Cannot complete installation of W7 with M/B 990FXA-GD80

[termit]

Hello

I have read this thread about same problem:
http://www.sevenforums.com/installa...te-install-new-build-stripped-essentials.html
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.

 

[gregrocker]

Can you run the installer from XP to complete install?

You do not want to have anything on the drive, especially GRUB, to get the cleanest possible slate for install. So after booting from the installer be sure to delete all partitions during install, create and format New as desired, or just click Next to let the installer do it for you. Pictures here: Clean Install Windows 7

Try entering Device Manager - Access During Windows 7 Installation to disable erroring drivers shown by a ! to see if install will complete so these can be updated from desktop.

Otherwise Troubleshoot Windows 7 Installation Failures - Windows 7 Help Forums
which overcome all installations failure, unless your mobo is one of the very few that are not at all compatible.

 

[termit]

Yes, I can install Windows XP any time without problem and the installer will complete without problem.

I followed the steps exactly how you said.

 

[gregrocker]

What steps did you follow? If you even read the troubleshooting steps you would have posted back by now the exact failure step and behavior as it requests. Did you miss that?

Exactly how was disk wiped?

Did you get the installation media?

 

[termit]

Yes but I could not follow the steps from command line. You did not write from which directory should I start DISKPART. Also man, I do not remember every message, but as far as I remember the path where I was when I hit shift+F10 was c:\services or something like that. Because of that I did manual installation, cleaned partitions, created new. I could not follow "no ESP" tutorial because it does not work for me. So I always have the ESP there. It's also not clear for me how to disable UEFI. I think it is not possible to do that in my BIOS.


And I still believe there is conflict with ACPI devices ACPI/PNP0200 (DMA controller), and ACPI/PNP0A08 and ACPI/PNP0103. Because their addresses of resources are in conflict. Windows XP does not have conflict with them simply because Windows XP does not install
ACPI/PNP0A08 and ACPI/PNP0103 as I did not find them in Device manager of Windows XP, but in Device Manager of W7 yes. I also would like to disable them or uninstall, but it is not possible. I tried to uninstall them but they are back after restart.

Thanks for your advice.

 

[gregrocker]

Of all the thousands of people we have helped run Diskpart commands here, not one has ever had a problem with it opening to the wrong directory when run as it must be from Win7 installation disk Command Line. And you could have easily asked back if you were the first.

Now start at the top of the tutorials you ignored now and ask for any help needed in completing each step, which always leads to the solution. Those who make the effort will never fail. We will not allow them to fail. But you must do the work

 

[termit]

I followed all steps. I did exactly same steps as described by your first link Clean install. Then I restarted PC, booted to safe mode, pressed shift+F10, typed compmgmtlauncher, waited, clicked on Device manager and disabled all devices which have exclamation mark in yellow triangle. I restarted PC, select start Windows normally and then it restarted before the system was fully loaded.

Next time I installed using AHCI and same steps and same problem.



In the last link there is:

6. At first installer screen Press Shift + F10, or enter System Recovery Options to open a Command Box, type:

DISKPART


I booted from installation DVD Windows 7 Home Premium. What is the "first installer screen" is it the blue page with "Install now (>)" button? This is the page where I was when I pressed shift+F10.

PS: I did not ignored the tutorials

 

[gregrocker]

Try again. If you can't access it via Shift+F10 then enter System Recovery Options.

Wiping the disk is the #1 solution to these failures. If you can't use Diskpart then download Seagate Seatools
and burn to CD using Windows Image Burner. First run a full disk test of your hard drive, if it passes wipe the hard drive from Seatools. But you need to test your hard drive anyway.

 

[termit]

I have run diskpart and finished the steps to clean disk. Created and activated the partition. Started install, reset, reboot, safe mode, shift+F10. compmgmtlauchner, disabled problematic devices. PC still auto-restarts during Windows 7 loading drivers. AHCI or IDE mode no help. Disk is 100% good and no problems with it. I also tried to install the W7 on different disk 500GB SATA II.

How you can find out what causes the problem. There must be logs which a pro would read and find out the problem. However I told you already, there are conflicts in devices with ACPI APIC (id=acpiapic) but you ignore this important message.

