Building PC for learning experience

Aaron_8015 · July 11th, 2009, 07:27 PM

How far have the 'blue screens' gotten to? Does it restart when it gets thus far?

KarmaKiller · July 11th, 2009, 07:47 PM

So have you installed windows yet?
The blue screens your seeing are the install screens. Asking how you want to partition the drive, and the whole basic install procedure.

Janqlan · July 11th, 2009, 08:45 PM

We have success!
It turns out we had to take the CD out for it to reboot right...I feel really ignorant admitting it but....anyhoo, it worked...Windows is on , hooked up the wireless and he sent me an email !
Thanks, Thanks, Thanks.....

ps.theres something with the sound but I think its a driver...after 6 hours , HE decided to shut it down and look at everything tomorrow. The point is from start to finish and with a LOT of help from YOU , his project is complete. Im sure he will carry this success for the rest of his life. ANd one good point is that it wasn't a piece of cake, it took hurdle jumping and trial and error but , in the end, a positive result......

Again, redundant, but SINCERE Thanks,

Lisa and Liam

Janqlan · July 11th, 2009, 08:51 PM

Aaron, thanks for your input too...it turns out we had to take the windows disc out ....I am so embarrassed to admit that ...but it would load windows and as soon as the bar got to 100% , as soon as it did, immediatley went back to the "partition" bios section.
finally, I suggested to take the disc out and , if I remember correctly, it rebooted and and said welcome to windows....so much happened ove rthe last 6 hurs , its almost all a blur...
but my 12 year old son put the hardware together ( that took some work in ordering over the last 5 weeks) this morning , then with all the advice and info and experience we got from this site and a few others over the weeks, today he plugged it in and has success with his "build my own pc" project.
Special thanks to KK and Rich (moderator) and anyone else I shamelessly might have forgotten,

L&L

KarmaKiller · July 11th, 2009, 08:53 PM

Well sometimes you hit a couple snags along the way.

Glad it's working though. Congrats and enjoy!

qrs321 · July 11th, 2009, 08:59 PM

these kind of stories make me feel all fuzzy inside

railfrog · July 12th, 2009, 07:43 AM

The I/O panel on the case should just push out so you can use the one that came with the MOBO

edit:...oops...sorry didn't read page 2...

JRB3 · July 12th, 2009, 01:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Janqlan

We have success!
It turns out we had to take the CD out for it to reboot right...I feel really ignorant admitting it but....anyhoo, it worked...Windows is on , hooked up the wireless and he sent me an email !
Thanks, Thanks, Thanks.....

ps.theres something with the sound but I think its a driver...after 6 hours , HE decided to shut it down and look at everything tomorrow. The point is from start to finish and with a LOT of help from YOU , his project is complete. Im sure he will carry this success for the rest of his life. ANd one good point is that it wasn't a piece of cake, it took hurdle jumping and trial and error but , in the end, a positive result......

Again, redundant, but SINCERE Thanks,

Lisa and Liam

After the drive is formatted and the setup files are loaded, i think, on my computer the system reboots and asks if i want to boot from CD/DVD etc Drive and i can select this option by pressing the "Any Key" (god i love that key). If i don't press anything the system boots from HDD (Hard Disk Drive), which is where the setup files have been loaded IMO, as per the booting preferences set in BIOS.

After the setup files are loaded I just let the computer do it's thing and boot from HDD and set itself up, i just fill in the information blanks.

Are you saying that you were constantly booting form CD/DVD etc Drive and going through the whole formatting process over and over?

If so was the system booting from CD/DVD etc Drive regardless or giving you the option?

Obviously you know how to install Windows now < Well done & Congrats >

But it must be an annoying system that boots from CD/DVD etc Drive without pressing the "Any Key"

Also when the system boots from the HDD it would still need the installation CD to load Windows, I think. So what did you do? Remove the CD and then replace it when it asked for it?

Hope I make sense and if i have made any errors someone please correct me. (For my own and the threads benefit).

Imperion1 · July 12th, 2009, 02:55 PM

Just to save you from needlessly using an IDE port.
If you have a Dvd-rom drive (the Teac you listed on page 1), then you don't need to install a Cd-rom drive (the other Teac you have also listed). Dvd-rom drives can read a cd.

Janqlan · July 12th, 2009, 05:11 PM

We were so happy to be able to load drivers (dont laugh) and finally figure out loading windows...(another problem solved) But now he cant get his games to play. after loading a game (empire at war, for example)(which according to the box, we have what it takes for it to play)
Message " reduced functionality" , something abt "directx sdk to get full access"....I went to microsoft and did a directx trouble shoot but its still not working. tried another disc game, similar window popped up....
Im afraid in our trouble with loading the initial drivers for the mobo and our trouble with loading windows (b/c it kept booting from the cd and not from the hdd, b/c we changed it to put windows....)that we messed something up in there somehow...

mobo gigabyte p31-es3g
video card msi ati radeon rx2400pro 256MB DVI s-video hdtv pci-e
OS windows XP sp3

should we go back to the boot up screen and have it first boot from the hdd now....?
should we take directx off and reload?
could we have missed something else somewhere...thats glaringly obvious to someoen with more experience.
I have no experience or had none until he got this idea to "build his own PC"...Im aware the parts he has are not what people with more experience would pick...we're just trying to get a game to play and it seems its something with directx....

humbly

lisa and liam