New Gaming Rig Advice..

yes.

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

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Plec said:
Change to IDE it's only the OS going on this.

Check that the first boot is USB still.

save exit.

You will need to plug ssd back in after.
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Still:

Bad Beady!
 
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.
 
Plec said:
It's worked though?
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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.
 
The drive may be borked after all.

We could make an Ubuntu bootable USB - and check the drive.

But for another day - or jsut install onto the HDD - again for another day

Not that surprising - considering it failed before.
 
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 said:
Hasn't swapped?
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Once it's installed - and restarts - you need to whip out the usb - it's looping back into the install process booting and from the USB rather than the ssd once installed.

BeadyRoller said:
Ill sneak down and try it once I've spent some quality time with the girlfriend, she's going mad at me now :D
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Leave it for tomorrow bud - she must hate me.

Windows will be minutes if it's what i think it is.
 
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great.

That was a prime example of how a simple thing can get missed when you can't see the situation in RL.

Glad it worked - was actually totally flummoxed for a bit.

Gn bud.
 
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