Ok, I feel like a real dummy here and wonder if someone would be able to help....
I just put together all the parts for my new AMD A6 build using an ASRock A55M-HVS motherboard. When I power it up, everything turns on, monitor gets a signal, mouse & keyboard work.
If I allow it to fully boot it prompts to install the boot disc, and if I put in the ASRock driver disc it prompts to partition the HDD as WinXP set up but no option for Win7 which is what I want. If I select EXIT, it prompts me to reboot with the reboot disc installed, but the system will not accept the Win7 program disk or the Win7 loader/ validation disk and keeps prompting me to install the proper disc. If I try to format as WinXP it still will not do anything.
I have followed the motherboard manual and entered the UEFI screen and set my SATA storage configuration to IDE mode since I am not using NCQ and Hot Plug, to no avail. I have tried setting it to AHCI and still no progress.
Both my HDD and my DVD drive are recognized, and I have even changed the boot order to DVD and still nothing.
What am I missing???
I just put together all the parts for my new AMD A6 build using an ASRock A55M-HVS motherboard. When I power it up, everything turns on, monitor gets a signal, mouse & keyboard work.
If I allow it to fully boot it prompts to install the boot disc, and if I put in the ASRock driver disc it prompts to partition the HDD as WinXP set up but no option for Win7 which is what I want. If I select EXIT, it prompts me to reboot with the reboot disc installed, but the system will not accept the Win7 program disk or the Win7 loader/ validation disk and keeps prompting me to install the proper disc. If I try to format as WinXP it still will not do anything.
I have followed the motherboard manual and entered the UEFI screen and set my SATA storage configuration to IDE mode since I am not using NCQ and Hot Plug, to no avail. I have tried setting it to AHCI and still no progress.
Both my HDD and my DVD drive are recognized, and I have even changed the boot order to DVD and still nothing.
What am I missing???