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nala · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:02 pm Post subject: New MOBO arrived

so got my new motherboard so (hopefully) ill be putting my computer together over the next few days, as i have little idea what i'm actually doing any more expect pictures, since i finally dug my camera out of my boxes.
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nala · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 10:13 pm Post subject:

another bent pin... in about the same spot, its not as bad as the last time but i think its still off enough where it could be an issiue...

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nala · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 2:01 am Post subject:

/sigh so i attempted to fix the pin, system is fully assembled (as seen below) and after i finish this post im going to power it up (and hope it doesn't explode)

here is the front panel, the circled portions arent acually functional, the videocards obstruct that portion of the mother board >.<

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nala · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 2:20 am Post subject:

so far so good, booted up just fine no errors, however it didnt detect either one of my harddrives, i suspect thats because they have yet to be formated?

so yeah about cmos settings..... <= totally lost... anyways im done posting for tonight i'll add some pic's of my cmos screens... i really feel out of it now x.x and i was feeling so good about getting the damn thing assembled >.<
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nala · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 4:10 pm Post subject:

so was talking to an associate at work today said that my harddrives should have been detected, any ideas? im pretty sure i connected everything proper, anyways ima open it back up when i get home.

ima need help configuring the bios i got some what of an idea but not entirely sure whayt i need to do /sigh anyways expect more pictures and also can i stop talking to myself on this thread? (please reply so i look less silly)
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Mayeh · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 4:12 pm Post subject:

You may have to set up the hard drives in the BIOS. I haven't built a machine in eons but that's how it used to be done.
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nala · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 6:46 pm Post subject:

see i did try that, wouldnt detect it in the bios... i can kinda stumble my way around it the thing is the type of settings i should be using and where and what i should and should not be messing with in the bios is the main thing.

in anycase i'll feel stupid but relieved if its just a matter of me installing them improper... however its pretty straight forward on what i need to do, guess the other question i could pose, do i still need to set the master and slave jumper? i didnt puit the jumpers on but then again i dont remember seeing them coming in the packaging, also would i set a master and slave if i was planing on setting them in raid 0 anyways?
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Alananir · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 7:25 pm Post subject:

SATA doesn't have master/slave stuff. It's just one cable per device.

If they're not being detected... are they hooked up to the power? Do you hear them spin up when you power on the box?
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Mayeh · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 7:30 pm Post subject:

BTW, moving this to the new Tech forum.
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nala · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 9:48 pm Post subject:

ima double check that in a few doc, just got home but near as i know everything is fully connected, ill be posting pictures here in a few.
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nala · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:32 pm Post subject:

also my computer doesnt make much noise at all when i boot it, so yeah possibly the hard drives arent spinning... ah right SSD arrived today so while trouble shooting my western digital HD's ima install it as well.

here is the back of my hard drives

this is the power cable the free end, the length from my mobo has 3 connectors, this is the last in the string thats connected to my HD's

(yeah my hands are a bit dirty atm, just got back from work...)

the two red ones are in sata slots 0 and 1 according to my mother board's manual is controlled by the chip set thats ready for raid...

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nala · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:06 pm Post subject:

lone power connecter is now power SSD (i hope?) as seen bellow

btw LOL cable management (im glad this case had it, seriously look at that mess

also rebooting it now... hopefully my SSD at the least will register /sigh
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nala · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:31 pm Post subject:

the western digitals are very quite but im pretty sure they are spinning up, the kingston SSD is showing but not the western digitals, ima try changing thier sata slot... /sigh
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nala · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:33 pm Post subject:

also was doing a bit of testing, should all three video cards in thier current state provide output? near as i can tell only the top most is. anyways brb changing my sata config /sigh
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nala · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:44 pm Post subject:

well that worked x.x guess i was reading the manual wrong oh well HD sucess! next i will barrage you with pictures of cool looking BIOS SCREENS!! (ok not so cool but i need help all the same)

ah so you got a heads up my chip is a pentium i7-950 so you stand informed when i start noobing up the cpu settings questions...
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