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    USB drive not detected or something?

    'Ello! i'm having problems with (re) installing windows 8 from a flash drive.
    the issue is that whenever I try to boot from the USB stick the bios stops after displaying the dashboard of hardware plugged into the computer ( dimm slots, Hard drives, processor IDs and so fourth), DMI data i believe.

    it displays the forementioned dashboard but it does not boot. it just freezes at that point, regardless of how many hard drives i have plugged in.
    the motherboard is a Gigabyte AM2+ board and the USB drive is a noname hama drive that's extremely small, formatted with ntfs and has had windows 8 installfiles put on it.

    ---------- Post added 2012-11-17 at 01:26 AM ----------

    just tried the same drive on my laptop, worked flawlessly.
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    Watch this vid, it should help you out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZseCvvjpk0U

    Edit:
    Missed the (re) part. If you have installed it from USB once already I cant say what the problem might be. Motherboard/USB not working correctly?
    Last edited by Sthos; 2012-11-17 at 01:55 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sthos View Post
    Watch this vid, it should help you out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZseCvvjpk0U

    Edit:
    Missed the (re) part. If you have installed it from USB once already I cant say what the problem might be. Motherboard/USB not working correctly?
    dude, that is not at all what i need. i already uploaded my win8 files / bootcode over to the flash drive, my problem is that the motherboard does not boot if i have the flash drive plugged in and set as boot drive. It gets to the bios DMI dashboard and stops.

    It gets to the phase just before http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/778/91869971.png . - it does not list the controllers , just the initial dashboard with the actual hardware. i'll get you a photo tommorow!
    Last edited by Keller; 2012-11-17 at 02:00 AM.
    "Marketing is what you do when your product is no good."

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    Yeah like I said, missed the part of the re install. If you have an extra USB try that, if that one doesn't work it's gotta be something with your system.

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