New computer wont load Windows 7 installation, freezes.

[vorthex]

Hi guys. I had two hard drives with Windows 7 on it before I bought computer parts to build a new computer.

A SSD 120GB intel and 1TB Western Caviar black. Never had problems.

I bought a Asus P8Z68-V Pro Gen 3, i7 2700k cpu, Level 10 GT SNOW Edition Case, and Kingston 8GB DDR3 1600 CL9 Kit KHX1600C9D3K2/8GX, and A corsair h50 cooler.

I tried starting up with both hard drive seperately... one gives a blue screen of death so fast and then restarts the computer, the other says that I may have new hardware or damage to the hard drive or something and to reinstall Windows 7.

I boot from my USB Drive with Windows on it, and when it gets to the first screen with the "next" button... my mouse doesnt show up and when I hit a button on my keyboard it lights up and then flashes off and on like its having a seizure.

I tried removing 3 of the 4 sticks of ram... and the same thing happened. I then put one of the 3 other sticks I removed into the system and removed the 4th one, and it still happens.

I am stuck. could this be a bad motherboard or cpu? or is it something else

[Ironsmack]

Did you update the mobo BIOS?

[packardbell]

Hi guys. I had two hard drives with Windows 7 on it before I bought computer parts to build a new computer.

A SSD 120GB intel and 1TB Western Caviar black. Never had problems.

I bought a Asus P8Z68-V Pro Gen 3, i7 2700k cpu, Level 10 GT SNOW Edition Case, and Kingston 8GB DDR3 1600 CL9 Kit KHX1600C9D3K2/8GX, and A corsair h50 cooler.

I tried starting up with both hard drive seperately... one gives a blue screen of death so fast and then restarts the computer, the other says that I may have new hardware or damage to the hard drive or something and to reinstall Windows 7.

I boot from my USB Drive with Windows on it, and when it gets to the first screen with the "next" button... my mouse doesnt show up and when I hit a button on my keyboard it lights up and then flashes off and on like its having a seizure.

I tried removing 3 of the 4 sticks of ram... and the same thing happened. I then put one of the 3 other sticks I removed into the system and removed the 4th one, and it still happens.

I am stuck. could this be a bad motherboard or cpu? or is it something else

try to just have the bare basics hooked up to the mobo. one stick of ram, one hdd, dvd player,kb, mouse

[JAC]

What he said. Remove everything but RAM and keyboard. Boot to a Memtest86+ CD and run diagnostics for a couple hours.

[theguyz]

Looks like switched to much hardware to be able to try and just insert a pre-loaded drive with win7.

So you may need a fresh install.

Or while boothing press F8 and try safemode then grab and load necessary drivers, otherwise you need reinstall as win7 has detected major differences from install os with parts to new parts.

[Homer Jay Simpson]

Hi guys. I had two hard drives with Windows 7 on it before I bought computer parts to build a new computer.

So just to get this straight, are you just trying to boot off a drive that previously had Windows 7 on a different system, in a new system?

If the answer is yes, then that is most likely the problem. Clean install is the best place to start trouble-shooting this, before worrying about it being hardware problem. Make sure you enable AHCI for your boot SSD (as I assume you're going to want to run your OS off the SSD) for optimal speed. Most newer mobos will have this enabled by default, but just check to be sure.

[number8888]

So just to get this straight, are you just trying to boot off a drive that previously had Windows 7 on a different system, in a new system?

If the answer is yes, then that is most likely the problem. Clean install is the best place to start trouble-shooting this, before worrying about it being hardware problem. Make sure you enable AHCI for your boot SSD (as I assume you're going to want to run your OS off the SSD) for optimal speed. Most newer mobos will have this enabled by default, but just check to be sure.

This is very important, and it's a common mistake that people make when they reuse old drives.

If you use a USB mouse sometimes it might not get recognized at first during first bootup. Might need to get Windows installed properly first to get mouse working, especially if you have a specialty mouse with multiple buttons.

[vorthex]

hey guys. i got it to install after reformatting but i have another problem now.

my intel 120gb ssd said 111gb free after reformatting it.. after installing windows home premium 64 bit and nothing else theres only 76.7 gb left.

i believe i have the intel x-25m 120gb... i never updated firmware or anything like that in the past all i did was take it out of the package and install windows on it before

[r1lee]

hibernation takes up like 10GB just fyi. If you don't use hibernation and to delete. Follow the instructions.


http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-7/wi...-hiberfil-sys/.

