New computer build.

Oh, wasn't expecting that! I think it has the holes, but not really sure. Should the bracket sit as far back as possible or right at the front? And should those side pins be forced into the holes? This is kind of what I have:

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Thanks, that kind of helps. So I lined up the first hole with the first pin to get this:

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But then I had the problem of the pin in the rubber that is on the bay. I have replaced this with a screw because I am guessing that is what you have to do? The hole on the bracket has a thread so no way can one of those pins go into it. This is what I have done so far, is this correct?

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Hey guys, sorry I had to go out for a bit. The SSD bracket has now been drilled and is now snuggly fit in the bay with a screw in the middle. Hopefully its all correct!

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The next problem is exactly the same, the holes on the HD are threaded and the pins do not fit properly into them. I am not quite sure what to do about it?

Thanks guys :)
 
Yep they went in with a few pushes on each and a little bit of force. Did not expect the pins to go into a hole that was threaded!

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But both hard drives are now in, packed away now and ready for tommorow. Not much more to go!

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Thanks for the help :)
 
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Hey everyone, another few questions :) Basically I am just connecting all of the sata cables up. Firstly my motherboard came with all sata III 6gbps cables. Are these fine to use with everything?

Next do I have to plug all of my sata II devices into the sata II ports or does it not matter because sata III is backwards compatable? Also what is esata sata II or sata III?

Lastly with some of the sata cable ends they are kind of L shaped, are these to use at the device end? For example on the harddrive so that it does not stick out too far?

Thanks guys :)
 
Thanks for that. The sata cables are all connected to the SATA II ports. I have also connected up the power cables to the drive and hard drives. I have connected the main cable to the mobo but was just wondering which one it is for the CPU.

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It has 4 pins showing but with a cover on another 4 I think. I am guessing it is just one of the two 4 pin connectors on the cable. I am also quite worried about the back where all the cables are. Don't know if I will be able to have good cable management!

Thanks :)
 
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Oh right thanks! Is that this cable then: "One cable with two ATX12V connectors that together form an EPS12V connector, 23.6” (60 cm) long" ?

And to be honest olivier I don't even think cable ties will sort this out :P

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Right guys, I believe everything is connected but the graphics card. Someone suggested earlier about only starting up with the minimal things. Should I do this before connecting the GPU? Don't want to burn everything out if it all goes wrong! What do you guys think?

Thanks :)
 
Yep just connected up the two ATX12V connectors for the CPU which needed quite a bit of force. Now I am going to install GPU, then I believe it's time.

Will have to sort cables out after I have checked its working OK :P
 
Right thanks! Graphics card is installed, one question. I have connected up the two pcie power connectors. However one does not say that it is PCI-E on it. I presume it is because it fits and there is nothing else it can be? This is it below:

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And this is the graphics card and everything in:

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So what do I do now? Do I power on without the OS first? I presume I need to change the boot order? But what exactly do I do?

Thanks guys :)
 
Right so I will boot into the BIOS and sort the stuff out. I presume I can check all the hardware in it to make sure there are no problems? Then before I install the OS I think I will sort out the cables because it's going to involve unplugging things.

Thanks for all the help :)

EDIT: Also the other thing is the RAM is obviously in different slots to what it says, so I hope that's ok =/
 
Yer that's what I thought it's just the motherboard manual that worries me. It says to ensure a successful bootup have the RAM in DIMM 1. But yer hopefully it will be fine!

@J-FRO: That's cool hope it goes well :) What parts are you going with?
 
Oh cool sounds sweet :P Was going to go with the 6950 but wanted to keep costs down!

Right I am just about to power on now, first chance I have had. Anything I should do before I power on? Or is it just ready to go then? Worried for the components! :P

Thanks guys :)
 
Right well it has not blown up yet. Its got to the screen CPU or memory changed. Press F1 to enter setup or F2 to load default values and continue. I presume setup?

Thanks!

EDIT: Olivier exactly what I did! :P
 
Haha, right the time is changed and date is fine. OK just found optimized defaults which I have loaded. Now I need to sort the boot menu out.

CPU is currently at 37 degrees.

Thanks guys :)
 
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Right I am in the boot menu and it has 8 boot devices! It also have three sections for hard drive, dvd drive and UEFI boot drive BBS priorities. So i have disabled everything and have the OCZ hard drive as the 1st boot in hard drive BBS priorities. Then the DVD drive in the DVD BBS priorities.

Then in the main boot order I have DVD and then OCZ. I hope this is right and makes sense?

Never seen it like this before, thanks :)
 
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