Hope this is the right place to ask as I am not good with any of this to be quite honest. I just received my Framework 13 and am trying to install Windows 11 but I’m being met with the message “install driver to show hardware”. I made my installation media using Rufus as explained in the guide. Where do I get the drivers necessary to proceed? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
You need the driver bundle also from here Framework Laptop 13 BIOS and Driver Releases (AMD Ryzen™ 7040 Series)
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What @inffy said.
You can visit the main FrameWork website, click on Support, then FrameWork 13 to go to the 13" support page. From their select the type of chipset you have to go to the DIY setup particle. Toward the bottom is the O/S install section. It references Windows or Linux specifics there and where you will find @inffy’s link from above.
Hope the install finishes up smoothly and you get to really enjoy it like we all do.
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So I installed the drivers from a separate usb key and made sure my BIOS was up to date. It now boots but only with the usb drive still in the laptop. Without the usb drive, it tells me the boot device is missing
With enough BIOS changes you may have to reset secure boot. I don’t recall the exact steps but try going into the BIOS and just disabling QuickBoot and see if it boots all the way. If not, you may have to look up the steps to reset SecureBoot or TPM.
I’m sure someone who knows this by heart will probably post soon enough to point out how wrong I am. LOL
Did you proceed with the windows install? If you didn’t actually install Windows then it will leave you with a no boot device found error as the disk is still blank.
If you could, try making a Linux Live USB or check whether you can view your disks partitions in the Windows Installer. For using the windows installer, you will have to go to the custom installation to view your partitions.
If you are not able to resolve the issue, please take a picture of the custom install page where it asks you for the install location. If you use a Linux Live USB (Remember to disable secure boot if you want to use it), please take a picture or screenshot of the disk partitioning utility and share it here.
I managed to get it to work but somehow I think a system partition ended up on an external device. Not too sure how this happened but right now I just want to start completely from the beginning, is there a way for me to fully wipe my memory to start again?
I’ve never used Linux before or know much about it in general so not sure what to do there, if it would potentially solve this problem I would be up for trying it
I would still recommend just trying to check out the partition scheme in the manual configuration sections in the Windows installer as installing Linux would require you to have not only another computer but also a spare flash drive.
Just click install now in the installer and when it asks you how you want to proceed, select custom installation and just take a picture of that page and post it here. It should also let you wipe your drive just in case you did something wrong.
Any updates here? I’m on AMD 13" as well, and experiencing the “Install driver to show hardware” menu when trying to install both Windows 10 and Windows 11. I need to enter an .ini file, and I have no ability to run the SetupBundle.exe files. I have previously wiped the disk I’m trying to install Windows 11 on (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk). I have now created an GPT disk partition table with gparted and have created an 512mb FAT32 partition with ESP+BOOT flags. The UEFI boot manager even recognizes this partition. I have also tried inserting the installation usb-c stick in all 4 ports, and have also tried a usb-a stick.