 

[gregrocker]

Now that the basics were covered we will look at other possibilities.

What are the ACPI power settings in BIOS?

Is there no disable for those in Dev Mgr?

 

[termit]

"What are the ACPI power settings in BIOS?"
The only settings for ACPI is mode S1/S2 ... not possible to disable it in BIOS.

Not possible to disable APIC in BIOS.

"Is there no disable for those in Dev Mgr?"
There is no possiblility to disable ACPI in Dev Mgr in Windows 7, no possiblility to disable ACPI APIC in Dev Mgr in Windows 7.

I reconcile W7 has no solution for this. I will buy new board and this one I will use only for Windows XP. However, if you have any idea how to fix the problems, it will be welcome.

 

[gregrocker]

Can you Google or post back the exact error message that clued you to the ACPI issue? This is how to find how others have resolved an obscure problem like this. If not an error message then what tells you this is the problem.

Is it possible this is a UEFI BIOS which might allow an install to wiped drive when booting the installation media as a UEFI device? Any settings in BIOS for UEFI, CSM, Legacy BIOS etc? How about Secure Boot? You mentioned possible BIOS update but did you check for one?

I'd also asked you if you can run the Win7 installation media from XP and what happens. I'd also run the Win7 Upgrade advisor from XP as it may provide solutions or warnings. This is worth reinstalling XP.

We do not give up so you shouldn't either. The solution may be a bit more elusive than most but where there is cooperation there is normally a solution

 

[termit]

Is it possible to make screenshot in safe mode? And how to save it to image file?
There was not error, but 1) the issue with linux: I turned the ACPI APIC off and this solved the problem with linux 2) In windows 7 Device Manager I have seen the failtures in Resources addresses of the devices. On one system device (unknown) these is conflict with ACPI APIC (id=acpiapic).

I will reply soon to the rest of your questions

edit1 - Good idea to try install from Windows XP. I never tried. What SP do I need to start such install?

edit2 - Is it possible this is a UEFI BIOS which might allow an install to wiped drive when booting the installation media as a UEFI device?
I am not sure if I understand this question. "booting the installation media as a UEFI device" - I did not heard about this. How could you boot from DVD pretending it to be UEFI? I dont understand how this could work.


"Any settings in BIOS for UEFI, CSM, Legacy BIOS etc?"
Definitely no :-( It is UEFI BIOS from MSI, I heard more ppl criticize this BIOS having too few options. This is the "modern BIOS".

"How about Secure Boot? "
I cannot boot with Secure Boot, I would need to install database with keys. I have no idea how to do it, where to find the db files. I believe they are payed.

"You mentioned possible BIOS update but did you check for one?"
This is too dangerous. If something went wrong, I could not start PC at all. I could do it from M-flash in BIOS, but I do not dare to do it. It could solve the problem, but currenly my plan is to buy new board from Asus, sell my PC with the new board and then buy new PC where I will use this 990fxa-GD80 board for Windows XP only. I wanted to install W7 because I want to sell my PC and to buy new one. I personally do not need W7, I need XP for programming. So I wanted to use W7 to show to the buyer that everything is fine.

edit 3 - "I'd also run the Win7 Upgrade advisor from XP as it may provide solutions or warnings."
Is this program on Win7 DVD or I must download it?

 

[gregrocker]

Use a camera or phone to take pics of BIOS settings. Attach using paper clip in reply box.

XP SP 3.

FOR UEFI installation the disk Must be booted as a UEFI device, or flash stick installer must be specially formatted. The latest UEFI firmware must be installed. See http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...e-firmware-interface-install-windows-7-a.html.

This is made clear in the Troubleshooting Installstion Failures tutorial I posted in my first install which you claimed to have read. Why don't you start on it now? I have zero tolerance for those who will lot do the work while insisting they have.

Go back to the top of the thread and complete every single step without
Missing a single step. You have not even completed the basics yet so the idea the issue lacks a solution is absurd.

 

[termit]

I have solved the problem was with power supply. The power supply is good but has only 1x4 pin connector to board which has 2x8pin connector and it is unstable when running FX 8300 with only once ATX CPU connector. Thanks for feedback