Windows 7 installation black screen on BOOTCAMP

RAM either the mix or quality

also, pull ram until installed and up

all I am saying is that what others learned the hard way thru trial and error, and even PCs, sometimes you need to reduce the total RAM.

I know OWC and I know that even two batches of RAM from Crucial sometimes don't 'play nice.'

Try it first, it isn't a waste of time.

And OWC RAM can have trouble. Or fail, which I see in Mac Pros using FBDIMMs regularly.

I know you don't trust me, but trust other people that have run into the same situation, which I am passing on to you.

Has nothing to do with OWC or that they are seated properly.

NO TWO DIMMS are 100% identical! Their DNA (electronic etching) will vary. Vary enough, and trouble. And a lot of PC users are in the habit on doing the install with reduced RAM and to always remove all add'l disk drives (not an issue, but it can be an issue to have USB and FW devices connected).

and sometimes you learn just by trying trial and error swapping parts, going by 'hunch' and hopefully learning from others.

There's no success like failure, or so they say sometimes.

My arm twisting - and I tend to give up early on hard to crack (my arm is still sore from all the twisting ;-)

Sometimes things even fall into a slot. Like leaving the patient open for surgery there is risk of contamination and infection.

So Windows is more prone and sensitive to issues, yes?

That is actually a good thing.

Maybe in the process it acted to reset the system management controller too (SMC).

Lesson for me anyway, don't take "no" for an answer.

Hey man, I ve got the same problem. I just put my MAC together. I tried all you suggested. I removed one of the RAMs I disconnected the computer from battery for some 5-10 minutes but still the same thing :-/

When I boot, from the DVD the screen goes black. However when I use rEFI and use one of the option to boot from DVD I can see "Windows is loading files" screen, it takes few seconds and than when the Windows animation is to come to the screen I can see just some glimps onf the windows colour on the top of the screen like max 2 pix (high) ... As if something was wrong with the GPU.

I am using MBP 13 2011 (Winter) 8GB RAM and Hyper X for main drive. What do you think?