I can't get past the black screen. None of the safe mode work either it says that it has to start in regular mode. Tried with keyboard, mouse(ps2), ethernet cable, and speaker. Then tried it with keyboard only. Nothing seems to satisfy that little bugger. I put the mouse on usb port and my hard drive started to spin(installing i guess) and then nothing... Clean install without formating; windows did't ask to format. Win didn't either ask for a license number.

Clean install without formating; windows did't ask to format. Win didn't either ask for a license number. Dunno how that happened. I doubt it ever installed. Reburn the disk at the LOWEST speed from iso image and try again. W7 does not like overburn. "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10

What are the specs of your computer?

P4 HT 3 gig ASRock P4i65G,i know it's not the best but that's the only mobo i could put my hands on since i broke my Asus. AGP is kinda har to find these days. 1gig Ram Corsair Dual 400mhz Onboard Lan Onboard sound Vidcard is Nvidia GForce 7950GT AGP,aperture to 128, i resized it from 256 since it's a 512 mb Ram Everything stock, no overclocking.

Read My reply to your other post about installation. Maybe if you create your disc the way I did, it'll work right. My hardware is: ECS Elitegroup P4M800 Pro mother board Install was with 1 gig ram but I have since upgraded to two gigs 3gig Celeron D processor ATI Radeon 9200 AGP with 128 ram Graphics are a bit of an issue for games, but I think it's because of ram too low on video card, but my install was before I bought the card and performance didn't change with new card. The trouble I have is, no recognition of the card other than "Generic plug and play vga card." I had this problem with to separate AGP cards. Could be that AGP just isn't adequate for 7 (I call it Mojave rev. 2). If I was to commit to 7 after public release I would certainly upgrade entire system, but hardware isn't a big issue for now and it certainly didn't affect my install.

I was able to install win7 with the help of Sun Virtual box. Everything went great until it was time to install sound card drivers and on board broadband card. Someone wrote to install Vista drivers since win7 is like Vista based.....then it hit me....my old AGP motherboard is not Vista compatible. Looks like the problem took care of itself. Thanks eveyone for all your help. Now if i have the guts i'll install dual boot on my other machine, more recent and Vista compatible.