Morning, all! I finished my new build last night and am trying to install Win 8 from the OEM disc.But at this point, I cannot get the machine to boot from the disc. I can get the machine to turn on and get into the BIOS. I set the order of the boot devices and dropped the disc in. When the PC boots, I can hear the drive spin up, but it will not boot or begin the install process.
I then tried disabling all boot devices except for the optical drive. That didn't help. When I check the BIOS, it is registering the optical drive along with the other two hard drives. So at this point I'm a bit of a loss and any help would be appreciated.
One last thing that may or may not be related: the first time I booted the machine, it booed directly into the BIOS configuration. Once that worked, I went ahead and put the setup into the case. Now when I boot I get the BIOS screen, but if I don't hit the F key, it won't go to the configuration screen and goes black. Again, not sure that this is indicative of anything. Thanks in advance for any assistance you're able to offer!
Oh, lastly, I have the ODD plugged into a SATA III port, because I had a spare one available. I cannot determine what version of SATA the ODD uses, bit assumed that SATA III was backwards compatible and that this shouldn't matter. Correct?
Best,
Jonathon
System:
I then tried disabling all boot devices except for the optical drive. That didn't help. When I check the BIOS, it is registering the optical drive along with the other two hard drives. So at this point I'm a bit of a loss and any help would be appreciated.
One last thing that may or may not be related: the first time I booted the machine, it booed directly into the BIOS configuration. Once that worked, I went ahead and put the setup into the case. Now when I boot I get the BIOS screen, but if I don't hit the F key, it won't go to the configuration screen and goes black. Again, not sure that this is indicative of anything. Thanks in advance for any assistance you're able to offer!
Oh, lastly, I have the ODD plugged into a SATA III port, because I had a spare one available. I cannot determine what version of SATA the ODD uses, bit assumed that SATA III was backwards compatible and that this shouldn't matter. Correct?
Best,
Jonathon
System:
Intel Core i5-3350P 3.1GHz Quad-Core
ASRock Z77 Extreme4-M Micro ATX LGA1155
Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600
Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" SSD
Hitachi 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"
PowerColor Radeon HD 7870 XT 2GB
Fractal Design Node 605 HTPC
Raidmax 730W ATX12V / EPS12V
LG BT30N Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer
Microsoft Windows 8.1 - OEM (64-bit)
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