Problems installing operating system from restore disks

Greetings all,
I recently had to change out the motherboard on my TECRA A11-S3540 due to a spill on the keyboard.  The laptop worked OK afterwards for a week or so.  It started hanging on bootup and continually got worse until it would only boot up in safe mode and then hang up at mup.sys.
I assumed the replacement motherboard was bad so bought and installed yet another one.  Afterwards, I had the same problems as with the 1st replacement motherboard.  I then turned my attention to the hard drive.
I removed the hard drive from the Tecra and then attached it via a SATA-USB converter to another PC so that I could run chkdisk on it.  There were not errors reported.  I then reformatted and repartitioned the drive and reinstalled it.
Now when I try to install the operating system (windows 7) with my restore disks, it seems to load information into the RAM, but hangs forever with the windows logo on the screen and the text "starting windows".
The motherboard has the latest bios, and indentifies the hard drive correctly.  I am at a total loss and really need help on this...

Tecra A11-S3540 
when I try .. with my restore disks, it .. hangs forever
We've seen occasional problems restoring to a drive with advanced-format technology.
Check into that.
-Jerry

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