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Old August 7th 15, 10:31 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Fairy
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Default 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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Old August 7th 15, 12:57 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Paul
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Default 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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