Hello, first of all let me say thanks for the help. My problem has been going on for months to the point where I have no idea what to do now. I have a computer where I thought the RAM or HDD was damaged or messed up and whenever I would fresh install Win7 from a formatted HDD that it was get corrupted in a min and get stuck at keep going to startup repair everytime. I did memory diagnostic on the RAM and there was no problems. Then I did a chkdsk and it said there was no problem, but the problem still acted up. Then I took another HDD from a computer that was working and switched it out then I got the same problem again. Then I put back the old HDD and switched out the RAM from another computer and tried it. Same problem. Then I switched both, so there was a different HDD and RAM and when i reinstalled Win7, the problem occured when I restarted comp. I have done everything from resetting the BIOS from the battery. I don't know what else to do now. I can't go into safe mode either.
also one quick thing I noticed is when I try to install win7 back on the machine, it takes forever to initialize it. When I go to click install windows and it say 'setup is starting' or something like that, it sits there and hangs for about 5-10 min before I go to the next step.
If you've tested & checked the hard drive, and RAM for errors, and they're coming back clean, then I might think there is something wrong with your copy of WINDOWS. You might want to format that hard drive fully using another machine, and attempt to do a fresh install again. Where did you get this version of WINDOWS, is it a retail copy, OEM copy (CD that came with purchase of new PC?) or a downloaded copy?
Also could be a bios setting or something such as ddp said. How old is the motherboard, make/model/specs? Your bios will tell you CPU temps, memory available/detected, hard drive detected, etc... you need to look there first to see if something isn't right.
You could also clear the cmos on the motherboard, then try to do a fresh install. Remove the battery from the motherboard, wait 5 or so minutes, then replace, or you can move a jumper around, you will probably need your M/B manual to determine which jumper needs to be move to clear the cmos (google it if you don't know what that is).
