Hello
The hamster wheel in my current PC has clogged so I'm going to be building a new one. Waiting for the rest of my parts, but my mobo arrived today and I flicked through the manual. To my horror, I discovered that I need to actually set up BIOS. Naturally I googled what I need to do and found all the guides are woefully outdated, some dating back to 2005.
So I lined up some basic questions that I'm finding difficult to actually get answers to on google. Bear in mind I am a complete idiot when it comes to PCs and you need to explain to me like I just crawled out of a prehistoric peat bog.
Few bits of info to help you answer the questions:
- I'm not building the PC yet, I'm waiting for components. I'm trying to prepare myself so I don't screw it up, so I can't give precise info
- The mobo is a Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 5.
- I plan on installing an SSD and an HDD. The operating system is to be installed on the SSD.
Questions:
- Do I even need to set up the BIOS or can I just drop my OS disc in and go? Part of me says 'Surely they wouldn't ship a motherboard that can't run unless you fiddle around with a few basic settings that should be pre-installed anyway' but then again I'm a caveman so what do I know about PCs
- If I do need to set up BIOS, how do I do it in the most stress-free, easiest, not-screwing-up-my-PC way? I'm gonna be using it for gaming. If it's relevant, the CPU going in the mobo is an intel i5-4690K and the GPU is a Sapphire R9 390. Gonna be putting 16GB of RAM in it, which is 2x8gb strips.
- What the hell is a SATA configuration? It told me that the SATA configuration is critical to setup. That's unfortunate, considering I have no idea what that means.
- My mobo has a driver disc. Why does it need a driver disc? Surely if it needed drivers to work, it wouldn't be able to run the optical drive required to install the drivers? Do I need to install these before the OS? Do I need this in the PC before I even load BIOS? Ugh.
If you could answer these questions in the most basic way possible then I'd appreciate it a bunch. I'd like to have at least a basic understanding of what I'm aiming for before I build the thing and mess everything up.
The hamster wheel in my current PC has clogged so I'm going to be building a new one. Waiting for the rest of my parts, but my mobo arrived today and I flicked through the manual. To my horror, I discovered that I need to actually set up BIOS. Naturally I googled what I need to do and found all the guides are woefully outdated, some dating back to 2005.
So I lined up some basic questions that I'm finding difficult to actually get answers to on google. Bear in mind I am a complete idiot when it comes to PCs and you need to explain to me like I just crawled out of a prehistoric peat bog.
Few bits of info to help you answer the questions:
- I'm not building the PC yet, I'm waiting for components. I'm trying to prepare myself so I don't screw it up, so I can't give precise info
- The mobo is a Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 5.
- I plan on installing an SSD and an HDD. The operating system is to be installed on the SSD.
Questions:
- Do I even need to set up the BIOS or can I just drop my OS disc in and go? Part of me says 'Surely they wouldn't ship a motherboard that can't run unless you fiddle around with a few basic settings that should be pre-installed anyway' but then again I'm a caveman so what do I know about PCs
- If I do need to set up BIOS, how do I do it in the most stress-free, easiest, not-screwing-up-my-PC way? I'm gonna be using it for gaming. If it's relevant, the CPU going in the mobo is an intel i5-4690K and the GPU is a Sapphire R9 390. Gonna be putting 16GB of RAM in it, which is 2x8gb strips.
- What the hell is a SATA configuration? It told me that the SATA configuration is critical to setup. That's unfortunate, considering I have no idea what that means.
- My mobo has a driver disc. Why does it need a driver disc? Surely if it needed drivers to work, it wouldn't be able to run the optical drive required to install the drivers? Do I need to install these before the OS? Do I need this in the PC before I even load BIOS? Ugh.
If you could answer these questions in the most basic way possible then I'd appreciate it a bunch. I'd like to have at least a basic understanding of what I'm aiming for before I build the thing and mess everything up.
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