**Time To Build**

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:56 pm

Well just got bck from Scan with all my bits. Very Happy

Now just got to put it all together. Confused

Any Tips.

What should I fit before putting the motherboard in? CPU? Memory? G Card? Confused

Ive got a rough guide to follow of the web.

Joined: Aug 02, 2006 Posts: 85 Location: colchester, essex

fit your cpu cooler and ram to the board befor you fit it in the case!
leave the graphics card til last, you can fit the easily when the rest of the pc is built!

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:46 pm

when fitting the mother board do you put the waser type things on the top when screwing?

Joined: Aug 02, 2006 Posts: 85 Location: colchester, essex

not quite sure what you mean mate??

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:49 pm

Got past that now just fitting Ram, Dimm A1 & Dimm A2 or B1 & B2?

Joined: Aug 02, 2006 Posts: 85 Location: colchester, essex

i cant remember what the numers are but you want one in the nearest slot to the cpu then miss one out then put the second one in!
that way you get dual channel ram which is quicker!! Very Happy

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:30 am

Built and it didnt blow Up. Very Happy

Now This XP is Being A Real Pain.

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:51 am

Well XP has me baffeled.

Run did a bit of stuff say 5 mins loading things.

Then Froze.

On reboot, just black screen.

Any Ideas

Joined: Aug 02, 2006 Posts: 85 Location: colchester, essex

have you installed all of your drivers for cpu motherboard graphics card?

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:56 am

Did you reboot it or did it reboot? I dont quite understand what you mean?

LT!

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:49 am

Whar t Happend Was.

I built the machine, Powered On and all seemed Fine, Come up with some message about installing (same probably for most new PC's)

So I went to Install Windows XP, Loaded Disc all seemed Fine, started installing, Blue Screen, messages flashing at the bottom, I did see something about press F6 or F3 for something but it went to quick.

After this It can to a screen saying Push F3 to Quict, R to Repair, Enter to Continue, So I pressed Enter, NOTING HAPPENED, II left it for a while and noticed that the new RAm I got (Has Fancy Lights on it) was lit up half way throug and not moving so waited another 5 Mins and decided to reboot.

Now on reboot I get A Quick flash of Bios Thing, Can Push DEL to enter BIOS with loads of settings (I have not touched these) the it just goes to a Black Screen with a Curser at the top, this may drop down a line.

I have tried to load the disc again No joy, cannot type anything. Im confuased. LOL

I have not entered / Installed any other discs, I went to instrall XP first.

HELP. Laughing

Joined: Sep 12, 2006 Posts: 107

You say you haven't touched any of the settings in Bios?

You'll need to set your bios prior to loading operating system....

Set the Bios according to your Mobo and other components, also you'll need to set the dvd/cd drive as your first boot device, so that it reads from disk first.. from what you have said i suspect that it is trying to read from your HDD and not the XP Disk ?

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:46 am

T-Bone wrote:

You say you haven't touched any of the settings in Bios?

You'll need to set your bios prior to loading operating system....

Set the Bios according to your Mobo and other components, also you'll need to set the dvd/cd drive as your first boot device, so that it reads from disk first.. from what you have said i suspect that it is trying to read from your HDD and not the XP Disk ?

No have not touched anything..

Bios According to O/S ?? Lost me There

Ye Mrix advised set CD drive to first Boot.

Thanks

Joined: Sep 12, 2006 Posts: 107

Is this a new or clean HDD yur using, or are you using one that has XP on already ?

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:11 pm

T-Bone wrote:

Is this a new or clean HDD yur using, or are you using one that has XP on already ?

Brand New, all the machine is.

Fresh out of Bag