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Hello, I'm trying to install W& 64bit over my current XP 32 bit
install. My CPU is in fact a 64 bit processor and the W7 advisor tool
doesn't show any errors on its 64 bit report.

I'm booting to the DVD which seems to hang on "Loading Windows" for
about 10 minutes before going to what looks like a blue Windows base
screen, but there are no menu options, the screen just stays that way
and the menus never appear.

The only odd thing I can see is that my Speccy report below shows my
hdd's as IDE drives when they are actually SATA drives connected with
SATA cables.

Thanks for any help with this.


Operating System
MS Windows XP Professional 32-bit SP3
CPU
AMD Athlon 7750 Black Edition 44 °C
Kuma 65nm Technology
RAM
4.0GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 400MHz (5-5-5-15)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK Computer INC. M3N78-VM (AM2)
Graphics
Default Monitor @ 1280x768
128MB GeForce 8200 (ASUStek Computer Inc) 56 °C
Hard Drives
117GB Western Digital WDC WD1200JS-00MHB0 (IDE) 53 °C
156GB Western Digital WDC WD1600AAJS-00B4A0 (IDE) 42 °C
Optical Drives
Optiarc DVD RW AD-7220A
Audio
VIA High Definition Audio

On 4/30/2012 9:27 AM, Donnie wrote:
>
> Hello, I'm trying to install W& 64bit over my current XP 32 bit
> install. My CPU is in fact a 64 bit processor and the W7 advisor tool
> doesn't show any errors on its 64 bit report.
>
> I'm booting to the DVD which seems to hang on "Loading Windows" for
> about 10 minutes before going to what looks like a blue Windows base
> screen, but there are no menu options, the screen just stays that way
> and the menus never appear.
>
> The only odd thing I can see is that my Speccy report below shows my
> hdd's as IDE drives when they are actually SATA drives connected with
> SATA cables.
>
> Thanks for any help with this.
>
>
> Operating System
> MS Windows XP Professional 32-bit SP3
> CPU
> AMD Athlon 7750 Black Edition 44 °C
> Kuma 65nm Technology
> RAM
> 4.0GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 400MHz (5-5-5-15)
> Motherboard
> ASUSTeK Computer INC. M3N78-VM (AM2)
> Graphics
> Default Monitor @ 1280x768
> 128MB GeForce 8200 (ASUStek Computer Inc) 56 °C
> Hard Drives
> 117GB Western Digital WDC WD1200JS-00MHB0 (IDE) 53 °C
> 156GB Western Digital WDC WD1600AAJS-00B4A0 (IDE) 42 °C
> Optical Drives
> Optiarc DVD RW AD-7220A
> Audio
> VIA High Definition Audio

I don't think I can help much here. Do note that if your bios can do
AHCI, it is best to enable that first before installing win 7. You can
do it after the fact, but it is slightly more complicated.

I don't know if win 7 can upgrade XP. I would wipe the disk (after
backing up) and see if that fixes the install problem.

I have a similar mobo (M3N78 PRO) running win 7 pro 64 bit.

1. Make sure you have the latest BIOS and your BIOS settings are
optimal. Check carefully: e.g. the default SATA setting will be Legacy
IDE, not AHCI.

2. An upgrade from 32 to 64-bit Windows is always a clean install. To
transfer your files and settings use the Easy Transfer Wizard
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...-easy-transfer
before upgrading.

3. If you still find the install does not progress, try reducing your
RAM to 2GB. The other 2GB of memory can be added back after
installation. Long delays do sometimes occur, but 10 minutes is too long.

4. You will need to install Windows 7 device drivers for your M3N78-VM
after installation. These are available from your regional ASUS site.



On 30/04/2012 17:27, Donnie wrote:
>
> Hello, I'm trying to install W& 64bit over my current XP 32 bit
> install. My CPU is in fact a 64 bit processor and the W7 advisor tool
> doesn't show any errors on its 64 bit report.
>
> I'm booting to the DVD which seems to hang on "Loading Windows" for
> about 10 minutes before going to what looks like a blue Windows base
> screen, but there are no menu options, the screen just stays that way
> and the menus never appear.
>
> The only odd thing I can see is that my Speccy report below shows my
> hdd's as IDE drives when they are actually SATA drives connected with
> SATA cables.
>
> Thanks for any help with this.
>
>
> Operating System
> MS Windows XP Professional 32-bit SP3
> CPU
> AMD Athlon 7750 Black Edition 44 °C
> Kuma 65nm Technology
> RAM
> 4.0GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 400MHz (5-5-5-15)
> Motherboard
> ASUSTeK Computer INC. M3N78-VM (AM2)
> Graphics
> Default Monitor @ 1280x768
> 128MB GeForce 8200 (ASUStek Computer Inc) 56 °C
> Hard Drives
> 117GB Western Digital WDC WD1200JS-00MHB0 (IDE) 53 °C
> 156GB Western Digital WDC WD1600AAJS-00B4A0 (IDE) 42 °C
> Optical Drives
> Optiarc DVD RW AD-7220A
> Audio
> VIA High Definition Audio

