New Gaming Rig Advice..

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PCIEX16 (directly below heatsink)

 

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That is PEG - it sets PCIex16 as the first display.

So gfx card should have been recognised.

Is quick boot disabled?

Quick boot is Enabled.

 

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Shall I set AHCI while I'm here?

 

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Never mind, already is set.

 

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Have you found key for windows?

Nope my friend doesn't know where it was and no box was provided when he bought it.

 

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Shall I try put graphics card in again?

What's being served, I'm hungry.

 

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Yes, if you've got the above.

What's the boot order?

Boot order is SSD first then HDD.

 

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Right graphics card is working

Just a matter of getting Windows sorted now.

 

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Pan fried salmon, prawns, Linguine, peas, extra virgin olive oil, black pepper all mixed in. Dead easy, healthy for the kids and tasty

My son lives off pasta meals - he has expensive taste - loves fish...

I absolutely love fish, that sounds amazing.

 

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Right I've managed to retrieve my product key.. I think. I won't say how incase it's against rules or something.

 

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Great - on USB/dvd?

I have the windows 10 iso on my usb stick ready to go.

 

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Which is the key to boot from usb again, I've forgot

 

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We're going to delete the partition, create a new one, format (as it was corrupted) and then install.

Is it the only drive installed?

And have you ever installed a version of windows before?

F12 I pressed and brought up all devices I could choose from but it has different USB ones.

FDD
ZIP
CD ROM
HDD

Also has Floppy, LS120, Hard Disk.

Also have a 250gb HDD connected. I have installed Windows before, SHOULD be ok but I'll let you know.

 

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Which partitions do I delete?

Want to clear both drives completely.

 

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Just popped out to get the girlfriend and some food, be back in about 30.

 

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I agree!

Right back, I have 3 different partitions

Drive 0 partition 1: system reserved 100mb free space 70mb type system

Drive 0 Partition 2 55.8gb free space 25.3 GB. Type primary

Drive 1 partition 1: new volume 232.9gb free space 25.3 type primary.

 

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No I have a 250gb HDD as well. USB is 16gb.

 

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Right got two unallocated spaces now. One for SSD one for HDD.

 

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You can identify ssd?

Story...

Yep SSD is the smaller size 55gb.

 

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Installing now