Hi guys, sorry for my late reply :).
TrashZone, Thank for your advice, but I think it is the issue of motherboard and Win 7, so I'm not sure, if I install it on another machine if it will accept another UEFI BIOS settings on another machine.
But I will share results of my investigation during last days. Hopefully it may help to someone.
Note: There are 2 ways of booting - UEFI and none UEFI
USB flash
UEFI mode
If Uefi is on (Legacy off) in Bios, then UEFI boot is unable to run. If I run non UEFI boot install process of W7 continues until it comes to screen where drives are shown. In this window I'm able to load the driver (I prepared USB Boot stick with USB drivers from mobo DVD). It found following items:
Compatible: intel usb 3
and also
MTT Host Controller USB 2.0
Host Controller USB 2.0
Host Controller USB 3.0
USB Host Controller
with this driver file: iusb3hub.inf
In all cases driver loading was not succesful (USB stick was inserted into USB 2.0). If I clicked Next nothing happened.
I also loaded RAID drivers (from mobo dvd) to that USB stick in case it is needed as I want to have RAID 1
It showed compatible driver for Intel Chipset SATA Raid Controller with this driver file: iaStorAC.inf
and also other (incompatible) drivers:
Intel 100 Series / C230 Chipset Family AHCI Controller iaAHCIC.inf
Intel 6th Generation Core Processor Family Paltform I/O SATA AHCI Controller
Intel 8 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller
Intel 8 Series / C220 Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller
Intel 9 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller
It has found the hard drive (only one size is shown, but it is probably due to RAID 1) But this drive I was not able to format and continue with install.
Following message appeared:
Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu.
Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the Setup log files for more information
So the result is that I was not able to install Windows 7 under UEFI.
Legacy mode - UEFI booting is not able to launch
in non UEFI booting installation process is correct and it created 2 partitions
1. System with 100 MB total
2. Primary with 476,8 GB size (Raid 1)
If I took a look at the file C:WindowsPanthersetupact.log
I could see BIOS under Detected boot environment
This makes sense as it was launched in Legacy mode (even if Windows UEFI mode was selected under Secure Boot option).
DVD
UEFI mode
If i run it as UEFI (not Legacy mode set up in Bios) it makes the same as USB stick did with one difference that I'm able to run the install DVD also with UEFI booting. It means I was not able to install Windows 7 in case UEFI mode was on in Bios.
Legacy mode
UEFI boot
In this case install process goes well. I came to drive screen and already have 3 partitions
1. Partition 1 100 MB System
2. Partition 2 128 MB MSR (Reserved)
3. Partition 3 476,7 GB Primary
Installation process was succesful and if I took a look at the file C:WindowsPanthersetupact.log
I could see EFI under Detected boot environment
This doesn't make a sense as it was launched in Legacy mode, but as UEFI boot. There was also option Windows UEFI mode under Secure Boot, but I realized that in this case it does not matter if there is Windows UEFI mode or Other OS selected.
I'm confused of this as the BIOS was set to Legacy, boot was UEFI and Windows shows that boot environment is EFI. Does it make a sense to someone?
In case I installed Windows 8 everything was set to UEFI, no Legacy and it was also EFI (setupact.log), but there is still the difference, so I'm not sure if I can be satisfied that I'm UEFI or not. In this case it is not UEFI like UEFI (in comparison W7 vs. W8)
All mentioned cases were in CSM enabled mode.
If CSM is disabled and Secure Boot is set to Windows UEFI mode DVD does not launch it always do the restart.
If CSM is disabled and Secure Boot is set to Other OS DVD with UEFI boot always froze.
If CSM is disabled and Secure Boot is set to Other OS DVD with non UEFI boot continues installation process further (but as BIOS, not EFI in setupact.log), but this was not my case as I wanted UEFI. But this also make sense.
My conclusion is that only way how to install Windows 7 UEFI was to set Legacy in BIOS and run UEFI boot (Secure Boot was Windows UEFI mode, too, but when I try to launch it as Other OS, I did not realized a difference). Original DVD is all you need. So in this case setupact.log is showing EFI Boot detected environment.
But I'm still a bit confused if this is the proper solution of Windows 7 UEFI for Sabertooth Z170 Mark 1.
Is it the only way how to get W7 UEFI in this case or am I doing something wrong?
