Specs:
Mobo: Asus ROG Maximus VIII Hero
CPU: Intel i7 6700k
System drive: Intel 600p 1TB (M.2 in PCI mode)
Just purchased parts and assembled and went through literal hell installing Win7 for various reasons, my procedure that finally worked:
Ran Asus utility to prep install media with CD/DVD drivers
Installed Win7 to spare SATA SSD (Intel 520 180GB)
Installed MS hotfix for NVMe driver for Win7
Ran sysprep generalization
Cloned drive with clonezilla default settings (local drive to local drive)
Reinitialized on Intel 600p
Able to boot without issues.
Spent the past 6 hours trying every method known to man to get some drive connected so I can install drivers, finally managed it with a hot-swap bay and want to kill myself for the effort required.
Issue I identified was attempting to copy drivers to the same spare SSD (formatted), whenever I connect the drive while the system is off, Windows will boot to the flag and then system will instantly reset. Next boot goes into boot recovery options which cannot identify my installation.
Running boot repair does nothing. Upon removing the spare drive from the system, I am able to choose normal boot without issue.
Additional symptoms, thumbdrives, external disk drives, USB optical drives will not be recognized when plugged into any USB3 (no driver) or USB 2 port but keyboard and mouse work fine on both USB3 and USB2 (still no driver for USB3).
Installed drivers and currently running the 250-some updates and will try again once that's done, any ideas what's causing this/how to fix as I intend to add a 2nd M.2 drive via PCI expansion card and 3 HDDs. If I have to reinstall for whatever reason/with whatever method, I'd rather do it now than later
Mobo: Asus ROG Maximus VIII Hero
CPU: Intel i7 6700k
System drive: Intel 600p 1TB (M.2 in PCI mode)
Just purchased parts and assembled and went through literal hell installing Win7 for various reasons, my procedure that finally worked:
Ran Asus utility to prep install media with CD/DVD drivers
Installed Win7 to spare SATA SSD (Intel 520 180GB)
Installed MS hotfix for NVMe driver for Win7
Ran sysprep generalization
Cloned drive with clonezilla default settings (local drive to local drive)
Reinitialized on Intel 600p
Able to boot without issues.
Spent the past 6 hours trying every method known to man to get some drive connected so I can install drivers, finally managed it with a hot-swap bay and want to kill myself for the effort required.
Issue I identified was attempting to copy drivers to the same spare SSD (formatted), whenever I connect the drive while the system is off, Windows will boot to the flag and then system will instantly reset. Next boot goes into boot recovery options which cannot identify my installation.
Running boot repair does nothing. Upon removing the spare drive from the system, I am able to choose normal boot without issue.
Additional symptoms, thumbdrives, external disk drives, USB optical drives will not be recognized when plugged into any USB3 (no driver) or USB 2 port but keyboard and mouse work fine on both USB3 and USB2 (still no driver for USB3).
Installed drivers and currently running the 250-some updates and will try again once that's done, any ideas what's causing this/how to fix as I intend to add a 2nd M.2 drive via PCI expansion card and 3 HDDs. If I have to reinstall for whatever reason/with whatever method, I'd rather do it now than later
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