Computer Crashes At Completing Installation

Installation Freezes At Completing Installation
I just got my Windows 7 copy from Amazon and happily proceeded to perform a clean install. Happily my ____. Anyway, everything went fine, I formated my hard drive and hit the install button.

Extracting and all that went fine, at one point it required a reboot and did so. After the reboot it started working on the "Completing Installation"-step, and it's been doing that since. (For two-three hours now.)

The dots are still moving, but it seems as if they're lagging, as if the computer freezes for ten seconds then work for a few, and freezes again. It's like one dot > ten seconds > two dots > three > 10 seconds > one dot > 10 seconds > two > three. (Also at this point, if I move my mouse, the cursor won't move, and suddenly "jump" to a spot on the screen during the "unfreeze"-period.)

It's a Home-version ordered from Amazon.co.uk and the DVD looks just fine. I've installed Vista on my computer numerous of times with no issues at all. Some quick computer specs. Corsair Powersupply 550W Bulk Asus P5N-D nForce750i SLI XFX GeForce 9800GTX 512mb Corsair TWIN2X 6400 DDR2, 4096MB WD Caviar GP 500GB SATA2 Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz (do note that this one is OCed to 3.6) I'm trying to install the 64-bit version of Windows 7.

I'm pretty certain that all of my computer hardware should be compatible with 64-bit, but I might be wrong. I've also pretty much concluded with the fact that the 9-series of nVidia is causing a lot of problems. I'll come back to you with additional information later today. Gonna let it work for a couple of hours more, but I'm already considering reinstalling my old 32 bit Vista. And here I was looking forward to getting my Windows 7.

I posted this on the Windows7Forums and got no answers that helped me. Since then I have slowed down the overclock and I've unplugged ALL USB-devices. I thought my motherboard had a slot for video, but alas, it didn't. I think it might be the nVidia videocard that's causing the problem. I've unplugged my soundcard and I'm gonna try installing again now. If that doesn't work I have no idea what to do.

I was thinking of removing the power cables to the video card during the reset in the installation, but that sounds risky. I've read around that I should enable SATA ACHI, but I can't find it in my BIOS and I have no idea how to install such things when my computer doesn't even have an OS to boot up to. Any help?

Posted: Sunday, November 15, 2009 12:05 PM

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I downloaded this RC version from Microsoft's site. (7100.0.090421-1700_x86fre_client_en-us_retail_ultimate-grc1culfrer_en_dvd.iso). I think its the 7100 build. When i try installing it everything works fine till the last step of the installation process. When it comes to the Completing Installation step, the screen changes resolution and Blue screen with error message appears.

It says something about out of disk space or something. the blue screen disappears so fast. I have 19 GB in my disk. and i have 1.5 GB Ram. I have a 9600 GT and a Core 2 Duo 2 Ghz processor. I used Windows 7 beta when i didnt have this graphic card and it worked fine. Can someone help me to install Windows 7 RC?

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Win 7 Freezes At Completing Installation
So, I was installing windows 7 and everything was going great, fast, etc. Computer had just restarted, blah blah. Windows had said "Upgrading Registry and what not" and then when I got to the "Completing Installation" after about 5 minutes it just freezes, I gave it a good 20 minutes of just sitting there before coming to the conclusion it might be a hardware problem?Then again, why would I get so far in the installation before it doing that?

It was at about the 70% marker.Btw, I'm upgrading to Windows 7 32bit, I'm running Vista 32bit atm, and Vista is freshly installed after a Hard Drive format about a week ago.Soes any help would be great, if it matters any deal about my computer specs I'm on:- AMD 64X Dual Core 3.00ghz.- GeFORCE XFX 6600 512mb- Default High Def Sound CardRunning a HP PC, but would have really matter?Anyway, if anyone has any fixes for this or solutions, suggestions, what ever have you, I'm interested.And also, I should note that I've tryed installing 3-4 times now with the exact same outcome.

I've tryed just the "Update" option, then after that I tryed the "Custom" option in the installation while it was already booted up.Would a clean installation be the possible fix?

The reason I haven't tred I clean installation is cause I just reinstalled Vista and formatted my hard drive a week ago meaning I'd have to make a 100gig backup of my programs, but if doing a clean sweap would have a 100% success rate, I'm all in.Oh, one more thing, I first tried writing a CD with a RW DVD but I've tryed with 2 different types as well all going at 2x write speed. I still get the same installation Freeze.

