Hello
I searched before posting this and found it to be quite a common question, although none of the answers seemed to work for me. I decided it would be best to ask myself so I can include more info.
I've just finished my first build ever, up till now it's gone really smoothly. The only problem I have is when trying to boot the OS. Basically I downloaded the windows 7 ISO file through my University (which is currently 300 miles away and closed so I can't ask for discs) and burnt it to a DVD. When I try to boot off of the DVD I get to the "Insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key" screen, but when I insert the DVD and press a nothing happens. Well not quite nothing, it skips to the next line and repeats the previous message again as if there's nothing in the drive.
So far I've checked all the boot orders, RAID status and checked whether the drive is properly connected by inserting the support DVD for my mobo. I don't have, sadly, a USB stick with a high enough capacity, nor an external HDD to connect instead. I can't use my previous HDD from my old computer as it's an iMac.
My mobo is an Asus P9 X79 Pro if that helps. I might not be able to reply for a while given it's late at time of posting (London so almost 3am).
Thanks
Ps I'm really new to this so I still have a lot to learn, if you could fully explain steps then I would be very grateful.
I searched before posting this and found it to be quite a common question, although none of the answers seemed to work for me. I decided it would be best to ask myself so I can include more info.
I've just finished my first build ever, up till now it's gone really smoothly. The only problem I have is when trying to boot the OS. Basically I downloaded the windows 7 ISO file through my University (which is currently 300 miles away and closed so I can't ask for discs) and burnt it to a DVD. When I try to boot off of the DVD I get to the "Insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key" screen, but when I insert the DVD and press a nothing happens. Well not quite nothing, it skips to the next line and repeats the previous message again as if there's nothing in the drive.
So far I've checked all the boot orders, RAID status and checked whether the drive is properly connected by inserting the support DVD for my mobo. I don't have, sadly, a USB stick with a high enough capacity, nor an external HDD to connect instead. I can't use my previous HDD from my old computer as it's an iMac.
My mobo is an Asus P9 X79 Pro if that helps. I might not be able to reply for a while given it's late at time of posting (London so almost 3am).
Thanks
Ps I'm really new to this so I still have a lot to learn, if you could fully explain steps then I would be very grateful.