Building my first PC tomorrow. Any last minute important tips you can share?
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skippyboy92362
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Make sure to discharge any static electricity you may be carrying (touch metal) or use anti static strap before touching any part other than case. On your first post the only thing that should be in your motherboard is CPU (with heat sink and fan of course), 1 stick of ram, graphics card, keyboard, mouse and power supply. Hook up monitor to graphics card. Turn on power, if it posts get into bios and check its revision number than go on line and see if there's a newer one. If there is flash it. After that is done you can power your PC down, unplug it ad remaining memory, plug it back in, restart it, go back into bios, check memory XMP profile to see if it is running at the correct speed on auto, if not, set it to the correct speed manually, save bios settings, shut down, unplug, now ad your drives, plug back in, back into bios, see if motherboard sees drives, if it does exit bios, if using windows disc insert it in drive, if using flash drive wait until next shut down, shut it down, restart get in to boot menu, select the windows installation drive, if everything has went well so far up pops the windows installation on your monitor, and finally sit back and relax. Oh and make sure your have the latest driver versions for your motherboard and graphics card. You will need these after windows is installed.
Thanks but that just sounds like a lot of unnecessary work. I rather just build the PC in it's entirety instead of stopping halfway through and then turning it on. I can't really bothered to do that lol. And can't I just update the BIOS after I install the OS?
turbopixel
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I think these steps are too much unnecessary work too. You can upgrade BIOS after installation of OS. I want give you last minute tips, but not sure what to say now. This is a complex field. The only thing comes to my mind is "discharge any static electricity", what the guy said before in his first sentence. Be careful on the cpu and usb-3 connector on motherboard. Their pins are sensible. If the pc does not boot after everything is installed, then try it with single ram on different slots. Make sure your motherboard supports the cpu and that you don't mix ram with different makers or voltage. And I assume you already got all parts and that they will work together.
Also, if you don't need a bios update, then consider not to updating it. I updated my bios right after build within the motherboards UEFI system. The update failed. And the system didn't work anymore; the UEFI got corrupt! That was a known bug in the UEFI update process. Luckily my motherboard have a UEFI backup to restore the initial state anytime I want. Otherwise...
> http://www.hardware-revolution.com/how-to-build-a-computer/
Also, if you don't need a bios update, then consider not to updating it. I updated my bios right after build within the motherboards UEFI system. The update failed. And the system didn't work anymore; the UEFI got corrupt! That was a known bug in the UEFI update process. Luckily my motherboard have a UEFI backup to restore the initial state anytime I want. Otherwise...
> http://www.hardware-revolution.com/how-to-build-a-computer/
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