After a nightmarish install... Disabling USB caused it to not boot from the install media.
there was a certain usb emulation mode that I ended up disabling to get the install to stop freezing on disk format.
Key before install... seriously my favorite thing about the 7 install was not having to enter it till after you got it up and running.
Metro has beyond pissed me off ...but that is not my problem...
Hyper-V bricks my OS on install... Gets stuck in an infinite reboot loop no bueno.
System in question:
Biostar Tpower X79
E5-2680
8gb ddr3 1600
128gb samsung 830
Sapphire 7970
2x 1.5tb WD black (mirrored)
Asus DGX
Lite-On bluray drive
I have looked around and I see disabling usb3 on gigabyte boards as a "fix" ... Considering I only have 2 usb 2 ports...that would suck and is frankly unacceptable.
Any ideas? I have a clean install of windows 8 back up... but I have not been brick happy today yet.
Edit:
Windows 8 Pro x64
Also of note...
I have a C0 stepping, VT-D was broken in C1 ... I am unsure if it will work on C0 and I have not found any evidence one way or the other.
So, Does VT-D need to be enabled for hyper-V ... its not the sole virtualization tech...that is just for disk IO stuff.
there was a certain usb emulation mode that I ended up disabling to get the install to stop freezing on disk format.
Key before install... seriously my favorite thing about the 7 install was not having to enter it till after you got it up and running.
Metro has beyond pissed me off ...but that is not my problem...
Hyper-V bricks my OS on install... Gets stuck in an infinite reboot loop no bueno.
System in question:
Biostar Tpower X79
E5-2680
8gb ddr3 1600
128gb samsung 830
Sapphire 7970
2x 1.5tb WD black (mirrored)
Asus DGX
Lite-On bluray drive
I have looked around and I see disabling usb3 on gigabyte boards as a "fix" ... Considering I only have 2 usb 2 ports...that would suck and is frankly unacceptable.
Any ideas? I have a clean install of windows 8 back up... but I have not been brick happy today yet.
Edit:
Windows 8 Pro x64
Also of note...
I have a C0 stepping, VT-D was broken in C1 ... I am unsure if it will work on C0 and I have not found any evidence one way or the other.
So, Does VT-D need to be enabled for hyper-V ... its not the sole virtualization tech...that is just for disk IO stuff.
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