Can't boot from USB in asus m5A97 EVO R2.0

[KieranDavidW123]

Hi there,

I'm building a system for a friend, I finished putting together all of the parts, and then proceeded to boot from my USB drive, on which I ran the windows USB boot utility. I had used this previously on my PC, and was able to successfully install windows 7 on it, but now for some reason the first USB I tried was being detected, but we couldn't boot from it, said something along the lines of "insert a bootable device...". Oh yeah, and it also got VERY hot and it now no longer works. So the 2nd USB we tried, the same thing happened except the USB wasn't being detected at all this time.

So after that, I then went on to burning my windows 7 ISO onto a CD, to boot from that. But I then got an IO error.

I am now all out of ideas on how to fix this problem, any ideas?

Thanks,
Kieran.

 

[Shaun o]

Go into the bios of the motherboard.
Make sure you select advanced bios mode option.

Go to the page that lists the boot devices and the order listing of booting.
Make sure you set the Sata based DVD drive to number one in the list.

Now look at CMS mode, compatibility support mode.
Set to OProm legacy devices, over uefi mode.

Set the Sata interface type to Ahci mode.
save the new settings in your bios.
Making sure that the Dvd drive and the hard drive you wish to install to are conected to Sata port 1 and 2 of the motherboard.

 

[KieranDavidW123]

Actually, because I have got the ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0, and he has the EVO R2.0, and we both have the same CPU, could I take his hard drive and install windows on it myself? Seeing as they're the same board, only difference is the 4 pin connector and the heatsinks on the VRM?

 

[KieranDavidW123]

Isn't that for booting from the DvD drive? I told you I want to do it from the USB drive?

 

[Shaun o]

Not exactly ideal, the chip sets do differ slightly.
You can give it a go, but you may run into problems when transferring the drive from board to board.

Your problem is still though that the settings in the new systems bios need to be set right.
I take it you used the Microsoft authoring tool to make a boot able image of windows on the USB drive.
Set to number one in the boot order then no problem.
oh I forgot to say make sure enable detection of legacy devices is also enabled in the bios.

If it`s off it sometimes why a usb pen does not boot.

 

[KieranDavidW123]

Alright, ill be heading over soon, ill keep you updated, thanks.