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MSI H61M-e23 wont install windows

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86waterpumper

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HI, I am hoping someone here can help me. This weekend I helped my buddy put together a new rig with all brand new parts.It has a i3 2100, msi h61m-e23 matx board, corsair 430 psu, 8gb crucial ram and a samsung470 64gb ssd. The board will post and do all bios functions and I have even flashed to the newest bios. However, when you try to run the windows 7 setup, it does the initial loading files, and then instantly hangs hard on the starting windows screen. So far I have switched out the hard drive, with a spindle drive in ide mode, memory, and power supplies with a seasonic fanless 400watt, put my cpu out of my rig into it, (a 2500k) I even stuck a radeon 6850 in it thinking it was a issue with the video. The same thing happens on windows xp install, and various versions of linux, although i did get a linux mint/kde live disc to boot up the way and run one time.

Is this just a janky motherboard, or is there some known bios setting or something else I can try? I haven't had this much issues with a new build in a long long time and it isn't very encouraging to my buddy whom I told he was better off rolling his own computer system for the first time 😛 Any help is appreciated!
 
Just curious, what SATA mode are you using? (IE: IDE, AHCI?) Have you tried these settings for any different results? Also, might seem simplistic, but did you try swapping SATA cables and ports? On a rare occasion I've had a bad SATA cable or port cause all sorts of havoc.

If you swapped the RAM, tried all drive options and all the rest and still have this problem, I'd suspect a motherboard fail. It might be a bad onboard SATA controller or something.
 
Well the mint live cd only worked the one time, I couldn't get it back running the 2nd attempt. However, I have run memtest off a bootable cd and it ran several passes with no errors. Beside that I have swapped the memory for one of my 4gb mushkin sticks that is known to be error free also and that did not help.

When we have had the samsung 470 hooked up it has always been in AHCI mode, but I also tried with a western digital spindle drive and had the system in IDE mode at that point. I think the drive controller is fine, because it was able to load the bios flash properly off of the wd spindle drive and apply it. I will try resetting the cmos though for the heck of it. We are running the brand new sata cables that came with the motherboard but I will swap cables around also, thanks for the tips.
 
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