Yesterday I upgraded from an ASRock pro3+ mobo and an AMD Athlon to an Asus Z170-a and an i5 6600k. After everything was assembled, I launched into my desktop on Windows no problem. However, my motherboard doesn't have the necessary drivers to connect to the Internet, and my computer won't seem to recognize either my flash drive or an external optical drive, no matter what port it's plugged in to. No autoplay pop up, and nothing in the file Explorer. However, both my flash drive and optic drive will show up as boot options from the bios. With this, I tried reinstalling windows both from disc and flash drive using an ISO, but, after booting from the flash and optic drive, it shows the loading files screen, and goes to the initial install screen. It's at this point that it says I'm missing a USB or CD drive with the necessary drivers. Sure enough, using the browser it showed my flash drive and optical drive weren't options.
So I can't get my drivers onto my new setup to make things work, and I can't seem to reinstall windows to fix things either. I'm trying to find a better solution than tearing apart my computer again to put in the old parts.
So I can't get my drivers onto my new setup to make things work, and I can't seem to reinstall windows to fix things either. I'm trying to find a better solution than tearing apart my computer again to put in the old parts.