Build fail, help needed

[savaged wolf]

Hey all,

attempted a build today which has given partial success...

i have:

£166.66 x 1 - MSI ATI Radeon HD 6950 OC Twin FrozR III Power Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE DIRT3 Game
£130.82 x 1 - Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM
-£16.66 x 1 - MSI P67A-GD65 Intel P67 (socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** with FREE Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus CPU Cooler
£116.66 x 1 - MSI P67A-GD65 Intel P67 (socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION **
£16.66 x 1 - Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus
£99.99 x 1 - Antec Dark Fleet Series DF85 Gaming Enclosure - Black
£62.49 x 1 - XFX Pro 750W Core Edition Power Supply
£49.99 x 1 - Corsair Hydro H60 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA136611551156775AM2AM3)
£33.32 x 1 - Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gbs 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS)
£29.16 x 1 - Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K24GX)
£18.32 x 1 - 34 Piece PC Tool Kit
£1.36 x 1 - PrimoChill Dye Bomb - Invisible Blue
£0.00 x 1 - Dirt 3 Email Game Voucher (AMD promotion)


now onto the issues,

first off i cant find where to put the front 3 usb ports onto the motherboard its labelled 2.0usb3

secondly when i load up the computer it turns on fine, but doesnt show any computer information and says no hard drive detected. however when it boots up both are there,

thirdly im not sure if this is connected but it displays the MSi logo as if in set up mode however you cannot see it clearly due to it being over magnified. Also when trying to setup it freezes. however so far i can use the computer fine.

sorry if this is in the wrong section.

if any one can help thats would be great and if you want to pop over and have a look im happy to pay. ( southsea )

Think thats all.

Thanks , James

 

[savaged wolf]

im not using 2 mobos thought, only one..

how can i fix this, re format one hard drive?

 

[savaged wolf]

ok so i have 2 hard drives, each it seems with its own OS. ..

now the computer cant detect any hard drives yet im using them fine.. its a mess.

the computer works im using it right now

 

[savaged wolf]

ok so monitor is fixed now , needed a driver update.

ive never done this before,

so what should i do ? is there a guide ?

cheers james

 

[savaged wolf]

yes nothing shows up at all when it should list all the controllers and hardware,

just says no hard drive detected.

.

there is no guide how to do this stuff lol.

 

[savaged wolf]

thanks Jfro, - shall have look

can some one talk me through the complete set up - as in. after all hardware is in.

 

[savaged wolf]

right the build is done everything is as it should be apart from this cable.
i installed the OS up and that seemed to work ok,
now when i turn on the computer it comes up at the start bit with

Hard drive not detected.

then the msi logo comes up and freezes then completes the load and goes to windows fine...

thats about it really .

 

[savaged wolf]

so how can i fix this hard drive issue,

shame no one lives in or around portsmouth to help haha

 

[savaged wolf]

well i just had a random bluescreen, any ideas ?

 

[savaged wolf]

ahh sorry shoulda got the number, thanks for bearing with me on this

 

[savaged wolf]

just to clarify,

the Usb cable im struggling with has double row pins in just a single row of 4.

http://www.usbwholesale.com/images/Motherboard Cable Assembly Plug In.jpg

like this

 

[savaged wolf]

ok guys trying to loads the os and everything chose to boot from disc and recieved

bootmgr is missing

press ctrl+alt+delete

 

[savaged wolf]

ok quick edit:

first of all sorry for taking up your time,

so i plugged in said usb 2.0 into suggested port and only 1/3 front usb are working and 1/1 usb 3.0 ( separate source )

the os is installed but i think ive mucked it up and would like to start again, im really sorry ive been looking everywhere for answers cant seem to find any.
tapping f11 wont even load the boot menu sometimes ( am i doing it at the write time )

once again thank you so much for your patience and help, James

 

[savaged wolf]

Hey para,

No I hadn't was watching a YouTube vid but it hasn't done it again,
I managed to re install the os however now the 2nd hard drive is not showing in my computer but it did in the installation. Could this have anything to do with the cables I used?
I got some White 6gb/s ones and used them rather than thR standard orange one- would that make a difference?

Edit: also I can't get into the bios settings I think my screen is too big?

 

[savaged wolf]

Yes,
I get:

Drive picture* simple- basic- ntfs- healthy( system, active, primary partition)
And
(C simple -basic - ntfs- healthy ( boot, page file, crash dump, primary partition)

 

[savaged wolf]

Both drives only 1 letter

 

[savaged wolf]

thanks para,

so now the issue is ,

Setup not detecting hard drives , the bios i cant view and the usb ports :S other than thats its perfect !

 

[savaged wolf]

ok,
hard to explain the bios bit,

im using a tv 32"

i turn on computer and press Delete which should open the Bios up,
the screen / computer doesnt seem to like each other and the computer displays the msi logo really big, which means you can see the options etc. thus making the bios impossible to use.

in regards to the USB

all rear motherboard USB works perfectly fine with or without ,
when plugged in it only seems to let me use 1/3

 

[savaged wolf]

i can get one to try tomorrow, using GFX card 6950

there are 4 usbs on the front of the case one is 3.0 the other 3 are 2.0 only one of the 3 front 2.0s work the 3.0 works fine no problems

 

[savaged wolf]

no onboard graphics that i can see in the manuals.

its the dark fleet DF85 case by the way,