RAMPAGE Windows 8/7 UEFI Installation Guide

[Missing Link]

Hi everyone, so i installed win7 x64 lastnight using the UEFI guide and this is the first time installing and creating a GPT partition as i've always installed as legacy MBR partition, everything seemed to go ok except i noticed in the disk management i had two small partitions one of course is the GPT EFI partition and the other is a 101mb unallocated partition and was thinking was this mean't for the MBR for devices that are non compliant with EFI at boot up and now i don't want to install to much software just in case i need to reformat so i've added a pic of the disk management to see if i installed this correctly, i don't mind starting from scratch again as i'm new to this type of installation but not to keen on installing all my programs for nothing...any advice would be great thanks.

[Nodens]

For some reason you left that unallocated space there. Or it's something the MS intaller did. If you want to reclaim that space do a clean installation after following the troubleshooting section with the "clean" procedure

[Missing Link]

Thanks Nodens, I got it sorted now and had to install OS again and now its all good the unallocated partition is gone and thanks for the guide...Cheers.

[Christos Aiv]

Perfect guide

[thebski]

Hi, I am having some trouble installing Windows 8.1 on 2 Samsung 840 Pros on a Rampage IV Formula. I have tried with CSM disabled and with CSM enabled and everything set to UEFI first as shown in the screenshot. In each case I set secure boot to other OS. I then create the raid array in UEFI. In both cases, as soon as I try to boot to the DVD drive with prefix uefi, it flashes the blue windows screen and then quits. If I have CSM disabled it will cycle back to the bios. If I have it enabled it will just sit on the black screen with the cursor at the top left corner flashing until I shut it off.

I feel like I've followed the guide, but I can't get Windows setup to start. GPUs are 780 Ti's as well, so I would think those should have new enough firmware.

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? Thanks!

Edit: I have bios 3504 installed on my board. The guide says 3404 but I assumed anything later worked as well. Just wanted to throw that in as well.

Edit #2: I figured out that I could not use my Blu Ray drive to install UEFI. It was somewhere in this thread, and that ended up being my problem. So I got everything installed, but I have another problem.

If I have SLI disabled, I would say the machine boots in about 10 seconds. Power button to Windows desktop in 10 seconds (guessing).

If I enabled SLI, it appears to load Windows fine, but the displays are really confused for a long time. They eventually get it straitened out, but it takes forever. Power button to desktop is more like 2 or 3 minutes in this case..

Is this a known problem? Has anyone else had this issue? I never noticed SLI affect boot times in the past, but something is very wrong with it here.

[thebski]

Hi, I am having some trouble installing Windows 8.1 on 2 Samsung 840 Pros on a Rampage IV Formula. I have tried with CSM disabled and with CSM enabled and everything set to UEFI first as shown in the screenshot. In each case I set secure boot to other OS. I then create the raid array in UEFI. In both cases, as soon as I try to boot to the DVD drive with prefix uefi, it flashes the blue windows screen and then quits. If I have CSM disabled it will cycle back to the bios. If I have it enabled it will just sit on the black screen with the cursor at the top left corner flashing until I shut it off.

I feel like I've followed the guide, but I can't get Windows setup to start. GPUs are 780 Ti's as well, so I would think those should have new enough firmware.

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? Thanks!

Edit: I have bios 3504 installed on my board. The guide says 3404 but I assumed anything later worked as well. Just wanted to throw that in as well.

Edit #2: I figured out that I could not use my Blu Ray drive to install UEFI. It was somewhere in this thread, and that ended up being my problem. So I got everything installed, but I have another problem.

If I have SLI disabled, I would say the machine boots in about 10 seconds. Power button to Windows desktop in 10 seconds (guessing).

If I enabled SLI, it appears to load Windows fine, but the displays are really confused for a long time. They eventually get it straitened out, but it takes forever. Power button to desktop is more like 2 or 3 minutes in this case..

Is this a known problem? Has anyone else had this issue? I never noticed SLI affect boot times in the past, but something is very wrong with it here.

Well I guess UEFI isn't for me this time. I can't get video in Windows anymore to disable SLI or try another driver. I need the machine, so I'll just have to install regular this time and try to figure it out before I reformat next time. I have done some searching for SLI boot issues with UEFI and have found some cases that are similar to mine but never really any solutions. There's no doubt that enabling SLI in this case breaks the system. It was booting very fast last night with SLI disabled. If anyone has any ideas I'd be interested to hear them. Thanks!

Edit: I reinstalled with UEFI and CSM enabled per the screen shot in the guide. Everything seems to work now, and boot times are still very fast. I originally wanted to avoid CSM, but apparently SLI says no. Anyways, great guide!

[Nodens]

The nly way SLI could be a factor is if one of your cards does not have a UEFI GOP and is still on legacy VBIOS.

[samarlian]

i also cant get this to work , when follow guide and hit f10 to save still dont get the intel option in advanced menu to set up my raid array.

on ctrl and i disk one is locked and disk 2 is non raid ???

also on the security boot parameters mine sats windows 8 uefi or other legacy & uefi no other os


any ideas as i just bough 2 x samsung evo 840 pro 256gb ssds

[sixsigmamb]

Why is all this necessary. I installed Windows 8.1 on a 600GB high speed SSD. It takes my system 7.39 seconds to reach my desktop from a cold boot. Am I missing something?


I7 4930k at 4.9 on Rampage Extreme Black Edition IV
32gb Corsair Vengence at 2400MHz
Phantom 820 Window Edition (white)
Corsair 1200w Digital PSU
2x600 Intel High Speed SSD
1x240 Samsung 840 SSD
1x 3tb Black Edition WD
1 x 1tb Black Edition WD
2 x GTX 780TI
LG Motif BluRay
Corsair H110 Cooler
Windows 8.1 Retail

[sixsigmamb]

I have two GTX780Ti's in a SLI configuration as well. I am using a retail version of Windows 8.1 that I loaded normally on a 600gb high speed flash drive. My system loads in about 7.39 seconds regardless if SLI is enabled or not. I think your problem is residing with the Raid and I am not quite sure why the heck you would need a raid with 2 840 SSD's to begin with. I have tried them in a Raid and alone and in my opinion, the Raid configuration is not out performing the stand alone set up.

I7 4930k at 4.9 on Rampage Extreme Black Edition IV
32gb Corsair Vengence at 2400MHz
Phantom 820 Window Edition (white)
Corsair 1200w Digital PSU
2x600 Intel High Speed SSD
1x240 Samsung 840 SSD
1x 3tb Black Edition WD
1 x 1tb Black Edition WD
2 x GTX 780TI
LG Motif BluRay
Corsair H110 Cooler
Windows 8.1 Retail