Anyone Ever see This Problem?

[ElMondoHummus]

Yes, the BIOS was set to RAID and the RAID array showed up properly in the boot order. The RAID manager said it was healthy and bootable.

I knew a usb flash drive could screw things up, disconnecting the scanner and printer was a last-ditch desperation move I didn't think had a chance of succeeding.

Anyway, this is my first post here with W7.

Oh, no, no, that's not what I was getting at. I was wondering who manufactured the BIOS for that board. But I already found that answer; looks like it's AMI.

I was just curious in case my team gets stumped by similar issues. If we see a rash of people running into Win7 install problems, I'd be curious to see if the same BIOS ends up being involved each and every time. That's why I asked. Granted, it could also be the peripherals themselves causing this problem, but I'm inclined to suspect the BIOS doing something to confuse the installer first. That's just hypothesizing, though, in preparation for receiving data; I could be wrong about that. Anyway, my question was just aimed at grabbing info in case I need to put together a possible theory later. Thanks for the response.

 

[ElMondoHummus]

I suspect that your printer has a built-in memory card reader? If so, the windows installer may have been trying to enumerate volumes on that and failing, since there was likely no card inserted. Check to see if you have "Boot from USB" enabled somewhere in your BIOS. At this point, It's all academic, but I'd like to find out if that is the reason for it.

You know, that's not a bad explanation. If it wanted to locate a bootable partition on a USB volume, it might just ignore the fact that it had another perfectly usable partition in front of it. This might be worth doing an experiment with next time I'm back at work (it's vacation time right now, and I'm not inclined to mess with this at home ).

 

[Dancing David]

w00t!

I disconnected my usb scanner and printer, and all of a sudden Windows has no problem with my RAID disks and it is installing as I write this!

This proves my theory, which I am sure I am not the only one to think about.

You will spend 4 hours researching for every thirty seconds it takes to fix.

 

[666]

Try the 'Tab' key, to see if you can get the check box selected, then hit the spacebar to check it.

Press the tab key and repeat until the checkbox is selected, then press space to check the box.

Thanks for the help, especially commandlinegamer for the space bar thing I had forgotten long ago.

Yep, good advice there. I should have thought of it first.

Your Cloak of Invisibility seems to be working just fine, screensnot.

 

[WildCat]

Your Cloak of Invisibility seems to be working just fine, screensnot.

haha, yeah he said it first. But that was last night when I was nearly insane.

But the trick was not to click my mouse button first, because once I did that I couldn't do anything by hitting tab.

 

[WildCat]

I suspect that your printer has a built-in memory card reader?

No, it has no card reader. It's an old Epson stylus photo 1280. The scanner is even older, an Epson Perfection 1240u.

 

[screensnot]

As long as you are up and running, that's all that matters, WildCat.

Whenever I install an OS, I try to have only absolutely necessary hardware and peripherals hooked up to start. Then I connect/install the rest of the stuff one at a time.

I actually misread your post #8, and thought that downloading the RAID drivers had cured your problems.

 

[WildCat]

As long as you are up and running, that's all that matters, WildCat.

Whenever I install an OS, I try to have only absolutely necessary hardware and peripherals hooked up to start. Then I connect/install the rest of the stuff one at a time.

I actually misread your post #8, and thought that downloading the RAID drivers had cured your problems.

Well I do appreciate all the help you gave me. As it turns out, Windows 7 didn't even need the RAID drivers. With XP you had to load them, and the only way to load them was via floppy!

I don't think I even need a floppy drive any more, which is good since the one I have is dead.

 

[screensnot]

Well I do appreciate all the help you gave me. As it turns out, Windows 7 didn't even need the RAID drivers. With XP you had to load them, and the only way to load them was via floppy!

I don't think I even need a floppy drive any more, which is good since the one I have is dead.

That's good that W7 didn't need your RAID drivers. But I don't think that's a guarantee that nobody will ever need to install a RAID driver when installing W7. Future RAID controllers may need a driver that W7 doesn't have.

It always pissed me off that XP would only install drivers from a floppy. Does W7 let you do it from an optical drive, or USB drive?

 

[WildCat]

Does W7 let you do it from an optical drive, or USB drive?

Yes, if needed you can use a usb flash drive or a cd.

 

[Whiplash]

I always unhook external devices like USB and joysticks, etc, when doing a windows install. Pretty much just keyboard, mouse, monitor, sound and network only. And then plug them back in over time, one by one, as I do their individual driver installs, etc. It seems easier, to avoid having Windows finding too much new hardware at the same time during the install / early up and running phases. Plus it may want to put on drivers I don't want it to use, in favor of other drivers.