Hardware is
Gigabyte ud34 x58a
i7-930
hd 4870
hd 5770
4 gb gskill 1333 ddr3
corsair 750hx
samsung 250 gb hdd
I insert the win7 disk, select install and go. The installation gets through to the first restart, restarts, continues setup. It states that it needs to restart again, does so, shows the "starting windws" glowy logo, then proceeds to hard lock. monitors stop receiving signal and shut off; the machine just hangs. (at the point when I'd expect to see a login screen.)
If I select start from safe mode it shows the "preparing to set up windows" with the glowy bar at the bottom, but then says that it can't finsh configuration in safe mode and will do so upon reboot, which it clearly doesn't do.
I've tried multiple sata ports, same behavior. I'm at this moment installing buntu and seeing if it works, if not I'm going to swap out drives and try another, if it works, I'm just as lost as before.
Any thoughts would be very helpful;
Thanks much,
-Me
Gigabyte ud34 x58a
i7-930
hd 4870
hd 5770
4 gb gskill 1333 ddr3
corsair 750hx
samsung 250 gb hdd
I insert the win7 disk, select install and go. The installation gets through to the first restart, restarts, continues setup. It states that it needs to restart again, does so, shows the "starting windws" glowy logo, then proceeds to hard lock. monitors stop receiving signal and shut off; the machine just hangs. (at the point when I'd expect to see a login screen.)
If I select start from safe mode it shows the "preparing to set up windows" with the glowy bar at the bottom, but then says that it can't finsh configuration in safe mode and will do so upon reboot, which it clearly doesn't do.
I've tried multiple sata ports, same behavior. I'm at this moment installing buntu and seeing if it works, if not I'm going to swap out drives and try another, if it works, I'm just as lost as before.
Any thoughts would be very helpful;
Thanks much,
-Me