I've had the Version 1 ASrock Extreme3 motherboard for over a year and had originally installed windows 7 pro on it. Well I decided it was time to reinstall and have a clean slate. The motherboard will not install Windows 7 or XP (to which I could upgrade to Win 7). I've done the memory checker, I've tried two different working hard drives, the cd rom works and reads, switched cables and SATA ports, tried 2 different installation discs for Win 7 pro, and XP.
The error I get is that it can't detect hardware. It says its caused by a failing Hard Drive or CD-Rom (which I know isn't the case). It will read the XP disc up to "Installing Devices" then it will Blue Screen, and when booting from the Win. 7 disc it will sometimes load 1/10th of the way before giving me the error and sometimes it will load to about 90% before the error. I've also gotten a corrupted file error as well.
The ironic thing is, I am using the very same computer to type this as I loaded Linux Ubuntu successfully from a disc. So I know its not either the hard drive or dvd drive.
Is it something I'm missing in BIOS? I've tried flashing it to 1.7 but it slowed way down and then didn't do anything for a long time. I'm just wondering if theres a setting in the UEFI that needs to be changed to allow Win 7 to be installed.
Here's my system spec:
AMD FX 8150 CPU
ASRock 970 Extreme3
Radeon 6858
8 gigs Corsair Vengence Memory
Corsair TX850 Watt PSU
Seagate 250 gig SATA 3.0 (yeah its not a lot but I really only play a few games and don't download a lot of music or movies).
The error I get is that it can't detect hardware. It says its caused by a failing Hard Drive or CD-Rom (which I know isn't the case). It will read the XP disc up to "Installing Devices" then it will Blue Screen, and when booting from the Win. 7 disc it will sometimes load 1/10th of the way before giving me the error and sometimes it will load to about 90% before the error. I've also gotten a corrupted file error as well.
The ironic thing is, I am using the very same computer to type this as I loaded Linux Ubuntu successfully from a disc. So I know its not either the hard drive or dvd drive.
Is it something I'm missing in BIOS? I've tried flashing it to 1.7 but it slowed way down and then didn't do anything for a long time. I'm just wondering if theres a setting in the UEFI that needs to be changed to allow Win 7 to be installed.
Here's my system spec:
AMD FX 8150 CPU
ASRock 970 Extreme3
Radeon 6858
8 gigs Corsair Vengence Memory
Corsair TX850 Watt PSU
Seagate 250 gig SATA 3.0 (yeah its not a lot but I really only play a few games and don't download a lot of music or movies).
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