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After leaving it on overnight, It shut down Im hoping by it self and Im now prompted with another option in my boot menu to choose windows boot manager? Do I choose that one or another?

Yes choose the Windows boot manager. 

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Heres the error message I got that I mentioned in a post I did before http://imgur.com/aeCeJVB

Try re-installing Windows again. Make sure to delete all partitions when setting up durring the install process.

If it fails again, your install media is corrupt. Bad disks occasionally prop up every now and then.

 

If possible, I highly recommend trying to USB install Windows:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT0KFR09Svc

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Try re-installing Windows again. Make sure to delete all partitions when setting up durring the install process.

If it fails again, your install media is corrupt. Bad disks occasionally prop up every now and then.

 

If possible, I highly recommend trying to USB install Windows:

After exporing the bios, there was a option called Windows 8/8.1 Feature and is disabled, should I turn this on?

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After exporing the bios, there was a option called Windows 8/8.1 Feature and is disabled, should I turn this on?

Most likely yes. Also see if you can find "CSM support" in the BIOS. Is it enabled or disabled?

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Most likely yes. Also see if you can find "CSM support" in the BIOS. Is it enabled 

Before I was able to clean my hard drive to reinstall, I did enable it to test for myself and I still had the werkernal.sys not found error Im now trying to boot from my optical drive and its just going black for large amounts of time.

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Before I was able to clean my hard drive to reinstall, I did enable it to test for myself and I still had the werkernal.sys not found error Im now trying to boot from my optical drive and its just going black for large amounts of time.

Do you know on what SATA port your optical drive is plugged into? Make sure it is on the Intel controller.

If it still fails, I am going to say that your install media is corrupt, or there is an issue with your DVD reader.

 

I am going to recommend that you USB install Windows, given the guide I posted earlier. Make sure to use a USB2 port for this.

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Do you know on what SATA port your optical drive is plugged into? Make sure it is on the Intel controller.

If it still fails, I am going to say that your install media is corrupt, or there is an issue with your DVD reader.

 

I am going to recommend that you USB install Windows, given the guide I posted earlier. Make sure to use a USB2 port for this.

Im sorry I dont know what What intel controller is, but my hard drive and optical drive are both plugged in to Sata 1 and 2 while Sata 3 and 4 seemed to be raised off the board in its own little space

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Im sorry I dont know what What intel controller is, but my hard drive and optical drive are both plugged in to Sata 1 and 2 while Sata 3 and 4 seemed to be raised off the board in its own little space

Do you have a flash drive on hand to install windows?

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Do you have a flash drive on hand to install windows?

I believe that the Windows ISO downloader does already format it for you. Also would I choose the UEFI or Normal USB option for boot?

 

EDIT: I chose the normal USB one, on both USB 2 and 3.0 both have the purple windows pop up and the screen goes black for large amounts of time.

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I believe that the Windows ISO downloader does already format it for you. Also would I choose the UEFI or Normal USB option for boot?

 

EDIT: I chose the normal USB one, on both USB 2 and 3.0 both have the purple windows pop up and the screen goes black for large amounts of time.

You have to chose the UEFI option, and Windows will only install from a USB 2 port.

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You have to chose the UEFI option, and Windows will only install from a USB 2 port.

After choosing the UEFI option my screen went black showed the bios screen again and booted normally, The normal usb option were the only one that actually worked showed the purple windows 8 screen

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After choosing the UEFI option my screen went black showed the bios screen again and booted normally, The normal usb option were the only one that actually worked showed the purple windows 8 screen

Ok, it sound like you may need a BIOS update. Here is the link to the BIOS files: http://us.msi.com/support/mb/Z97_PC_Mate.html#support_download

You can update the bios by putting the bios update file on a flash drive and then using the MFLASH utility from within the UEFI to update it.

 

While you are at it, a few things need to be checked:

In what slots did you install the RAM? The manual for your mobo says it should be in slot 2 and 4.

Make sure that the Windows 8/8.1 feature is set to enabled within the BIOS, and that CSM support is also enabled/

 

Also where did you grab the .iso for the Windows install from?

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Ok, it sound like you may need a BIOS update. Here is the link to the BIOS files: http://us.msi.com/support/mb/Z97_PC_Mate.html#support_download

You can update the bios by putting the bios update file on a flash drive and then using the MFLASH utility from within the UEFI to update it.

 

While you are at it, a few things need to be checked:

In what slots did you install the RAM? The manual for your mobo says it should be in slot 2 and 4.

Make sure that the Windows 8/8.1 feature is set to enabled within the BIOS, and that CSM support is also enabled/

 

Also where did you grab the .iso for the Windows install from?

I grabbed the ISO from the link in the NCIX video you sent to me.

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I grabbed the ISO from the link in the NCIX video you sent to me.

Interesting. Have you updated the BIOS yet? 

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Interesting. Have you updated the BIOS yet? 

I attempted to, I downloaded the bios, plugged the drive into my pc, it said there was no bios file in the usb key (root folder) Afterwords I said, okay let me try extracting the folder, I did that and still didnt work, is there something Im missing?

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I attempted to, I downloaded the bios, plugged the drive into my pc, it said there was no bios file in the usb key (root folder) Afterwords I said, okay let me try extracting the folder, I did that and still didnt work, is there something Im missing?

I believe the flash drive has to be formatted as either FAT32 or NTFS.

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I tried formatting the drive to both FAT32 and NTFS tried extracing and fall, still didnt work. Says it cannot find a BIOS file

Interesting. It sounds like your motherboard may be a dud. That would explain why Windows won't install and why you can't update the BIOS. I would suggest RMAing the motherboard.

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Interesting. It sounds like your motherboard may be a dud. That would explain why Windows won't install and why you can't update the BIOS. I would suggest RMAing the motherboard.

Before I do so, Im gonna take the pc to a family friend who does computer repair for a living, hes quite busy, so thats why I havent been able to have him do it yet. But, I would like to thank you so much for at least attempting to help me and staying with me to try and get this fixed with my first rig, its greatly appreciated.

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