Black Screen on Windows 7 installation

The issue is INSTALLING WINDOWS-7 FROM the BOOTCAMP PROCESS.
When it comes time to install WINDOWS...I get a black screen.
Now I am wondering if this is an OEM disk, even though I have the same windows-7 OS installed in virtualbox on this machine......
COuld this be it? What a cluster yes?
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I just got back from my Genius Bar.
I was having Kernal panics anyway so I thought I would just stop by and have everything checked out.
The issue of the black screen: we plugged in the Mac mini to their peripherals and hooked up a superdrive and booted my alleged OEM disk NO  PROBLEM. as a matter of fact my jaw dropped opened when we plugged in my superdrive and the windows installation screen appeared. NO BLACK SCREEN. The genius said it could have been not enough power from the bus to run the superdrive; like a signal thing going on. At any rate, it wasnt the superdrive and it wasnt an alleged OEM disk. when I get it back I will try to install boot camp and start dancing.
I have had the Mac mini for less than a month and the HARD DRIVE has failed. WOW! So it apperas that and i will see thursday, since I have TIME MACHINE on a 1 TB drive, restoring my system will be nothing like a similar fiasco on a WINDOWS system. My Mac book pro system arrives tommorow. Lets see if i can mouse that up!

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