Follow-up from my last post. After I posted that, I thought I would cross my fingers and begin eliminating pieces of hardware to see if any one specific thing was causing the problem.
I pulled on of my 2 memory modules out, no dice. Swapped one for the other in the same slot (dimm slot 0) no dice. Rewired my DVD drive from my JMicron sata controller to the nVidia sata controller (had an open slot) and... WORKED!
For some reason the DVD drive on the JMicron sata controller was not working, at least during the install. Now that I've gotten W7 installed and running, I rewired the DVD drive back to the JMicron SATA port and it all works fine (meaning that W7 is still operating and it sees the DVD drive).
I have no idea if this is going to be helpful to anyone else, but I hope so.
Good luck!
Dear scotthamilton77
I have a similar problem (Blue Screen error at the very beginning of the install) in a neighboring thread:
http://windows7forums.com/windows-7...nstallation-freezes-stop-error.html#post65083
However, I have my (IDE) DVD drive on an nVidia (nForce 4) controller already.
Should I try to boot from a SATA DVD from the Silicon Image 3114 controller on my board?
Does a SATA DVD generally help such cases?
Booting from an USB stick is something that seems the next thing to try.
Why haven't I done it before?
Well, let's see the portable storage I have: 1 GB SD cards for photos, a 2GB DataTraveller stick (which is insufficient for storing the image) and a 160 GB Western Digital Passport, from which I would have to transfer lot's of stuff, to my hard drive which has far less empty storage space at the moment... bummer....moreover, the WD Passport has very low throughput, it takes more than two hours to copy all that stuff on it.....
That's why people haven't been immediately trying USB sticks.
(One more thing. My secondary school teacher's salary is $540 a month. Currently a 32 GB USB stick costs $125 and a 4GB USB stick costs $19. That's more than the money I can afford to live on for a day.)
:-(
Follow-up from my last post. After I posted that, I thought I would cross my fingers and begin eliminating pieces of hardware to see if any one specific thing was causing the problem.
I pulled on of my 2 memory modules out, no dice. Swapped one for the other in the same slot (dimm slot 0) no dice. Rewired my DVD drive from my JMicron sata controller to the nVidia sata controller (had an open slot) and... WORKED!
For some reason the DVD drive on the JMicron sata controller was not working, at least during the install. Now that I've gotten W7 installed and running, I rewired the DVD drive back to the JMicron SATA port and it all works fine (meaning that W7 is still operating and it sees the DVD drive).
I have no idea if this is going to be helpful to anyone else, but I hope so.
Good luck!