LAN Driver for Z790 Dark Hero/Windows 11 - Republic of Gamers Forum - 1020713
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Building a new PC with ASUS Z790 Maximus Dark Hero - odd drive behavior
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So the problem I am having is the mobo comes with the drivers on thumb drive. I cant finish setting up windows without an internet connection and I can't connect to the internet because the drivers aren't installed via the thumb drive. I tried booting directly from the USB but that didn't work. Any ideas?
I'm building a new system around this MB with a i9-14900K and a Samsung EVO 990 Pro 2TB. I've got an LG BluRay burner plugged into SATA#1 on the motherboard that I'm using just to install Windows 11.
On bootup, I can see that it sees the drive is listed on info screen the BIOS dumps out. If I go into the BIOS, the DVD drive and 990 are listed, but neither is listed as bootable (i.e. I cannot muck with the boot order).
Drive is physically installed in M_2, as I plan on installing a GTX 4090 once this gets up and running.
If I boot, it will ask to boot off the DVD, and I let it go. The 11 process starts to install. But it can't find any drive to install on! I plugged in the support USB stick that comes with the Dark Hero and browsed for a driver; I picked 1 of the 2 Windows 11 compatible drivers under RAID (because for some reason, the DVD drive and the 990 are listed under RAID on the BIOS screen).
I'm currently letting the 11 install run but I've never had this behavior in all my time of building PC's; fresh from the factory drives still showed up in boot order... Something doesn't feel right.
Thoughts? More info needed, happy to provide.