New build, Windows 7 problems

[ryuk999]

i just built my PC yesterday and installed windows 7 RC. when i powered it up and installed windows, it was working fine until i got the blue screen after trying to change the theme settings cause i was curious. later i found out that i forgot to install the drivers for teh mobo / integrated graphics. which i did, now i after several error reports sent to microsoft i can't get past the boot screen in windows 7 when it posts the "loading" then the whole thing resets and doesn't stop. is it possible the problem is at the HDD? i have the hard drive connected with a SATA cable to the mobo in a SATA socket.

Build:
CPU: E5300
mobo: Gigabyte G31M-ES2L
RAM: OCZ 2x2 GB DDR2 @ 800mghz
PSU: coolermaster 500W
HDD: Hitatchi 250GB SATA but on the receipt it says serial ATA
GPU: later on getting a 9800GT (just no money...yet lol)

and this is my first build lol ^^;
any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!

[flanzig1]

Did you download Windows 7 drivers or used whatever was on the motherboard CD?

SATA= Serial ATA
PATA= Parallel ATA=IDE

[wylackii]

Sounds like a bad driver, especially since it happened after you installed the onboard graphics driver and the system resets when loading. I recommend getting a discrete card (PCI-e,AGP), if you don't have one get a really cheap card just for troubleshooting or borrow one, installing it and shutting down onboard graphics from the bios and enabling the discrete card priority under boot settings. Try running in safe mode (F8), if you can't get a card, which should load in VGA mode although I am still tinkering with W7 myself.
This might get things moving so you can remove the drivers or restore your system.

Also I noticed your build is similar to mine, I had first time W7 install problems. It wouldn't recognize my onboard devices, which I only used my onboard nic, so I did a second install. That improved my install greatly so you might want to reinstall.

[ryuk999]

no i didnt use the motherboard driver disc yet because when windows was updating it had the chipset driver and G31 update for the mobo i think under the "optional updates". but i'll give it a try if i can even get to a window where i'll be able to install drivers lol.

and um...how would i exactly go about reinstalled the operating system? should i try to format the disk by using fdisk?

[ryuk999]

oh and at the end of this week or beginning of next week i'll be getting a 9800GT for this PC cause i originally wanted to play L4D on max settings ^^;