I have a few questions, but the main one is the one listed in the title. I just built a new computer (with the aid of my brother). The specs: Intel i7-5820k processor, ASUS X99-A II motherboard, gigabyte 1060 windforce graphics card, 1TB seagate HDD, 120 GB PNY SSD, 550W PSU, Carbide Spec-03 case, corsair h60 liquid cooler, 16GB G-Skills 2133 MHZ DDR4 RAM, and a bluray player I can't remember the name of.
I got everything in alright (the only issue was finding a spot to put the radiator so that it didn't block anything), and just installed windows 7 and all of my drivers. I did have a bit of trouble getting the wireless adapter to work, but, as you can see, it is working now. Now, I'm going to be downloading all of my games and things from Steam, plus WoW and other bnet games. The issue? My 1TB hard drive isn't showing up in Windows explorer. I looked it up real quick and did find it in Disk Management as other people were suggested to do. It says it's online and has 931.51GB free but that it is "Unallocated." It was even detected by the little screen thing telling me what devices are connected when I turned the computer on before installing Windows. How do I make it so that the hard drive shows up in explorer so that I can properly use it?
Onto the other question: I installed the 1060 graphics card as well (obviously) and its drivers. However, I went to play Chess Titans while waiting for my adapter to work, and it said "Hardware acceleration (or something like that) off or not supported by graphics card." I installed the driver CD that came with it (and allowed the icon to be put on the desktop), but whenever I try opening the icon, it wants permission and then does nothing. What is wrong? Now that I think about it, there is a 4-pin connector thingy attached to the power cable that plugged into the graphics card. Do I need to plug that in somewhere?
And my final question: I originally was using a VGA w/ a DVI-I adapter with my old computer. This graphics card doesn't have it, so I'm using an HDMI cable. The issue? Random colors are over some of the letters (even as I type them here) and make it difficult to read and look at. I can fix it by lowering the resolution from 1920x1080 to 1280x1024, but it's not as clear. What did I do wrong here?
This is my first time building a computer, so I'm not sure what I did wrong, if anything.
I got everything in alright (the only issue was finding a spot to put the radiator so that it didn't block anything), and just installed windows 7 and all of my drivers. I did have a bit of trouble getting the wireless adapter to work, but, as you can see, it is working now. Now, I'm going to be downloading all of my games and things from Steam, plus WoW and other bnet games. The issue? My 1TB hard drive isn't showing up in Windows explorer. I looked it up real quick and did find it in Disk Management as other people were suggested to do. It says it's online and has 931.51GB free but that it is "Unallocated." It was even detected by the little screen thing telling me what devices are connected when I turned the computer on before installing Windows. How do I make it so that the hard drive shows up in explorer so that I can properly use it?
Onto the other question: I installed the 1060 graphics card as well (obviously) and its drivers. However, I went to play Chess Titans while waiting for my adapter to work, and it said "Hardware acceleration (or something like that) off or not supported by graphics card." I installed the driver CD that came with it (and allowed the icon to be put on the desktop), but whenever I try opening the icon, it wants permission and then does nothing. What is wrong? Now that I think about it, there is a 4-pin connector thingy attached to the power cable that plugged into the graphics card. Do I need to plug that in somewhere?
And my final question: I originally was using a VGA w/ a DVI-I adapter with my old computer. This graphics card doesn't have it, so I'm using an HDMI cable. The issue? Random colors are over some of the letters (even as I type them here) and make it difficult to read and look at. I can fix it by lowering the resolution from 1920x1080 to 1280x1024, but it's not as clear. What did I do wrong here?
This is my first time building a computer, so I'm not sure what I did wrong, if anything.
. It's just that when Chess Titans said that either hardware acceleration or w/e is deactivated or my graphics card can't support it, it threw me for a loop. I was like "WTF, a 1060 should be able to support the lowest of low end games."
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