Please Help!! Brand New OCZ SSD Wont Install Win7!?

SLShermon

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Please help me! My older mechanical hardrive crashed and i lost everything so, i decided to buy a new SSD and make it my boot drive and install steam games on another drive.
I bought a OCZ Agility 3 120gb brand new unopened.I unplugged all other hardrives and put in my windows 7 disk. I started it up it gives me a black screen saying "Reboot and select proper boot device"!!!!! I have read tons of other forums and tried everything i could still no luck.
In my bios it has my DVD drive listed and my SSD so i know its picking both of them up and I've tried disabling the SSD as a boot option so it would boot to the disk drive and that didn't work either! This is on my custom build and its not very old. (specs further down)Please help!! if you need anymore information please ask this black screen is driving me crazy!:fou:

Specs
Biostar TZ77A mobo
i5 3570k (no overclock)
Corsair 500w
EVGA GTX 570
8gb Corsair Vengence ram
 
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I suppose it's possible your DVD drive is defective. If possible, try with another DVD drive.
If not, perhaps try installing via USB.

SLShermon

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I've tried disabling the ssd as a boot option in the bios so it would boot on the disk drive, but i still get the Reboot and select proper boot device" screen
 


Telling it "don't use the SSD" is hardly the same as telling it "boot from the DVD"
 

SLShermon

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I have selected the DvD drive already and i still get the black screen(Reboot and select proper boot device), i don't get the press any key to boot from dvd screen
 

SLShermon

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In the boot order i have it set to boot second and boot the dvd drive first, and i still get the same result
 

SLShermon

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I have already done that in the bios, it was set to IDE and i changed it to AHCI
 

I suppose it's possible your DVD drive is defective. If possible, try with another DVD drive.
If not, perhaps try installing via USB.
 
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SLShermon

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Do you just put the .ios file on the usb and start up the computer? I will try to boot a usb
 

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I had this EXACT same issue. I had to keep switching the BIOS boot order and switch from AHCI to IDE and back again. Whenever I would finally get into Win7 setup I would get an error saying that it couldn't get drivers for my DVD drive... even though it had clearly loaded it. I ended up just restarting it again with no other boot options but the DVD drive and it eventually installed. When I finally got into windows my DVD drive kept appearing and disappearing at random on My Computer or not reading DVDs due to copy protection. I then reset the BIOS to default and it worked... but would occasionally still disappear after being Idle. I ended up thinking the DVD drive was faulty and have disconnected it...

I'll be watching this thread.