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#915445 15-Oct-2013 14:16

BinaryLimited: ok something new....
the only driver that installed was the usb 3.0.... once the driver installs it moves to the next screen and get an awesome "installation failed, please reboot " message

There are 4 revisions of that motherboard, make sure you have the right one.

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#915486 15-Oct-2013 15:57

I might suggest you go to your BIOS and set the SATA drivers to 'compatible' mode or similar. There may also be a setting to disable the USB3 or have them detected as USB2. This would be a way to make sure the native drivers work. Once the OS is installed, you can dick with the drivers and performance tune it, getting from compatible SATA to SATA3 is well documented and easy to do (generally speaking).

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#915505 15-Oct-2013 16:16

@browned : rev1 here :) doubled checked that

@gundar : sata is sroted and fine. usb3 is now all disabled.

@CyaBro : yeah the usb3 drivers seemed like it was exactly what it needed? when disbaling usb3 rubbish in my bios i dont get asked for drivers anymore.

however i still landedup with the same crap message.
" Installation Failed, Please restart "

viewing the log i get the following :
win7 Setup exited with 31
UIBackEnd : : RunWindowsSetup : Exited (0x80004005)
UIBackEnd : : Launch : Exited (0X80004005)
Failed to Launch windows setup

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#915701 15-Oct-2013 20:24

OK to recap everything...

Removed all Ram, inserted only 1 stick of ram.
Tried installing OS on 2 different HDD's
No raid setup
mounted the iso to 2 different USB's ( 8GB )
Tried installation on a different PC with 2 different HDD's.
Formatted both hdd's and removed all partitions.
Installed required drivers ( not a problem anymore )
Removed all addon hardware ( GPU etc )

Still get this error :
win7 Setup exited with 31
UIBackEnd : : RunWindowsSetup : Exited (0x80004005)
UIBackEnd : : Launch : Exited (0X80004005)
Failed to Launch windows setup

Anyone got more ideas?

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#915711 15-Oct-2013 20:54

cant remember offhand but hard drive had to be around 160GB minimum. No way will work on 8GB

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#915712 15-Oct-2013 20:57

Gilco2: cant remember offhand but hard drive had to be around 160GB minimum. No way will work on 8GB

my bad : Used 2 different USB's (8gb) to install the OS on.
Corrected : mounted the iso to 2 different USB's ( 8GB )

also, the hdd's i used ...one was 500gb and the other 250gb.

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#915713 15-Oct-2013 21:01

BinaryLimited:
Gilco2: cant remember offhand but hard drive had to be around 160GB minimum. No way will work on 8GB

my bad : Used 2 different USB's (8gb) to install the OS on.
Corrected : mounted the iso to 2 different USB's ( 8GB )

also, the hdd's i used ...one was 500gb and the other 250gb.

dont know then sorry. On mine I installed to a 240GB SSD and used Windows 7 64bit motherboard drivers and all went well.

edit to say I used a USB external cd drive to install from.
also forgot to say, I only had the 1 hdd installed that I wanted os on then once installed added my data hard drives,

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#915716 15-Oct-2013 21:07

Gilco2:
BinaryLimited:
Gilco2: cant remember offhand but hard drive had to be around 160GB minimum. No way will work on 8GB

my bad : Used 2 different USB's (8gb) to install the OS on.
Corrected : mounted the iso to 2 different USB's ( 8GB )

also, the hdd's i used ...one was 500gb and the other 250gb.
dont know then sorry. On mine I installed to a 240GB SSD and used Windows 7 64bit motherboard drivers and all went well.

yeah, i also used windows 7 drivers. Atleast i know im on the right path with that.

Thing i cant understand is that after all the reading on different forums...people mention that Home Server is based on Server 2008.
How is it im able to install Server 2008 and Server 2012 on the same machine but not Home Server 2011?

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#915761 15-Oct-2013 22:08

An install method that works well for headless machines, is to begin the install on a different machine, then, at the first reboot, pull the drive and bung it in the target machine. Could be worth a crack.

And the HDD is supposed to be bigger than 160GB, but there are a few ways around that. I'm using a 60GB SSD in mine no problem at all.

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#915762 15-Oct-2013 22:13

andrewNZ: An install method that works well for headless machines, is to begin the install on a different machine, then, at the first reboot, pull the drive and bung it in the target machine. Could be worth a crack.

And the HDD is supposed to be bigger than 160GB, but there are a few ways around that. I'm using a 60GB SSD in mine no problem at all.

Already tried that,won't install on both machines.

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#915765 15-Oct-2013 22:16

They are both gigabyte motherboards but different models

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#917164 18-Oct-2013 18:54

From memory, and based on where you're saying you're up to in the install process, it's definitely the disk controller drivers that it's after.

From the gigabyte site, the drivers are one of these:

AMD SATA RAID Driver (Preinstall driver, press F6 during Windows* setup to read from floppy) 3.3.1540.33 0.38 MB 2012/10/25 Asia China America EuropeEurope(Russia) : FTP / Http
AMD SATA AHCI Driver (Preinstall driver, press F6 during Windows* setup to read from floppy) 1.2.001.0331 0.28 MB 2012/10/25 Asia China America EuropeEurope(Russia) : FTP / Http
Marvell RAID Driver 1.1.0.6 0.43 MB 2011/08/16 Asia China America EuropeEurope(Russia) : FTP / Http
Marvell AHCI Driver 1.1.0.6 0.43 MB 2011/08/16 Asia China America EuropeEurope(Russia) : FTP / Http

It depends on the BIOS settings and what ports they're plugged in on.Cause it's installing from WinPE, you can put the drivers on a USB stick.Are you in Auckland? If so, I could take a look...

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#917191 18-Oct-2013 19:58

have you tried updating the BIOS to the latest version, then taking the "load optimal defaults" (or equivalent) to reset the bios back to 'factory'?

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#917199 18-Oct-2013 20:28

fastmikey: From memory, and based on where you're saying you're up to in the install process, it's definitely the disk controller drivers that it's after.

From the gigabyte site, the drivers are one of these:

AMD SATA RAID Driver (Preinstall driver, press F6 during Windows* setup to read from floppy) 3.3.1540.33 0.38 MB 2012/10/25 Asia China America EuropeEurope(Russia) : FTP / Http AMD SATA AHCI Driver (Preinstall driver, press F6 during Windows* setup to read from floppy) 1.2.001.0331 0.28 MB 2012/10/25 Asia China America EuropeEurope(Russia) : FTP / Http Marvell RAID Driver 1.1.0.6 0.43 MB 2011/08/16 Asia China America EuropeEurope(Russia) : FTP / Http Marvell AHCI Driver 1.1.0.6 0.43 MB 2011/08/16 Asia China America EuropeEurope(Russia) : FTP / Http It depends on the BIOS settings and what ports they're plugged in on.Cause it's installing from WinPE, you can put the drivers on a USB stick.Are you in Auckland? If so, I could take a look...

managed to fix the solution today. Had to remake the ISO.

Thanks for the help everyone.

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