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How am I suppose to install windows on AsRock z87

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Brian 321

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Ok so recently bought a new motherboard and CPU. I'm trying to do a fresh install of windows but I'm running into a bit of a problem.

My issue is you need a mouse to be able to check the boxes to accept the agreement and to click the next button in the windows install screen. BUT you can't use a USB mouse until you install the USB3 driver for the motherboard.

Which I can't install because I don't have windows on a new SSD. So what do I do? I need windows to install the driver, but I need the driver to install windows. There is no place for a PS/2 mouse(do they even make those anymore!?) on a place for a keyboard.

It's kind of a stupid set up if you ask me.
 
tab and enter/space keys.
tab lets you move to the next item.

you don't have any extra usb 2.0 ports?
 
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Enabling Legacy USB in the BIOS will probably fix this problem, but I think fralexandr's solution should get you where you need to go.
 
fralexandr said:
tab and enter/space keys.
tab lets you move to the next item.

you don't have any extra usb 2.0 ports?
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Works quite well, lemme tell you about how fun it is to install Windows on a server with two USB ports with one of them occupied by an optical drive and no PS/2 mouse or keyboard on hand...
 
Windows always let me use my mouse even though it didn't have the driver installed, I think. It should load generic drivers. Seriously, even the BIOS can support a mouse in Asrock boards.
 
Torn Mind said:
Windows always let me use my mouse even though it didn't have the driver installed, I think. It should load generic drivers. Seriously, even the BIOS can support a mouse in Asrock boards.
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Yeah the keyboard and mouse works fine in the bios menu but as soon as the windows installation disk loads they both stop working. I also tried using the tab enter method with a ps/2 keyboard but I don't know how to tick the box I have to check to agree.
 
You could try to plug in the kb/mouse after windows installer has started. I had to do that on an old rioworks opteron system.
 
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