Hi,
I'm doing a fresh clean install of windows 7 home premium 32 bit off a retail DVD.
Computer is an HP Pavilion dv3114tx with 2 Gigs of RAM and a NVIDIA GeForce 8400 graphics card.
Doing a fresh install onto a newly formatted partition of the hard drive.
The installation gets past the first reboot to the point where it says "Completing Installation..."
The 3 dots keep moving and I can move the mouse around the screen but it's been at this stage for over an hour now. Is this normal or is there a problem?
Would it be anything to do with the NVIDIA GeForce chipset? If so, and I cannot switch off the graphics card in BIOS (I can't) does this effectively mean I cannot install Windows 7 on this machine?
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Tom
I'm doing a fresh clean install of windows 7 home premium 32 bit off a retail DVD.
Computer is an HP Pavilion dv3114tx with 2 Gigs of RAM and a NVIDIA GeForce 8400 graphics card.
Doing a fresh install onto a newly formatted partition of the hard drive.
The installation gets past the first reboot to the point where it says "Completing Installation..."
The 3 dots keep moving and I can move the mouse around the screen but it's been at this stage for over an hour now. Is this normal or is there a problem?
Would it be anything to do with the NVIDIA GeForce chipset? If so, and I cannot switch off the graphics card in BIOS (I can't) does this effectively mean I cannot install Windows 7 on this machine?
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Tom