can't install windows 7 on nvidia 630i chipset


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hi am am trying to install rc 7100 x86 on my pc

i have an asus p5n-em motherboard with nforce 630i/7100 chipset an intel e6600 core2duo - 2gb Ram a sata optical drive and one sata 640 Gb Harddisk.

vista x86 an x64 works fine on the machine but with 7100 i can start the install and all works fine till the first reboot - then the screen turns black and the pc starts over - and again the same - if i try safte boot it says that it cant complete the installation in safe mode and it starts over again - ending in the cycle of starting over and over again ??

anyone got a solution for me - are ther known problems with nvida 630i chipsets ? if anyone got seven installed on a pc with that chipset tell me how you did it ;)

thx hope someone can help me out

also checked the offical sha1 sum fomr microsoft with mine and its the same so the dvd should be allright.

Greetings

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It could be a driver problem, I think all you can do is go into your BIOS, and disable as many devices as you can that are not absolutely necessary to boot the computer. Also try switching your HD controller between RAID/AHCI/IDE in the BIOS. Make sure you're not overclocked, try Default/Auto memory/bus/etc. settings...

(Also try disabling Power Management, temporarily)

If installation finishes properly, then start re-enabling BIOS devices one by one...

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hi am am trying to install rc 7100 x86 on my pc

i have an asus p5n-em motherboard with nforce 630i/7100 chipset an intel e6600 core2duo - 2gb Ram a sata optical drive and one sata 640 Gb Harddisk.

vista x86 an x64 works fine on the machine but with 7100 i can start the install and all works fine till the first reboot - then the screen turns black and the pc starts over - and again the same - if i try safte boot it says that it cant complete the installation in safe mode and it starts over again - ending in the cycle of starting over and over again ??

anyone got a solution for me - are ther known problems with nvida 630i chipsets ? if anyone got seven installed on a pc with that chipset tell me how you did it ;)

thx hope someone can help me out

also checked the offical sha1 sum fomr microsoft with mine and its the same so the dvd should be allright.

Greetings

I also have the nForce 630i chipset (ASUS P5N-EM HDMI) but have no such issues and I actually have less CPU (Celeron DC E1200) and RAM (1 GB Corsair 5-5-5-18; a single stick) than you do! I also installed clean; however I did the install from my existing Vista Ultimate (also 64-bit) drive. (Target for Vista 7 was a "scratch" 40 GB WD Caviar PATA drive I keep strictly for OS beta testing.) I have no issues using data files in one OS from the other. The one difference may be that I installed from a virtual drive; you may have a good ISO but a bad burn. (I installed from VirtualClone Drive in addition to from within Vista 64.) Re-burn the ISO but at a slower speed (go only 1x if possible).

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It could be a driver problem, I think all you can do is go into your BIOS, and disable as many devices as you can that are not absolutely necessary to boot the computer. Also try switching your HD controller between RAID/AHCI/IDE in the BIOS. Make sure you're not overclocked, try Default/Auto memory/bus/etc. settings...

(Also try disabling Power Management, temporarily)

If installation finishes properly, then start re-enabling BIOS devices one by one...

It's *not* a driver problem. I have the same motherboard and have NO such issues (I'm typing this from the same build and bitness of Windows 7 as the OP). I'm overclocked by design (Celeron DC E1200 with a 1 GHz overclock; 2.67 GHz@1333 MHz FSB vs. 1.6 GHz @ 800 MHz FSB stock). All other settings are stock. (I'm also using the stock HSF push-pins and all.) I suspect a bad burn (I installed onto an empty drive from within Vista 64-bit via a mounted-via-VirtualCloneDrive ISO as opposed to a burned DVD).

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I have a chipset 630i too with a Intel Q8200 and had no problems with old builds of Windows 7. I'm just waiting the french x64 build of Win7 RC to test :)

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I have a MSI K9n SLi Platinum with chipset nForce 570 and i had some problems installing the Build 7000. Just try to disable some internal devices like Gus. said. I disabled both ethernet devices (have a third PCI card), IEEE (i dont use it) and the internal sound card (i have a X-Fi)...

Good luck!

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thx for your answers an suggestions i tried to disable everything not really needed to install but no luck till now - i will try x64 version now and if it does not work i will install vista and install seven from within vista without burning the iso

i am just happy to see some of you had no probs installing seven on 630i so my hardware should be ok with seven

greetings

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hi am am trying to install rc 7100 x86 on my pc

i have an asus p5n-em motherboard with nforce 630i/7100 chipset an intel e6600 core2duo - 2gb Ram a sata optical drive and one sata 640 Gb Harddisk.

vista x86 an x64 works fine on the machine but with 7100 i can start the install and all works fine till the first reboot - then the screen turns black and the pc starts over - and again the same - if i try safte boot it says that it cant complete the installation in safe mode and it starts over again - ending in the cycle of starting over and over again ??

anyone got a solution for me - are ther known problems with nvida 630i chipsets ? if anyone got seven installed on a pc with that chipset tell me how you did it ;)

thx hope someone can help me out

also checked the offical sha1 sum fomr microsoft with mine and its the same so the dvd should be allright.

