Well, Im going through all my systems, and now I am working on this little heathen.
I bought this on the MM a fair while back, and I never was able to get it to run very well when I got it back then, but I fancy giving it another shot, and I am already hitting a brick wall!
Firstly, I have just bought a new SSD to plop Windows onto it. I have Vista Licences spare and since the PC is never used, that will do fine just to get it into a "Working State", and so that is what I started off with, but just to try different things, I have tried putting 7, 8, 8.1, and even 10 ( all in 64Bit versions - I dont waste my time with 32Bit ) and similarly, I have also triued a couple of variations of Linux in one form or another.
I use Flash Disks to install, and I have all versions of Windows on each of these, and also a couple of Linux setups too, but none of them work with this board.
In saying that, I did at one point, get the Windows 8.1 Setup to boot, but then it got to the point where it was going to install Windows, but, it failed to find any Hard Disks ( They show up in the BIOS just fine ).
I have also tried a number of the different USB ports and these dont seem to make any difference either!!??
Ok, so lets forget about the USB ports... Lets dig out a DVD Drive.
I have just done a few PCs like I said, and so, I am of course trying the very same installation media that I know works fine, and, just to test out a DVD that I have just burned, I used that disk to install W7 onto one of the others and so I grabbed that since I know it works, and that too did the very same thing?
Another thought, was to do the old Windows 98 trick, or doing the first stage of an install onto one PC that does do ewverything right, and then finish off the install in the iffy PC and that worked but then that too stopped for some reason?
I am completely at a loss... I dotn want to assume the board is wrecked, that would be such a shame, and the only thing I can think of right now, is to use a PCI SATA Card!!! - that I will be doing later on.
Any thoughts?
I bought this on the MM a fair while back, and I never was able to get it to run very well when I got it back then, but I fancy giving it another shot, and I am already hitting a brick wall!
Firstly, I have just bought a new SSD to plop Windows onto it. I have Vista Licences spare and since the PC is never used, that will do fine just to get it into a "Working State", and so that is what I started off with, but just to try different things, I have tried putting 7, 8, 8.1, and even 10 ( all in 64Bit versions - I dont waste my time with 32Bit ) and similarly, I have also triued a couple of variations of Linux in one form or another.
I use Flash Disks to install, and I have all versions of Windows on each of these, and also a couple of Linux setups too, but none of them work with this board.
In saying that, I did at one point, get the Windows 8.1 Setup to boot, but then it got to the point where it was going to install Windows, but, it failed to find any Hard Disks ( They show up in the BIOS just fine ).
I have also tried a number of the different USB ports and these dont seem to make any difference either!!??
Ok, so lets forget about the USB ports... Lets dig out a DVD Drive.
I have just done a few PCs like I said, and so, I am of course trying the very same installation media that I know works fine, and, just to test out a DVD that I have just burned, I used that disk to install W7 onto one of the others and so I grabbed that since I know it works, and that too did the very same thing?
Another thought, was to do the old Windows 98 trick, or doing the first stage of an install onto one PC that does do ewverything right, and then finish off the install in the iffy PC and that worked but then that too stopped for some reason?
I am completely at a loss... I dotn want to assume the board is wrecked, that would be such a shame, and the only thing I can think of right now, is to use a PCI SATA Card!!! - that I will be doing later on.
Any thoughts?