Can anyone confirm or deny this?
TrashZone, Thank for your advice, but I think it is the issue of motherboard and Win 7, so I'm not sure, if I install it on another machine if it will accept another UEFI BIOS settings on another machine.
But I will share results of my investigation during last days. Hopefully it may help to someone.
Note: There are 2 ways of booting - UEFI and none UEFI
USB flash
UEFI mode
If Uefi is on (Legacy off) in Bios, then UEFI boot is unable to run. If I run non UEFI boot install process of W7 continues until it comes to screen where drives are shown. In this window I'm able to load the driver (I prepared USB Boot stick with USB drivers from mobo DVD). It found following items:
Compatible: intel usb 3
and also
MTT Host Controller USB 2.0
Host Controller USB 2.0
Host Controller USB 3.0
USB Host Controller
with this driver file: iusb3hub.inf
In all cases driver loading was not succesful (USB stick was inserted into USB 2.0). If I clicked Next nothing happened.
I also loaded RAID drivers (from mobo dvd) to that USB stick in case it is needed as I want to have RAID 1
It showed compatible driver for Intel Chipset SATA Raid Controller with this driver file: iaStorAC.inf
and also other (incompatible) drivers:
Intel 100 Series / C230 Chipset Family AHCI Controller iaAHCIC.inf
Intel 6th Generation Core Processor Family Paltform I/O SATA AHCI Controller
Intel 8 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller
Intel 8 Series / C220 Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller
Intel 9 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller
It has found the hard drive (only one size is shown, but it is probably due to RAID 1) But this drive I was not able to format and continue with install.
Following message appeared:
Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu.
Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the Setup log files for more information
So the result is that I was not able to install Windows 7 under UEFI.
Legacy mode - UEFI booting is not able to launch
in non UEFI booting installation process is correct and it created 2 partitions
1. System with 100 MB total
2. Primary with 476,8 GB size (Raid 1)
If I took a look at the file C:WindowsPanthersetupact.log
I could see BIOS under Detected boot environment
This makes sense as it was launched in Legacy mode (even if Windows UEFI mode was selected under Secure Boot option).
DVD
UEFI mode
If i run it as UEFI (not Legacy mode set up in Bios) it makes the same as USB stick did with one difference that I'm able to run the install DVD also with UEFI booting. It means I was not able to install Windows 7 in case UEFI mode was on in Bios.
Legacy mode
UEFI boot
In this case install process goes well. I came to drive screen and already have 3 partitions
1. Partition 1 100 MB System
2. Partition 2 128 MB MSR (Reserved)
3. Partition 3 476,7 GB Primary
Installation process was succesful and if I took a look at the file C:WindowsPanthersetupact.log
I could see EFI under Detected boot environment
This doesn't make a sense as it was launched in Legacy mode, but as UEFI boot. There was also option Windows UEFI mode under Secure Boot, but I realized that in this case it does not matter if there is Windows UEFI mode or Other OS selected.
I'm confused of this as the BIOS was set to Legacy, boot was UEFI and Windows shows that boot environment is EFI. Does it make a sense to someone?
In case I installed Windows 8 everything was set to UEFI, no Legacy and it was also EFI (setupact.log), but there is still the difference, so I'm not sure if I can be satisfied that I'm UEFI or not. In this case it is not UEFI like UEFI (in comparison W7 vs. W8)
All mentioned cases were in CSM enabled mode.
If CSM is disabled and Secure Boot is set to Windows UEFI mode DVD does not launch it always do the restart.
If CSM is disabled and Secure Boot is set to Other OS DVD with UEFI boot always froze.
If CSM is disabled and Secure Boot is set to Other OS DVD with non UEFI boot continues installation process further (but as BIOS, not EFI in setupact.log), but this was not my case as I wanted UEFI. But this also make sense.
My conclusion is that only way how to install Windows 7 UEFI was to set Legacy in BIOS and run UEFI boot (Secure Boot was Windows UEFI mode, too, but when I try to launch it as Other OS, I did not realized a difference). Original DVD is all you need. So in this case setupact.log is showing EFI Boot detected environment.
But I'm still a bit confused if this is the proper solution of Windows 7 UEFI for Sabertooth Z170 Mark 1.
Is it the only way how to get W7 UEFI in this case or am I doing something wrong?