On Tue, 01 May 2012 07:22:56 +0100, Dominic Payer <>
wrote:

>1. Make sure you have the latest BIOS and your BIOS settings are
>optimal. Check carefully: e.g. the default SATA setting will be Legacy
>IDE, not AHCI.
>
>2. An upgrade from 32 to 64-bit Windows is always a clean install. To
>transfer your files and settings use the Easy Transfer Wizard
>http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...-easy-transfer
>before upgrading.
>
>3. If you still find the install does not progress, try reducing your
>RAM to 2GB. The other 2GB of memory can be added back after
>installation. Long delays do sometimes occur, but 10 minutes is too long.
>
>4. You will need to install Windows 7 device drivers for your M3N78-VM
>after installation. These are available from your regional ASUS site.


Thanks for the sugggestions you two, no luck though.

So far I've tried using a different keyboard and mouse, using a single
brand new unformatted SATA hdd, no luck. All I get is that base
Windows install screen with no menus to use. Changed BIOS setting
from SATA to AHCI as well.

The only thing left to look at is a BIOS update though I really don't
feel I should need to do that for an OS install.


Donnie

1.) With Asus, a BIOS update is always a good idea!
2.) Remove ANY devices plugged in to USB except keyboard and mouse.
3.) Reduce RAM to 2 GB
4.) Install from an IDE DVD drive, NOT a SATA DVD drive if at all possible.

--
Charlie.
http://blogs.msmvps.com/russel


"Donnie" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Tue, 01 May 2012 07:22:56 +0100, Dominic Payer <>
> wrote:
>
>>1. Make sure you have the latest BIOS and your BIOS settings are
>>optimal. Check carefully: e.g. the default SATA setting will be Legacy
>>IDE, not AHCI.
>>
>>2. An upgrade from 32 to 64-bit Windows is always a clean install. To
>>transfer your files and settings use the Easy Transfer Wizard
>>http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...-easy-transfer
>>before upgrading.
>>
>>3. If you still find the install does not progress, try reducing your
>>RAM to 2GB. The other 2GB of memory can be added back after
>>installation. Long delays do sometimes occur, but 10 minutes is too long.
>>
>>4. You will need to install Windows 7 device drivers for your M3N78-VM
>>after installation. These are available from your regional ASUS site.
>
>
> Thanks for the sugggestions you two, no luck though.
>
> So far I've tried using a different keyboard and mouse, using a single
> brand new unformatted SATA hdd, no luck. All I get is that base
> Windows install screen with no menus to use. Changed BIOS setting
> from SATA to AHCI as well.
>
> The only thing left to look at is a BIOS update though I really don't
> feel I should need to do that for an OS install.
>
>
> Donnie

On Tue, 1 May 2012 11:19:29 -0500, "R. C. White" <>
wrote:

>Hi, Donnie.
>
>You've told us just about everything except your BIOS details. Have you
>checked with the BIOS maker to be sure that it supports SATA drives in Win7?
>
>You are NOT booting into WinXP 32-bit and then running Win7 x64 Setup.exe
>from there, are you? Yes, I know you said, "I'm booting to the DVD..."
>Just double-checking my understanding that you've set your BIOS to boot from
>DVD, then inserted the 64-bit DVD and rebooted into 64-bit mode.
>
>RC


Hi RC, and Charlie

I updated the BIOS to the newest one at the ASUS site. I didn't see
any specific mention of SATA drives and W7.

No, I'm not running setup from within XP, that wouldn't work anyways,
it's not a valid Win32 app.

>1.) With Asus, a BIOS update is always a good idea!
>2.) Remove ANY devices plugged in to USB except keyboard and mouse.
>3.) Reduce RAM to 2 GB
>4.) Install from an IDE DVD drive, NOT a SATA DVD drive if at all possible.

I do have an IDE DVD drive and SATA drives. I have two 2GB sticks of
RAM, I've tried installign with just one of them in, swapped them as
well. Just one time I was able to get to a Set Up menu after leaving
my machgine for 45 minutes, after that I got to a "Setting up
Windows" window with the spinning circle but after like 2 hours at the
screen I hit the reset button. The DVD Rom was spinning the entire
time and the cpu light was locked on.


