Good people of toms hardware, i require your assistance!
So recently i put together a brand new rig and wired everything up and everything APPEARS to be correct, however, so, out of laziness i was hoping i could avoid using a new copy of windows but m not sure what else i can do. Whenever the computer boots, it either wants to use the god awful winki controller ( which blackscreens if accepted) or if i attempt to boot from first hdd it tells me it cant find it. i have the ahci option enabled because im using
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133192
and it has the smart swap crap, anyway, can someone offer me some suggestions?
full bulid for reference:
MSI 970A-G46
AMD FX 8350
Zotac GTX 780
Thermal Take level 10 GT snow edition
So recently i put together a brand new rig and wired everything up and everything APPEARS to be correct, however, so, out of laziness i was hoping i could avoid using a new copy of windows but m not sure what else i can do. Whenever the computer boots, it either wants to use the god awful winki controller ( which blackscreens if accepted) or if i attempt to boot from first hdd it tells me it cant find it. i have the ahci option enabled because im using
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133192
and it has the smart swap crap, anyway, can someone offer me some suggestions?
full bulid for reference:
MSI 970A-G46
AMD FX 8350
Zotac GTX 780
Thermal Take level 10 GT snow edition