Frozen Advent Screen after Win 7 Crash

Hello,


Can you help me with the following problem please?


I have an Advent T9102 and Advent T9308, due to the Advent T9102 being really old and having a few problems and consistently crashing, I decided to take the Hard Drive out of it and make use of it in my Advent T9308 and reformat the whole machine and install Windows 7. Due to my Advent T9308 being Windows XP I first upgraded it to Windows Vista to get all the necessary Windows 7 drivers. Everything worked great once upgraded to Windows Vista. I then used my USB stick to install Windows 7.


When I restarted the Advent T9308 I booted the USB stick and it started loading the Windows files, I deleted all the partitions on the hard drives and reformated the drives. The installation screen came up and I followed the screen prompts. When it got to the installing Windows part it shot the percentage straight up for the "Copying Windows files" which was odd, but then the "Expanding Windows files" it froze at 1%, I knew it froze because I left it for 30mins and it didn't go up a percentage. I decided to hold the power button for 5 seconds and restart the machine. On restart the machine got stuck on the very first Advent screen, it currently has "Press DEL to run Setup, Press TAB to display BIOS POST Message", but it doesn't matter what button I press on the keyboard nothing loads up??


Obviously no Windows will load up as I deleted the Windows partitions. I am just trying to get the machine to boot up the USB, or, CD so I can install Windows 7, but the machine wont get past the first screen, just before the post bios screen. The machine fans are spinning, the motherboard light is on, no beeps at start up, if you just listened to it it sounds like everything is ok, but its not getting past the Advent first screen before the post screen?? :confused


Any help would be great.


Thanks.

 

Usually when a computer hangs on the splash screen it is having trouble detecting a device. Try removing devices one at a time and see if it goes further to the No OS message.

So remove the USB and restart. Unplug the HD (probably the culprit) and restart. Unplug the CDROM and restart. It should be one of those devices probably the HD since that is what you have added.

If it is the HD then add it back and see if it repeats the hang. If it does then the only thing I can think of to try is to put the HD back in the other computer and try to format there and then try it again in the present computer.

 

Thanks for your post. Right I disconnected ALL drives, HD, CD, DVD,USB, removed all RAM, removed video card and disconnected keyboard and mouse. The mother board did 3 long beeps which I believe on an MSI is memory, so I then started putting everything back in one by one. With just the RAM it all works fine and comes up saying CMOS settings wrong and CMOS Date/Time Not Set. Press f1 to Run Setup, Press F2 to load default values and continue.

I am now putting the other bits in, something I have noticed doing this is the display is very temperamental. The screen is absolutely fine but now plugging in the hard drive the desktop is black and is saying no signal, the VGA cable is fine but since plugging the hard drive in its lost its signal. I then thought ok could be the hard drive, so took the hard drive back out and still now have lost the signal going to the monitor without the hard drive and only have the RAM plugged into the motherboard?? I am using the onboard integrated graphics rather than the graphics card. Would plugging a faulty hard drive into the machine make the screen go blank??

 

I don't think the HD would cause a loss of video output. I would think that perhaps the CMOS default might be for video card rather than onboard graphics. I would connect the video card and try both video card connection and onboard graphics and see if you get a signal with either one. If you do keep that connection and continue adding things back. Leave the HD for last.

 

Case closed, failed hard drive and RAM stick causing desktop not to post. Thanks for your help. How do you change the CMOS to integrated graphics?