- Nov 10, 2003
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I put together a new rig with an Asus Z97-A motherboard, 3.5GHZ Intel i5-4690 processor, 8 GB GSkill DDR 1600 RAM, GE Force GT 650 and a Samsung 500GB EVO SSD plust two Western Digital 1TB mechanical hard drives. Both my Windows 7 and 8 DVDs are legitimate updates. Windows 8 came from Microsoft. I first tried to install Windows 7 and that would seemingly install but would never run past the opening screen when the colored balls spin and join. I then cleaned the SSD with diskpart to stop it from trying to boot to 7 and put the Windows 8 DVD in the drive. Following all the normal steps of a custom install it appeared that installation was going just fine. It installed all files without incident, then went to initializing devices and that went okay. On the next step, called "getting started," the computer shut down to a black screen. The option I am now given is to restart the computer and complete the installation. That action results in another attempt to totally reinstall and ends he same way. In the UEFI BIOS I have it set to default values. I have tried a second new SSD replacement and that one did the exact same thing. I also have re-seated the RAM and that didn't help either. Finally I downloaded a fresh copy of Windows 8, installed it on a thumb drive and tried that. I got the same result. Does anyone know what the Windows 8 installer is attempting to do when it goes into the Getting Started step. My assumption is that it is loading hardware drivers but that it just a guess.