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Cannot complete installation of W7 with M/B 990FXA-GD80
Hello
I have read this thread about same problem:
Still Cant Complete Install, new build (Stripped to essentials) :'(
The guy there has exactly same board. I read and followed the steps which helped him, but for me it did not help. There is Click BIOS II on the board from MSI. UEFI should be updated because there is graphical software which is not in the manual (in manual book there is different screen than I have). The manual is very short and does not say anything how to install W7 Home Premium with this board.
First of all I want to say, I can install Windows XP SP3 without problem and M/B does not look to be faulty. It looks perfectly fine. I tried to install W7 and W8 and both experienced same problems. I even installed Linux Magaia 4.1 x86 64bit to test. W7 and W8 restarts to finish installation, but they will never complete because it restarts suddenly. Looks like they restarted when they tried to load some driver or server. Magaia has different instalator, which succeeds to install Magaia, but after it is installed you have to restart PC. During start of system it will also restart sudenly, but I found I can start the PC with linux when I choose different settings for grub boot manager. So I choosed no ACPI and got there. I logged and started KDE (windows). Then I found that if I disable APIC on the start of linux, NO RESTARTED HAPPENED. So I solved this issue on linux and I believe this could be some evidence to help me to solve the problem with instalation of Windows 7. I followed the steps adviced at the thread linked above. So after the installer first time restarted, I went to save mode (shift+F8) and they wait to load the windows environment. When the message saying "Cannot install Windows 7 in safe mode" appeared I pressed shift+f10 and got the command line window opened. I typed "compmgmtlauncher" and the manager opened. I disabled all devices which had the yellow exclamation and restarted PC but the problem stayed, so it restarted when the installation should be completed.
Do you have any advices how to complete the installation? I read something about APIC and interruption controller. Some guys (many year ago) solving some problem and advicing to turn of plug n play in BIOS. Note: I did not find any option to turn of APIC in the BIOS or in the Device Manager.
I can add logs, but not sure if they are what you need.