Dell XPS 720 - Installing Windows 7 doomed my PC.
Please help, i'm not sure what to do.
Installing Windows 7 has seemed to doom my PC. Everything was running fine on my XPS when I decided to install Windows 7....
They warn you that during the installation your PC will need to reboot itself a few times.. while the installation was running it tried to do the first reboot and when the computer came back on it stayed stuck on the first screen...
" Dell ... Dell XPS720 ... Bios Revision A06 " with a progress bar that freezes at about 1/4th of the way.
There's nothing I can do about this screen, after about 3 hours of sitting there I decided I would try a reboot, I forced the computer to turn off and when I turned it back on it just got to the same point (takes about 5 seconds) and it froze at the same spot.
Any experts know what might be going on here?
Installing Windows 7 has seemed to doom my PC. Everything was running fine on my XPS when I decided to install Windows 7....
They warn you that during the installation your PC will need to reboot itself a few times.. while the installation was running it tried to do the first reboot and when the computer came back on it stayed stuck on the first screen...
" Dell ... Dell XPS720 ... Bios Revision A06 " with a progress bar that freezes at about 1/4th of the way.
There's nothing I can do about this screen, after about 3 hours of sitting there I decided I would try a reboot, I forced the computer to turn off and when I turned it back on it just got to the same point (takes about 5 seconds) and it froze at the same spot.
Any experts know what might be going on here?
souquetbressand
Have you done a BIOS update recently?
ASKER
I never have, no.
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have you check the compatibility of your hardware whether it has been accepted to install win 7? some of old model have not supported with the win7 installation because win7 need to have high processor with higher ram.
if you want to install win 7, tried to do image on win 7 by virtualization. use vmware workstation to create image on win7 and run on vmware player to run image on win 7/
hopefully it helps
if you want to install win 7, tried to do image on win 7 by virtualization. use vmware workstation to create image on win7 and run on vmware player to run image on win 7/
hopefully it helps
ASKER
Well, I think i'm going to adandon the idea of installing windows 7 on this PC - but I still need my PC to work, lol.
Going through your suggestions Beanrod.
Going through your suggestions Beanrod.
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I can't thank you enough, i've done what you said and removing a stick of ram has worked perfectly.
What's weird is the computer boots properly even when i've added it back in.
What's weird is the computer boots properly even when i've added it back in.
I would suggest that the windows install and your computer breaking is a coincidence if it won't get past POST.
Perserve Windows 7 is great and your PC has more than enough grunt to hangle it!
Good luck!
Perserve Windows 7 is great and your PC has more than enough grunt to hangle it!
Good luck!