Select the driver to install into windows 8.1

[Thaimasker]

Get through 1 brick wall and hit another, that describes my experience when building my first PC .

Ok so the order in the title is what I get, and it says that I have no drivers to install...Do I need to transfer something in a USB or something? I'm installing windows 8.1 OEM from my CD.

 

[Calaghan Grainger]

That's your problem. Don't use that port use another with the black line. That is usb3. As it stands as of now windows install only supports USB2 the black one lol.

 

[Thaimasker]

That's your problem. Don't use that port use another with the black line. That is usb3. As it stands as of now windows install only supports USB2 the black one lol.

Doesn't seem to change anything D: The windows set up still ask me where to install with a blank screen, and then after that the drivers, with a blank screen. and yes I did change the boot order in the UEFI

 

[Calaghan Grainger]

That is strange it should be installing whats your HDD set as in UEFI AHCI or IDE. It should be set to AHCI. Also you probably know this but the first item in the boot order should be HDD. When selecting boot device the f12 key is usually used to select the device.

 

[Calaghan Grainger]

I am starting to think it could possibly be that your HDD has failed. I wonder. If you have another maybe swapping the HDDs and seeing if that makes a difference

 

[Thaimasker]

Unfortunately I don't have another, this is the only one I have, brand new too.
Yes the HDD is set as AHCI, And yes The HDD is set first, although I tried swapping around with all. Just to be more specific the error for loading the driver says "no signed device drivers were found. Make sure that the installation media contains the correct drivers then click ok, note the installation media can be a cd,dvd, or usb flash drive

 

[Calaghan Grainger]

Yup. Its not seeing the HDD. I came across this on another forum actually 😛 the user had to re install. he entered the key began setup and bang no drivers lol went to bios all was well ran GPARTED and it reported something like 390 bad sectors and 10000+ CRC errors and a bunch of other issues. I would say make a UBCD or Gparted USB and run the HDD diagnostics as i am 99.1 % sure that is the reason.

 

[Thaimasker]

So a UBCD And Gparted USB will basically just allow me to run HDD Diagnostics but not do much else? So I might as well just buy another HDD then?

 

[Calaghan Grainger]

Yes and potentially yes. Those tools will tell you 100% if your HDD has kicked the bucket. Then if it has you would need to get a new HDD and install onto that one. If they report that the HDD is fine we can explore additional fixes.

 

[Thaimasker]

So I download UBCD, Send it to my USB and plugged it in my new pc, now what?

 

[Calaghan Grainger]

If your booting into it you should see a section called HDD once in if your a western digital HDD select their diagnostic tool. Run a S.M.A.R.T test and then a Short DST check. After that if tests are positive run a long DST check. The long DST will take a long time to complete so be prepared to wait. If it finds anything it will error out and let you know with an error code. If you dont have/dont want to use a WD product you an try the hitachi/seagate tool (will work for all models) and the same deal with that S.M.A.R.T test, short DST, long DST.

 

[Thaimasker]

Says no hard drive found both times
No controllers detected

 

[Calaghan Grainger]

HDD has failed. I would replace and install on the new HDD.

 

[Thaimasker]

HDD has failed. I would replace and install on the new HDD.

Yeah that's what I'm planning on doing. I don't have much $ left to spend on my PC right now so I'll have to get something under $60. I wanna get something reliable, with very low failure chance, can external HDDs fail? I'm Thinking of getting this
http://www.microcenter.com/product/420761/MiniStation_500GB_SuperSpeed_USB_30_Portable_External_Hard_Drive_HD-PCF500U3B or this http://www.microcenter.com/product/388863/Touro_Mobile_Pro_500GB_7,200_RPM_25_SuperSpeed_USB_30_Portable_Hard_Drive_with_3GB_Cloud_Storage
Storage devices have easily risen to my#1 list of things to worry about now...I am used to having laptop for years and never having to worry about storage.

edit: you know what...I'm starting to double think about the externals because apparently it isn't very good at loading games at a good speed.