribute to this kind of issue.
     
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  8. burfadel

    burfadel MDL EXE>MSP/CAB

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  9. diluxp

    diluxp MDL Junior Member

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    #9 diluxp, Feb 12, 2010
    It could be because of motherboard as it may not be windows 7 compactible. especially if you have a jmicron ide controller with ide drive
     
  10. The Progen

    The Progen MDL Novice

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    #10 The Progen, Feb 12, 2010
    Check whether APIC is enabled in your BIOS. That was the cause of my system not being able to enter Windows 7 or reinstall it after a reboot. What I had done was to reset the BIOS settings to their default prior to flashing it with a modded one. Didn't occur to me that the default APIC setting for my Zotac motherboard was Disabled. Plus it was at the bottom of a page which required scrolling so I didn't bother to check at first.

    With APIC disabled, I could still install Windows XP or Vista but not 7 so do a check for it.