Reply 15100 of 27625, by darry
dionb wrote on 2020-05-06, 18:28:Nope. Today I managed to get it working at last. It took a BIOS update to a 2009-era beta BIOS and physically burning a DVD ISO. […]
darry wrote on 2020-05-06, 00:06:[...]
I just created a Build 1909 Windows 10 installation USB flash drive using the Media Creation Tool that I just downloaded from Microsoft on my non-UEFI x58 based system (Supermicro X8SAX with x5675) and it booted just fine from USB (tried both 32-bot and 64-bit version) . UEFI support is definitely NOT compulsory for Windows 10 USB installation media . I also have an XW4600 Core 2 Quad (Q9400S) machine (obviously non UEFI) which I wiped and fresh installed Windows 10 x64 on through USB install media about 4 months ago (whatever build was current then) without any issues .
H3nrik V! wrote on 2020-05-06, 06:39:[...]
So, you got youself a nice SO479 motherboard from that 😁
A friend of mine runs Win10 on a C2Q, all though a 9550. The 8200 does not support Virtualization it seems. Might this be an issue for Win10?
Nope. Today I managed to get it working at last. It took a BIOS update to a 2009-era beta BIOS and physically burning a DVD ISO. Upgrade from Win7 still kept failing, and no matter what I did to that USB stick with Rufus, the system refused to boot from it (where it happily starts from any Linux USB stick). But a clean install from DVD onto the SSD worked nicely with the new BIOS. Of course, the new BIOS screwed up fan control, so needed to solve that in software (Speedfan), and not upgrading meant messing around to get the install properly activated again. Joy. I suddenly remember why I vowed never to do a current Windows install again. Linux can certainly give you headaches, but this is next-level crap.
Still, I do now have a very nice little So479 board. Shame I don't really have anything sensible to do with it...
Happy you got it work in the end . I have been much luckier in my Windows 7 to 10 upgrades and fresh installs .
The only serious issue I had once when running an upgrade was having to use an older Windows 10 build as update media and then updating to the current build without issue rather than using the Microsoft update tool . That was on a fairly recent UEFI equipped (but running in legacy CSM mode) Dell E5430 laptop .
That said, I tend to create the USB install media directly using the Microsoft Media Creation Tool rather than Rufus (I think I used Rufus to create a USB installer from the old build ISO, though) .