Windows 8 Installation Errors -circle of death, restart loop of death and others

gunslingor

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Very difficult installing windows 8 on my custom asus 990fx r2.0, amd fx-8350... Wanted to share since the web helped me diagnose the issues

First issue: windows logo plus circling dots appear and never disappear for hours.
Solution: BIOS change all drive properies to IDE from AHCI

Second issue: After windows first blue screen arrives, a window flashes, disappears and you enter an auto restart loop of death.
Solution: right before blue screen appears and while its appearing, press all the f1-12 keys over and over randomly... lol... fucking microsoft.

Third Issue: After all that most of windows appears to be installed, now its prompting me to personalize... as if.... anyway, I select my color and give my computer a name.... now all I see is my selected color and an odd little icon in the left lower corner... why did I buy this?
Solution: keep waiting... lol..... 8 minutes or so.
 
BeFore you started the install of windows eight did you update your mb bios. On my newer asus saberhooth asus had to drop a few new bios files do to windows eight. Also on amd mb I find having the updated mb chipset drivers on a USB stick with the other inf files for the sound card and network card and video card saves a lot of installs from going bad if the f6 key on windows install is pressed and you have windows install amd chipset drivers as soon as you can.