New parts, no display

Journey · 19 May 2018 at 09:13

OllieC said:
After ringing round and not finding anyone with a AMD chip already in use, I just had to buy this. It's being delivered tomorrow, so hopefully it's all plain sailing after this arrived and I have my first pc build that I did up and running. Thanks a lot for all your help Journey!

Good luck, hope it all works once you've managed to update the BIOS.

OllieC · 19 May 2018 at 09:14

Journey said:
Good luck, hope it all works once you've managed to update the BIOS.

Thanks! It just arrived too, so fingers crossed in the next hour I'll have windows installing on my new rig

Journey · 19 May 2018 at 11:55

OllieC said:
Thanks! It just arrived too, so fingers crossed in the next hour I'll have windows installing on my new rig

Ah, good luck then.

OllieC · 19 May 2018 at 13:31

Journey said:
Ah, good luck then.

Uhh, well, I updated the bios, switched it all back on, got a display, then I was just sorting windows out, downloading the file from Microsoft, burning it etc. I just put my usb in to do it, restarted my pc, and all of a sudden it just loads straight through and everything from my old pc is here? Aren't you supposed to reinstall windows after a new MOBO/CPU install? It wasn't doing it before, just going to the bios, now it's just gone straight through, with no installation of windows lol.
I assume it's because windows was still on my SSD, but I didn't think it worked like this?
Oh well, happy days I guess lol. I'll reinstall windows just because I want a fresh start, but it's a lot easier from this position!

Journey · 19 May 2018 at 14:01

Excellent to hear.

Windows 10 is a lot more resilient to being switched from one platform to another, and supports quite a lot of hardware in its basic form.

OllieC · 19 May 2018 at 14:05

Journey said:
Excellent to hear.

Windows 10 is a lot more resilient to being switched from one platform to another, and supports quite a lot of hardware in its basic form.

Cool. Well I'm resetting it now anyway, just so I don't encounter any potential problems, and I'd like it all to be fresh anyway. Just gotta head to work now, come back and continue installing. Looks like I'm all set! What a great feeling building my first pc!

fowler002 · 19 May 2018 at 17:36

You need to go into the bios at start up(start pressing delete as soon as you hit the power button), need to change the boot order to the usb(if you’re wanting to install windows)..