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| Thread ID: 115168 | 2011-01-05 20:47:00 | Built My First Computer But No Signal :( | icow (15313) | Press F1 |
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| 1167377 | 2011-01-06 00:56:00 | PSU = Aywun 450w. Hmm. Well get a better one even if it isn't the problem. Does the PC boot at all with both drives connected (without trying any CDs) |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1167378 | 2011-01-06 01:02:00 | yes. But the hd has nothing (maybe a corrupted copy of windows) on it so it asks for bootable media. | icow (15313) | ||
| 1167379 | 2011-01-06 04:58:00 | Those 450W "Aywun" MEGA POWER PSU's are Ok for general use. I have them in two of workshop PC's since they get a hammering unplugging, testing damaged Hardware everything , wanted a cheaper PSU in case something blew them -- They have had one hell of a hammering, including being shorted by one Hard Drive -- and they still work fine. While there are better ones available they are not bottom of the line. One of my servers also has one, been on now for as long as I can remember, gets daily work and never failed. The OS not installing: This is more than likely the problem (99% sure) One thing that can often be the problem, and I have seen this MANY times - IF the HDD and Optical Drive are on the one IDE ribbon, the OS wont install esp if the New board has only one IDE port. Attach the Optical drive and HDD separately if two IDE ports on the board, if the board has only one IDE port, and the rest SATA - you HAVE to have either a SATA HDD drive, OR SATA Optical drive. Once the OS is installed, THEN you can run both off the One IDE. Someone else in this forum had the exact same problem, separated the two drives after I advised to and it worked perfectly. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1167380 | 2011-01-06 05:37:00 | Those 450W "Aywun" MEGA POWER PSU's are Ok for general use. I have them in two of workshop PC's since they get a hammering unplugging, testing damaged Hardware everything , wanted a cheaper PSU in case something blew them -- They have had one hell of a hammering, including being shorted by one Hard Drive -- and they still work fine. While there are better ones available they are not bottom of the line. One of my servers also has one, been on now for as long as I can remember, gets daily work and never failed. The OS not installing: This is more than likely the problem (99% sure) One thing that can often be the problem, and I have seen this MANY times - IF the HDD and Optical Drive are on the one IDE ribbon, the OS wont install esp if the New board has only one IDE port. Attach the Optical drive and HDD separately if two IDE ports on the board, if the board has only one IDE port, and the rest SATA - you HAVE to have either a SATA HDD drive, OR SATA Optical drive. Once the OS is installed, THEN you can run both off the One IDE. Someone else in this forum had the exact same problem, separated the two drives after I advised to and it worked perfectly. Thanks I should be able to do this. Hardly matters now as I get my copy of Windows 7 and a new SATA HD in the mail 2morrow. (Just wanted to get the PC going today). Will post pics and full specs 2morrow. |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1167381 | 2011-01-06 08:08:00 | Those 450W "Aywun" MEGA POWER PSU's are Ok for general use. I have them in two of workshop PC's since they get a hammering unplugging, testing damaged Hardware everything , wanted a cheaper PSU in case something blew them -- They have had one hell of a hammering, including being shorted by one Hard Drive -- and they still work fine. But almost everything has short-circuit protection... The problem with cheap PSUs like that if nothing else then always the capacitors. For example all the Hyenas I have seen have died a slow death from crappy Fuhjyyu capacitors which die due to being crap. Yet I have some old AT PSUs at least 3 times older which use nothing but Rubycon and they still work just fine. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1167382 | 2011-01-06 08:28:00 | One more item to beware... you might have initially configured your boot order as you want, but based on my new-ish ASUS board, the BIOS will try to guess the appropriate boot order whenever your hardware changes. Specifically if you add a second HDD or boot without the HDD connected it may re-configure the setup that you had in the BIOS regarding Boot order and which IDE drive to place first in the list of IDE drives. | Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1167383 | 2011-01-06 08:34:00 | based on my new-ish ASUS board, the BIOS will try to guess the appropriate boot order whenever your hardware changes. I've got an older Intel board which does that. To say that it's ****ing annoying would be an understatement. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1167384 | 2011-01-06 08:38:00 | One more item to beware... you might have initially configured your boot order as you want, but based on my new-ish ASUS board, the BIOS will try to guess the appropriate boot order whenever your hardware changes. Specifically if you add a second HDD or boot without the HDD connected it may re-configure the setup that you had in the BIOS regarding Boot order and which IDE drive to place first in the list of IDE drives. Thanks (I also have a new-ish asus board in my pc that did just that when I tried different HD's and CD drives). I've got an older Intel board which does that. To say that it's ****ing annoying would be an understatement. +1 |
icow (15313) | ||
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