setup issues

Hi Guys ;) Ive been trying to install Win 7 64Bit for a long time now but i havent succeeded with my own computer:( This is the fifth time im trying, every time with different releases but every time same problem. This i how i proceed: First i unplug everything except the dvd drive...

Hey everyone, This forum has been a big help in my long, brutal process of installing Windows 7. I'm currently installing, hoping it works. The last thing I did was update my BIOS. Now everything is running easily three times as slowly. I'll go out on a limb and say something was disabled in my...

I've recently purchased a new media PC to run Windows 7 RC with the new and refreshed WMC compared to Vista. Problem is that the everything works fine until the computer restarts and does the "Completing installation" in which it hangs for an extreme amount of time of where the bar appears to...

After trying every possible driver with "Load driver" option without success, seeing atleast 3 BSOD's (error 0x0000007b) and being in a general bad mood i finally made it into Windows 7. What i did was the folowing: 1.) i flashed the bios to the latest version (used a rather old one before...

I am trieng to download verious setups (e.g. SQL Server 2008 Express, Adob Acrobat Reader 9) Every time after some time(not fix) download stops. Is it because of some bug in Windows7 or any other reason. Please help me to resolve the Problem.

Good afternoon, I am currently using Windows 7 X64. My wife recently purchased me an Xbox 360 Elite for my birthday, but I am having some problems setting it up as a media extender. (to put it mildly) When I go into Windows Media Centre I can immediately see the Xbox with an option to...

When I boot from the Windows 7 DVD, it won't continue with the install. I get the pretty background screen and the mouse, but that's it. There is NOTHING on the screen except for the background of the install, which is pretty in and of itself but isn't quite an operating system. Anyone else...

Good morning, I have been unsucessful in installing Win7 on my Acer 6930 laptop currently running Vista. I did have sucess on my desktop machine that had XP on it, with a few driver download issues. On the Acer I have tried a upgrade install and a clean install. After the DVD boots, I get the...

Hauppauge! WinTV-HVR-1600, Windows 7 RC and Media Center is giving me hard time. First it got stuck trying to download TV guide info, did a little searching and found out mcupdate.exe had to be working. I ended up creating a link on my desktop to "C:\Windows\ehome\mcupdate.exe -manual -nogc -p"...

Wow I am so frustrated right now I cant remember the last time I was so frustrated! I have installed two fresh installations of 7264 x64 on two desktops. They are connected to a private network. I want to share the hard drives in both of them (say, C/: and D:/ )but I was running into all kinds...

I have been trying to get Windows 7 RC1 up and running on my my rig but have been met with a black screen the very first time the system attempts to boot into windows, but before the setup is officially complete (meaning i can't get into safe mode at all). I have installed onto a clean hard...

I'm currently trying to dual boot Win XP 32bit, and Win7 64bit. I have separate partitions on one HDD for each of the OS and I currently have XP pro installed without any problems. i've burned the Win7 ISO at x4 speed to ensure I get a good clean copy and I've booted from the DVD and stared...

my windows 7 is on a work laptop. It connects at work through a domain instead workgroup or homegroup at least this is my interpretation of a domain. AT home I run xp pro and I have tried to setup a network with bad results. If I install a dual boot with windows 7 at home, I will then be able...

So when I boot to the 32bit (or 64bit for that matter) It always gets to the setup welcome screen I take it but all I see is the background and it just sits there. Ive burned 5 different dvd's of the 32 and 64 bit versions and they all do the same thing. Ive unplugged everything so only the...

Hi, I'm currently struggling to install Visual Studio 2008 on a fresh Windows 7 b7100 x64 install (post Windows Update). I've tried Team Suite, Pro and Pro Trial; I manually start setup.exe, then click the Install Visual Studio button, after a short pause the 'has this program installed...

Workaround for nVidia display driver issue Motherboard: ASUS M2NPV-VM BIOS Version: 0504 GPU: nVidia GeForce 6150 in Windows 7 RC Symptoms: Stop Error 0x0000001E caused by nvlddmkm.sys during Windows 7 RC setup Solution: Replace the nvlddmkm.sys file with a newer version Update: Easier...

When I tried to choose custom installation so I can put windows 7 on my other partition I get this error "Windows installation encountered an unexpected error. Verify that the installation sources are accessible, and restart the installation. Error code: 0xE0000100" Should I just reburn the...

Hello, I read that you can install W7 without using a thumb drive/DVD by simply using Virtual Clone Drive. I downloaded the 7127 iso, mounted it using VCD, and started the installation on a new partition. However, the setup expands the installation files, it stops and gives me the error...

I have got windows 7 7077 I'm trying to install RC1 i haven't formated the drive so i launch setup.exe check for updates accept terms and conditions cusom(advanced) select D: - ive been using this all the time click next pops up with:warnng there are windows files etc about windows.old we...

Folks, I have a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 TV tuner. For some reason I can't see live TV on Media Center. It was giving me an error like about PlayReady and I installed PlayReady 1.0 and then 1.2. What it does is, it hangs when downloading TV setup data, guide info etc. The progress bar moves only...