Solved Freezing on splash screen

Steyr

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Hi all,

I'm building a HTPC and thought I would try Windows 8 on it. I downloaded the ISO and burnt it to a disk, but when I booted from that on the new PC (with a totally clean HDD and no existing OS) it would freeze on the splash screen - a black screen with the word "Windows" in white.

I tried the disk in my Win7 box and it seemed happy to run setup.exe that way, so I installed Win7 on the new HTPC and then installed Win8 over the top. It seemed to install ok, until it had to reboot. Now booting off the HDD with Win8 installed, it gave me the same problem as on the CD - hanging on the splash screen.

My system is built with the following hardware:
AMD A8-3870 (am using the onboard GPU - no additional graphics card)
ASRock A75 Pro4-M motherboard
8GB G.Skill DDR3 RAM
WD Green 1TB HDD (partitioned into 300GB/700GB for OS/Data)

Any suggestions on how to resolve this? I had a bit of a look through existing threads but there are so many "freeze" threads it's hard to find any that match my circumstances.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8 Release Preview
    CPU
    AMD A8-3870K
    Motherboard
    ASRock A75 Pro4-M
    Memory
    8GB G.Skill DDR3 1600
    Graphics Card(s)
    Onchip Radeon 6550D
    Sound Card
    Onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    32" Samsung LCD TV
    Hard Drives
    WD Caviar Green 1TB
    PSU
    Seasonic X-460 Fanless
    Case
    Lian Li C37
    Cooling
    Scythe Shuriken Rev B
    Keyboard
    Logitech bluetooth w/ trackpad
Solved!
I needed to update my ASRock motherboard drivers. The latest BIOS had some patches to support Win8.
I needed to reinstall from scratch again as my first install was broken when it couldn't reboot properly, but I have it all working now. Huzzah! =)
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8 Release Preview
    CPU
    AMD A8-3870K
    Motherboard
    ASRock A75 Pro4-M
    Memory
    8GB G.Skill DDR3 1600
    Graphics Card(s)
    Onchip Radeon 6550D
    Sound Card
    Onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    32" Samsung LCD TV
    Hard Drives
    WD Caviar Green 1TB
    PSU
    Seasonic X-460 Fanless
    Case
    Lian Li C37
    Cooling
    Scythe Shuriken Rev B
    Keyboard
    Logitech bluetooth w/ trackpad
Thanks for letting us know!
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win8.1Pro - Finally!!!
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Samsung/NP780
    CPU
    Came with the laptop (i7 of some sort)
    Motherboard
    Pretty sure that it has one, but haven't checked inside the case!
    Memory
    upgraded to 12 gB from 8 gB
    Graphics Card(s)
    has switchable - Intel/ATI - Used wrong drivers, now ATI card is inop :( Will have to fix it soon!
    Sound Card
    I'm nearly deaf, so this isn't used often
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Touchscreen on laptop/32" Toshiba on HDMI (laid the Sharp TV on a mouse and cracked the screen!)
    Screen Resolution
    800x600
    Hard Drives
    One Samsung 1tB drive - 5400 rpm. Gonna switch to a 7200/10000 rpm or an SSD (if I can find $500 for a 1tB SSD!)
    - Switched to 500 gB Samsung 840 series SSD - WOW!!!
    PSU
    Why do we ask this for laptops?
    Case
    Silver with a neat Samsung logo
    Cooling
    sub-par, gotta get around to working on it soon Worked on it - still sub-par! :(
    Keyboard
    Microsoft Natural - the same one I've used since it orignally came out around 1995
    Mouse
    no Mouse - Trackball!!!!
    Internet Speed
    too slow when I'm waiting for a download to finish
    Browser
    Yes, I use this (Firefox mostly, w/IE next most)
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender and Windows Firewall
    Other Info
    I'm handsome and a snappy dresser :0)
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