BSOD during Windows Install on new system Build

[heat23]

Hey Guys,

I just put together a brand new system last night, booted off the Windows 7 DVD, and attempted to the installation. However, around the step of "Expanding Windows Files" or maybe "Installing Features", I got a BSOD and then the system rebooted. Any ideas? Here are all my components

* Cooler Master 130 ITX Case
* Corsair CX430M
* GIGABYTE GA-H97N-WIFI H97
* GSKILL F3-1866C10D-16GAB
* Intel Core i5-4590
* Samsung EVO 850 500 GB
* Asus DVDRW

I am not overclocking or anything like that. I tried with stock BIOS settings and also by "loading optimized defaults"

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

 

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

Is the SATA setting on ACHI? Could be the culprit.

 

[heat23]

Is the SATA setting on ACHI? Could be the culprit.

Thanks! I set it to IDE and the install worked great. I did all my Windows 7 updates, installed drivers, did a registry hack and set it back to AHCI. The benchmarks before and after with Samsung Magician is astounding. Overall Read/Write speed increased by nearly 2x and some other benchmark that I don't remember increased by 8-10x

 

[MongGrel]

Just did the same thing about an hour ago.

Thought I had used ACHI before but I just want the smaller one to work, yeah plopped it to IDE again and worked fine.

Have to see if can change it back myself, bit an older system here but still a X5650 with a SSD I'm reinstalling.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Is the SATA setting on ACHI? Could be the culprit.

Why would that matter? TBH, changing that, would seem more like it's just masking a more serious underly hardware error.

PS. I've been installing Win7 64-bit SP1 on a number of rigs, mostly all on SSDs, and I generally always have them set to AHCI mode. (Unless it defaults to IDE in BIOS and I forgot to change it.)

 

[mfenn]

Why would that matter? TBH, changing that, would seem more like it's just masking a more serious underly hardware error.

PS. I've been installing Win7 64-bit SP1 on a number of rigs, mostly all on SSDs, and I generally always have them set to AHCI mode. (Unless it defaults to IDE in BIOS and I forgot to change it.)

Depends on the system and the age of the media (and thus the version of the msahci.sys driver).

 

[heat23]

FYI, I was using the original release of Windows 7 media