Installing Windows 7 64 Bit on Zared619's Instrument of Winning

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woodward72

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Thank you to the community for voting and to Zared619 in particular. This is my first time building a computer. I have purchased and assembled the exact build that won the most recent BestConfigs Poll for Budget Intel Gaming PC.

Everything seems to work, and the BIOS recognizes the CPU, RAM, hard drive, and optical drive. I have not flashed the BIOS. All BIOS settings are default, but I fixed the time and date and changed and saved the boot priorities so the optical drive is the first priority. However, when I restart the computer, it will not boot with the brand new Windows 7 disc in the optical drive. Instead I get a message saying "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key." When I press a key, the message repeats itself. When I try reinserting the Windows 7 disc into the optical drive and press a key, the light on the optical drive blinks for awhile, then stops and the message repeats itself. I can't seem to get past this.

I have checked the BIOS after restarting to make sure the changes were saved, and they were. If I press F11 to go to the boot menu, however, it still has the hard drive listed first and optical drive second. If it matters, I have the hard drive plugged into the SATA3-0 port on the motherboard and the optical drive in SATA3-1.

I hope someone can help. Maybe I should create a bootable USB drive, but I would rather figure out why this is not working and fix it if possible. Please ask if you need more info.
 
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The motherboard is the ASRock Z87 Pro3

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z87%20Pro3/?cat=Specifications

Under the Boot tab in the UEFI Setup Utility, I found these options

"CSM" (Compatibility Support Module) is set to "Enabled"

"Launch PXE OpROM policy" is set to "Legacy only"

"Launch Storage OpROM policy" is set to "Legacy only"

"Launch Video OpROM policy" is set to "Legacy only"

I don't know if these options are relevant to what you are talking about, but it's just what I have found while searching the BIOS.
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Thanks jimmysmitty, but I should have mentioned I already tried booting from the boot menu, and it just gives me the same message. So, you think it might be a bad disc or driver? I did find it odd that the Windows disc was upside down in the case when I first opened it (i.e. the labeled side of the disc was facing down, and the other side was exposed inside the case). I have never bought an OEM Windows disc before, so I don't know whether that is normal. That didn't seem like something to worry about, but I don't know.

What should I do to diagnose/fix a bad driver, if that's what the problem is?
 
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I meant drive not driver. Sorry sometimes I post and I am thinking of the word and I type another one similar to it. I am partially dyslexic when it comes to typing.

Which motherboard do you have? I know some of the newer ones may have UEFI enabled as the default and Windows 7 does not fully support UEFI, only 8 does.

You can try and see if you can change it from UEFI to Legacy in the BIOS or UEFI + Legacy, but most likely Legacy only, and see if it lets you boot.

I had a similar issue a bit ago on my older Z68 mobo. I was installing 8.1 clean and I couldn't get it to load the installer. I had to set my BIOS to UEFI+Legacy for it to work while Windows 8 worked with just legacy so maybe you are in the same boat just have to change it to support Legacy booting.
 
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woodward72

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The motherboard is the ASRock Z87 Pro3

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z87%20Pro3/?cat=Specifications

Under the Boot tab in the UEFI Setup Utility, I found these options

"CSM" (Compatibility Support Module) is set to "Enabled"

"Launch PXE OpROM policy" is set to "Legacy only"

"Launch Storage OpROM policy" is set to "Legacy only"

"Launch Video OpROM policy" is set to "Legacy only"

I don't know if these options are relevant to what you are talking about, but it's just what I have found while searching the BIOS.
 
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woodward72

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I found the problem. The power was not fully connected to the optical drive. Apparently the optical drive was receiving enough power to open, shut, spin up, and be detected by the BIOS, but it was not receiving enough power to boot. That was my inexperience at play not recognizing the difference between a secure and a loose molex connection. I was surprised at how much man handling is necessary to build a computer. I was all worried about not being gentle enough.
 
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