ah.. that's what i've suspected; the real cause of this :/

are you using the w8 usb (fat32)? if you do, you can try modify your w8 install usb by putting the ei.cfg in sources folder. the content of this ei.cfg are as follows:



you might wanna put the key in sources\pid.txt, too:



reinstall w8 with this modified one. good luck.

is there something to do with me disabling the secure boot and fast boot and enable lunch csm? do i need to do that? or just leave it as defult?

you should be fine reset them to defaults. the key now is to make the installer to be oem, instead of retail.

hmm did exactly what u said..still getting the retail version..the partial product key doesnt seem to be correct with the stock win8..ahh been trying to battle it out..end up disaster lol..

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uh? how come? with the ei.cfg (oem as channel), the installer should be converted to oem install. this was tested before and worked.

Im guessing im using the wrong win8 iso...any idea where i can download an untouched win8 iso? seriously sad

This post has been edited by yumin1991: Aug 14 2013, 12:49 AM

maybe you can try to get the rtm version (e.g. this one)

still no luck..did everything back from scratch..include the ei.cfg and pid.txt..installation went smoothly but when i check the slmgr /dlv is still the retail version is there something i miss out?

i got win 7 pro not use bought it in France... wanna buy

so, what's your stock w8? can you show us the dialog for slmgr /dlv when you're in the stock w8? when i was helping at ROG, the friends there never had a problem doing clean install (well, if they do it correctly that is). the untouched w8 rtm iso was supposed to work well.

well i wish i can show you the dialog at here but i cant..cause i forget to remove the HDD at the ODD bay when the win8 is installing at SSD..end up both drive go disaster..now i cant even switch anything on just sent to asus service center they say installing OS for me should be fast..lets just hope is fast..will try it again when i get it back

Ah.. You should have leave the stock drive alone for a bit :/ to me its the backup for normal users that is surely working when something is not right.

Really curious why you couldnt do a clean install or recover from recovery usb (especially this recovery usb; its simple to do, and it should be working even without touching bios)

That's disaster produced from bad mistake. By, right u should be able to identify which drive to install win 8 from the capacity.

I simple don't understand how u can doomed both drives.

Even for my G53, SSD installation I did check which drive is the primary HDD with the stock Win 7 Preinstalled. before installing my SSD.

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This post has been edited by zamanjaafar: Aug 15 2013, 05:46 PM

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This post has been edited by zamanjaafar: Aug 15 2013, 05:46 PM