X99

Spyknee, please bare in mind that we have no idea what steps you followed, if you followed them correctly and what your level of experience is. All we have to go on is your word. This issue is a frustrating one for you as well as those trying to assist you. 

spyknee wrote: Otherwise, I'm not sure what you mean about the Taichi manual not being up to date.  Bear with my frustration. What I mean is that there seems to be certain options in the bios that must work together in order to work with hardware. Being a DIY'er, definition of terms is not enough. That manual is merely a definition of terms. Same as text in bios. ie: enabling uefi only in USB tab legacy usb options. Soon as this was enabled the pc saw uefi usb sticks as a boot disc. Guess I'm the Taichi guniea pig......................

I'm sorry but do you think what you are dealing with is isolated to the Taichi board?

The answer to that is a resounding NO! Are you the only person in the world that has a Taichi board and an NVMe SSD?

X99 is not a new platform, its been available for two years. If anything, the UEFI of the Taichi board is based upon the experience of two years of using the X99 platform, and will be easier to use than the two year old UEFIs. The Taichi is just a new model of X99 board, nothing has changed in the chipset over two years.

None of this is new, it has existed for years. I've used UEFI booting for years on SSDs that didn't even need it, because I prefer to actually use the capabilities that UEFI firmware provides. The one UEFI option that enables UEFI booting (CSM) is set by default to BIOS/legacy emulated mode. If you would have followed my instructions, you would  not need to set that USB option to UEFI Only. But, there is more than one way to accomplish it, although given your results, it's not working for you, as it is simply not enough.

Which USB ports are you using? If they aren't the USB 2.0 ports on the board's IO panel, you'll have problems, since Win 7 does not have a built in USB 3.0 driver. Plus a new board will have less than perfect functioning USB ports until an OS is installed on it. So you've never had to use a PS2 keyboard and wired USB mouse with a new mother board before?

I have tried, over and over, to put you on the right path, but you seem to refuse to believe me. Either that, or you cannot explain what is happening to you so I can understand it.

I get it, you don't want to modify, or find it too complicated, to modify the Windows 7 installation media. I provided a link to a guide that has existed for years, since Windows 8, that describes in cookbook form how to do it. I cannot do better. Or you don't believe me that Windows 7 needs this modification.

I gave you step by step instructions on how to install Windows 7 once you have modified the Windows 7 installation files. I have done this myself a few times, although since I know how difficult it is with Windows 7, I abandon it long ago.

When I tell you I've installed NVMe SSDs on my ASRock X99 board, is that a lie? I've installed an NVMe SSD on a Z77 board, that existed before X99 existed, and supports NVMe only via a Beta UEFI update. Yes, I have frustrations too.

You are trying to install an OS on an SSD that uses a completely different protocol than a SATA drive (NVMe) and trying to use an OS that existed and was replaced before NVMe SSD existed. Don't you expect there to be a learning curve in this situation? Plus you are doing this for the first time, in the most difficult way (using Windows 7), on a mother board you are using for the first time.

You barely tell us what you've done, just that whatever you do, it doesn't work.

The errors you are getting are the definite signs that the Windows 7 installation files were not modified correctly. Or something else is wrong. Such as...

You mention some video, I never gave you a link to a video. I have no idea what its contents are, or if it is correct, or if you did it correctly. You mentioned things that you did that have nothing to do with fixing the one folder location that puts the Win 7 EFI bootloader in the correct location, which is the method I suggested. The video seems to be doing it a different way, which may be fine, but may not fit in with the rest of my instructions. So now I am responsible for that?

I learned this by reading that one guide, which is great but does not cover other topics, that I DID tell you about. But the main thing was, I did do it DIY. I never posted a question in a forum. I figured it out myself, and frankly, it is not at all difficult. As I've said over and over, it's Win 7.

I don't know what else to tell you.

stop: c0000218 {Registry File Failure}

OK

Different iso image, different USB stick, RUFUS 2.11