i think my hd or controller may have burned out. my bios does not recognize my hd or cd! running win 7 ultimate ver. my screen says to insert boot dis
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I actually bought the CD, it didn't work. Am not sure it will work with ur PC. I have took take my PC to engineer and the engineer told me that the CD doesn't work. But you may try it, it may work for u.
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Yes. I found it is best to start Win 7 in safe mode - load the drivers - then reboot.
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Go to the boot menu. BIOS. Under legacy settings you have to change it to allow the computer to recognize the card. Especially for Windows 8. Good Luck
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I used the drivers that came with the card and it booted right up, using windows 7...make sure cable are plugged into the correct places and that the card is seated correctly in the proper slot...
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You need to go into the BIOS and change the boot up order. It's trying to boot off the external drive probably. If you don't know how to do this, just wait until after computer boots (Windows screen) and then plug external drive in. That should work.
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Try another disk, if that doesn't change then possibly your missing or damaged driver for the drive. Other possibly the drive I'd bad.
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Yes, that's what I did. Just make sure to change the boot order in the bios to your external optical disk, then back to hdd as primary when finished.
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Yes you have the hard drive from SATA to compatibly mode and and change UEFI to ACHI mode. Change nothing else or you will run into a mile of problems like I did then it will take you about 2 days to get everything right again.
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Best thing to do is look to see if there is a driver offered by ATI for Win7 on that card. The one I have is still on an XP system. I hope so for when I change to Win7.
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try plugging it back to where it worked well. that's for checking if your hard drive is still good.
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the bios will update its self and recognize the new core on its own. there should not be any problem but if there is resetting the bios would be the quickest fix for any problems.
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The OS is stored on the hard drive. If you just change the mobo it should still boot right up without any problem. You may have to re validate your Windows installation. If it gives you a message to do this after a period of time it should take your product key. If it won't work then you will have to call Microsoft and they will likely help you with it. This has been a great Motherboard for me. Good luck.
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You may not need to. Do you have ahci enabled in Bios? All I did was make sure ahci was enabled upon the first bootup and it recognized all 3 of my hdds. I also chose to reinstall windows after from scratch that way there were no drivers for my old motherboard to be deleted. It was easier to install windows after reformatting the system drive then it would have been to remove everything for the old motherboard.
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Possibility, with bios update, however, this motherboard went dead on me after only two days
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I had problems with the device also. Trying to do a BIOS upgrade, was not recognized. Found an older one and it worked for me.
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Mine has booted fine since purchase. Sounds like a power supply problem. Can you check to see if you have a voltage or on/off switch to the power pack on the rear of the pc and/or try a new power cord or surge protector? I don't know the warranty period, but it should be easily determined by looking at your amazon order history and reviewing the write up for this particular purchase.
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you need to buy a copy of windows. using an external disc drive you set the bios to boot from drive 'd' and the disc will instruct you how to load windows.