Can anyone confirm or deny this?
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Hi Friends:
I have a PC with the following configuration:
Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth Z87 BIOS Version:1504
CPU: Intel i7-4770K, 3.5 GHZ, 8MB Cache, LGA1150
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Blue 12 GB DDR3 SDRAM Dual Channel Memory Kit CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B
Video Card: EVGA 02G-P3-1185-AR GeForce GTX285 2048 MB DDR3 PCI-Express 2.0 Graphics Card
Storage: WDC WD3000HLFS-01G6U0 ATA 300GB 10KRPM 16MB SATA-300 (Boot)
WDC WD1001FALS-00J7B0 ATA 1TB 3GB/s (Software)
Western Digital Caviar Black 2 TB SATA III 7200 RPM 64 MB (Data)
PSU: Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 850 Watt ATX/EPS Modular 80 PLUS Bronze (TX850M)
Optical: Pioneer BDR-206DBK 12x Internal Blu-ray Disc/DVD/CD Writer (Black)
Case: Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced Full Tower Case with SuperSpeed USB 3.0 (RC-932-KKN5-GP)
OS: Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit with Media Center
Drivers and Tools installed:
- SABERTOOTH Z87 BIOS 1504
- Management Engine Interface V9.5.10.1658 for Windows Win8.1 64bit
- Intel Chipset Driver V9.4.0.1026 for Windows Win8.1
and I would like to know your recommendation if I need to install the following Drivers and Tools:
- Realtek Audio Driver V6.0.1.7023 for Windows Win8.1
- Intel Graphics Accelerator Driver V10.18.10.3262 for Windows Win8.1 (My PC has NVIVDIA v331.65 installed)
- Intel LAN Driver V18.5.54.0 for Windows Win8.1
- ASUS EZ Update V2.01.11 for Windows 8.1
- AI_Suite3 ASUS USB 3.0 Boost V1.06.17 for Windows 8.1
- Intel Smart Connect Technology Software V4.2.40.2357 for Windows 8.1
- Intel AHCI/RAID Driver Path for Windows Win8.1
- Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver software V12.8.0.1016 for Windows Win8.1
Thanks in advanced for your recommendations
TecMan
I have a PC with the following configuration:
Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth Z87 BIOS Version:1504
CPU: Intel i7-4770K, 3.5 GHZ, 8MB Cache, LGA1150
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Blue 12 GB DDR3 SDRAM Dual Channel Memory Kit CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B
Video Card: EVGA 02G-P3-1185-AR GeForce GTX285 2048 MB DDR3 PCI-Express 2.0 Graphics Card
Storage: WDC WD3000HLFS-01G6U0 ATA 300GB 10KRPM 16MB SATA-300 (Boot)
WDC WD1001FALS-00J7B0 ATA 1TB 3GB/s (Software)
Western Digital Caviar Black 2 TB SATA III 7200 RPM 64 MB (Data)
PSU: Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 850 Watt ATX/EPS Modular 80 PLUS Bronze (TX850M)
Optical: Pioneer BDR-206DBK 12x Internal Blu-ray Disc/DVD/CD Writer (Black)
Case: Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced Full Tower Case with SuperSpeed USB 3.0 (RC-932-KKN5-GP)
OS: Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit with Media Center
Drivers and Tools installed:
- SABERTOOTH Z87 BIOS 1504
- Management Engine Interface V9.5.10.1658 for Windows Win8.1 64bit
- Intel Chipset Driver V9.4.0.1026 for Windows Win8.1
and I would like to know your recommendation if I need to install the following Drivers and Tools:
- Realtek Audio Driver V6.0.1.7023 for Windows Win8.1
- Intel Graphics Accelerator Driver V10.18.10.3262 for Windows Win8.1 (My PC has NVIVDIA v331.65 installed)
- Intel LAN Driver V18.5.54.0 for Windows Win8.1
- ASUS EZ Update V2.01.11 for Windows 8.1
- AI_Suite3 ASUS USB 3.0 Boost V1.06.17 for Windows 8.1
- Intel Smart Connect Technology Software V4.2.40.2357 for Windows 8.1
- Intel AHCI/RAID Driver Path for Windows Win8.1
- Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver software V12.8.0.1016 for Windows Win8.1
Thanks in advanced for your recommendations
TecMan