2 out of 3 successful

Pipepro said:

First 2 installs went off without a hitch 3rd is proving to be a pain in the neck. I am up to 8 attempts after doing various things like using the tweaking.coms All-in-one repair tool, Anti-virus scans which did produce some malware. On the first 6 tries I would get to 32% of features and drivers before crashing and restoring old OS which is Windows 7. I got to 68% on the 7th try, same results. On the 8th try I made it all the way to configuration and crash. Because I experienced the same screen flash I determined it has to be the onboard Intel graphics drivers (Gateway All-in-one with touchscreen). No updates available so I guess I will have to wait. I have read everything I can, it seems drivers are at the root of many failures especially Asus , AMD based, Nvidia graphics, now add Intel graphics to the list.

Are you upgrading? or clean installing?

My advice, clean install Windows 7, then upgrade. Or do a factory reset, etc. It sucks but if its full of malware it can cause all kinds of issues on an upgrade. Or if it has corrupted system files as the result of removing malware. Backup what files you don't want to lose first.

alphanumeric said:

My advice, clean install Windows 7, then upgrade. Or do a factory reset, etc. It sucks but if its full of malware it can cause all kinds of issues on an upgrade. Or if it has corrupted system files as the result of removing malware. Backup what files you don't want to lose first.

I was just about to say to do a reset but I don't know if he's upgrading or doing a clean install.

For me, graphics drivers were upgraded/installed after logging in the first time. On my laptop, after I log in for the first time, my screen flashes, I here the beeps for new hardware detected, and the get a ccc requires your attention. On my desktop, when I log in, only the one monitor works at low resolution., then the NVidia drivers are updated and all three work.