Greetings

I am having the exact same problem with a Giga-Byte GA-73PVM-S2H mainboard (7100/630i chipset). Gets past the first section of install then goes into continual reboot. I have tried both 32bit and 64bit Win7 RC, both DVDs have been used to successfully install on other systems so the media is AOK. I can install any other OS I choose on the board without problem. Have tried with different CPUs (E6320 & Q6600) different RAM, different drives and different PSUs, so the only common factor is the mainboard with its 7100/630i chipset. For sure there is some kind of issue with this chipset and Win7 RC. My bet is some BIOSs will work and some will not from reading the comments here.

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I am having the exact same problem with a Giga-Byte GA-73PVM-S2H mainboard (7100/630i chipset). Gets past the first section of install then goes into continual reboot. I have tried both 32bit and 64bit Win7 RC, both DVDs have been used to successfully install on other systems so the media is AOK. I can install any other OS I choose on the board without problem. Have tried with different CPUs (E6320 & Q6600) different RAM, different drives and different PSUs, so the only common factor is the mainboard with its 7100/630i chipset. For sure there is some kind of issue with this chipset and Win7 RC. My bet is some BIOSs will work and some will not from reading the comments here.

Upgrade install? Clean install?

If upgrade, did you remove existing AV software? (7 will not upgrade with AV running/installed.)

If there's an issue, it's a BIOS *age* issue; is the latest BIOS installed?

Also, check drive compatibility; I have one DVD burner (16xDL) that will not accept DVDs created by another (Lite-ON 4x) *unless* they are burned at the absolutely slowest speed (1x).

As far as the BIOS goes, I suggest F7 or F8 (both are the same age as mine, or later, and should include the same fixes). http://www.giga-byte.com/Support/Motherboa...?ProductID=2691

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Upgrade install? Clean install?

If upgrade, did you remove existing AV software? (7 will not upgrade with AV running/installed.)

If there's an issue, it's a BIOS *age* issue; is the latest BIOS installed?

Also, check drive compatibility; I have one DVD burner (16xDL) that will not accept DVDs created by another (Lite-ON 4x) *unless* they are burned at the absolutely slowest speed (1x).

As far as the BIOS goes, I suggest F7 or F8 (both are the same age as mine, or later, and should include the same fixes). http://www.giga-byte.com/Support/Motherboa...?ProductID=2691

This is a clean install on a freshly formatted disk. Mainboard updated to latest F8 BIOS. As stated originally tried different drives including DVDs, all install perfectly on other systems.

What I have since discovered is that if I plug in a PCIe graphics card and disable onboard 7100 then I can install. If I then remove PCIe and reboot Win 7 loads Nvidia driver then asks for restart, after which system goes into continual reboot at point of Win 7 boot up going past splash screen. No doubt that it is a mainboard issue and I notice that the onboard VGA and the USB2.0 controller are both assigned to INT 5 in BIOS, with no way to change. Years ago onboard VGAs used to have a BIOS option to assign INT or not but I haven't seen that on a board for years. Looks like the GA-73PVM is just a crappy implementation of nVidia chipset with broken BIOS as far as Win 7 is concerned. Maybe GB will provide a fix in the next BIOS.

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I have had the identical experience on an XFX 7159-630I (630i chipset with 7150 GPU). So it's not just Gigabyte and ASUS that have this problem, and it's not just a bad BIOS implementation on all three boards.

My symptoms are identical to what the oters are seeing. A clean install of the 7100 RC version of Windows 7 proceeds normally with an add-in video card (nVidia 8400, in my case). All updates are applied, including the nForce chipset drivers (some of which are not included in Win 7). I do several orderly shutdowns and start-ups, then remove the 8400 vid card and connect to the DVI port on the motherboard. On the next reboot, as soon as the on-board video tries to change resolution to the display's native resolution, the system does a hard reset/reboot, and then the cycle begins. Reset, reboot, restart, and Windows' system recovery process cannot correct the error.

If I repeat the install without the 8400 vid card, I get the same results, just sooner.

If I repeat the process without the 8400 vid card and omit the installation of the nForce drivers, but just let Microsoft update identify and install the required drivers, then the system works well right up until Win 7 drops the "VGA-compatable" drivers and installs the 7150 drivers. On the next restart the system goes into it's reset/restart routine again.

This smells to me like a hardware/chipset problem. I don't know that I've seen any piece of OS-aware software initiate a hard reset on a system in the last ten years. Everything should be shut down in an orderly fashion to preserve disk integrity - hard resets are the fastest route I know of to a corrupt file system.

I think this is clearly in Nvidia's camp. Given the low volumes and low margins for these products, though, I wonder if they care.

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Guys,i had the same problem

i have nvidia card and when i installed win 7,it stopped in the black screen

well,i configured my monitor input from analogic->digital and everything is fine.

this must be a problem with win 7 default nvidia driver.it chooses wrong output.

Hope you have the same problem/solution

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