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can't install windows 8.1 pro 64 bit
Hello,
I've bought windows 8.1 pro 64 bit. I was given a dvd and when I'm starting to install it it just always reboot my computer. At first it's booting from cd, i can see windows logo for about 1 minute and suddenly one sentence is appearing for a second and computer is rebooting. And it's happening all the time. I've done a default params on BIOS and now when it's want to boot from cd, i can't even see windows logo - it's just reboots the computer. Can anybody help? |
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can't install windows 8.1 pro 64 bit
Fairy wrote:
Hello, I've bought windows 8.1 pro 64 bit. I was given a dvd and when I'm starting to install it it just always reboot my computer. At first it's booting from cd, i can see windows logo for about 1 minute and suddenly one sentence is appearing for a second and computer is rebooting. And it's happening all the time. I've done a default params on BIOS and now when it's want to boot from cd, i can't even see windows logo - it's just reboots the computer. Can anybody help? Enter the BIOS. Verify the optical drive is ahead of the hard drive at boot time. Alternately, use the popup boot key, and select the optical drive from the boot menu. On my Asus motherboard, this is the F8 key. When the DVD says "Press any key to boot..." http://f.tqn.com/y/pcsupport/1/S/R/H...install-02.png you must press a single key on the keyboard one time, to select the DVD for booting. If you are too slow pressing a key once, and getting the DVD to boot, it will next try to boot from your empty hard drive. And I can't predict what will happen then. ******* Modern computers have a UEFI BIOS. There are two possibilities at boot time: 1) Boot in UEFI mode. If you use the popup boot, it might even mention UEFI or EFI next to the name of the DVD drive in the boot menu. 2) Boot in legacy BIOS mode. If you enter the BIOS, and turn on the CSM module, that supports both UEFI and legacy BIOS at the same time. Now, if you use the popup boot menu, the optical drive will be listed *twice*. If you boot in UEFI mode, the Win8 installer can prepare the hard drive with GPT partitioning. This os good for boot drives larger than 2.2TB. Otherwise, it's not all that popular a choice. To boot a GPT disk, you need UEFI mode to do that. For regular MBR disk formatting, the legacy BIOS mode will work for that. With CSM module enabled, boot from the legacy entry in the popup boot menu. ******* Assuming you somehow make progress on this, the install goes like this. 1) Set up the BIOS so the optical drive can boot. 2) Press a single key when prompted, and boot from the DVD the first time. *Note* - you only boot from the DVD the one time. All subsequent boots, the hard drive will be booting. 3) After the copy-files stage, when the computer reboots *do not* press the single key. The boot prompt for the DVD will time out, and the hard drive will now boot. 4) Stages 2 through N of the installation, rely on the hard drive booting properly. Only Stage 1 of the installation, the copy-files stage, relies on the DVD booting (for a clean install). ******* Another possible type of installation, is an Upgrade installation. That relies on the hard drive already having a modern copy of Windows on it. If you really wanted to do that sort of installation, please post more details and someone will help you. You run "setup.exe" off the DVD drive, while the old Windows OS is running, to attempt to do it that way. But there are many details to get that to work, and lots of paragraphs to write. ******* And finally, when I gave those instrucitons above, I expect your computer to be *tested* and *working*. If you bought a computer off Ebay, it has bad RAM, or the CPU was overclocked for the last 5 years and the CPU is "worn out", then all these symptoms could be accounted for by bad hardware. My assumption at the moment, is you don't have bad hardware, and Windows is detecting a problem when it wants to display the very first prompt for user input. And why would it do that ? HTH, Paul |
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