Im gonna break open my pld laptop and pray the cd drive works

Will be back soon lol

THIS please


/e It's not a good Idea to run a thin optical drive in a desktop, w/o an adapter for it. They spin VERY fast, they shatter too, if not help securely in the desktop.

This post was edited by Ghot on Feb 13 2016 04:01pm

Msi z170a m7

The computer is booting but it wont boot in slots 2 and 4,

My issue is it will detect no devi es inside of windows so i cant install drivers

MSI Z170 Gaming 7 it's in his old thread

Yes, I read the post...lemme get your motherboard manual. One sec.

Ok... the RAM is supposed to go in the slots 2 and 4...if comp won't boot with them in there then it should give you an LED debug code. pg 47 in your manual are the debug codes.

The CPU fan needs to be plugged into CPUFAN1 on your motherboard.



The XHCI and USB Controller settings are on page 57 in your manual.

pg 56 in your manual, make sure you set Sata Mode to: AHCI Mode

If installing Windows 7, there's a setting you have to change on pg 75 in your manual.








/e Also make sure the time and date are right, in the BIOS, ofc.


If you DO get a LED debug code with the RAM in slots 2 & 4.... please tell us the code.

This post was edited by Ghot on Feb 13 2016 04:36pm

Well then he needs to go in disk management to allow his devices to work cos it's not usb slot problem nor the USB itself.

I think, unfortunately, that if the OP is trying to install Win 7, he must 1st do Step #4 above. THEN reinstall Windows.

That pic is right out of his manual.

It seems that NOT doing Step #4 above, may be causing the issue of the comp not recognizing the USB stick....the same for those two other BIOS settings.

This post was edited by Ghot on Feb 13 2016 05:29pm

Okay i think i may have fixed everything, it took downloading and manually installing all the drivers to finally work,

I had to hook up old comp and download all drivers onto my internal then use it as a slave device on my new one and manually install every driver....

Now im just working out minor issues like windows update not working etc.

Good job.


If you installed Win 7, you will need to DL manually....Service Pack 1 and install that to get Windows 7 Updates working.

Assuming, it wasn't included on the Win 7 install disc.

/e The other smaller issue that causes Win 7 updates to fail...is that every 9 months or so, MS releases an Update to Windows Updater. So sometimes you wilkl have to install them first, reboot, then recheck for updates. Actually, you'll probably have to do this a few times for other things like .NET Framework...etc.

This post was edited by Ghot on Feb 13 2016 06:23pm