I have a HP Media Center m7470n Desktop PC. I needed to reformat the drive and put the OS on from scratch. I tried it with an OEM CD and it seems to load all of the setup files but stalls out at the 'setup is starting windows' screen.

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I contacted HP and they claim there are no SATA/RAID drivers needed but when a machine stalls at that screen during setup that's what it seems like to me.

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I even caved in and bought a restore CD from HP... on running that CD, it creates the 'Recovery Partition' fine... then it installs the OS off of that recovery partition. When it gets to a certain point in the installation it stalls out. (I let it run over night to be sure it was frozen).

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Things I've tried... MEMTEST (OK after 5 passes)... Multiple CD's (HP recovery CD and 2 OEM CD's)... even a NEW hard drive. The install stops at the same point with the new hard drive in it as well.
PLEASE HELP ME! I've chatted with HP 3 times and they are useless at this point, trying to sell me a brand new machine.