Let's make a gaming PC - The Bear and Badger

Bollockoff

Again, nothing is simple. I was installing windowsand it did iit's business then restarted. Then kept booting from disc as if it never happened. Forcing a boot from the ssd resulted in a disk read error.

Bollockoff

Ugh now it won't let me reinstall on the ssd. This is driving me psychopathic.

[Deleted User]

Did you take out disc and press F2 (or whatever) on boot up to get into bios settings? Then you just set it to boot from drive.

Bollockoff

Iah. Maybe booting from disc straight after install fucked the process. I'll be calmer or angrier in a minute.

Bollockoff

Sata6G_ 3 : SanDisk SMART status bad , backup and replace.

Fuck off it's bad I only unboxed it today! Ahhh I've fucking done something to it. Wtf is with this journey.

Bollockoff

I'll give the HDD a try. Jesus fucking shit.

[Deleted User]

Don't drink too much cider.

[Deleted User]

Or drink more.

Bollockoff

I get angry enough without it. Fucking shutting these instructionsalls were going to be clean sailing and instead I'm upping the fucked hardware count.

Thanks though gaz. You've helped a load. I'm juststewing.

Bollockoff

And obviously posting from a mobile.

Bollockoff

FUCKING SOFTWARE

[Deleted User]

This really should be the easy bit. Install windows again, with only the HDD plugged in. Once it has finished it'll reboot, so you need to take the disc out or it'll try to re-install ad infinitum, because it's still looking to the disc drive first in the bios.

Once you've taken the disc out boot the computer up and press whatever F key it is to interupt the process and get into BIOS. In Bios there'll be an option to boot up from drive instead of the default (which is disc). Once you've done that you should be good to go.

Bollockoff

I'm despairing. Halfway through the HDD install it crashed. "Windows cannot install required files" and now I just cannot be fucked. The entire venture is now redundant in my mind and has been a landfill for the majority of the money I earned doing 10pm-6am shifts over christmas.

I don't know if I'm using shitty cables, bought shitty hardware (or shitty software), wired something wrong or just plain fucking bad luck.

[Deleted User]

Sleep on it.

hunk

Well at least the bios boots up, that's something.
Wish I could help, have you tried Gazelle's suggestions?

Bollockoff

I dun't know. I just don't know. The cable in question I got today is a 6gbs Locking Sata high speed cable if that means anything different from a regular Sata cable. I'm going to test the installs on a different sata cable which I could do I guess.

Bollockoff

Although for all I know I've buggered the drives now.

hunk

Doubt that's possible? If need be you might be able to reformat it on another pc or through the recovery option of windows when installing the OS?
Should work after that.

Anyways, sleep on it and start afresh tomorrow.
It's late/early.

Bollockoff

I changed the cable over to a much older one Ihave and it completed installing on the the ssd! I am totalled. Thanks for being around you two andputting up with that pathetic outburst. II've just got to clear the mountains of boxes and packaging off my bed.

hunk

No probs, bollockoff.
Enjoy your new gaming rig!

acemuzzy

That's proved an entertaining read. Well Done Bollo. And see you for Titanfall!!

Does Origin have the idea of groups? I'll set uo a B&B one if so...

Escape

A SATA cable's a SATA cable.

n0face

I'm very jealous of all this mega pc fun, I'll find the time and money one day.

isanbard

I think I'll try a bit of the Tits in 1080, 60fps-(I hope…)-a-vision too.

Will involve doing a Bollo sometime in the next week or so mind so may yet burn through mobos, SSDs, memory sticks and cables in a cider fuelled late night rage too.

The funtime of a full system update, reboot, driver refresh, reboot, Windows install, reboot, essential basics install, reboot… was always a fun way to spend a day or two.

Is there a new way to do the essential first un of stuff nowadays? I remember using NiNite last time? Any better/alternatives that are a forum favourite now?

Edit: In fact Titanfall looks like a nice gentle way to join the old Masterace if the beta was anything to go by. My card may be able to do some of the fancier tricks hopefully if I manage to plug all the right bits in.
There is zero guarantee that will happen…

Edit again..: OooooKay. Went with ebuyer for most the gubbins and free 'within 5 working days' postage option. Seems that Yodel will be delivering it today before 9pm??? If I'd paid £12 for the fastest delivery they were promising it on Tuesday? I appear to have an overnight option.. for free?
What Yodel (uh oh… ) will actually be delivering is a bit of a mystery? Probably a soggy, well kicked box of consumer electricals..

There's a chance that a big ol' box of goodies will be turning up today and the pissing mobo from Amazon will be here between Thursday and Monday. Bugger.. all the toys and nothing to stick them into. Thought it'd be there other way round.

Bollockoff

Let the anger flow through you. Yeeessss.best of luck!

Would gpu drivers go best on the ssd or hdd? Should I stop asking pointless questions?

isanbard

I'd of thought all the operating gubbins (drivers, windows etc) will be going on the SSD for speed and more of the bulky stuff (games, Office, movies, tv) going on the spiny HD.

My recent few years are more OSX based so my knowledge is patchy at best.

WorKid

Is any of this actually worth the hassle? I thought you could buy ready made, tested, installed stuff just as cheap these days.

hunk

What Isanbard said. Keep all the OS stuff on ssd and general stuff on hdd and you're good to go.
Should keep navigation through OS zippy.

isanbard

@workid Probably but I quite liked all the dicking about the mmy moons ago that I did it. It wasn't too tough back then and a nice satisfying sense of 'I done this'.
As I understand it you seem to need to buy and replace most the parts on a 3 week basis or your fellow masterace peers will laugh at your specs.. Better to know what's plugged into what really?

Bollockoff

I'm just putting not porn from the old computer onto a memory stick. So right, driver checklist. I tried installing the gpu drivers but it said it needed the .net framework first. So guess I should get it connected to the internet.

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