Anyways, after unchecking all of the startup items and services and adding them back in, rebooting a zillion times, I found that I could break the cycle of booting and restarting. Why do people think computers are productivity tools? I don't get it. UPDATE: I got it to work after 5 hours of messing with it. I have applied the Intel matrix storage manager updates (didn't apply to my machine), and Intel chipset software updates listed at the Dell Driver site (for Win 7 x86).If I go to safe mode and assign the Win 7 drivers from nVidia (NVS 290), instead of Windows rebooting after the Windows 7 startup, I get a blue screen with the message 'Driver is mismanaging system PTEs'.I have swapped out the videocard to a totally different older video card.I have already applied the A08 BIOS patch.Question: Do you have two T3400 machines (one which is stuck in this behavior (with the A08 BIOS) and one newer T3400 (with the A09 BIOS) which you successfully upgraded to Windows 7 RTM)? Here's what I have done/tried/noticed: Right after that occurs, the system restarts, endlessly looping. When Windows 7 is booting, the desktop and taskbar appear, and Windows appears to be setting up Internet preferences, desktop, themes, etc. I installed Windows 7 Ultimate RTM (x86).

Help!ĪngelosL (and all), I also have a Dell Precision T3400. How do I go about resolving this? This is a standard config T3400 and I can't believe that I would be the only user to experience these issues. I have now reinstalled the RC, and it's working fine! It's the RTM that is driving me nuts.obviously there is some kind of driver incompatiblity here. Have also tried manually adding Intel ICH9 drivers through setup, but it wouldn't take (driver could not be installed.). I've tried installing on just one HDD (with no RAID), disabling RAID, doing RAID0, RAID1, RAID10.nothing helps. Going into Safe Mode doesn't help, as Windows says 'Setup cannot be completed in Safe Mode'. Once I upgraded to RTM, however, things got good - right after the 'Starting Windows' splash screen after installation, the computer reboots (and keeps doing so, until I do something to stop it). I'm running the T3400 in a factory-configured RAID10 setup with an Intel ICH9R controller on the motherboard. Dell also lists the Precision T3400 as compatible with Windows 7 on its support site, and claims that there are no additional drivers needed (all are available in Win 7). Ok, so I decided to go from the RC to the RTM.all my experiences with Win 7 have been spectacular.

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