Hi guys.... I'm a college student and spent a little over 1k to build an i7 rig this past week. I got everything in today and set it up. This was my 2nd build.
All the parts used are in my sig. I booted up, made sure everything is connected to mobo, and all display is working properly.
I got into BIOS and immediately set boot priority to CD/ROM drive to boot Windows XP since I only have the Windows 7 upgrade CD so I needed to put some other windows on the Bare harddrive.
I uplugged the 500gb Westerdigital caviar green storage drive I have and ONLY let the OCZ agility 3 plugged in to boot windows.
I got to the windows XP loading screen and then got a blue screen:
I bought the i7 , gtx 570, ocz agility III, EVGA motherboard, and Patriot Xtreme RAM on black FRIDAY.
The Power supply, optical drive, and 500gb storage drive I'm re-using from another build.
What could this be? I was getting errors on my last computer, and I used the same power supply. I figure it can't be the optical drive nor 500gb western digital since that isn't even plugged in.
But I have heard of horrible reviews and with some SSDs and people having blue screens and errors trying to boot for the first time.
I dont know, I'm really bummed, I started building this computer today at 7:30PM and now it's 3:57AM, and I'm sad and delirious. Can anyone help me?
The computer is still on with that blue screen...should I just do a hard "power off" or maybe reset? manual shutdowns don't affect the physical components of the computer do they?
All the parts used are in my sig. I booted up, made sure everything is connected to mobo, and all display is working properly.
I got into BIOS and immediately set boot priority to CD/ROM drive to boot Windows XP since I only have the Windows 7 upgrade CD so I needed to put some other windows on the Bare harddrive.
I uplugged the 500gb Westerdigital caviar green storage drive I have and ONLY let the OCZ agility 3 plugged in to boot windows.
I got to the windows XP loading screen and then got a blue screen:
I bought the i7 , gtx 570, ocz agility III, EVGA motherboard, and Patriot Xtreme RAM on black FRIDAY.
The Power supply, optical drive, and 500gb storage drive I'm re-using from another build.
What could this be? I was getting errors on my last computer, and I used the same power supply. I figure it can't be the optical drive nor 500gb western digital since that isn't even plugged in.
But I have heard of horrible reviews and with some SSDs and people having blue screens and errors trying to boot for the first time.
I dont know, I'm really bummed, I started building this computer today at 7:30PM and now it's 3:57AM, and I'm sad and delirious. Can anyone help me?
The computer is still on with that blue screen...should I just do a hard "power off" or maybe reset? manual shutdowns don't affect the physical components of the computer do they?