New Gaming Rig Advice..

[BeadyRoller]

It was on Hard Disk..

 

[BeadyRoller]

Meant to be on FDD right?

 

[BeadyRoller]

yes.

This was stulids chicken and beer - we both got mesmerized :

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Still:

Bad Beady!

Oooops! Sorry Plec

Right.. 3rd time lucky.

 

[BeadyRoller]

Still doing it, just goes back to the start of the installation after it restarts. I'm ending it there for tonight, been working on it since half 10 this morning.

 

[BeadyRoller]

It's worked though?

Worked? When it goes through the installation of copying files, doing updates etc then comes up saying it needs to restart, it restarts and goes all the way back to the beginning of the installation.. picking language then putting in product key again.

It's done it 3 times now.

 

[BeadyRoller]

Just found this..

"When I installed Windows on my PC (and this may or may not be the right way to do it, but it worked for me), i had the same problem. I was able to make it work but taking out the USB as soon as the PC was powered down in the reboot phase of the install. My best guess is that your motherboard doesn't know if you have Windows installed or not, and just sees that in Boot priority 1 is USB, and there's a .iso on the usb, so run it, and then there goes your old (partial) install. I would restart the entire process, wipe the SSD, etc, and upon reboot take out he USB before the computer has a chance to turn on again and the motherboard tries to boot off the USB."

?

 

[BeadyRoller]

Christ yes - it hasn;t swapped.

Hasn't swapped?

Ill sneak down and try it once I've spent some quality time with the girlfriend, she's going mad at me now

 

[BeadyRoller]

It's worked Well, that was a good practice run for when I do my build.

 

[BeadyRoller]

Night mate, thanks for the help again.

 

[BeadyRoller]

Morning! Any drivers I need to install as it's a fresh install?

 

[BeadyRoller]

Morning Beady.

What did you select:

• Use recommended settings or?
• Important Updates only?

And has windows updated since install?

Ideally, you would have picked important updates only.

I can't remember what I chose now. I don't think it had chance as when I knew it had worked I shut it down. Was a long day yesterday

 

[BeadyRoller]

Then it's a case of Graphics driver, do I need to do the motherboard drivers and stuff?

 

[BeadyRoller]

Ok great. Not sure what to do with the front case fan? Will it be ok without it?

 

[BeadyRoller]

Thanks Plec. How do I just pick critical updates only?

 

[BeadyRoller]

Got my eye on a Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 Socket LGA1155 Motherboard (Rev 2.0)

What do you think?

 

[BeadyRoller]

By the time I buy a motherboard, a new case and a decent cooler I might as well of gone for the Ryzen build, edging towards that now.

 

[BeadyRoller]

RAM I bought the 1600 MHz so would swap that to the 3000 so that's already basically bought. Looking at around 450.

 

[BeadyRoller]

Hehe - true.

So is it 'only' £450...

Or is it - Christ, i've got to find £450!

Haha I can stretch to afford it, it's an upgrade that would keep me going for a few years so it may be worth it. That's what I'm trying to tell myself anyway

 

[BeadyRoller]

The i5 3570k and the 8GB of 1600mhz RAM.

 

[BeadyRoller]

Plus the money gained from my brother buying my 7970.

I do want this Ryzen build but I'm struggling to justify my purchase, that's all.