*NEW BUILD* No HDD DETECT

sbdesign

sbdesign

sbdesign

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Hi Guys

Just put my gear together and inserted windows vista ultimate, it boots and then just a pointer on screen.

When I tried nwithout HDD - result the same

On boot up it says no hard drive detected very quickly

In bios HDD is there.

COMPONENTS -

Asus ATI Radeon EAH3650/HTDI/256M HD 3650 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail

Asus P5Q-E Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - OEM
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)

Corsair TX 650W ATX2.2 SLi Compliant PSU

Samsung SpinPoint F1 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502IJ)

OCZ 8GB (4x2GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz Quad Channel Platinum Low Latency XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P8008GQ)

SETUP -

Connected cpu and cooler
Connected GPU in blue slot
Installed all 8 gig of ram
Connected case to white block and plugged it in
Connected the big main power socket to board
Plugged 2 x 4 pin on board above cpu (removed bit of plastic from 4 of the holes)
Connected Fans
Connected power & sata to cd/hdd/hdd

Closed it all up neat and powered on.


Any ideas or help?

cheers
SBDESIGN
 
Check all the boot order options and make sure your HDD is listed as a second boot device. With regards to the vista screen with just a mouse pointer, if you give it about 10mins it will eventually load up with some information, its just slow.

Oh a second thing you might want to try if the HDD still doesn't "detect", look at the manual and see what it says regarding SATA ports and where you should plug the "primary" hard drive in to (as in which port).
 
And make sure the HDD is not plugged into RAID ports (Usually 2 are a different coulour if the board has it) as the OS will usually need a seperate driver for them.
 
Boot settings in BIOS ?
Make sure the HDD is set as primary master (1st drive).
Also make sure both SATA and POWER cables are connected correctly to harddrive and PSU.
 
All was already checked, as per people suggested..
what I didn't do was wait 10 min

its now installing.
Cheers guys

I want to set my HDD in raid at some point for faster speed.
At this point in time i need to know

A) can i reinstall the oem vista
B) can I keep all data on this hdd now (installing windows and apps) when i switch to raid
C) will the HDD need formatting and reinstalling?

yea i noticed B) & C) were basically the same question..
what a plonka!

kind regards
SBDESIGN
 
A) You can reinstall belongs the motherboard stays the same, you might need to use
the automated telephone service.
B & C) I think all data will be wiped as you proberly need to format.

Rob
 
cheers for that,
do you know the different raid options

can i use 4 hdd, 2 as 1 drive, plus a scratch disc (for photoshop) and 1 to backup?

cheers again
john
 
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