[Homer Jay Simpson]

hibernation takes up like 10GB just fyi. If you don't use hibernation and to delete. Follow the instructions.


http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-7/wi...-hiberfil-sys/.

Did you remove all partitions and recreate the primary partition in case the previous system had a reserved disk on it?

In addition to turning off system hibernation mentioned above:
Check your system restore settings. You shouldn't need more than 1 - 2% of your drive reserved (i.e. a couple gigs).
Check you pagefile size. Since you have 8 GB of RAM, you shouldn't need more that a few GB pagefile size (depends on what you are doing with your system though)

I have an 80GB Intel SSD as my OS drive, and with all my programs installed on it, only use about 35GB of space. Like you I keep all my data on a separate data drive.

[vorthex]

Did you remove all partitions and recreate the primary partition in case the previous system had a reserved disk on it?

In addition to turning off system hibernation mentioned above:
Check your system restore settings. You shouldn't need more than 1 - 2% of your drive reserved (i.e. a couple gigs).
Check you pagefile size. Since you have 8 GB of RAM, you shouldn't need more that a few GB pagefile size (depends on what you are doing with your system though)

I have an 80GB Intel SSD as my OS drive, and with all my programs installed on it, only use about 35GB of space. Like you I keep all my data on a separate data drive.

Thank you both of the above posters for your help I did not know about the hibernation thing.

I reformatted the drive from Windows Desktop... it said 111gb but I have a 120gb.. there was no option to delete a partition.. i am not sure how to do that

[TheHemming]

Thank you both of the above posters for your help I did not know about the hibernation thing.

I reformatted the drive from Windows Desktop... it said 111gb but I have a 120gb.. there was no option to delete a partition.. i am not sure how to do that

When you purchase a drive, the number of GB Presented is in decimal number counting ... not in Binary count. There is a difference in how we see this.

A 120GB drive will format to 111GB (as shown in the 'Computer' section of Windows 7). This is normal and expected.

My 2TB drive formatted to about 1.6TB of actual usable space.

It's just a terminology difference, and has been this way since as long as I can remember.

Here is the actual math:

120,000,000,000 bytes / 1024 = 117,187,500 Kilobytes

117,187,500 Kilobytes / 1024 = 114,440.9 Megabytes

114,440.9 Megabytes / 1024 = 111.7587 Gigabytes

[vorthex]

When you purchase a drive, the number of GB Presented is in decimal number counting ... not in Binary count. There is a difference in how we see this.

A 120GB drive will format to 111GB (as shown in the 'Computer' section of Windows 7). This is normal and expected.

My 2TB drive formatted to about 1.6TB of actual usable space.

It's just a terminology difference, and has been this way since as long as I can remember.

Here is the actual math:

120,000,000,000 bytes / 1024 = 117,187,500 Kilobytes

117,187,500 Kilobytes / 1024 = 114,440.9 Megabytes

114,440.9 Megabytes / 1024 = 111.7587 Gigabytes

Thanks. I now have 87gb free of 111gb after installing windows home premium 64 bit. is that normal? note: NO programs are installed except intel ssd toolbox to update the firmware on my ssd

[Homer Jay Simpson]

Thank you both of the above posters for your help I did not know about the hibernation thing.

I reformatted the drive from Windows Desktop... it said 111gb but I have a 120gb.. there was no option to delete a partition.. i am not sure how to do that

Yeah, the 111GB out of 120GB is normal. Difference is due to a couple reasons, one being how the manufacturer defines the size of a gigabyte vs the "real" definition. On top of the size conversion factor, with SSD's, manufacturers reserve space on the drive for performance and in case some of the flash fails. If you want to read more about the reserved space on SSD's: http://www.anandtech.com/show/2899/5

[Homer Jay Simpson]

Thanks. I now have 87gb free of 111gb after installing windows home premium 64 bit. is that normal? note: NO programs are installed except intel ssd toolbox to update the firmware on my ssd

I got ninja'd on part of my post

Re: using 24GB for windows. Doesn't sound too unreasonable. I'm using ~35GB, with office, photoshop, security programs, burning programs, etc...