Windows 10 Preview install fails on Maximus VII Formula, black screen

[rsquires]

[UPDATE: Solved, reinstalling mouse driver and firmware fixes it]

Hi, I've been trying repeatedly to install Windows 10 Preview (builds 10130, and 10162) on this motherboard, with no success. The basic steps I'm following are:

1) Updated the motherboard bios (there was a newer update available), and rebooted into 8.1 Pro
2) Disabled the Display Adaptor in device manager
3) Re-enabled the Display Adaptor
4) Ran the 10162 setup.exe from within 8.1 Pro, off a USB flash drive with the 10162 iso on it
5) No change in result (Win10 boots to a blackscreen after a couple restarts), and after a couple hard resets (after waiting 10 minutes during these blackscreens) I get the following error message after control is returned to Win8.1:
"0xC1900101-0x30017 The installation failed in the FIRST_BOOT Phase with an error during the boot operation"

A friend has told me this may be related to a GPT disk error of some sort. I have the ssd boot drive formatted as GPT, with 'windows boot manager' uefi boot device in the bios. Win8.1 is booting like this, with UEFI boot, with no errors. Should I try disabling UEFI entirely and reformat the drive as Legacy type, or does anyone have thoughts on what could be the problem? Are there specific bios entries I should check? Thanks! (I also am posting to the Windows Preview forum)

rms

[Teebsalot]

I may be having the same issue. I am trying to install 10162 from USB on my MVII Impact and getting a black screen.

[helmiec]

Having the same problem , so am instal over the win7 and after instal win10 - 10166 - win7 is in folder " old windows " !

ps. win10 working very well :cool: 0 problems so far

[rsquires]

Teebsalot wrote:
I may be having the same issue. I am trying to install 10162 from USB on my MVII Impact and getting a black screen.

Quite by accident, I discovered that unplugging and replugging in the usb mouse would allow the install to continue, and I had to do this many times during the install, and even now after 10166 update, I still have to unplug the mouse twice before I see the desktop, on every cold boot. After that, it works fine.

I haven't done anything to try to fix this (reinstalling mouse/usb drivers) as yet (I suspect it's a UEFI bios bug, no changes to the M7F usb settings seems to affect it). But anyway, if your install is hanging, plug your mouse & kbd into the front panel ports so you have easy access to them, and try unplugging one or both if it seems to be hung. Report back if this helps!

[rsquires]

[EDIT] After updating my mouse firmware and installing it's driver (CM Storm Spawn) in Win10, the hanging/unplugging issue appears to be gone. Very happy!

[Flintbeastwood]

Dude hate to bump this but i have the Sabertooth 990FX and i have been running into this issue, i updated the firmware in 8.1 then i just got a different mouse just to say **** it. If this works i owe you a beer.

I didnt even think it could be the mouse cause 9926 worked fine, anything after that, nope. Reverts to the old windows install.

damn you cooler master!

[Flintbeastwood]

Yea its now installing perfectly. I def owe you something. Ive been racking my brain for the past few months and I never stopped to think it was the god damn mouse.