Donnie

On 5/1/2012 11:57 AM, Donnie wrote:
> On Tue, 1 May 2012 11:19:29 -0500, "R. C. White"<>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Donnie.
>>
>> You've told us just about everything except your BIOS details. Have you
>> checked with the BIOS maker to be sure that it supports SATA drives in Win7?
>>
>> You are NOT booting into WinXP 32-bit and then running Win7 x64 Setup.exe
>>from there, are you? Yes, I know you said, "I'm booting to the DVD..."
>> Just double-checking my understanding that you've set your BIOS to boot from
>> DVD, then inserted the 64-bit DVD and rebooted into 64-bit mode.
>>
>> RC
>
>
> Hi RC, and Charlie
>
> I updated the BIOS to the newest one at the ASUS site. I didn't see
> any specific mention of SATA drives and W7.
>
> No, I'm not running setup from within XP, that wouldn't work anyways,
> it's not a valid Win32 app.
>
>> 1.) With Asus, a BIOS update is always a good idea!
>> 2.) Remove ANY devices plugged in to USB except keyboard and mouse.
>> 3.) Reduce RAM to 2 GB
>> 4.) Install from an IDE DVD drive, NOT a SATA DVD drive if at all possible.
>
> I do have an IDE DVD drive and SATA drives. I have two 2GB sticks of
> RAM, I've tried installign with just one of them in, swapped them as
> well. Just one time I was able to get to a Set Up menu after leaving
> my machgine for 45 minutes, after that I got to a "Setting up
> Windows" window with the spinning circle but after like 2 hours at the
> screen I hit the reset button. The DVD Rom was spinning the entire
> time and the cpu light was locked on.
>
>
> Donnie
FWIW, I'm using an IDE DVD drive with sata disk drives on a similar mobo.

I don't recall if the MS install disk has a ram check, but I know suse
linux has one. There are probably diagnostic cd with ram checks as well.
I kind of doubt RAM is the issue.

I don't get the reduce RAM to 2G. What does that accomplish? This system
I run has 8G on a similar mobo. I had the full 8G on when doing the install.

To my recollection, the Asus mobo doesn't have a hidden BIOS (advanced
mode), but check and see if it does. There may be more options to play with.

I built a SSD system with win7 64 bit. It doesn't have a built in drive,
but I was able to install from an external USB drive. If your drive is
funky, that might be an option.

Just to be clear here, you are seeing the actual win7 boot display

FWIW, this version of Memtest86+, on a 350 MB Linux bootable CD,

http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-m...t_floppy_disks

spotted my HP TouchSmart TM2-1010 laptop as having bad memory
(one of two 2 GB modules) when Windows only gave me filesystem
error messages, and I think the laptop's own (EFI) diagnostic
said that the memory was fine. I assume that it's also happy
to check memory above 4 GB!

The memory was returning some wrong bits in certain places,
all across 2 GB of space. Apparently if you just have a few
bad bits in a memory module, you can tell Linux at least to
not use those memory addresses...

MemTest86+'s own ISO is available here. Their install-to-USB
tool may be more successful than SRCD's was for me. Then again,
some systems just don't like booting from a USB stick or SD card.

http://www.memtest.org/

Apparently one or more web servers with IP addresses /near/ to
www.sysresccd.org serves nasty software, and for that reason,
MalwareBytes and other security tools may report that SRCD is
a bad site as well. If it was mine, I'd probably move it,
and maybe they have - it was some time ago that I ran into
that condition.

On Tue, 1 May 2012 09:52:49 -0700, "Charlie Russel-MVP"
<> wrote:

>1.) With Asus, a BIOS update is always a good idea!
>2.) Remove ANY devices plugged in to USB except keyboard and mouse.
>3.) Reduce RAM to 2 GB
>4.) Install from an IDE DVD drive, NOT a SATA DVD drive if at all possible.


I've pretty much decided that this install isn't going to happe but
thanks for all the replies and suggestions.

Good job Microsoft..


Donnie

Thanks. I forgot about that program, but it's a classic.

If the program is smart enough to determine stuck at zero and stuck at
one, then I would call that a hard failure and you are hosed. But if the
readback is off, I'd be inclined to experiment with the timing.

Some mobos have you slow down the timing depending on how much DRAM you
have installed. The Asus Atom that I built has a strict qualification on
how the memory sodim is built. That is, it needs a certain configuration
using larger memories than some vendors use, presumably to reduce bus
loading. I'm not stating that very well. Basically the sodimm is made up
of mem chips and an address decoder (oversimplified). You can have the
same capacity sodimm with different size memory chips. The decoder makes
up the difference.