KungFucius
King Snowflake
Sup guys
I came around here a week or two ago to ask around about which PC parts to buy for my new rig. Everything came and I even posted pictures(not of the Rig). I sat down and put it all together a few days ago before installing the OS. I would have done it sooner, but finals are breathing down my neck and the PC can wait. I scheduled a bit of overnight time to install the OS, but the Hard drive doesn't seem to be recognized on my Z77 Extreme mobo's bios. The optical drive definitely has power, but I don't know if it is actually reading the CD. The hard drive issue comes first, though. It is definitely not detected and I'm not sure why.
I'd appreciate a bit of help so I can actually get to the desktop. I've been wanting to install the OS before finals so I can at least have a little peace of mind.
Rig:
Rosewill CHALLENGER-U3 Black Gaming ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Rosewill Green Series RG630-S12 630W
ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz
Samsung Electronics Extreme Low Voltage 30nm UDIMM 8 Dual Channel Kit DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM MV-3V4G3D/US
Asus 24xDVD-RW Serial ATA Internal OEM Drive DRW-24B1ST (Black)
Seagate Barracuda ST31000524AS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Is there any particular reason you went with a Sandy Bridge CPU over the IB? The i5 3570k is unlocked too and 5 bucks cheaper.
The new Bioses are weird. I just put together one and it took a few minutes to figure that out. I have an extreme 6 arriving today so I will play with it tonight. Should be the same thing as yours.
I would start simple. Hook up just the HDD with power and SATA cable, then boot into the bios. Connect it to SATA 0 or 1 first. If you have no luck, move it down to the lower SAta just to see what it does, these are Sata 2 slots so don't keep it that way. There is probably a different menu in the bios for each controller.
Looking at the pic of the mobo the 2 grey SATA slots are SATA III, but their labeling is interesting. The top ones say SATA A0, A1 and the Second Say SATA 0, Sata 1. There is also a sticker saying use A0/1 for your boot drive. Did you do that?