Started Computer for first time, windows installed now got issues

HUNTER.P · 24 Feb 2012 at 16:01

Well thankfully everything started up ok for the first time, went into the bios and choose the boot drive.

Re-started with windows 7 disk in, got caught on the phone while it was installing and it restarted. I knew it had to do that, but then it asked me to install it again?

This time all ok, got to the desktop and went to install the drivers for the graphics cards. Again as usual restart had to be done, but this time it doesnt start up the op system?

Just keeps going into the bios? Not touching any keys either? :confused:

BluSky · 24 Feb 2012 at 16:06

Are you sure when it restarted it booted from the hard drive? Sounds like it may have booted back up from the DVD to me. Either that or it encountered some sort of problem while you were away.

Regarding not booting into windows any more, does the bios show your hard drive as connected? Usually you end up in bios if the computer cannot find a suitable boot drive.

Deception · 24 Feb 2012 at 16:08

Once you booted from CD and its restarted, you need to set it back to the hard drive. Also make sure no keys are stuck down too.

HUNTER.P · 24 Feb 2012 at 16:21

It can see both drives, will change the boot now.

On the topic of drives though, windows didnt seem to recognise the 3tb hdd? this was before I tried to install the graphics cards drivers

BluSky · 24 Feb 2012 at 16:29

when you say it didn't recognise it, do you mean it didn't show up in my computer? Is it a new drive with nothing on it? If so you probably just need to create a new volume and format it. 3TB drives also sometimes require a bios update and you will need to format it as GPT if you want one large 3TB partition. More information can be found in these threads:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18377349
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18377039

HUNTER.P · 24 Feb 2012 at 16:30

Right windows booted no problem this time, just need to sort issue with the hdd not showing? Shows in the bios but not windows

HUNTER.P · 24 Feb 2012 at 16:34

BluSky said:
when you say it didn't recognise it, do you mean it didn't show up in my computer? Is it a new drive with nothing on it? If so you probably just need to create a new volume and format it. 3TB drives also sometimes require a bios update and you will need to format it as GPT if you want one large 3TB partition. More information can be found in these threads:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18377349
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18377039

Right got the window open, clicked intialize disk - have to choose from MBR or GPT?

BluSky · 24 Feb 2012 at 17:07

Choose GPT if you want to support partitions of larger than 2TB. If you select MBR then you will have to, at minimum, have 1 2TB partition and 1 1TB partition. It's up to you

HUNTER.P · 24 Feb 2012 at 17:16

cheers.

Now I havent recieved the monitor I ordered, hoped it would have arrived today. But I've nicked the downstairs HDTV for now. Its a full hd tv (1080p etc)

But when I set the resolution to 1080p the desktop is to big for the tv, i've changed it to 1768x992 for now but on both settings there is rather a lot of flickering?

HUNTER.P · 24 Feb 2012 at 18:10

Anyone?

Also can someone advise how I can store all my documents video, pictures, downloads etc on the HDD and not the SSD?

HecFam · 24 Feb 2012 at 18:29

are they the only resolutions you've tried? just try all of them and see which one fits.

if its still flickering then you might want to check your drivers.

HUNTER.P · 24 Feb 2012 at 18:32

HecFam said:
are they the only resolutions you've tried? just try all of them and see which one fits.

if its still flickering then you might want to check your drivers.

cant check the drivers until I am connected to the internet :rolleyes:

Which is why I have this thread http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18377690

Not having much luck

HecFam · 24 Feb 2012 at 18:40

im not too sure about the network problem, but if you have a problem with the drivers, download the drivers from whatever website (AMD,Nvidia etc..) from a computer with the internet then put them on a usb or whatever and install them on your computer.

What OS have you got on your laptop?

HUNTER.P · 24 Feb 2012 at 18:46

Horrible old vista

HecFam · 24 Feb 2012 at 19:08

yeah, i agree with the horrible part.

If you've gone into network connections and selected bridge on your laptop and its still isn't showing up on your pc then i suppose its a problem with the pc, is there anyway you can test the ethernet without bridging it, make sure there are no problems with the cable, port etc.

paradisiac · 24 Feb 2012 at 19:32

HUNTER.P said:
cheers.

Now I havent recieved the monitor I ordered, hoped it would have arrived today. But I've nicked the downstairs HDTV for now. Its a full hd tv (1080p etc)

But when I set the resolution to 1080p the desktop is to big for the tv, i've changed it to 1768x992 for now but on both settings there is rather a lot of flickering?

is it an Nvidia card? my old AMD cards would run fine on my tv @ 1920x1080, but none of the Nvidia cards i have owned will, so they must scale differently somehow.

HUNTER.P · 24 Feb 2012 at 20:05

Just updated the drivers, still very grainy, flickery and all.

To put it in perspective, bog standard laptop has a nicer look to it

Deception · 24 Feb 2012 at 20:37

Might be overscan on the gpu scaling. What cable are you using?

HUNTER.P · 24 Feb 2012 at 20:51

One that I use with my PS3 on the same tv, never had an issue.

HecFam · 25 Feb 2012 at 17:25

I had a conflicting driver issue, that made my screen crash every so often. I sorted it by deleting catalyst control centre of program files, deleting it from app data, user files, and paths. i then installed the brand new drivers for my 6870 from the amd website and it worked fine from then on.