Hi all, Just put together a new build ASUS P8P67 4 Gig corsair 1600 ram (2 x 2GB) Interl i5 2500k MSI Twin Frozr 560Ti Crucial C300 RealSSD 64GB Samsung Spinpoint 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 1.5TB Samsung DVD ReWriter All boots fine into Bios, but when i insert my windows 7 disc (64 bit ultimate edition) it gives the message "Please reboot and select proper boot device or insert bootable media) Tried booting in ACHI, IDE, unplugging all but the DVD drive, plugging the dvd drive into every possible sata port..... no joy any ideas what the problem could be?
Is it the latest BIOS available for the m/b? Is it a pucka Windows 7 install disc? Have you booted from that disc before? Have you tried pressing F12 (I think it is anyway) to select the boot device manually? Did you unplug the Samsung drives when booting?
sounds like a bad boot disk... This isn't the type that they suggest you burn in 4x only is it?! cpu all ok? psu ok? Do you have any spare parts you can swap around to try and eliminate anything?
thanks for the quick replies Yes it's a kosher disc. worked fine with my old computer I've also tried my housemates copy of win 7 home premium 32 bit and an old copy of vista. same issue with both of them. tried transfering the files to a usb stick, same issue again. cpu and everything seems ok in the bios all drives are detected ok in the bios bios version im using is 1401, seems to be the latest version. tried the drives in every conceivable combination I could think of. Still no joy any other ideas?
Try a different optical drive. Also in the BIOS select "Load BIOS defaults", to ensure that nothing is disabled.
No, it is supposed to to be on AHCI. IDE only if you install legacy OS. And if it was that the problem, then Windows setup would boot and start, and at the setup wizard page where it asks: where you want to install Windows, there would be no HDD and partitions to select. My guess is that ASUS board (which I don't trust) doesn't like the optical drive (not new problem).
Did you set it to boot from the optical drive first? (Go into EZ mode - at the bottom is a drag and drop boot priority). Try unplugging your hard drives and only leave the optical drive and SSD plugged in.
If optical drive is first boot device, must boot from optical drive When my system would not boot from my HDD, I accidentally discovered that leaving a bootable disc in the optical drive and not pressing the space bar will enable the system to boot from the next boot device which was my HDD. It appears that there is a bug in the BIOS when the optical disc drive is the first boot device and not bootable disc is in the optical drive, as the system hangs and never proceeds to the next boot device. I have since tested the first boot device as my HDD and now it boots fine.
I found on my old Gigabyte P35 board that I could only boot from DVD with the optical drive in IDE mode, however I have had no such problems with the P8P67. As Bindi says check the boot order. Further to this if you go into advanced mode on the "Boot" tab you even get a clickable link towards the bottom of the page which enables you to override the boot priority.
