Building a computer

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From the dvd, the hda and ac97 are for the jacks on the front of the drive, so if you want to plug headphone in plug the hda in, I assume your motherboard has hi def audio.

And the switches, just adjust the fan speed, I'm not sure if you'd want them on low/medium. Suppose you could run something like hwmonitor and have the fan switch to low, see what the temps are, then change the fan switch to medium/high, see if there's any real difference.

do they NEED to be plugged in though?

 

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just plugged everything in, went for the power and.....nothing We've done everything on the guide.

anything we can check?

 

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What power button on the motherboard? doesn't seem to be one, and no lights on the motherboard.

 

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Now we turn it on and a green light comes on the motherboard briefly and the fans spin round for a few seconds but it goes off again.

 

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the green light which is above the ram

 

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We put the fan on the cpu with thermal paste on but we took it off again and put it back on without renewing the paste, would that make a difference? and yep with the ram/memory and psu facing upwards.

 

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also going on this pic of the motherboard http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4397938551_1073988f9c.jpg

We don't have anything plugged into the floppy port or firewire header, should there be?

 

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We managed to get it working

when putting windows onto your computer, what is the difference between x86 and x64? i went with x86

also i have a thing in with my graphics card that says crossfire on it, does that need to be kept/stuck on anywhere?

 

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Glad to hear things are up and running.

Should have gone for x64 (64 bit).

When installing Windows7 you should have 2 installation discs. One for 64 bit and the other for 32bit (x86).

You should reinstall it with Windows 64bit. Save anything you need from the hard drive, pop in the 64 bit disc and boot from the optical drive. It should give you an option to format and reinstall.



Is it a Crossfire Bridge (Google it). If you only have one graphics card then you don't need it.

Done this

but it's giving me this option

disc 0 partition 1. system reserved (e) 100.0mb free space 71.0mb

or

disk 0 partition (c) 931.4 gb 920.gb

which one do i choose? the bottom one?

 

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Did it give you an option to format the drive when doing a reinstallation?

i'm not sure now, am i best going into the bios and deleting all the partitions and doing it that way?

also it won't let me go on the net, I've plugged the ethernet cable into it (which worked half an hour ago on my old computer) and the net isn't coming on, do i need to download any like network drivers?

 

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Not sure about deleting partitions via the BIOS?

Try resetting your modem/router firstly. Have you installed the drivers from the motherboard CD if you can't get online?

Is Windows installed on the first partition of your hard drive? (C)

Were any other hard drives connected to the motherboard when you reinstalled Windows?

sorry i meant putting it to run the cd first in the bios and then running windows, (i'm going on what i did on my old computer)

i also chose the (c) option that i put in my earlier post so surely it will be?

only the one harddrive was connected to the motherboard (as far as i know)

 

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yea you put the cd into the drive and in bios set the pc to boot from cd drive and you'll get the prompts to install. but if youve already reinstalled windows then goto my computer and look at the 'c' drive and see if shows as partitioned or does it show the (almost) full 1tb of space available

On My computer it says this

hard disc drivers (1)
local disc (c
912 GB free of 931 GB

so is everything ok? and my dad has my motherboard cd and is at work

 

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Yeah that looks ok. Looks like Windows has installed onto the first partition fine.

Right click on "My Computer" "Properies", under "System" it should now read;

Installed memory (RAM): 4.00GB
System type: 64-bit Operating System

Just to confirm the 64-bit operating system has been installed.

No luck with resetting the router? Try restarting the machine if you haven't done so since the latest installation of Windows.

yeah it does say that, and i've tried restarting machine/router but the internet still isn't coming on, i'll have to try the cd in the morning.

cheers for the help lads.

 

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oh and if you have another pc/laptop you could download the necessary network drivers from the manufacturers website and burn them to a cd or memory stick and install them that way

I do, and i've actually already tried to do this (for an external hard drive i can use to transfer), but i can't find them

 

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http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3651#dl

goto this link, select your OS from the drop down menu, win7 64bit i assume?

4 option down, Realtek Lan Driver.

i'm assuming the same mobo that you stated in OP, GA-P67A-UD3

which ones on that should i be downloading apart from the lan one?

 

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my screen resolution doesn't seem in focus either, this used to happen on my old computer but it used to be fixed once i downloaded all the drivers off the dell site. could be being paranoid though because i have a new monitor also.

 

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right click on desktop and select screen resolution and set it to whatever your monitors native res should be

can't see an option for that? says detect and identify

 

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beneath detect and identify do you not see summat like this

yep the display and resolution, doesn't give me one that it recommends though. i haven't installed my graphics card drivers yet

 

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my internet is now on and my screen/resolution looks great i couldn't thank you lads enough for your help, really really appreciate it!