MSI 970 gaming win 8 instalation problems/bios setup

elw

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Hi there, in my new build with mobo MSI 970 gaming, I am in trouble to install win 8 from DVD. I have tried probably all combinations UEFI/UEFI+legacy setup in bios with Windows 8 feature enabled, etc. However as far I could get to with installation windows 8 was: Full screen logo-->MSI white logo in middle of screen-->Windows 8 logo in middle of screen. And after that blue screen appeared with 🙁 and message that something wrong went with my PC. Or in better case I got error message about drivers missing or kernel missing.
Could someone link a link to guide how to set up Click BIOS 4 to actually install win8, Or can you tell me what probably wrong with it?
btw my build is:
CPU FX-8300,GPU AMD R9 285, crucial SSD 128GB, Ram Kingston Hyperx 1866 MHz
and bios properly can read all these components.
 
Solution
Make sure you install your Hardwares correctly.
and before you install win8, I will do few thing first:
1) update your bios
2) clean CMOS
3) double check your harddisk is alive.....
if you are bluescreening while trying to install Windows, this can sometimes occur if you have damaged your hardware in some way.

You need to check both your CPU and motherboard for anything that may be broken or bent, especially the CPU pins.
 
I did check my CPU pins and it doesnt have any broken pins or so. Meanwhile I took out memory and all the plugs and reconnected it, also cleaned CMOS. After restarting computer I was getting 2 short beeps. I found out on AMI boards it means bad memory parity or bad memory.

The thing with update bios is that I was trying yesterday do it. But when using M-flash it says that it can't find root folder. I have downloaded bios file from MSI site but apparently its not able to be read from usb stick.
UPDATE:
oh well realized that after extracting files to usb stick I had to move files out of the folder on usb stick to be readable by M-flash. Now did flas bios and going to try install win8.
 
Hello there, seems it was only bios failing all the time. After I flashed via M-flash and updated to newest bios I could finally install win 8 without any problem :) Thanks for replies!