New To Forums! And Desperate! EP45-UD3R Cant Install W7 BSOD and Cant boot from USB!

[Samuel Chavles]

Hi all, Im new to the forums and am in desperate need of help. Im not here to leech off your expertise as I will contribute back with any help I can provide.
Ok so I consider myself to be pretty tech savvy, and This mobo is driving me insane. Every time I try a simply W7 64 Bit install it BSOD's at the "Expanding Windows Files" part. And Every time I attempt to boot from USB this happens.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Im on F12 Bios.

[wazza300]

Re: New To Forums! And Desperate! EP45-UD3R Cant Install W7 BSOD and Cant boot from USB!

try with only one stick of ram installed,and disable drive A and floppy drive in bios then try installing win7

[Samuel Chavles]

Re: New To Forums! And Desperate! EP45-UD3R Cant Install W7 BSOD and Cant boot from USB!

I did both of those yesterday to get past another problem of W7 taking 45 minutes to actually initialize install and after I got past that problem I got stuck at the BSOD issues. Someone was telling me to try to plug my hard drive and optical drive into the purple GSATA ports. And I also read some people saying of a software that can compile my windows CD image with drivers for my board from the Gigabyte website so Ill attempt that if all else fails. Ill be home in a bit so ill try Memtestx86 to see if its the ram im using. Do you have any ideas why my USB Boot attempts look like that though? It works fine on my normal machine with USB which is an X58A-UD3R

[Chike]

Re: New To Forums! And Desperate! EP45-UD3R Cant Install W7 BSOD and Cant boot from USB!

Also before trying the above, try to clear CMOS, remove the battery and short the CLR_CMOS pins for 30 minutes, with PSU turned off and capacitors discharged (press power button once). Boot with one memory module, load optimized defaults save and try to install windows/boot from USB, agan.
Try the other memory module if it still fail, try different memory slots.

What is the BSOD you get when you try to install windows?

I don't recall seeing this screem before.

[Chike]

Re: New To Forums! And Desperate! EP45-UD3R Cant Install W7 BSOD and Cant boot from USB!

Run a whole pass of latest memtest86+ then at least 5 times test #5 (press c, 1, 3, 5, enter, 0).

[Samuel Chavles]

Re: New To Forums! And Desperate! EP45-UD3R Cant Install W7 BSOD and Cant boot from USB!

So short the cmos? Is that safe? So take out the battery and turn it on then and after it shorts it will turn itself off and leave it there for 30 minutes?

[wazza300]

Re: New To Forums! And Desperate! EP45-UD3R Cant Install W7 BSOD and Cant boot from USB!

Just leave battery out 30mins,press power switch hold it in for 15 seconds put battery back in,this is with pc switched off at wall

You shouldn't need any drivers with win7,it finds/installs all needed drivers for you,up to you then to update to latest versions off website later once windows is up n running

[Chike]

Re: New To Forums! And Desperate! EP45-UD3R Cant Install W7 BSOD and Cant boot from USB!

Turn the PSU off or unplug from the wall if you don't have a switch on the PSU.
Press the power button to discharge capacitiors.
Remove the battery, and short the CLR_CMOS pins with a jumper.
Wait 30 minutes, remove the jumper and place the battery back in it's place.
Turn the PSU on and boot, enter BIOS, load optimized defaults, save and reboot.

Normally shorting the CLR_CMOS pins for few seconds is enough, but sometimes lomger period even few hours needed.
It is safe if you practice caution and don't break anything.

[Samuel Chavles]

Re: New To Forums! And Desperate! EP45-UD3R Cant Install W7 BSOD and Cant boot from USB!

Ok sorry to bother so let me confirm what to do step by step.
Unplug my machine from my wall and switch the PSU to off.
Remove the CMOS Battery
Leave it out for 30 minutes
After the 30 minutes hold down the power button on my computers case even though its unplugged for 15 seconds
And put the battery back in
Then turn the computer back on and try again?
Also, Ill be installing on a new SSD, I read that AHCI is the best way to go for this?

[Chike]

Re: New To Forums! And Desperate! EP45-UD3R Cant Install W7 BSOD and Cant boot from USB!

Discharge capacitors before removing the battery.
I recommend jumping the CLR_CMOS also.

Yes ACHI may help with SSD.

[Samuel Chavles]

Re: New To Forums! And Desperate! EP45-UD3R Cant Install W7 BSOD and Cant boot from USB!

How do I discharge the capacitors?

[Chike]

Re: New To Forums! And Desperate! EP45-UD3R Cant Install W7 BSOD and Cant boot from USB!

How do I discharge the capacitors?

By pressing the power button after disconnection the power or turning the PSU off.

[Samuel Chavles]

Re: New To Forums! And Desperate! EP45-UD3R Cant Install W7 BSOD and Cant boot from USB!

ALright thanks will try going home now!

[Samuel Chavles]

Re: New To Forums! And Desperate! EP45-UD3R Cant Install W7 BSOD and Cant boot from USB!

Hey So The Cmos battery will be unplugged for another few minutes, But before I proress does anyone have an suggestions on settings other than disabling Floppy?

[wazza300]

Re: New To Forums! And Desperate! EP45-UD3R Cant Install W7 BSOD and Cant boot from USB!

you need to try that first,if its blue screening while trying to install usually a bios setting/voltage isnt right,could be memory related,but usually you shouldnt need to tweak anything at stock,maybe resetting the cmos should put things right,only time will tell,regarding ahci its a must for ssd's just set to ahci in bios before you install windows 7 and the os will take care of the rest for you