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Motherboards I am losing the will to live.

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Kronos, 13 May 2016.

  1. Kronos

    Kronos Multimodder

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    I have just installed an Asus Z170M Plus motherboard 6600K CPU and 16Gb RAM. Now what I want to but cannot seem to do is install Windows 7. It is necessary to jump through all sorts of hoops as you are continually asked for a driver. This thread pretty much sums it up. https://rog.asus.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-74220.html

    I have tried following this from Asus http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb..._print.pdf?_ga=1.977970.2032985831.1463150474 which does not seem to work. Not that I have tried the EZ installer route as I cannot find that on the motherboard support disk.

    Tried using Rufus https://rufus.akeo.ie/?locale=pt but no luck.

    I suspect that my fibromyalgia is not helping here and I am really struggling to solve this issue.

    So any pointers will be gratefully received.

    PS: strangely my PC has booted to the desk op but with out drivers for Lan ETC but I suspect that is of no help.
     
  2. rollo

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    You do need a driver for windows 7 to install correctly that's the way it installs
     
  3. techhead

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    just had a look around some say to try the new tool to create a Windows 7 installation file with USB 3.0 drivers preloaded for Braswell series motherboards.

    http://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/Z170M-PLUS/HelpDesk_Download/

    or some of these Z170M have the motherboard BIOS has emulation that allows the older ECHI drivers to work. Some boards do have this feature -

    hope this helps you. there are lot of people with this problem
     
  4. modd1uk

    modd1uk Multimodder

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    Yup. There's an installer which modifies an existing ISO to include the necessary drivers to install windows 7 on Z170 :).
     
  5. Anfield

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    1:
    Download the Intel Lan driver on another device from http://www.asus.com/uk/Motherboards/Z170M-PLUS/HelpDesk_Download/
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    Move it via usb / sd card / whatever to the newly installed Windows.
    3:
    Scream about the incompetence of Microsoft and Intel who continue to fail to work together to include a Lan driver with Windows and no, there is no other solution on the horizon, the problem still exists with Intel Lan controllers and Windows 10.
    4:
    Download rest of drivers on the pc where you need them.
     
  6. Kronos

    Kronos Multimodder

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    Thanks all, I got in touch with Asus Live Chat who sent me a link to the EZ Installer which is supposed to be on the support disk but I was unable to find it. I used to create a modified installation ISO for USB and I am now installing Windows.

    This has been a bad day still it looks good. Need another splitter as I am not going to use grid+ V2.

     
    Last edited: 13 May 2016

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