NEW BUILD PROBLEMS: Incompatible or faulty components?...

Would it matter that I formatted my thumb drive to FAT32 using a Mac? And would altering the extension from .F2f to .BIN on a Mac cause any problems?

It's almost as if the motherboard doesn't detect the thumb drive...

Should the thumb drive be named anything specific?
 
Danny091 said:
Not sure about the capitals. Cant hurt trying?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXWbARq8xCo this video shows a guy doing it. It does appear the board shuts off but the F light keeps blinking are you sure that is not happning?
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My board doesn't have that F light, but the FBIOS LED on the motherboard only ever blinks on, then turns off and stays off when I flick the power switch to on, on the back of the PSU.
 
I would try taking it all out of the case just power the motherboard from the powersupply with nothing in it (no cpu ext) and see if you can get it to do the bios update. If you cant i would try another powersupply if you have one spare or can borrow one from another pc. Failing that it sounds like a dead motherboard.
 
Danny091 said:
I would try taking it all out of the case just power the motherboard from the powersupply with nothing in it (no cpu ext) and see if you can get it to do the bios update. If you cant i would try another powersupply if you have one spare or can borrow one from another pc. Failing that it sounds like a dead motherboard.
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I'll try building it out of the case tomorrow, and see if that makes a difference. I've tried the build with two different PSUs so far; the first was my 10 year old Turbo-Cool 850 SSI, and the second a brand new Corsair HX850i.
 
It had just occurred to me that I could disable the CPU by unplugging the 8 pin power cable from the motherboard, as opposed to having to go through the whole rigmarole of physically removing both the cooler and CPU. So, I've just done that, and switched the PC on with the thumb drive in the BIOS USB 3.0 port, and it looks like it's finally updating the BIOS. The FBIOS LED has been blinking wildly, and is now solid...
 
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Managed to get the BIOS update installed, but now can't install Windows 7 from my genuine Windows 7 64-bit installation DVD. It just crashes on the Windows 7 wallpaper, and doesn't give me an option to do anything.
 
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I am following your thread T-800...and feel for you.
I am sure you will get there in the end... :D
Out of interest..what SP version of Win 7 are you installing from?
 
Trying said:
I am following your thread T-800...and feel for you.
I am sure you will get there in the end... :D
Out of interest..what SP version of Win 7 are you installing from?
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I'm at the point where I just want to RMA the lot, get an ASUS motherboard, and maybe a different manufacturer's RAM, as ASUS mobos in this price bracket don't seem to accept anymore than 64GB.

My Windows 7 DVD was issued in 2009, so it'll be whatever service pack that was. :)
 
Although you are having hiccups in this build.... I shouldn't give up hope.

I am sure there are many others who have Win 7 installed on very similar set ups as you.

I have noticed myself that builds these days seem to have far more hurdles to overcome..but that is progress, so they say, in the endeavour for ever more powerful and capable computing.

How far did you actually get with the install...was it after first reboot, or during initial install?

What graphics card do you have in the build?
 
@ T-800
From the date of your Win 7 disk..I would suggest it is plain Win 7 before issue of any SP's.
You could try downloading a Win 7 SP2 iso from somewhere and burning that to a disc, ( which is what I did) and then using your original product key.
Not only does this save a lot of time doing updates..but saves wasted disc space when used by the required updates pre SP2.
 
Trying said:
How far did you actually get with the install...was it after first reboot, or during initial install?
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Firstly, I couldn't get into the Boot Menu. No matter how many times I hit F12 at the splash screen, it just wasn't happening.

Then, on one of my many restarts, hitting F12 did work, so I told it to boot from my Blu-Ray drive -- where my Windows 7 DVD is -- and it got as far as presenting me with the default Windows 7 wallpaper (before it asks you how you want to install Windows), then crashed.

So, I'd restart, try getting into the Boot Menu again, fail, then repeat, until it decided to allow me access to the Boot Menu, then boot from the Windows 7 DVD, which would crash at the same point every time.

This has been going on since I managed to update the BIOS, and all I want to install Windows 7 for, is to create a fresh install of Windows 10 (which I had on my previous system).

Trying said:
What graphics card do you have in the build?
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I have an nVidia 590 GTX.
 
Not sure if this will help, but have you cleared cmos and loaded optimised defaults since updating the bios?

Am sure it is recommended after a bios update.

You could also try installing W7 from usb.
 
freddie64 said:
Not sure if this will help, but have you cleared cmos and loaded optimised defaults since updating the bios?

Am sure it is recommended after a bios update.
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I'd loaded the optimised defaults, but hadn't cleared the CMOS since updating the BIOS. I'll clear the CMOS now, then optimise defaults again.

Danny091 said:
Try using the windows 10 media creation tool. Apparently you can activate windows 10 now with a valid windows licence. Might be worth trying!

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10
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Interesting. Will need to find someone with a Windows capable PC...
 
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