*NEW BUILD* No HDD DETECT

[sbdesign]

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

 

[sbdesign]

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

 

[sbdesign]

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