Posts by shadowraven32

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After a massive, drawn-out battle, I finally managed to get Windows 7 installed. It turns out—and it’s entirely possible—that my DVD drive was just being temperamental this whole time; now that Windows is actually up and running, I'm seeing that it only takes two or three tries to get a disc to load properly.

I'm running into the exact same wall—so much so that I actually decided to try installing Windows 7 just to see if that would fix things. The installation starts off perfectly fine, right up until the very last stretch during the Expending Windows phase. As soon as that progress bar hits 100%, everything goes south—the Blue Screen of Death pops up with that dreaded "preventing damage" message. When I reboot, the system tries to roll back Windows, and I'm stuck watching that green loading bar flicker past over and over again, telling me the installation failed. It just loops through that failure cycle repeatedly before hitting the blue screen once more. Honestly? At this rate, I’m about ready to toss this piece of junk into a scrap heap; the whole ordeal has been an absolute nightmare for my nerves.

I shoved the floppy in right after clicking "boot from CD"... Basically, I'm dropping the diskette in just moments before the whole thing hits a Blue Screen of Death.

I don't have a USB keyboard handy, and regarding the floppy—since I'm working from the motherboard's CD, I used the RAID driver and the option to create a floppy disk to get it ready. Now, when I hit F6, I select S =Specify additional device, but it just spits back this error: "The disk you have supplied does not provide any relevant supported files." All I've got is an F3 option to quit.

In the BIOS, the OnChip sat setting is set to Enable (you’ve got two choices there: Enable or Disable)

Yeah, I went ahead and set the DVD drive as my primary boot device.

Hey everyone, my apologies if this topic has already been covered elsewhere. I’m looking for some serious help here—I’m trying to wipe my current Windows installation and set up a fresh one. Everything seems to be going fine when I boot from the disc, but the moment I hit Enter on that blue setup screen, it hits a wall. It acts like there isn't even a hard drive connected to the system. I tried creating a floppy drive for the RAID drivers and rebooting to try the F6 method, but when I actually press F6, nothing happens—it just ignores me completely. My hardware setup is an ASUS p4s800d-x motherboard paired with a Seagate 80 hard drive. How do I bypass this roadblock and finally get Windows installed? Thanks in advance.