Issue with new system & in person RMA questions

[herulach]

Thouht this might be better with its own thread - I built up the components in the attached order the other day:

Asus M5a97 R2.0
FX 6300 Black Edition
8GB Vengeance LP
Gigabyte GTX 670 Windforce 3X
WD Green 1TB
BeQuiet Pure Power L8 530W.


The system posts fine, and I can get full navigation round the UEFI menus, however I can't get Windows 7 or 8 to install, nor can I get an Ubuntu Live USB install to boot. All 3 load fine on my (BIOS equipped) laptop.

So far I have tried the following:
Disabled Fast Boot
Set Secure Boot to 'Other OS'
Enabled Compatibility Support Module.

The images have all been tried on two separate memory sticks, over 4 ports (3 on the back and one front panel) and display more or less similar results. I get the loading screen (whirly dots for win8 or 2 status bars for win 7) and then they hang at a black screen with a cursor.

The win 7 install is a download delivery version, and the windows 8 one is the enterprise evaluation version available from the msdn site. Ubuntu is 13.04.

Since I can't get anything to boot I can't run memtest etc, which would be my normal course of action.

Am I missing any settings in the BIOS I need to check/uncheck? Or do I need to arrange RMA for some parts? If so is it possible to bring everything in for testing whilst I knock about (I only live 20 minutes away) rather than faff around with postage for individual items that may be fine?

[Mark@SCAN]

Hi,

Are you attempting to do a native UEFI Windows installation? or do you want to install the O/S's in legacy mode?

Regards

[herulach]

I've tried using both GPT (& fat 32) formatting and mbr + ntfs. Admittedly only for win 7.

I suspect the problem may be a setting somewhere, but I'm damned if I can find anything relevant I haven't tried.

[Oldjim]

First thought is disable secure boot
Whoops - sorry I didn't realise the thread was in here

[herulach]

First thought is disable secure boot
Whoops - sorry I didn't realise the thread was in here

I don't think there's any problem posting, but ive already done that, we'll, set it to 'other os' anyway which appears to be as off as you can get

[Mark@SCAN]

If you are trying to do a clean install of Windows 8 in a native UEFI environment, firstly ensure that your graphics card has a UEFI GOP compatible BIOS.

Download rufus to make a UEFI compatible USB stick with the Windows 8 ISO on it.

Disable the "CSM" option in the BIOS and leave the secure boot option as Windows NOT "other os"

There is a guide on this link, it's a slightly different board to yours (it's still ASUS) so most of the options are very similar.

Regards

[herulach]

If you are trying to do a clean install of Windows 8 in a native UEFI environment, firstly ensure that your graphics card has a UEFI GOP compatible BIOS.

Download rufus to make a UEFI compatible USB stick with the Windows 8 ISO on it.

Disable the "CSM" option in the BIOS and leave the secure boot option as Windows NOT "other os"

There is a guide on this link, it's a slightly different board to yours (it's still ASUS) so most of the options are very similar.

Regards

I'll check with secure boot set to windows tomorrow- can I assume a gtx670 will have a suitable BIOS?

[herulach]

Looks like I may not have a GOP compatible card - googling seems to suggest 670s wouldn't come with it. Trying now with RUfus using an MBR partition.

Edit 1: Woohoo - I'm presently expanding windows files. It still seems somewhat slow, but we'll see howe we go.

Edit 2 It lives! Errored out on the first try, swapped disks, no problem.

[Mark@SCAN]

I'm pretty sure that Gigabyte should be able to supply a GOP compatible VBIOS for your graphics card, however it may only be provided upon request.

This is a requirement of a proper UEFI secure boot Windows 8 install and will allow for features like fast boot (sub 5 seconds with an SSD) and other things see below link for more information:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../hh824898.aspx

Regards

[herulach]

I'll see if I can get hold of one, but I think I'm right in saying it would need to be updated from within windows. I'm going to run WD's disk checks tonight as win 7 installed quite happily to an old 2.5" drive (albeit very slowly 5400rpm is not fun when you're used to SSDs) but wasn't having any of it when connected. True Image can't read the original drive either.

[Mark@SCAN]

Some manufactures may provide the update as a bootable image so you can burn it back to a CD or put it on a USB stick and boot from it that way you don't already need to be in Windows to perform the update.

OR if you have access to another machine you could put it in that to do the update.

Please note however you will need to do a fresh install of Windows with CSM disabled and secure boot enabled once you have updated the card to UEFI GOP BIOS if you want to take advantage of all the features.

Regards