Help. Out of my depth

Deleted member 77746 · 12 Oct 2020 at 12:24

Chaos666 said:
I wouldn't say its scary.. but definitely its a little bit stressful

As long as you take your time it's fine. Not stressful it's just a jigsaw.

Chaos666 · 12 Oct 2020 at 13:26

I was just referring to pressing the power button for the first time

fencehouses · 25 Oct 2020 at 10:00

Hi Everyone ,Today the day I start my Build....I have all the bits now and I have done a usb copy of my win 10.
Gonna take my time and make sure I earth myself a lot.
Here Goes.

Ihow3y · 25 Oct 2020 at 11:22

fencehouses said:
fence houses born but near Crook now

It’s a small world when you get into forums like this, I’m from Kirk Merrinton lol. I was in exactly the same position as you a year or so ago, I’m a mechanic by trade so always like to try my hand and watched a lot of videos. I would suggest you get a clean space out the way of any children or pets and just take your time. It’s honestly a lot easier than it looks and you get so much more satisfaction knowing you have built it by your own hand. That being said I did have a very good friend of mine have to sort out my bios flash back once it was built up. Who also lives in crook btw, so have no fear one way or another the guys in this group will keep you right

I wish you all the best and keep us updated

Shaolin Chicken · 25 Oct 2020 at 12:21

Good luck, take your time.
Slowly but surely is the way.
If you get stuck along the way, there will be people here who can help.

Chaos666 · 25 Oct 2020 at 19:38

fencehouses said:
Hi Everyone ,Today the day I start my Build....I have all the bits now and I have done a usb copy of my win 10.
Gonna take my time and make sure I earth myself a lot.
Here Goes.

and.. ?

fencehouses · 26 Oct 2020 at 16:57

Sorry for Delay in getting back.
Got pc nearly finished. Put motherboard Bundle in,Graphics Card, M2 ssd and aDVD player/Burner.
Power it up and all seems fine ....Guess ths is becase Bundle is tested before its sent out? I loaded windows off usb and only snag is I was using a small LED tv ia HDMI instead of my normal monitor and the screen display is to big but im hoping this will sort itself when i connect to normal monitor.
My thing now is The Drivers. I guess the motherboard bundle will be all up to date because of testing by company I bought it offso i think i now have to do graphics card and dvd is this right or should I be doing other stuff ?
Thanks for reading and all privious help.

alec · 26 Oct 2020 at 17:11

fencehouses said:
screen display is to big

Pretty sure it is a matter of updating drivers. Until then it is working in compatibility mode with a default works-everywhere resolution.
Run Windows Update, it should fetch appropriate ones automatically. (There won't be any preloaded drivers left over from testing, because you are installing in on an empty drive.)

fencehouses · 26 Oct 2020 at 17:14

iv done a windows update Alec there was quiet a list of them so could it be im up to date and everthing is ok to go?

Quartz · 26 Oct 2020 at 17:41

fencehouses said:
ASUS Radeon 550 Phoenix 2GB Gpu

Umm.... good luck gaming on that.

Chaos666 · 26 Oct 2020 at 18:25

fencehouses said:
iv done a windows update Alec there was quiet a list of them so could it be im up to date and everthing is ok to go?

is your screen looking normal now?
maybe its just windows scaling

fencehouses · 26 Oct 2020 at 20:12

Be tomorrow before I can get back to Pc chaoss666 hopefully when i rig it up to normal monitor it will be ok...hopfully.
Quartz the PC is for general surfing,Torrents and Light Digital Phatography.Its just to replace a PC iv had for about 10 year.

fencehouses · 28 Oct 2020 at 20:42

Screen issue sorted when I got to hook up to my normal PC monitor .Now I need to get win 10 to recognise my DVD/CD player -Burner.....a known problem on Win 10 I belive

geekyadz · 28 Oct 2020 at 20:50

fencehouses said:
Now I need to get win 10 to recognise my DVD/CD player -Burner.....a known problem on Win 10 I belive

Haven't came across this issue before.

Check device manager and see if it's being detected?

Mel_P · 28 Oct 2020 at 20:52

"Self build" - I just looked at parts in OCUK Bundles. Asked a few questions on the forum to see which parts could be improved - then bought parts from OCUK. All arrived in 2 days and worked first time. Reactivating windows on SSD took a bit of fiddling. Setting BIOS for best performance is probably trickiest thing?

Mel

fencehouses · 28 Oct 2020 at 20:56

will check when back ...about 22.30

geekyadz · 29 Oct 2020 at 09:01

fencehouses said:
will check when back ...about 22.30

Any joy?

fencehouses · 29 Oct 2020 at 15:06

Cant get PC to show DVD/CD inbuilt player.
I have ran update in Device Manager, Windows updates I've even re wired it but still no Disk showing or playing. Its has power to it because it opens and closes and whirrs when I put a disk In.

Deleted member 77746 · 29 Oct 2020 at 15:47

fencehouses said:
Cant get PC to show DVD/CD inbuilt player.
I have ran update in Device Manager, Windows updates I've even re wired it but still no Disk showing or playing. Its has power to it because it opens and closes and whirrs when I put a disk In.

You have got it connected with a sata cable as well as power cable haven't you?

fencehouses · 29 Oct 2020 at 18:15

yup got SATA cable on as well as power cable .Gonna have a nother look later tonight I did notice in device manager yellow triangles next to 3 PCI Device " Things" But I have opend them and don update driver and still yellow.