I'm upgrading my Win 7 64 system (which has SATA HDDs) by installing a ASUS Z87-Plus MB. When I power up it starts to load Windows but when the 4 color spots of the Windows logo start to float into position I get a blue screen that flashes too fast to read, and then it goes into Windows repair which cannot fix it. The errors reported are "Bad patch" or "No root cause" or Sys,. files integrity check & repair...Failed error 0x490.
I repaired the boot stuff using Macrium Backup boot repair utility, but that also didn't help.
I put the original mother board back in AND GOT THE SAME FAILURE. Could only get back in business by restoring my boot drive image.
Tried setting the drives to IDE in BIOS, but had the same problem.
Tried a different z87 board, same problem.
Flashed the BIOS to 1602 which is the latest I could find, even though the board came with 1702.
I find the ASUS downloads web site very confusing - there are 64 files available for my board, but almost nothing telling me what I need.
The support CD that came with the board simply boots to Free DOS...I think. I never do see the screen that is shown on page 4-1 of the manual. It says, "Place the DVD in the optical drive and if Autorun is enabled..." That sounds like the manual expects Windows to be running before you can install the SATA drivers. In any case the DVD hasn't done me any good.
I'm sure I missed something, but can't for the life of me find it. I sure would appreciate any help you folks could give me.
Al
I repaired the boot stuff using Macrium Backup boot repair utility, but that also didn't help.
I put the original mother board back in AND GOT THE SAME FAILURE. Could only get back in business by restoring my boot drive image.
Tried setting the drives to IDE in BIOS, but had the same problem.
Tried a different z87 board, same problem.
Flashed the BIOS to 1602 which is the latest I could find, even though the board came with 1702.
I find the ASUS downloads web site very confusing - there are 64 files available for my board, but almost nothing telling me what I need.
The support CD that came with the board simply boots to Free DOS...I think. I never do see the screen that is shown on page 4-1 of the manual. It says, "Place the DVD in the optical drive and if Autorun is enabled..." That sounds like the manual expects Windows to be running before you can install the SATA drivers. In any case the DVD hasn't done me any good.
I'm sure I missed something, but can't for the life of me find it. I sure would appreciate any help you folks could give me.
Al
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