I'm having the same problem, its been 30min now on a second install attempt, and I am still staring at the "setup is starting" screen. Doing a clean install, this system previously had vista64 ultimate on it, butr i wiped the drive for win7 64bit.
system specs:
Amd phenom 9750
asus M3N78pro mainboard
4gigs Kingston hyper-x pc-800 dual channel
8800GT pci-e 1gig vram
8300 on board video hybrid SLI
2xseagate 160 sata in raid0
1xmaxtor terabyte sata
asus IDE dvd burner
generic sata bluray drive(generic meaning i cant remember the name and i dont feel like pulling it just to look for the name lol )
Any help would be well.....helpful
Thanks.
I may try pulling a stick of ram as someone else had mentioned, i'll post back if there are any changes.
Ok pulling the stick of ram made it slower
I think I might have figured out my problem after trying everything under the sun.
As I mentioned i was running a raid0 setup, what i forgot to say is that it was partitioned into 2 seprate partitions, I had wiped the drive as I previously mentioned for a clean install but I still made 2 different partitions because I usually do a dual boot of windows and linux. so on a whim i decided to delete both and reformat the drive, and voila!! I am now staring at the install screen, the copying files has been at 0% for the last 5min, so i will see what happens, but at least i got a little further
hope this helps someone.