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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: Grazer on July 22, 2013, 01:52:13 pm

Title: GA-990FXA-UD5 and Windows 7
Post by: Grazer on July 22, 2013, 01:52:13 pm

Hello :)

I'm having some problems installing Windows 7 64 bit onto my machine and as I'm pretty new to this, I've probably missed something obvious. My set up is:

GA-990-FXA-UD5 (Rev. 3001)
AMD FX8320 Processor
Kingston SSDNow KC300 hard drive
2x8Gb Ballistix Tactical Tracer DDR3
NVidea GEForce GT630 Graphics Card

Every time I try to install Windows 7 64 bit, it asks for drivers. I point it at Hw7\AHCI\W764 (which is the folder I copied off the CD onto a USB) and I get an error saying "no new devices found" I get the same error with the drivers I downloaded from the Gigabyte support page for the motherboard. I've tried a different hard drive, different SATA port on the motherboard and changing the settings within the BIOS to IDE. Weirdly, Windows 8 installs fine.

Any help with working out what I've missed will be greatly appreciated :)

Cheers :)

Title: Re: GA-990FXA-UD5 and Windows 7
Post by: Vezina on July 22, 2013, 11:50:28 pm

Try with another W7 DVD , something is wrong.
Even in AHCI mode it should install with no drivers from AMD.
Afterwards you can update them but at install they are not needed ,default build ones should simply work and allow you to install.

Title: Re: GA-990FXA-UD5 and Windows 7
Post by: Grazer on July 23, 2013, 10:46:58 am

Thank you for that - that worked along with amending a BIOS setting from SATA to IDE :)

Title: Re: GA-990FXA-UD5 and Windows 7
Post by: Vezina on July 23, 2013, 07:49:48 pm

It s good ,but it should of worked with AHCI too  :)

Title: Re: GA-990FXA-UD5 and Windows 7
Post by: MisterEd on July 24, 2013, 07:03:38 am

I have a GA-990-FXA-UD3 rev 1.0.

I was running Windows 7 32-bit but decided to reinstall with Windows 7 64-bit.
I installed Windows 7 64-bit with the SATA set in BIOS for IDE.
I later found out later that it was easy to change the SATA from IDE to AHCI without reinstalling. I referred to this:
Switch to AHCI in Windows 7 (after install)
http://windows7themes.net/switch-to-ahci-after-install-windows-7.html (http://windows7themes.net/switch-to-ahci-after-install-windows-7.html)

After I made the change in the registry I rebooted to then make the change from IDE to AHCI in the BIOS.
After that when Windows 7 started the default AHCI driver was automatically loaded.

Title: Re: GA-990FXA-UD5 and Windows 7
Post by: AgentFXA on July 29, 2013, 02:30:10 am

IF it's a Rev 3 board the problem is the bios defaults to an EFI boot device - just go into startup boot manager and change boot device to non EFI and it should boot under AHCI straight away.

I had the same problem  ;)