When I get to the point in the installation that says "Completing Install" after a couple of min my computer reboots and does so for ever, asking to start windows normally. The Microsoft bar comes on and when the screen goes dark, its time to reboot again. This is a fresh install on a reformatted 100gb ide drive.
I have connected a regular monitor to the computer and all seems to be going well. I don't think the computer can communicate with a screen over HDMI the verify resolution. This is my Media Server and I hope I can get it up soon. I will let you know how it goes, My son's Toshiba laptop went without a hitch and is working fine.
Hi Rick: I had the same problem when I installed Windows 7 Rc, what I found wrong with my was that with vista & xp I am able to change my screen resolution to 640X768 & then start the OS & change my screen resolution in the graphic properties. I was using a Sharps 26" LCD & it could not do the high resolutions that Windows 7 required when it booted up. I went out & got an HP 2338H Widescreen monitor & my problems were solved immediately. If you have a really strong graphics card it will not allow you to go into safe mode & make any resolution changes. You may want to put an older graphics card in your machine & see if that helps. I am using a NVIDIA 8800 GTS. Let me know if this helps ok?
I'm having the exact same problem (it's in a separate, older, post) and like you I also have an nVidia (GeForce) card and my widescreen monitor is also connected through HDMI. Is HDMI the culprit? My monitor physically has 1366x768 pixels, and handles up to 1080i.
I don't see why the installation should require higher resolutions than that???!
I have connected a regular monitor to the computer and all seems to be going well. I don't think the computer can communicate with a screen over HDMI the verify resolution. This is my Media Server and I hope I can get it up soon. I will let you know how it goes, My son's Toshiba laptop went without a hitch and is working fine.
Glad to hear everything is up & running rick, I will not use any lcd monitors in the future that do no support the high resolution that windows 7 requires. I can't understand why it doesn't allow you to use the F8 command to go into a 640 X 768 mode so you can make the adjustments in the O/S, reboot & then be up and running. you are probably using a monitor that reads the resolution that your graphics can see now. I fixed one for my sons girlfriend & had to do the same thing she was using a monitor that would not reach high enough resolution to boot up to Windows 7.
Hi Danny: That was my problem so I then suspected that they haven't got a fix as of yet for this issue. I was using a 26" LCD (Sharps) & the highest resolution it could see was 1366X768, that when I thought I would try another separate computer monitor, lo & behold it worked fine after that. I was able to F8 in Vista/XP to make adjustments to my resolution with Windows 7 apparently you can do that yet. Hope they get it fixed soon or there will be a lot of unhappy people!
I have it working as well now. But I don't believe it is the resolution or the monitor per se that is the problem.
It is HDMI. I don't have a second monitor, so all I did was replace the HDMI cable with a regular RGB, and then it worked, using the same monitor without changing any resolutions.
At the point where it crashes, the resolution switches to 1280x720, which is below maximum of what my monitor can handle. And it is not the first time during the installation it does that (it's the animated flag bit that uses that resolution, which is a bit stupid though as it immediately after shifts to 1024x768 for the rest), and it didn't crash during those other times; so it can't be the resolution itself either.
No, my theory is that it is a (incomplete) feature we are seeing. HDMI is a two way cable, as opposed to the regular RGB cable. I think that the installation is asking the monitor at this point what modes and resolutions it supports, and for some monitors gets back a response it doesn't understand. Worryingly, it decides to crash rather than continue with the current resolution. This means it certainly is not a mature RC - a well written software should always catch ALL exceptions. And this one in particular is so simple.
I'm also disappointed in giving feedback. How do you do that? In this case, since the installation didn't work, how are you supposed to give the feedback? Now that I got it up and running, there was NO feedback button which is supposed to be in the window bar. I didn't see any feedback menu options either. What's the point then if they don't want feedback?! In any event, I didn't use it much as it didn't recognise my external hard disks or even my keyboard. Like some others have said; this was not ready for RC.
Brgds
Danny
Proposed as answer bydbjorckSunday, May 24, 2009 8:00 AM
