Black Screen while installing Windows 7 with BootCamp

Hello all,
I try to install windows 7 by using Boot Camp but when I restart my computer for Win7 Reboot, there is black screen with no activity. I waited maybe 20 minutes but no any process. Even I could not see the Win7 boot animation. Only black screen. Could you help me ?
Thanks in advance

It is good to see that it is indeed a USB2.
The support software on the USB is used in the Pre-boot environment setup and provides drivers for Apple specific hardware, GPU, BT, Mouse, etc. You can verify that by looking at the USB contents. The DVD contains generic drivers when hardware is not recognized as defaults to use. Apple does enough 'secret sauce' to make them different. The following does not explicitly state the USB2 need when using the DVD Installer and mentions W8 (not W7).
From Boot Camp: Creating an ISO image from a Windows installation DVD - Apple Support
Insert a blank USB 2 flash drive that is a least 16GB in size into a USB port on the computer. Boot Camp Assistant uses this drive to store the Windows 8 install media and support drivers during installation of Windows.
Note: This flash drive needs to be formatted for the FAT32 file system and must use the Master Boot Record partitioning scheme. Use Disk Utility to check the format of the flash drive before proceeding, and partition or erase the flash drive if necessary.
I suspect the GPU is not getting the correct driver and the Installer fails. The Generic VGA should work. From the OS X side, can you see files in your BC volume? If yes, can you look for logs in the BC volume at the following locations.
./Windows/Inf/setupapi.dev.log
./Windows/Inf/setupapi.offline.log
./Windows/Inf/setupapi.setup.log
./Windows/Logs/SetupCleanupTask/setupact.log
./Windows/Logs/SetupCleanupTask/setuperr.log
./Windows/Panther/FastCleanup/setupact.log
./Windows/Panther/FastCleanup/setuperr.log
./Windows/Panther/setupact.log
./Windows/Panther/setuperr.log
./Windows/Panther/UnattendGC/setupact.log
./Windows/Panther/UnattendGC/setuperr.log
./Windows/setupact.log
./Windows/setuperr.log
./Windows/System32/Sysprep/Panther/IE/setupact.log
./Windows/System32/Sysprep/Panther/IE/setuperr.log

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