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i recently bought and built a computer, now my problem is installing vista and everything so i can actually use it. here is a word doc with all the specs.
http://www.*********.com/?ff0eg7rliqt
note the motherboard, i think it is causing the problems im having
i am not very experienced in building computers, i built one with a friend who's dad knows quite a bit about it, but this is my first time on my own system.
After all the physical building part, i turned it on, and it started up seemingly normal. it gave me a list of devises that were working; the only thing that 'failed' was the floppy drive, but considering i did not put one in, that is expected.
Next, i wanted to look at the bios; it said hit del to enter setup, so i did. i looked through, and everything seemed normal, although i was a little frightened that it already had the correct date and time with out being plugged into the internet and no os or drivers for the wireless card. anyway, i set the cd drive to boot first, because i am under the impression that the way to install an OS is to put in the cd and boot that drive first. i exited and saved the bios settings and then restarted.
it started back up again and gave me the list of stuff that was working and that the floppy drive had failed again. i had the same options as before, del to enter setup and F1 to continue. I put in the vista cd and hit F1. it started a loading bar that said it was beginning the vista install process, i thought that was a good thing and that i was making progress. half way through the bar, it jumped to another screen that said something about files being damaged or corrupted and it told me to restart. (i would give you more detail, but i could only get back to that screen one more time and not at all after that) i then restarted and all hell broke loose.
i cant tell you the order of these issues because they came and went in random order for the next couple of hours, even after i opened up the computer and unplugged everything and re-built the computer again.
1. in addition to the floppy drive failing, the cmos battery failed occasionally.
2. after hitting del from the first screen to try to get back to the bios, it would randomly do one of the following: blank screen with single flashing line (like a text marker underscore at the top left of screen), a screen with a few lines of writing that basically said 'loading', a completely blank screen, or it would actually get to the bios.
3. similar reactions to hitting the F1 button to continue, if the cd drive was set as the primary boot device, i would sometimes get other screens too. for example i got the loading screen again, but it brought me to a similar error screen. the error screen said hit enter to continue, with brought me back to the original error screen.
when i left it, it was not letting me access the bios or do anthing past the first screen; i got pissed, turned it off and came in here to write this on my old computer.
my one possible idea, although i dont really think its an issue, is that the cd drive is sata, not ide, so it might be possible that the motherboard doesnt recognize it as a cd drive.
any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thank You in advance...
ps. i hope this was written clearly enough so that you can tell what's going on; im very confused, which makes it hard to write coherently.
http://www.*********.com/?ff0eg7rliqt
note the motherboard, i think it is causing the problems im having
i am not very experienced in building computers, i built one with a friend who's dad knows quite a bit about it, but this is my first time on my own system.
After all the physical building part, i turned it on, and it started up seemingly normal. it gave me a list of devises that were working; the only thing that 'failed' was the floppy drive, but considering i did not put one in, that is expected.
Next, i wanted to look at the bios; it said hit del to enter setup, so i did. i looked through, and everything seemed normal, although i was a little frightened that it already had the correct date and time with out being plugged into the internet and no os or drivers for the wireless card. anyway, i set the cd drive to boot first, because i am under the impression that the way to install an OS is to put in the cd and boot that drive first. i exited and saved the bios settings and then restarted.
it started back up again and gave me the list of stuff that was working and that the floppy drive had failed again. i had the same options as before, del to enter setup and F1 to continue. I put in the vista cd and hit F1. it started a loading bar that said it was beginning the vista install process, i thought that was a good thing and that i was making progress. half way through the bar, it jumped to another screen that said something about files being damaged or corrupted and it told me to restart. (i would give you more detail, but i could only get back to that screen one more time and not at all after that) i then restarted and all hell broke loose.
i cant tell you the order of these issues because they came and went in random order for the next couple of hours, even after i opened up the computer and unplugged everything and re-built the computer again.
1. in addition to the floppy drive failing, the cmos battery failed occasionally.
2. after hitting del from the first screen to try to get back to the bios, it would randomly do one of the following: blank screen with single flashing line (like a text marker underscore at the top left of screen), a screen with a few lines of writing that basically said 'loading', a completely blank screen, or it would actually get to the bios.
3. similar reactions to hitting the F1 button to continue, if the cd drive was set as the primary boot device, i would sometimes get other screens too. for example i got the loading screen again, but it brought me to a similar error screen. the error screen said hit enter to continue, with brought me back to the original error screen.
when i left it, it was not letting me access the bios or do anthing past the first screen; i got pissed, turned it off and came in here to write this on my old computer.
my one possible idea, although i dont really think its an issue, is that the cd drive is sata, not ide, so it might be possible that the motherboard doesnt recognize it as a cd drive.
any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thank You in advance...
ps. i hope this was written clearly enough so that you can tell what's going on; im very confused, which makes it hard to write coherently.
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