Need help new home build not working

[brendon867]

Hey, I built myself a gaming computer, I put it together connected everything besides the chasis to the motherboard because there are more pins then the cord can take haha, anyways when I boot up the computer everything is fine until I get to the screen where the 4 windows dots start up then blue screen flashes and the computer restarts


Motherboard is a z77 asrock exstream 4
GrapIcs card is a 660 gigabyte gtx GeForce
Ram 4x 4gig DDR3 rib jaws
Cpu i7 3770

And I was wondering if anyone could help me or tell me how to connect the chassis (vento a8 Asus chassis) to the mother board, I'm also missing 2 standoffs at the bottom of the motherboard and a screw for the top left because the standoff is threaded

 

[o1die]

You only need 2-4 screws to connect the board to your case; just be sure you remove any standoffs that touch circuitry; any left touching a motherboard screwhole won't hurt anything. The rebooting may be from an old installation of windows; if it can't find your new board device drivers, you may have to format the hardrive and do a fresh install.

 

[brendon867]

Thanks how do I reformat if it won't start and go to desktop

 

[o1die]

Just insert your windows cd; if it won't boot to the windows install screen, press the "del" key while it's posting to get into the bios. Change the boot order to cd (dvd)>hardrive; save and exit.

 

[Deemo13]

You need to reinstall Windows when you replace a motherboard.

Usually.