I have been trying to do a clean install of Windows 7 SP1 on an old Dell Dimension 8400. Andromeda Shadow Plug In. It originally came with Windows XP.
I tried numerous times to do a clean install of Windows 7 SP1 and when it gets to the last part of the installation where it reboots it just goes into a reboot loop. I ran memtest 86 and it found no memory errors.
Jan 10, 2014 - To install Windows, restart the computer and then restart the installation.” Kernel Mode Driver Framework OSD error. It is most likely due to the fact that the base image is not updated with the latest Kernel Mode Driver a Framework, which currently is 1.11. You can download the hot fix separately here. This is great for the IT Professional until a driver is written to a specific version of the KMDF UMDF which your system may not currently support. This happened previously with Windows Vista and is now being seen on some Windows 7 systems that do not have the 1.11 version of KMDF and the 1.11 version of UMDF. Dell Enterprise and end user computing IT best practices and solutions: servers, storage, networking, virtualization, cloud computing, systems management, operating. Free kernel mode driver framework 1.11 download software at UpdateStar - The Windows Driver Foundation (WDF) is Microsoft's next-generation driver.
I then tried to reinstall WinXP. This worked fine. I also tried installing Windows Vista. This also worked. So I then got the idea to install Windows 7 RTM and update it to SP1 manually.
Windows 7 RTM installed fine and I spent a whole day downloading updates (good lord there are a lot of them!) leading up to the SP1 update. All of them installed fine until I got to the Kernel-Mode Driver Framework version 1.11 update. This one kept failing and it would not let me install SP1 without this update. I tried several solutions to get it to install and I believe at one point I finally got it to install this update but when it rebooted it went into a reboot loop like it had done with the clean install of SP1, so I had to boot into the recover console and restore from a previous restore point. So, I'm pretty sure the Kernel-Mode Driver Framework version 1.11 is the issue. I've installed Win7 on hundreds of older machines and have never encountered this issue until now. I feel like it must be a driver issue with some specific component but I'm not sure what.
