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hello - thank you in advance for any help you can give me.
the situation is this - I am trying to install Win8.1 from a (confirmed) working boot USB on the machine I've cobbled together for my wife but it is getting stuck every time at the following screen. I can enter the bios fine, this is the first screen I get afterwards and I cannot get past it - it just stalls here and never continues into the Windows installation.
The components are mostly pulled from working systems.
mobo: Gigabyte MA790XT-UD4P (am3 board)
cpu: AMD Phenom II X4 965 black edition
ram: 6GB GSkill ddr3 (I've pulled sticks out to be booting with only 1 stick of ram in, so 2GB atm) (these were pulled from a friends working system)
gpu: a Radeon 5870 I had laying around. Confirmed it works fine in my own system as a test.
SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 128GB. (the drive that Win8.1 will be installed to) It worked fine in my own system, I formatted it before pulling it out to stick in hers.
HDD: 2TB Seagate (I have it unplugged for now as i'm installing to the SSD)
PSU/case - both salvaged from an older Dell prebuilt. The PSU appears to be working fine. It was in use in another machine not too long ago.
I have only the bare minimum plugged in for the moment. If I need something else plugged in for some reason let me know
The rear fan doesn't reach the 2nd sysfan header on the bottom of the mobo so it's not plugged in atm. (I think the stock dell mobo that was originally in there had a sysfan header at the rear of the motherboard for it)
Finally a quick question - what's the actual correct choice here for booting from the USB? (I took the pic from the boot priority menu as it displays all the options without scrolling here)
A bunch of them seem to work (by work I mean get me stuck on the pic I posted above), does it actually matter which I'm selecting? Most motherboards I've used before have just listed a "USB" option.
thank you again for any help. I'm sure I've just missed something silly and somebody will point it out and I can shamefacedly get it up and running.
the situation is this - I am trying to install Win8.1 from a (confirmed) working boot USB on the machine I've cobbled together for my wife but it is getting stuck every time at the following screen. I can enter the bios fine, this is the first screen I get afterwards and I cannot get past it - it just stalls here and never continues into the Windows installation.
The components are mostly pulled from working systems.
mobo: Gigabyte MA790XT-UD4P (am3 board)
cpu: AMD Phenom II X4 965 black edition
ram: 6GB GSkill ddr3 (I've pulled sticks out to be booting with only 1 stick of ram in, so 2GB atm) (these were pulled from a friends working system)
gpu: a Radeon 5870 I had laying around. Confirmed it works fine in my own system as a test.
SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 128GB. (the drive that Win8.1 will be installed to) It worked fine in my own system, I formatted it before pulling it out to stick in hers.
HDD: 2TB Seagate (I have it unplugged for now as i'm installing to the SSD)
PSU/case - both salvaged from an older Dell prebuilt. The PSU appears to be working fine. It was in use in another machine not too long ago.
I have only the bare minimum plugged in for the moment. If I need something else plugged in for some reason let me know
The rear fan doesn't reach the 2nd sysfan header on the bottom of the mobo so it's not plugged in atm. (I think the stock dell mobo that was originally in there had a sysfan header at the rear of the motherboard for it)Finally a quick question - what's the actual correct choice here for booting from the USB? (I took the pic from the boot priority menu as it displays all the options without scrolling here)
A bunch of them seem to work (by work I mean get me stuck on the pic I posted above), does it actually matter which I'm selecting? Most motherboards I've used before have just listed a "USB" option.
thank you again for any help. I'm sure I've just missed something silly and somebody will point it out and I can shamefacedly get it up and running.
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