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I just purchased a FM2-A75MA-E35, a A6 5400K processor, and 4 gbs of GSKILL memory. The power supply is a PC&Power 500 watt. This is a present for my son as a mine craft game machine hence the low cost cpu and board.
In a nutshell I have been attempting to install windows 7 ultimate onto the OCZ Vertex II 60gb SSD. The board sees the drive and the memory and I have it set for ACHI. However when the install reaches the Setup is preparing your computer for first use it will stall. I have even allowed it to run overnight to no avail. It never reaches a working windows 7 state.
Some of the things I have tried:
The vertex came from my main machine which is a sandybridge 2500k overlocked to 4.5ghz on water cooling on a 1000 watt coolermaster PSU. I bought a new 250 Samsung SSD for that machine. I can fully install win 7 onto the vertex ssd on the sandy with no issues. This has been done with both a DVD drive and a USB boot flash. Same with the 250 Samsung. So for the sandy both SSD's have NO problem with installing win 7 ultimate to a fully working windows state. Done it 3 times now.
On the MSI board using the same DVD drive and USB flash drive again it will reach the point where win 7 has been expanded and files copied over. It then goes to preparing the computer and just will run so slow that it never reaches a working windows state. Even after an overnight attempt I had to shut it down.
I have tried another copy of windows 7 ultimate as both DVD and USB and got the same never reach working windows state on the MSI board.
Tried moving the SATA cable to 3 different ports of the 6 available. 1, 3 and then 6. Tried 2 different SATA cables to include 1 from the new MSI box. Nada.
I then got an old WD 74GB SATA raptor magnetic drive out and installed that onto the MSI board. It CAN and HAS fully installed Win 7 ultimate with NO problems both from DVD and USB boot.
So my perplexity and asking for help is can anyone please offer me some advice as to why this MSI board is doing this? Why can a mag drive be accepted and work where the SATA works on the sandy but NOT on the amd.
Any advice and hints are most welcome and I say thanks in advance!
In a nutshell I have been attempting to install windows 7 ultimate onto the OCZ Vertex II 60gb SSD. The board sees the drive and the memory and I have it set for ACHI. However when the install reaches the Setup is preparing your computer for first use it will stall. I have even allowed it to run overnight to no avail. It never reaches a working windows 7 state.
Some of the things I have tried:
The vertex came from my main machine which is a sandybridge 2500k overlocked to 4.5ghz on water cooling on a 1000 watt coolermaster PSU. I bought a new 250 Samsung SSD for that machine. I can fully install win 7 onto the vertex ssd on the sandy with no issues. This has been done with both a DVD drive and a USB boot flash. Same with the 250 Samsung. So for the sandy both SSD's have NO problem with installing win 7 ultimate to a fully working windows state. Done it 3 times now.
On the MSI board using the same DVD drive and USB flash drive again it will reach the point where win 7 has been expanded and files copied over. It then goes to preparing the computer and just will run so slow that it never reaches a working windows state. Even after an overnight attempt I had to shut it down.
I have tried another copy of windows 7 ultimate as both DVD and USB and got the same never reach working windows state on the MSI board.
Tried moving the SATA cable to 3 different ports of the 6 available. 1, 3 and then 6. Tried 2 different SATA cables to include 1 from the new MSI box. Nada.
I then got an old WD 74GB SATA raptor magnetic drive out and installed that onto the MSI board. It CAN and HAS fully installed Win 7 ultimate with NO problems both from DVD and USB boot.
So my perplexity and asking for help is can anyone please offer me some advice as to why this MSI board is doing this? Why can a mag drive be accepted and work where the SATA works on the sandy but NOT on the amd.
Any advice and hints are most welcome and I say thanks in advance!