M2N-SLI Deluxe and Windows 7

St. Fenix

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Nov 21, 2009, 8:24:08 AM11/21/09

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Greetings all, I'm quite new here, but have a feeling that of the entire
internet so far,

people here might actually be able to help me. :)

I've been trying to install of copy of Windows 7 Ultimate on an M2N-SLI
deluxe motherboard for about a week now, and no matter what I do it
refuses to recognize a 250GB Samsung Drive on SATA port 2. I've tried
all the windows 7 drivers I could find at Nvidia's site, and extracting
the .EXE's to get at the drivers, but I can't for the life of me get
Windows 7 to recognize a single one! I've tried Windows ultimate 32,
Windows vista 64 and Windows Vista 32, all just trying to see if I could
just get it to the loading bar.

If anyone has any ideas or managed to get it installed on their
motherboard, I would appreciate any words they could share with me, I'm
at my wits end with this. :(

The specs are:
3GB's of RAM at DDR2 800
M2N-SLI Deluxe Ailifestyles Motherboard
Cooler Master 750 Watt Power Supply
Soundblaster Extreme Music Soundcard
With an AM2+ Processor that I've yet to indentify. :P (A throwaway from
a tournament, so I'm still learning about the thing.)

Paul

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Nov 22, 2009, 5:39:50 AM11/22/09

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What were you using the disk for previously ?

Test with some diagnostic software. That will help prove that
the hardware path to the drive is working. Find your particular
model of drive, then download the software.

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/productmodel.do?group=72&type=61&subtype=63&model_cd=469&dType=G&mType=SW&tab=down&ppmi=1155

Paul

Joe

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Nov 22, 2009, 1:06:31 PM11/22/09

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Have you tried SATA port 1? Also you might remove the sound card,
install and then put it back in.

John Carter

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Nov 23, 2009, 12:13:18 AM11/23/09

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St. Fenix <St.Feni...@no.email.invalid> wrote in
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I have an ASUS M2N-E. I don't know about the final release version
of Win7, but early on when I installed a pre-release, I had to
provide drivers during the boot up of the install, by pressing F6
(AFAIRemeber) and having drivers loaded from a floppy. Is it still
this way ?

Rob C.

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Nov 23, 2009, 9:10:16 AM11/23/09

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John Carter wrote:

>
> I have an ASUS M2N-E. I don't know about the final release version
> of Win7, but early on when I installed a pre-release, I had to
> provide drivers during the boot up of the install, by pressing F6
> (AFAIRemeber) and having drivers loaded from a floppy. Is it still
> this way ?

I don't think you need F6 any more, at least I didn't on Win
7 Home Premium or Home Professional Upgrade. When the
screen asking what partition you want to install to comes
up, you'll see a choice labeled "Driver" towards the bottom
of the screen. Thats where you now load the AHCI/RAID
drivers from Floppy/CD/USB drive/etc. Once you make that
selection, a window pops up to browse to the location of the
*.inf file. I'm glad to see that Microsoft gave us
options besides a floppy drive.

It could be that the driver issue is what the OP is having
but I wonder if their drive is not recognized or if it just
can't be installed to. Hopefully, a response to Paul's
question will clear that up.
Rob C.

Jack Simmons

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Nov 23, 2009, 9:50:15 AM11/23/09

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I have one of these boards, with 5000+ processor, 8gig ram and 4 sata
hard drives
Installed Win7 64bit ultimate last week .. didnt need any drivers not
on dvd and its all been running fine

Jack Simmons

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Nov 23, 2009, 10:39:52 AM11/23/09

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On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:24:08 -0600, St. Fenix
<St.Feni...@no.email.invalid> wrote: