Ultimate Edition Forum

Howdy, howdy! Yep, NOOB here, so I'll keep it short. I've installed various versions of Ultimate Edition over the past year or so, with the usual beginners woes, but I'm stumped here. I can install from either USB or DVD iso. on my wife's machine, but not mine. Just gets to the selection screen and.......nada! She has a simple little phenom 2 x4 basic. Little different story for me. ASUS Crosshair V Formula, FX 9590, SLI GTX-780 Classified, custom loop H20 and 240 SSD. Any help, even if it's yelled at me, would be great.
Just had a thought.. UEFI bios? More reading!!

With UEFI there is a procedure to follow. I did this a couple weeks ago with an Asus laptop and will be doing it again with a Dell quite soon but I am installing BHS not Ultimate Edition, I think, still I should be able to leave some relevant information after the procedure, You will most likely need to install Graphics Drivers on top of this.

As far as the guides you may come across there is some flexibility in procedure you may have to use.

Thanks for the reply Xanayoshi. I've tried so many ways now and my interest is slowly evaporating, lol. Followed several "guides", to no avail, as well as removed everything from my machine except 1 GPU, 1 stick ram, and a fresh, clean HDD. I've installed Ultimate Edition 3.4 several times on this machine, yesterday as a test, and was confronted with zero issues. No problem with graphic drivers, etc.. I also tried to install Deepin 2014 just to check it out, and no luck there either. Today's research lead me to "nomodeset" but again, same....... I think I'll crack a cold beer and give my skull jelly a brake for a bit. Back to windows i trudge, or maybe I'll fire up my old TRS-80 instead. Probably less painful Thanks again!!

You've got real beefy hardware.

Support for 780's are coming in fast from Nvidia...but waiting Is needed.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a ... veau&num=1

You will need a newer kernel. Support may be an issue or a broken patch that is causing problems. It seems kernel support for the 780 is a bit shady.

pam wrote:You've got real beefy hardware.

Support for 780's are coming in fast from Nvidia...but waiting Is needed.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a ... veau&num=1

You will need a newer kernel. Support may be an issue or a broken patch that is causing problems. It seems kernel support for the 780 is a bit shady.

Thanks Pam. After hours of research I also found some info on the 780 issues. This made me curious. I have a couple 580's and quite a few other random GPU's in my parts pile. Easy fix, right? I'm running both of m 780's with Hydro-Copper water blocks, custom loop setup. Fast forward 2.5 hours. 780's out, loop reconfigured and a 580 installed. Fingures crossed!! ...................SAME DEAL. So now, instead of putting my main machine back together, Im doing more research first. Writing this on a late 2007 MacBook 3.1 intel core duo 2.0 with Ultimate Edition 4.2 w/o OS/X. and so far is running great. So if I can manage that, I'm sure I'll figure it out someda, lol! O.K., enough rambling. Thanks again for the info!

THe FX 9590 is a 220 watt processor.
The 580's are nothing less of a power hog themselves.
The 780's are not different.
Custom loops also take up a lot of power.
And I believe, you have many fans in your system which further consume more power.....

ALl in all everything in your system would require at least 1000 to 1200 Watts of power.

So what is the wattage of your power supply?
Maybe your graphics cards are not getting enough power.

Also a side note: SLI has no benefit on linux. Only games which are SLI certified on linux may work with it. The only real use for using multiple CUDA cards is in Blender. Unless you are a blender user you wont use the extra card. On the other hand blender loves more NVIDIA GTX's.

Hope this helps.
Regards.

It's alive!! Decided to give it another go. Turns out it was lack of support for my 780's I think. The only thing I did different this time was adding a new SSD. Install went smooth and amazingly fast. Now to see if I can keep from messing things up again. I've done quite a bit of reading since my last post and I at least know a couple more things NOT to do LOL. I'll get it eventually. Now I just have to figure out how to remove duplicate sources. Thanks for the help everyone. Sorry for the late response. This post can be marked as solved.