£1850 Budget for Gaming Rig, Monitor snd Rift Bundle.

[leeince]

@Plec @orbitalwalsh



Everthing lights up and spins, no horrible noises and no explosions!!!

 

[leeince]

Couldn't find a UK unboxing of that particular AOC - but every other monitor has the plug/adaptors altogether.

Still odd - what do the instructions say - they usually show a supplied contents page.

I dont have any instructions either, Ihave the hdmi and display port leads?? Ive check all boxes, i had a black bag with me.for rubbush and its not in there!! Ive ordered on off amazon now, hopefully that will come close to 10pm that 12am!!! Can you guys talk me.through what to do next when i get the monitor lead and power it up.

Is it just plug the windows usb in, select.boot from ssd and hit f12?? Will this then give me.options to intsall windows to the ssd?

 

[leeince]

When you've got everything plugged in and powered and a display of some sort .
Hit power and spam delete , should go into bios.
Go into the option " can't remember which one-time falling asleep at my phone " for Boot Priority and set SSD to first and HDD to second and USB to third .
Save and exit, PC will reboot and go to the splash screen ' this is where you'll see gigabyte logo and options to hit delete for bios or F12 for boot select - I think it's F12.. to many brands floating in my head.
Will give you a list of what to boot from and select the Windows USB and will boot from there... This option doesn't change Boot Priority, just let's you select which drive to boot to this one time

And then I can I select the SSD to install windows too?

I only have the main tv that the misses is watching, I could nock one of the kids but all there cable are running the walls, I could probably fish them out buts is grief.

I think I'm going to have a tidy up with the boxes and that and then put the vr panel to kill some time!

 

[leeince]

Good idea - and if it has a kettle lead nick that.

I looked at everything that could possibly have one and no dice!! I even knocked at my neighbours

 

[leeince]

No worries lads, thanks again!! Amazon fellas getting jumped the moment he turns up

Ive even decided to give myself tomorrow off to finish up the cable management and set up the rift and have a play!!

 

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I'm going to download the drivers now for my wireless card, any others I should do now or can the others wait?

 

[leeince]

Chipset from AMD and Nvidia drivers, and the drivers you need for your motherboard - from the site so up to date.

Remember to check the BIOS version as soon as you're in there.

Drivers are a mine field, I've got a load downloading, once I have them in a folder I will take a screen shot so you can see what I've downloaded and hopefully what's right and what's wrong.

So far I have really enjoyed the process, I just hope what ive done so far is right!

I've put the VR panel in, for tidiness I've only connected the HDMI for now, I've already got 2 x USB 3.0 on the front and I didn't want to pull the 2 x usb leads through the machine and have them coming out the back and going in to ports

So on the front I've got:

1 x HDMI
2 X USB3.0

And on the back:

4 x USB 3.0
2 X usb 3.1 (what is 3.1?)
3 x HDMI (1 motherboard 2 x GPU ) What would I use the one on the MB for?
4 X Display Port
1 X VGA
1 X DVI

I think I'm good with all that!

I hope the BIOS is up to date, I wouldn't know what to do if its not? I am downloading F10 now but god knows what to do with it?

Cheers again lads, you've been brilliant!

 

[leeince]

Should be high bios version , but I believe Gigabyte and others started to roll updates to protect against those hacks

I hope so mate, one less thing to have to muck about with.

 

[leeince]

These are the downloads, the top two look similar, what one would I use?

Are any of them wrong?

 

[leeince]

I can talk you through Q-Flash if required (it's not that scary) - but hopefully it's F8 or above.

Hopefully, Amazon order is still being prepared!!

 

[leeince]

I know i shouldnt but i got a bit bored, i tieded the cables up a bit and put the sides back on.

I think i might make up a shroud of some sort to hide the cables at the bottom. I take it theres no way of removing the power cables im not using from the PSU.

Really happy with though lads, fingers crossed the rest goes smoothly

 

[leeince]

We have a cable!!!

 

[leeince]

Im in the bios!!! Where do i find the version?

Edit: Version is F8

 

[leeince]

How?

Amazon primenow 2 hour delivery service!

 

[leeince]

Ive only gor 2 boot options, how do I add usb as a third?

 

[leeince]

Great - check temps

How mate?

 

[leeince]

Cpu 48
Chipset 40
Vrm 59
System 1 28
Pciex16 34 vsoc moc 48

 

[leeince]

Are they ok? @Plec

 

[leeince]

CPU is warmer than i expected - but the BIOS does work the CPU.

Watch them for 5 minutes and see if they rise

Ill keep an eye in them. I had the case fans on the lowest setting so ive turned them up.

I only have two boot option and dont know.how to USB as one?

I saved and exited and waited for the flash screen but my only option was f8 and this took me to a screen that lets you select safe mode etc...

I clicked start windows normally and it strated going through set process, asked for my windows ket but then told me no media found?

Also when i put the usb stick into the usb port on the front and click ok the mouse and keyboard stop responding unit i took the usb stick back.out.

Im.lost at what to do now!

 

[leeince]

Cpus dropped by 1
Chipset gone up by 2

They seem to have settled down now, are they high?