Thank you so much! I was able to DM him there. Also, yeah, it was that conversation that convinced me to get the MSI motherboard, as well as having had fantastic success w/ MSI for decades. I still have a working KT3 Ultra and my other work PC is a Z97 MPower Max. The GPU in it failed after 8 years, so it was time to upgrade.
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Here is the error I get when CSM is enabled. Above 4g, resize bar, secure boot all disabled. Please someone tell me how to fix this.
Yeah, and I've tried it w/ one ram chip in the A2 slot, since I read somewhere that could be a problem.
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From the research I've done, this error affects people who have several gpus – people who do cryptomining or the like. I've not found issue related exactly like this, and I've been looking since June.
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I really don't care how the problem is solved at this point, and will even pay someone to solve it since this is eating into work. I'm indifferent to MBR/GPT – installing the OS on a new 2 TB WD Black would be fine. (They are phenomenal, btw – have 2 of them that are 10 years old: one is an OS drive and both still work flawlessly.)
glad to hear it.
I expect you can use larger than 2tb disk as long as it is gpt partition style.
keep us updated
Would you know off-hand how to install it GPT from CSM? Is that even possible? I doesn't make any difference – this is just more a convenience issue than a problem.
CSM is a bios feature. It is required for win7 in efi mode. CSM must be enabled in bios.
( there are workarounds for advanced users, but that is beyond the scope of this thread)
gpt is a partitioning style. Initialize the disk as gpt.
If using the regular windows setup from booted media:
Boot win7 installation media in efi mode to Install win7 in efi mode.
I haven't built a PC in 9 years, so it's a bit of a learning curve; lots of things changed that I was not familiar w/.
I did it when I was a kid, but that's getting to be a long time ago now.
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I'm sorry to keep bothering you, but I don't know what I am doing wrong. I integrated USB drivers into both boot.wim and install.wim, but the keyboard is not responsive – no error about not having drivers that I've seen in other examples, just ones that aren't working. I used intel(r)_usb_3.0_extensible_host_controller_driver_5.0.4.43_v2
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