{"id":729,"date":"2009-05-04T11:43:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T19:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/?p=729"},"modified":"2009-05-04T11:45:06","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T19:45:06","slug":"installing-windows-7-rc-on-biostar-tf8200-a2-with-amd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2009\/05\/installing-windows-7-rc-on-biostar-tf8200-a2-with-amd\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 Install Freezing at &#8220;Starting Windows&#8221; Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 7 was very troublesome to install on my system.  My system specifications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li \/>Motherboard:  Biostar TF8200 A2+ (nVidia chipset)\n<li \/>Processor:  AMD 4080e Athlon 64 x2 (45W version)\n<li \/>Memory:  4GB\n<li \/>Optical:  Sony\/NEC SATA DVD-RW\n<li \/>Hard Disk:  Seagate SATA 320GB, 7200RPM\n<\/ul>\n<p>Installation would hang at the &#8220;Starting Windows&#8221; logo.  By pressing F8 when the installer first loaded, and selecting &#8220;Safe Mode With Command Prompt&#8221;, I was able to see that it was hanging after loading DISK.SYS.<\/p>\n<p>I experimented with SATA and AHCPI modes.  I replaced the old PATA\/IDE DVD-ROM drive with a new SATA one.  I tried removing one of my 2GB memory sticks.  I tried both the x64 and x86 versions.  None of these changes made any difference whatsoever<\/p>\n<p><b>In the end, the only thing that worked was to turn off all motherboard accessories.<\/b>  I believe I only <b>needed<\/b> to turn off the USB 2.0 controller, but to be safe I turned off all USB, audio, parallel port, floppy drive, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Windows 7 is fully installed, I&#8217;m still unable to use the USB 2.0 functionality.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, I reinstalled the OS two more times because I kept getting a black screen with the &#8220;Windows Release Candidate Build 7100&#8221; in the lower, right corner.  After several frustrating hours, I realized that the problem was simply that I had both the VGA and DVI connectors plugged into my monitor!  The installation had been continuing just fine, but on the other monitor input!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 7 was very troublesome to install on my system. My system specifications: Motherboard: Biostar TF8200 A2+ (nVidia chipset) Processor: AMD 4080e Athlon 64 x2 (45W version) Memory: 4GB Optical: Sony\/NEC SATA DVD-RW Hard Disk: Seagate SATA 320GB, 7200RPM Installation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2009\/05\/installing-windows-7-rc-on-biostar-tf8200-a2-with-amd\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[277,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}