Built computer - what now?

ReiceMcK · 18 Dec 2012 at 14:41

I'd just like to first point out that I have no optical drive.

I've built a computer that I believe to be working properly. As I turn it on for the first time expecting the BIOS, I get this console text:

'Boot and select proper boot device
Insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key'

I have a USB with the Win7 files on it and waiting. I insert the USB into the back of the computer, hit a key, and it repeats the boot instructions.

So, I'm stumped. Any ideas?

bignev72 · 18 Dec 2012 at 14:57

Have you gone into the BIOS and selected the boot order?

It probably isn't set to boot from USB.

ReiceMcK · 18 Dec 2012 at 15:00

I can't get into the BIOS. I though it'd bring up the BIOS before anything, so I have no idea what to do.

Confused · 18 Dec 2012 at 15:03

It's booting past the BIOS before your monitor has a chance to turn on and display an image. Hell, on my current PC with the Samsung 830 SSD, it's at the Windows 8 login screen before my screen turns on!

As soon as you press the power button, start hammering the Delete key on the keyboard, and it will get you to the BIOS.

Addicted · 18 Dec 2012 at 15:05

As above, spam the Del key - you will be in the bios when your monitor does eventually turn on

ReiceMcK · 18 Dec 2012 at 15:06

Phahaha.... What? Alright.

ReiceMcK · 18 Dec 2012 at 15:12

Oh man, this is awful... The display is all weird and it's not giving me any option to do anything. It starts out with a square of partially revealed image of the motherboard with a cursor over it, and by moving the cursor I can reveal a very distorted form of the image, with a partial Gigabyte logo in the top left corner. I also saw an 'options', bit it quickly disappeared.

ReiceMcK · 18 Dec 2012 at 15:18

Ok, I can partly navigate the BIOS, but its not helped by the glitchy display and the fact that I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to be doing. It appears to be letting me click parts of the motherboard on the diagram, but I can't say for sure what happens when I do that.

Clarkey · 18 Dec 2012 at 15:59

RTFM, and just putting the files on a usb isn't good enough you need the drive bootable.

neuk · 19 Dec 2012 at 18:51

This might help you,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxaVBsXEiok&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL6091D3C8AD25CDA7

Tomsk · 21 Dec 2012 at 17:21

ReiceMcK said:
Oh man, this is awful... The display is all weird and it's not giving me any option to do anything. It starts out with a square of partially revealed image of the motherboard with a cursor over it, and by moving the cursor I can reveal a very distorted form of the image, with a partial Gigabyte logo in the top left corner. I also saw an 'options', bit it quickly disappeared.

Have you checked:
1. the monitor
2. the monitor lead
3. graphics card is seated properly
4. if the motherboard has built in graphics, remove your graphics card and try using the motherboards own.