After installing Windows 7 it gets hung up on the 'starting windows' screen. All the little colored balls come together one time and then the keyboard seems frozen and the loading goes no further. I have left the pc running over night just to rule out an abnormally long load time. I tried installing vista to determine whether it might be my copy of windows 7 that was faulty. I got an almost identical result when installing vista. Any suggestions from anyone?
Some things I have tried are
1. Removing the video card entirely and using the on board video
2. testing out many many different bios settings to try and get a different result...one promising one that I kept reading about was switching sata to combined mode a.k.a. running sata in ide mode.
3. trying a different motherboard all together..I had a G31M-ES2L before trying this board. Should have gone with a different manufacturer I'm thinking.
my current setup is..
Gigabyte G41M-ES2H motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 Conroe 2.66GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80557E6700 - Processor
OCZ Reaper HPC Edition 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ2RPR8002GK - Memory
EVGA 640-P2-N821-AR GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support - Video Card
Antec TP3 Tre Power Trio 650W power supply
Going to try some different memory and / or a different power supply if I can get to a friend's house soon.
