I have bought a completely new system and am trying to install Windows 8.1 64bit on it. I have the retail box DVD and I have also tried from a USB stick from both the DVD .iso and the mediacreator program. What is happening is with the DVD in the computer it will go past the bios screen, and then a Windows 8 logo will show on the screen and nothing else. The DVD will spin up and the access light will flash for a while and then stop, with the computer then shutting off and restarting. Then the same thing happens in a continuous loop. Same with the USB drive. I've read through all the tutorials on here on how to make a UEFI USB stick with Rufus and how to get it to start up in UEFI mode through the BIOS settings, but it still just shuts down and starts back up, only doing it that way the Windows logo doesn't show up, it just stays on the BIOS splash screen and then reboots. It's really frustrating that I cannot get this to work, as I have always been able to install other versions of Windows on any other computer without all these steps, just put the DVD in and it knows what to do. Not sure why they had to go and make things so much more difficult. Here's my setup:
MSI Z77A-G45 Motherboard
Intel Core Core i3-3220
ASUS DVD drive
XFX Radeon HD 6450 graphics card
8GB G.Skill RAM
500GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD
MSI Z77A-G45 Motherboard
Intel Core Core i3-3220
ASUS DVD drive
XFX Radeon HD 6450 graphics card
8GB G.Skill RAM
500GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- CPU
- Intel Core Core i3-3220
- Motherboard
- MSI Z77A-G45
- Memory
- 8MB G.Skill
- Graphics Card(s)
- XFX Radeon HD 6450
- Hard Drives
- Samsung SSD 850 EVO
- PSU
- XFX PRO750W Core Edition
- Internet Speed
- 18Mb
- Browser
- Firefox
- Antivirus
- AVG