Official MSI P7N Diamond (780i) Discussion/Review/Overclock/Guide/BIOS Thread

[raymeus3]

Well, got everything, POST went fine first time. Now winblows won't install. Have tried IDE and SATA, Raid and non Raid. Have tried old XP install CDs and new XP install CDs. Tried manually settting FSB to 1066 and memory to 533 and latency's to 5-5-5-15 @ 2.1v. Have tried w/ just 1 DIMM installed.

Flashed BIOS to 1.2 w/o incident.

Here's what happens:
Boot off of windows 32 bit CD.
Goes through all the blue/gray screen stuff.
Says restarting in 15 sec.
Restarts.
Shows windows logo and loading bar.
Now here is where it varies sometimes:
- sometimes it says "setup is being restarted..............." then it restarts again...and again....and again
- sometimes it flashes the teal colored screen for a fraction of a second, then restarts.....again....and again....

Any help would be appreciated.

thanks.

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P7N Diamond
Chenbro SR10769 Case
SEAGATE Barracuda 7200.11 320GB x 2
MSI N260GTX-T2D896 OC GeForce GTX 260
OCZ Platinum 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066
Rosewill RX950-D-B 950W PS
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (G0 Stepping)
Cooler Master GeminII S CPU Cooler w/ SilverStone SST-FM121-B 120mm Case Fan
SilverStone SST-FM91 92mm Case Fan x2
Silverstone FM121 120mm Case Fan x2
Silverstone FM123 120mm Case Fan x2
Rosewill RFX-100 90mm PCI Fan