Posted: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:17 PM

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Install Freezes At Completing Installation
 When installing Windows 7 Beta v7 I encountered several times where the installer would freeze. The solution was simple and I hope it helps. Turns out the installer has trouble if you have overclocked your computer. Put it all back to stock and it shouldn't freeze.

Posted: Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:31 AM

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Win 7 Freezes Before Completing Installation
SUMMARY: Windows 7100 x64 installation freezes on splash/loading screen during the first restart after the last step of installation.

Let me start by saying this all started 4 days ago when Windows 7 Ultimate build 7068 x64 randomly started refusing to let my router assign my machine an IP address. It was a hard-line connection and had been working fine for weeks.

No hardware changes, no software changes, no network changes, and poof--no connectivity. Other machines and OS's connected to it fine, and my machine connected to OTHER networks fine. Two days of router hard resets and windows registry hacks yielded absolutely no progress, so I arrived at a reinstallation of Windows.

I decided that since I was going to lose all data anyhow, I would take that opportunity to update the firmware on my SSD--which, if you've never heard of this process-- it is no small feat. After consulting with 4 IT professionals at work, whoring out 3 different PC's, obtaining a mild concussion, and an act of congress, I finally got a formatted, blank SSD with updated firmware ready to re-install windows to.

I created a 7100 x64 installation disc using Microsoft's ISO and booted from it. Installation went smoothly all the way up to the very last step (when the screen resolution changes from default low-res to OS-worthy normal resolution) and then setup says it needs to restart one last time.

It appears as though this time when it restarts, it actually boots from the hard drive, rather than the installation program. I got the animated windows icon with the black back drop, and then before the OS pops up it just hangs and freezes.

No keyboard input is responsive (ctl + alt + delete doesn't work) once it freezes, and a "repair installation" just yields a "Windows cannot repair this installation" message. I tried everything I can think of and there is no way to get past it. Botting it in safe mode just says "Windows cannot boot in safe mode because setup needs to complete first."

For sanity's sake, I wiped the disc again and installed XP x64 and it installed lickedy-split just fine. I don't understand though, because I was running build 7068 no problems beforehand, and it wasn't hard to install at all.

Posted: 08-06-2009

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32 Bit Freezes On Completing Installation
Tried many times but after reading some forums they said to unplug all USB devices. So I did and it still froze on Completing Installation. I was running vista 64. And I did a partition on my HD of 60 GB. Basically the Disc(W7Install) Slows down. Well make less noise and the same with the HD and the y both stop. Any help will be good. I also turned on ACHIEdit. I just unplugged my mic, and the install seemed to go a bit further. The res on my screen changed and the froze on Completing Installation.

Posted: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 4:05 PM

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Monitor Blank Screen After Completing The Installation
I installed win 7 on my laptop. After completing the instalation, I started with update all drivers through device manager. When monitor software was finished with updating, monitor have had a black screen. There is no signs of life after many times of switching off the laptop on switch button.

I have tried to remove drivers in safe mode, but f8 or f10 on starting up does not run. Simply, screen is black, as it is no part of laptop.

Model of laptop is fujitsu siemens, model of monitor is samsung.

How can I resolve this?

Posted:      11-29-2009

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Black Screen, Watermark, Right After Completing Installation
I burned Windows 7 Ultimate.iso onto a dvd. Now I put the boot disc in my computer after I saved all the information that I needed onto a flash drive and began the installation.  Everything went smooth and then I got to "Completing Installation" after a reboot it took forever like (5 mins) and then the screen turned black and all I saw was the water mark. 

Windows 7, yada yada yada.. then it would reboot again and it I would get an error messaging saything that I didn't complete the installation and that I need to do it again. (I this 5 times now, same message everytime I redo it.) 

Note I formatted my hard drive, after it didn't work on the first try.Specs:Windows XP Media Center Edition 200564 Bit processor, Intel 6300 dualcore processor1,024 MB ddr2250 gb harddrive9-1 digital readerno graphics card. Intel Media Acellorator X3000Whats the problem?

Posted: Sunday, February 15, 2009 6:12 AM

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Win7 X64 Setup Freezes On Completing Installation
I am currently trying to install Win7 x64 on my machine, but after it goes past the first section (Unpacking Files, Expanding, reboot, etc) It will freeze on "Completing Installation" If I reset from here, it comes back saying "Computer restared unexpectedly or encountered an Unexpected Error, Windows Installation cannot continute. Installation will continue after your computer restarts."  The computer restarts, and comes back to the same error again.

Posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 4:42 AM

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Setup Constantly Accessing DVD When Completing Installation
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After a while I popped the disk and the installation completed very quickly after that. I assume the setup is reading some files or other that it doesn't need to finish setup. Here;s a question, at what point can I assume that setup is done with the DVD and pop it out the drive?

Posted: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 11:40 PM

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Win 7 RC 64 Bit Installation Crashes With Blue Screen
i tried to install the Windows 7 RC 64 Bit installation on my system.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ 2,3 GHz
4 GB DDR2 RAM
ASRock ALiveXFire-eSATA2 R3.0 MBoard.
250GB Sata HardDisk

I have at first installed Windows XP on one partition and then i tried to install Windows 7 on another partition.

Every time i tried to install Windows 7 the installation wants to complete the installation.
The system wants to start but then the system restarts with a bluescreen.

I cant say whats on the display during the bluescreen because the system restarts too fast.

The Windows 7 RC 32 Bit installation completed without a problem.

Has someone an idea?

Posted: Saturday, July 11, 2009 5:22 PM

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Win7 Crashes After Visual Studio 2010 Installation
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I was using hotmail when I clicked on my address book and the computer crashed. White screen with vertical lines showing. Totally unresponsive. I had to manually shut the computer down using the button on the front of the computer, alt-control-del did nothing. After multiple reboots I am unable to access hotmail. IE8 simply times out when I try to navigate to their site.

All other internet sites seem to work fine. I am running Windows 7 RC 32-bit version Avast free with an amd athlon 3500+ 2 gigabyte RAM ATI Radeon xpress 200. I recently enabled ECN on this computer, I wondered if this might have had anything to do with the problem. Any ideas would be appreciated.

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I would very much like to try out Windows 7, since all I read about it is very positive. I am trying to install the 64 bit version on my computer, but no matter what I do, it keeps freezing at "Completing installation" after the first reboot. For a minute or so the dots-animation is still working and I can move the mouse, but after that, it just completely freezes.

Some background information:

- I have a Asus P5K-E/WiFi mainboard with the latest BIOS installed (also tried an older BIOS);

- My processor (Intel Q6600) is overclocked to 3 GHz, but I have also tried the install at stock speed (2.4 GHz);

- The jMicron controller is disabled;

- SATA mode is AHCI. This is working fine with my Windows XP installation;

- My video card is a Radeon HD2600 card with 2 DVI outputs, both connected to a monitor. I also tried connecting just one monitor, without success;

- It doesn't matter whether I install from DVD or USB flash disk, the exact same thing happens;

- I have a USB soundcard (Digidesign MBox I), but disconnecting it during installation doesn't help;

- I use a Logitech USB mouse/keyboard set;

- I have two DSP cards installed in my PC, a UAD-2 and a SSL Duende, both working fine with XP.

I'm puzzled. Anyone have a clue?

Posted: 11-19-2009

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What processes does windows start when the computer is not engaged by a user? because it has to be something like that which makes it fault and reboot right?

Posted: 09-26-2009

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Computer Crashes When Left On Standby ?
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Posted: 07-09-2009

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Bad Pool Header Error - Installation Crashes With Blue Screen
i m on a amd dual core 5200, abit k9n with latest bios, ati 4830, 2gb ram 800mhz (2x1)

i have downloaded from my university Windows 7 x64 version (the free copy for students build 7600) but i have also tryed 2 other versions (rc i think, both 64 and 32) with no success.

first of all, the starting installation page is very slow, after 4-5 minuts on "setup is starting" (advance mode, not upgrade), and at the second step (expanding windows files 0%)

installation crashes with blue screen:

first time i get: bad pool header error

second time i m on another blue screen: "a device driver attemptingto corrupt the system has been caught. the faulty driver currently on the kernel stack must be replaced.."

now i will try the 3rd time to install in "safe mode" and i post new info here.

if u need something more to know for helping me ill provide them as fast as possible.

Posted: 10-08-2009

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I've also tried to rip the CD, and it would rip about 4 tracks and then the computer would crash and it would stop. Anyone having a similar problem or know how to fix this one? It is an imported Japanese CD by the way, not sure if that matters or not.

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can anyone shed some light on this problem and maybe offer some solutions? or in the very least drop me a link to a good blog website?

PS i have Windows XP on the same machine so a solution that don't involve reformatting would a be a blessing.

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Posted: Friday, May 22, 2009 4:19 AM

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I'm at a loss here.

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