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Well I'm back.
I got the Asrock board installed. I don't think I annihilated anything in the process.
I'm 99% sure my SATA DVD is fried. The giga BIOS and this BIOS will not boot to it.
I'm using my friends USB DVD.
I did the suggestions in the tutorial for aligning / optimizing SSDs but when I go to install I get "a required CD/DVD device driver is missing'.
The last time this happened to me I burned a new ISO and installed successfully (my laptop). However, this time I'm using an actual retail upgrade Win7 pro disc.
Boot is USB DVD then SSD (not uefi). The BIOS sees the SSD and Win did see it when I shift f10'd and did the clean/partition/format/active dance.
The SSD had to be switched to AHCI in the BIOS.
I do not see any place to see the boot to legacy only but in the boot order the SSD and DVD are not UEFI.
WTH. Do I need to extract the AHCI drivers to a USB and try that?
EDIT: I did not think about changing the BIOS to AHCI until I started to install windows. So the clean/partition thing was done while the BIOS was set to IDE for the SSD. I don't know if that makes a difference or not.