My sister and I were able to get a student discount on Windows products through our university. She obtained a copy of Windows 7 and burned me a copy to install on the new gaming computer I built.
I was able to install Windows 7 just fine (using my external DVD drive connected to the computer via USB), but encountered some problems installing drivers for my motherboard. Specifically, I had a problem with a program called Live Update 5 (it helps find and install updates for my motherboard from msi: B75MA-P45). It would pretend to download and install updates, but when I restarted the computer it would try to download and install the same ones over and over. I decided to uninstall Live Update 5, but encountered strange errors. For example, the program was already uninstalled or it could not find certain files to initiate the uninstall procedure. Because of this problem, I thought it would be a good idea to just reinstall windows and start over. Instead of using Live Update 5, I would instead just get the updates from msi directly.
This turned out to be a bad idea. While I tried to reinstall Windows 7, it started screaming that the product key was invalid and that it would halt the reinstallation. I then thought it would be a good idea to restore the system to a state before I installed Live Update 5. This was an even worse idea...
My computer doesn't seem to work at all now. It keeps saying my external DVD drive is an unknown device. When it tries to install the driver for the external DVD drive it says that it failed. Therefore I can't try to reinstall Windows 7 or anything else at all now. The drivers for my NIC are non existent so I can't connect to the internet.
I am at a complete loss of what to do. I'm literally panicking (which would most likely explain the poor spelling and grammar). I don't want the $700 worth of hardware to go down the drain. Please help!
I was able to install Windows 7 just fine (using my external DVD drive connected to the computer via USB), but encountered some problems installing drivers for my motherboard. Specifically, I had a problem with a program called Live Update 5 (it helps find and install updates for my motherboard from msi: B75MA-P45). It would pretend to download and install updates, but when I restarted the computer it would try to download and install the same ones over and over. I decided to uninstall Live Update 5, but encountered strange errors. For example, the program was already uninstalled or it could not find certain files to initiate the uninstall procedure. Because of this problem, I thought it would be a good idea to just reinstall windows and start over. Instead of using Live Update 5, I would instead just get the updates from msi directly.
This turned out to be a bad idea. While I tried to reinstall Windows 7, it started screaming that the product key was invalid and that it would halt the reinstallation. I then thought it would be a good idea to restore the system to a state before I installed Live Update 5. This was an even worse idea...
My computer doesn't seem to work at all now. It keeps saying my external DVD drive is an unknown device. When it tries to install the driver for the external DVD drive it says that it failed. Therefore I can't try to reinstall Windows 7 or anything else at all now. The drivers for my NIC are non existent so I can't connect to the internet.
I am at a complete loss of what to do. I'm literally panicking (which would most likely explain the poor spelling and grammar). I don't want the $700 worth of hardware to go down the drain. Please help!
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