No display installing Wn 7 home premium on T400

Bought a refurb T400 and installed a PNY SSD in it. It POST's okay and I can access bios. I can also read/install Linux from DVD just fine.
Trouble is when I insert my win7 home premium DVD into the drive and boot it, I get POST and then I get a black screen. It seems to be reading the drive and when I interrupt with the Esc key or open the DVD drive, I get a Windows menu explaining that the installation has been interrupted.
I've looked at the bios options and can't see anything obvious that should be changed.
Any clues?
Thanks.
Mark
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Hi Mark,
try cleaning your Window 7 Home Premium DVD. You mention your T400 can read/ load a Linux DVD just fine. So it sounds like a simple read error/ scratches on your Windows DVD and Windows setup is hanging/ getting stuck trying to read/ load the disc. Have you successfully loaded WIndows from this DVD before? If so, then it simply sounds like a worn disc. Download/ burn another copy of Windows 7 Home Premium and you should be OK. You will need a valid Windows 7 license key to activate. See my long post here for some useful info. about the different Windows 7 versions and activation: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Windows-7-Discussion/Win-7-Product-key-not-working/m-p/1024331#M11851
Official Windows 7 SP1 ISO Image Downloads (directly from Microsoft website): http://www.w7forums.com/threads/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-image-downloads.12325/
If you have 3GB or more RAM in that T400, go right for the 64-bit version of Windows. As explained in long post mentioned above, the same Windows 7 key can activate either 32-bit or 64-bit version, so do your Windows setup correctly the first time. By the way, when installing Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (service Pack 1) it is best to leave BIOS SATA setting on "AHCI."
Have a great day. (I do not work for Lenovo)

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