Alright guys upgraded my computer a hell of a lot yesterday and starting fresh, but th OS will not install. i have 2 full OS's: XP, Win7.

but i get to a certain point and the machine will just crash and try to do it all over again with no success.

if someone gives me the right solution first. there will be a 1 month of premium in it for you.

So post away cheers. (I came to the PC sction cos the xbox community will be immature about it)

Well, there could be a problem or 2

1. Might need to repair the master boot record
2. Could be a hard drive fault
Or you could just buy a new cheap hard drive for the time being, could save a lot of time :p

get a $40 cheapy drive and install on it, easiest fix, of course, if that fails, you might wanna check the rest of the hardware, which brings me to this. what were u running, what did you upgrade.

give us some lists

alright

i have a G-B p55a-ud3 motherboard
4gb kit Gskill ripjaw
1tB WD SATA
i5 760
ATI 3850
IDE dvd drive
850 watt power supply
an aerocool Vxe Pro case

firstly check ram is in the right slots, read tha manual to see which channel is primary

ye the ram was in the wrong slots.

but that hasnt fixed it.

Alright you know when you install windows 7 it copys files and then expands them?
it restarts to load windows. then it gets to the starting windows bit where the little dots make the windows symbol and then the pc makes like a clicking noise and shuts off

try to see where the clicking comes from

could be psu or HDD

go buy a cheap hdd to test with

like a little 250gb or something

oh band now your ram is in the right slots, battery off mobo for 10 mins or so

also, what cpou and mobo BIOS version do you have?

ok got my old hdd and that didnt change. could it possibly be the GPU being DDR2 and not 3?
my friend is coming over later with his PSU and GPU to see if it is the problem.

i highly doubt it mate

take out one stick of ram, and try that, also try the other stick, could be a dead stick of ram, also try reseating the cpu

this all assumes you have wired it correctly too

ok im pretty sure ive narrowed it down to the PSU going to MSY tomorrow recommend any PSU's to suit the specs?

if this fixes it ill pay your premium

seasonic or corsair mate, best bet

alright ill update tomorrow if it works or not thx for the help