Unibeast Lion Frozen at Loading Operating System Screen

[plexguy]

Hi,

Got my box together with following:
Gigabyte GA Z68X UD3H-B3 @ Bios F10
i7 2600k - running at base (no OC)
16GB Corsair 1600 (only single stick 4GB Installed)
H60 Cooler
EVGA 560Ti GPU
1TB Hitachi Sata
Sony Optriac DVD

- Loaded Optimal Defaults and Set my BIOS to SMART Enabled, ACHI and HPET to 64-Bit
- Made the Unibeast USB as per tonymac's method (on Kingston DataTraveler 8GB)
- Set my USB HDD as priority and boot

I get Loading Operating System screen and it freezes and sits there. After few tries I got as far as it trying to load (same screen) but I saw the . . . (dots) progressing but it froze again after 20seconds. It won't load any Chimera screen or anything.

What's going on? My USB I was able to mount on a mac and I saw the Install Lion File in there. Any ideas please?
Thanks
PG

 

[plexguy]

NVM. Figured it out.

It was the USB connector on the board.

Thanks

 

[zeltacom]

So is it working now?

 

[plexguy]

Yes it is. One of the ports on the Board doesn't like that it boots from.
Thanks

 

[thetrystero]

@plexguy, can you please shed more info on how you resolved this? i have a ga h61m-s2v-b3 and am encountering the same problem. how did you troubleshoot this? is there a systematic way or did you just try plugging in the usb stick in to each an every usb port until it finally worked?

 

[commanderkeen08]

I was also getting this error with the same board and an i5. Strange because I managed to boot and install Lion but on the first restart I got this Loading Operating System hang. I just tried another USB port and it went through.

 

[thetrystero]

Turns out my kingston usb stick was corrupt. Reinstalles using a transcent usb and it worked great.