Hi Folks
Got the upgraded fm2 mobo and have spent the last 2 evenings frustrated after numerous attempts to install Vista x86 and Win7 x64 so thought it best for my sanity to check in here for some help.
Before installing anything, I downloaded the most recent bios and all the needed drivers directly from gigabyte's and amd's webpages. Flashed the bios to the latest and greatest without issue. Went in to bios and left everything on default except for the memory timings (which I set manually) and disabling the cool n' quiet stuff. Inserted a usb drive with a stripped version of Win7 x64 and started the board. The Win7 install went as normal.
Once in windows, the first order of bidness was to install the chipset driver. All went well except that it didn't install a graphics driver. OK...so next I installed the graphics driver. All seemed to go well but oops....no graphic driver installed. Downloaded the latest drivers from amd and tried with those files. No success. I copied the full contents of the dvd that came with the mobo to a usb and stuck that in and tried manually updating the graphics driver using device manager. Nada Switched ssd's and launched the Vista x86 installation. As with win7, the intall process went as normal. From there...ran into the exact same problems as with the win7 attempt.
Dug through the bios and decided to try setting "Integrated Graphics" to "Force". Next I tried to again manually load the graphics driver via device manager. It worked in win7 (woohoo!!) but not in Vista (arrgghh!!).
Switching back to win7 (since it now seemed to have all the drivers installed) and started to install some apps. When trying to install pcmark vantage, the install craps out with a 1935 error during the c++ installations (am also getting the same errors in vista). Oddly...pcmark7 installed in win7 (haven't tried in vista yet). Did some googlin' and uninstalled/re-installed .net (didn't help) then tried another fix (from msdn) that I can't find atm (am at work) but it involved a reg edit to point to msiexec.exe and then re-registering it in safe mode. Neither attempt helped the situation.
What the heck's going on?!?!? Why is this giving me so much trouble? Anyone seen these issues before and have thoughts on what to try? Any ideas??
Thanks so much...really appreciate any help I can get at this point :/
Also...anyone know exactly what these things do and whether or not they should be disabled in bios?
- IOMMU?
- XHCI handoff?
- EHCI handoff?
Got the upgraded fm2 mobo and have spent the last 2 evenings frustrated after numerous attempts to install Vista x86 and Win7 x64 so thought it best for my sanity to check in here for some help.
Before installing anything, I downloaded the most recent bios and all the needed drivers directly from gigabyte's and amd's webpages. Flashed the bios to the latest and greatest without issue. Went in to bios and left everything on default except for the memory timings (which I set manually) and disabling the cool n' quiet stuff. Inserted a usb drive with a stripped version of Win7 x64 and started the board. The Win7 install went as normal.
Once in windows, the first order of bidness was to install the chipset driver. All went well except that it didn't install a graphics driver. OK...so next I installed the graphics driver. All seemed to go well but oops....no graphic driver installed. Downloaded the latest drivers from amd and tried with those files. No success. I copied the full contents of the dvd that came with the mobo to a usb and stuck that in and tried manually updating the graphics driver using device manager. Nada Switched ssd's and launched the Vista x86 installation. As with win7, the intall process went as normal. From there...ran into the exact same problems as with the win7 attempt.
Dug through the bios and decided to try setting "Integrated Graphics" to "Force". Next I tried to again manually load the graphics driver via device manager. It worked in win7 (woohoo!!) but not in Vista (arrgghh!!).
Switching back to win7 (since it now seemed to have all the drivers installed) and started to install some apps. When trying to install pcmark vantage, the install craps out with a 1935 error during the c++ installations (am also getting the same errors in vista). Oddly...pcmark7 installed in win7 (haven't tried in vista yet). Did some googlin' and uninstalled/re-installed .net (didn't help) then tried another fix (from msdn) that I can't find atm (am at work) but it involved a reg edit to point to msiexec.exe and then re-registering it in safe mode. Neither attempt helped the situation.
What the heck's going on?!?!? Why is this giving me so much trouble? Anyone seen these issues before and have thoughts on what to try? Any ideas??
Thanks so much...really appreciate any help I can get at this point :/
Also...anyone know exactly what these things do and whether or not they should be disabled in bios?
- IOMMU?
- XHCI handoff?
- EHCI handoff?
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