- Aug 16, 2012
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Hey everyone
My friend and I have been upgrading his computer in order to play games more effectively.
He started with a Dell Vostro 460 prebuilt PC, with i5-2400, 4GB of RAM, and standard motherboard with HDD.
The whole upgrade process has been nothing but a hassle, and I will outline everything that has happened:
First, he ordered an ASUS R9 270 graphics card, as well as a Corsair CXM600 600W PSU and we installed these new components.
After this, the graphics card failed to initialise and we could not use it whatsoever. This is apparently due to an incompatibility with his standard motherboard, and the graphics card.
Then, he ordered a new motherboard and RAM!
The motherboard, an ASUS P8Z77-V LX, has been installed with his processor-alongside new thermal interface material-and RAM.
Another problem throughout is our lack of properly sized cases, as we could not find an ATX form factor computer case anywhere nearby.
So... We resulted to testing the system without a case!
The motherboard has been positioned on the antistatic packaging that it came packaged in, with power supply unit beside.
His Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB 8GB 1.6GHz RAM has also been installed and we tested the system for the first time!
The system successfully POST'ed and we accessed the BIOS to monitor the processor temperatures.
The temperatures were safe and stable at 30°C idle, and SPD detected all 8GB of RAM run in dual-channel memory mode.
No other issues resulting from beeps or LED flashing occurred, so we thought to now installed his old HDD and boot the PC!
But wait... Now after POST'ing, we are faced with the windows recovery screen telling us to start windows normally, or attempt and resolve the issues.
Upon starting windows normally, the system reboots, asking us this very same question, and the repair feature does not seem to yield any results.
The HDD is 500GB and interfaces using SATA 3GB/s; though we have tried the SATA 6GB/s connectors.
We have tried configuring the data mode in the BIOS to IDE from AHCI, but this does not change anything.
He is running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, and the HDD worked on his older system now disassembled.
Have you guys got any idea what the problem could be?
My friend and I have been upgrading his computer in order to play games more effectively.
He started with a Dell Vostro 460 prebuilt PC, with i5-2400, 4GB of RAM, and standard motherboard with HDD.
The whole upgrade process has been nothing but a hassle, and I will outline everything that has happened:
First, he ordered an ASUS R9 270 graphics card, as well as a Corsair CXM600 600W PSU and we installed these new components.
After this, the graphics card failed to initialise and we could not use it whatsoever. This is apparently due to an incompatibility with his standard motherboard, and the graphics card.
Then, he ordered a new motherboard and RAM!
The motherboard, an ASUS P8Z77-V LX, has been installed with his processor-alongside new thermal interface material-and RAM.
Another problem throughout is our lack of properly sized cases, as we could not find an ATX form factor computer case anywhere nearby.
So... We resulted to testing the system without a case!
The motherboard has been positioned on the antistatic packaging that it came packaged in, with power supply unit beside.
His Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB 8GB 1.6GHz RAM has also been installed and we tested the system for the first time!
The system successfully POST'ed and we accessed the BIOS to monitor the processor temperatures.
The temperatures were safe and stable at 30°C idle, and SPD detected all 8GB of RAM run in dual-channel memory mode.
No other issues resulting from beeps or LED flashing occurred, so we thought to now installed his old HDD and boot the PC!
But wait... Now after POST'ing, we are faced with the windows recovery screen telling us to start windows normally, or attempt and resolve the issues.
Upon starting windows normally, the system reboots, asking us this very same question, and the repair feature does not seem to yield any results.
The HDD is 500GB and interfaces using SATA 3GB/s; though we have tried the SATA 6GB/s connectors.
We have tried configuring the data mode in the BIOS to IDE from AHCI, but this does not change anything.
He is running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, and the HDD worked on his older system now disassembled.
Have you guys got any idea what the problem could be?
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