I had a 6910P running XP quite happily for years I tried to upgrade it to Windows 7 Home store bought upgrade discs.
Whilst it did take its time I eventually manged to have a working machine. It did stall and lock up after a few minuites of running- no BSOD though. I put it down to a DHCP issue with my antiquated DHCP device as apparently the protocol has changed a little and there are known issues. Fixing the IP addt overcaem this problem.
Point is I got to a working Windows 7 (32bit) system on the note book.
I now have a purpose for that notebook and decided to wipe it and start a fresh. But alas nothing has worked.
Using clean install discs for W7 Premium, Home and Ultimate, even the HP restore DVD that I think is the right one (571176-371). install fails and just stops all about the same place - the last reboot. Only course of action is to force power down.
I am only running 2G memory and mem checks are fine so that lack of Mem size could be an issue for the 64bit version but the 32bit version should surely load without issue.
BIOS version is F13, I have sanitised the HDD occasionaly to clean the HDD so no residual stuff
I have not had any warnings for mismatch of DVD, Software or the like all just went thru to lock up at the final install stages ("Making Registry Settings" or " Starting Services"
I doubt it is a raw hardware issue ie heat effects as the bios checks and disk sanitisation run for hours without a problem.
I even went to try the delete the Cache file and copy across the directory from known working machine however the C drive did not show any "normal" windows installation. ie Windows directory.
there have been no hardware changes or mods to the machine
Are ther any formal procedures to install Windows 7 (32 or 64) on the 6910P or critical preparation steps I am missing?
Much appreciate any help.
