Trouble Installing Drivers on Gigabyte 990fxa-ud3 rev. 4.0 motherboard

TheGreatMage · Apr 17, 2014

I have a Gigabyte 990fxa-ud3 revision 4.0 motherboard. I am trying to install windows using a usb flash drive. I made the flash drive using rufus and I downloaded the drivers from gigabyte's website and extracted them onto the flash drive. When I try to install windows, it boots up, but eventually gets to this driver installation screen with a message of something like "necessary drivers not found." According to the user manual, this screen just happens during the install and I am supposed to install an AMD AHCI SATA Compatible driver. I have the driver but every time I try to install it says "no new hardware found" and doesn't work. Does anyone else have this problem? If so, does anyone know a solution?

rolli59 · Apr 17, 2014

What windows? 7 & 8 have the necessary drivers and you should just install windows. Then install the board drivers.

TheGreatMage · Apr 17, 2014

Windows 7. I tried just installing Windows and it didn't work, saying I need to install drivers. I can't get past the drivers screen.

rolli59 · Apr 17, 2014

Never seen that before! This is how it should work http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/a/install-windows-7-usb.htm

Outlander_04 · Apr 17, 2014

something is wrong with the copy of windows on the usb stick

TheGreatMage · Apr 17, 2014

I downloaded the official windows 7 professional iso from digitalriver. Then, I used rufus to make the usb stick because microsoft's tool wouldn't recognize the usb. I formatted it as ntfs. Does anyone know where I could have went wrong?

TheGreatMage · Apr 17, 2014

Do you think this could be the probelm(from the pcsupport.about.com tutorial)
"Tips:

When the Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool formats the flash drive during the process above, it does so using NTFS, a file system that some UEFI systems won't boot from if on a USB stick.

To get the USB drive to boot on these computers, you should copy the data from the flash drive onto a folder on your computer, then reformat the flash drive using the older FAT32 file system, and then copy that same data back onto the drive."

rolli59 · Apr 17, 2014

Yep FAT32 file system needed!

TheGreatMage · Apr 17, 2014

rolli59 :

Alright. Just one thing: the windows 7 official usb tool won't recognize my tool and rufus isn't letting me use fat32 :/

So, how should I format the usb?

rolli59 · Apr 17, 2014

Format it beforehand to Fat 32!

TheGreatMage · Apr 17, 2014

rolli59 :

I'm sorry, I'm probably being really stupid(this is my first build). First, I don't know how. Second, Rufus keeps overwriting the formatting and forces it to be ntfs when I make the flash drive bootable. Is there a way to reformat it after Rufus?

rolli59 · Apr 17, 2014

No but if you format it as bootable Fat 32 drive by right clicking it and select format the MS tool does not have to do that.

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