

sys files setup proceeds as normal and I don't get to see anything extra apart from the standard "setup is starting" message so this isn't very helpful.

I have also tried starting setup in safe mode, as this is another suggestion people had, but unfortunately after loading all of the. BIOS version is 08CI and there is a later version available on the Samsung website: Laptop doesn't have a FDD and there seems to be no option for one in the BIOS anywhere - this seems to be a common solution to this problem that I have found after searching. I've tried this and none of it seems to work. I stopped it before and checked t see if it was just stuck but it was working. I have done that but it has been almost 1 complete day and stiil it is checking. I have tried this from both USB and CD, and after an hour or so setup is still in this state in both cases.įound this thread: where various people suggest disabling various things in the BIOS. After an upgrade from XP, Vista will not load so I am prompted to boot up from the disk and to perform a startup repair. Got a Samsung NP-R519 laptop here, when running Windows 7 setup it hangs at the "Setup is starting" screen with the Windows 7 home edition background (right after simply selecting the language).
