I recently purchased a D54250WYK (D54) for a special purpose application as a Sound Engine Computer in a Virtual Pipe Organ. Prior to this, I had purchased and installed a D53427HYE (D53) and was extremely pleased with the ease of getting it running and its performance. I am starting another organ rebuilding project and wanted to use the latest NUC offering.
The Sound Engine software runs under Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium, often without a monitor, keyboard, mouse or network connection, once it has been set up. I have installed 2 4GB memory cards and a Crucial 120 GB mSATA SSD.
The actions and problems I have experienced so far.
1. Attempted to load W7 from USB Samsung Optical Disk Drive using Legacy USB (2.0?) mode - NOT Recognized by the NUC. Drive seems to work properly on other computers and worked fine on the D53.
2. Updated the BIOS to V 24 (latest) - Same results a 1. above. Event Log reported (4) (Errors?), but it seems to work OK.
3. Made a Boot Flash Drive and copied W7 to it.
4. Boot Flash Drive worked and W7 started its initial load.
5. After about 2 or 3 screens, It halted and gave an error that it could not find CD/DVD Driver and asked for the driver files..
6. I downloaded and extracted the driver files and copied iaAHCIC.inf, iaAHCIC.cat and 4 other files specified in the instructions to another Flash Drive.
7 I plugged in the Flash Drive and W7 found the allegedly applicable files for chipset 8 (the others were hidden).
8. When I said to install the drivers, W7 said that they were not the correct files for this computer.
Any suggestions would be appreciated on where to find the appropriate drivers for W7 and D54.