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    G73 JW with a Samsung 840 SSD- Problems!

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by eXs, Apr 12, 2013.

  1. eXs

    eXs Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello,
    I bought a new SSD (Samsung 840) but I cannot install Windows 7 on it. With the recovery DVD´s it didn´t work, the same with an extern Window 7 DVD (i cannot choose the ssd, when i must select a harddrive. So how can I use the SSD as OS disk?

    Please, help me :/
     
    eXs, Apr 12, 2013
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  2. pato

    pato Notebook Evangelist

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    Do you have a second harddrive installed and do you see that one in the selection?
    If not, then you might need a chipset driver disc which you can download at Intel or probably at Asus download site.
     
    pato, Apr 13, 2013
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    eXs Notebook Enthusiast

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    I fixed that problem :) The Offset- Value was wrong
     
    eXs, Apr 13, 2013
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    Where did you need to enter an offset-value?!?
     
    pato, Apr 15, 2013
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    I'm having the same problem. I bought the G75VW about two weeks ago, and picked it up last thursday. Today, my Samsung 500GB SSD hard drive, and 16GB of RAM arrived. I had trouble booting my computer at all, after pulling the 1TB SATA hard drive out of the system, and installing the 500GB SSD in its place. After disabling some items in the BIOS, and clearing the security values (maybe the offset was among them), I was able to get the computer to boot from the DVD drive. But after pressing a key to boot from the optical drive, and watching the Windows 7 install DVD start to boot, I get a "Starting Windows" logo screen, the colors start to rotate, and then the computer seems to lock up. I went back into the BIOS and looked for more options, something I'm missing... but so far, I dunno what it could be.

    Any assistance is appreciated!!!
     
    merkman, May 13, 2013
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    Figured it out. Didn't realize CSM was Compatiblity Support Mode. Once I enabled that, I'm able to boot off my DVD successfully in ACHI mode, and I'm about to install Windows 7 64-bit Enterprise. Hope to have smoother sailing from here.
     
    merkman, May 13, 2013
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