Help with install & build

gregrocker said:

Or try the Vista drivers if there are no Win7.

I moved the win 7 drivers to the USB stick and ran the install. Hit load drivers, then browsed for the USB drive. Windows comes back and says there are no drivers found.



I am currently using FDISK (god its been ages since I used this) to format the HDD in the new machine with a DOS system partition to see if it will boot. If it will boot, I would GUESS that we could rule out a Hardware problem and we can probably point the culprit at incompatible windows 7 drivers on the motherboard.

You guys agree?

I dont have a copy of XP laying around to install... What I would really like to do is install XP, upgrade the drivers on the MB, then wipe the drive and install Win 7. Does this sound like a good plan at this point?

You say you are formatting HD in "new machine." Is this another computer? It would be interesting to see if Win7 will install to that HD (or any other, for that matter) in another computer.

You don't need to do more than delete and format using the installer to start. See if it will install and run, then swap the HD back into problem machine to see if it will start up, swap drivers (requiring restarts) and run as has worked here many times with these tough cases.

DocBrown said:

On your MB Cd are the drivers extracted into various files or are they .exe install programs ?

.exe install files... everyone of them

DocBrown said:

For the time being, do you have any other windows OS that could be installed just to see if they would install ? win98, XP, Vista ? I just find it hard to believe that the 1.5 yr old Biostar board can't accept win7. This box I am on right now is an ECS MB from Oct 2006, Bios never updated. It has had every Beta build of win7 on it since summer of 2008 ! Never had to use a MB driver disc on it.

I installed DOS on a USB drive and booted off the USB drive. For the past 2 hours, I have been trying to install this version of DOS onto the HDD and boot successfully. I have been unable to.

I used a FDISK and FORMAT /s command to try and get that to work on the HDD. This does work successfully, but on reboot I get an error after POST is finished.

My last idea was to use Partition Wizard to copy the partition off the USB key to the HDD. I then used PW to verify that the partition was copied and the bootable files were on the HDD... Rebooted the machine and got the same error after POST finished.

What does it mean if I cant even get DOS to install and boot from the machine? Is it possible I got two bad HDD's (what are the chances of that?) OR, am I doing something wrong? FORMAT D: /S was the command I used. The USB is listed as C: when I boot from it.

I dont have another OS to install (besides DOS)... I am trying to find someone who has Vista (as it has a trial period). This may take several days, but I am more concerned at the fact that DOS wont boot from the HDD.

Does this add any more new clues?

Failed to boot count now: Win 7 x64 pro, Win 7 x32 home, Win 7 x64 Enterprise, DOS (from win 98 drivers)

As stated, you need to extract your mobo drivers to USB stick or CD to have them be picked up by Win7 installer at Load Drivers link. An .exe file will not be read by installer.

Did you use the given standard methods to write ISO to flash stick?

Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool
USB Windows 7 Installation Key Drive - Create
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srOoGhm-jcI

gregrocker said:

You say you are formatting HD in "new machine." Is this another computer? It would be interesting to see if Win7 will install to that HD (or any other, for that matter) in another computer.

new machine = the machine I built (the problem child). I only have two machines, this laptop and the new one.

gregrocker said:

You don't need to do more than delete and format using the installer to start. See if it will install and run, then swap the HD back into problem machine to see if it will start up, swap drivers (requiring restarts) and run as has worked here many times with these tough cases.

I am going to see if I can talk our vendor into trying this for me. I have a good personal relationship with them, and it shouldn't take more than half hour 45 mins to install win 7 on my HDD (using their machine) to see if it will boot. Then I will take that HDD home and see if I can boot from it.

You guys seem to insist that I use a machine with the same # of cores. Is there anything else I need to be worried about? My machine is AMD.. the work machines will be Intel. Is that a problem?

gregrocker said:

As stated, you need to extract your mobo drivers to USB stick or CD to have them be picked up by Win7 installer at Load Drivers link.


Did you use the given standard methods to write ISO to flash stick?

the mobo drivers are all setup.exe files... Win 7 gives an error saying it finds no signed drivers when I attempt to browse to the location of the drivers.

Yes, I used the Windows usb/dvd tool to format the usb drive and create the bootable image on the usb disk. Using the tools and procedures described in the FAQ on this board.

TJ1376 said:

the mobo drivers are all setup.exe files... Win 7 gives an error saying it finds no signed drivers when I attempt to browse to the location of the drivers.

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Those setup files need to be extracted and then copied over to stick/CD to be detected and picked up by Installer. Note location they are extracted to.

Jacee said:

This version needs to be installed using the system builder kit .... you've done that?

Huh? I just pop in the DVD and it does the rest. It DOES install successfully... It just fails to boot afterwords.