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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
On June 20 2014 04:19 SilentchiLL wrote: Still don't have a DVD drive or a CD though What actually causes this problem? Because your HDD has chipset drivers meant for the hardware that you replaced, not for the hardware that you are currently using. | ||
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SilentchiLL
Germany1405 Posts
On June 20 2014 04:22 Ropid wrote: Dude! Don't use the driver CD for anything. There's only ancient drivers on it anyway. You can install Windows fine without manually doing anything to the drivers. Windows Update will just deal with all devices automatically the moment it can get online. There's a good chance everything will work perfect, without issues. If you want to use the motherboard manufacturer's drivers, you can visit their website and look in the support section for your board, download the drivers there. Installing Windows can be done through putting Windows on a USB stick, so you don't need an optical disc drive for anything really, though you need another working computer to create that USB stick. Will I lose my old data if I reinstall Windows? | ||
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SilentchiLL
Germany1405 Posts
On June 20 2014 04:24 skyR wrote: Because your HDD has chipset drivers meant for the hardware that you replaced, not for the hardware that you are currently using. Couldn't I just start in safe mode and delete them then, though? | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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Incognoto
France10239 Posts
On June 20 2014 04:27 SilentchiLL wrote: Will I lose my old data if I reinstall Windows? Yes. Can't you back it up? Though yeah there's the upgrade option. You won't lose anything but you'll basically have two windows on your HDD. | ||
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SilentchiLL
Germany1405 Posts
On June 20 2014 04:30 skyR wrote: If you perform a clean install, yes you will lose all data. If you perform an upgrade, your old data will go into a folder named Windows.old Do I just need the CD and a DVD drive for the upgrade? I could get either I think, even if it'll take a while | ||
Antoine
United States7481 Posts
On June 20 2014 04:08 Leon1das1 wrote: Quick question, will a GTX 750ti stream League of Legends on very high settings at 60 fps or higher? what kind of CPU do you have? | ||
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
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Incognoto
France10239 Posts
On June 20 2014 04:36 SilentchiLL wrote: Do I just need the CD and a DVD drive for the upgrade? I could get either I think, even if it'll take a while Just a 4 gb usb stick. | ||
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SilentchiLL
Germany1405 Posts
On June 20 2014 04:37 Ropid wrote: What exactly is the error you get at boot? If your old PC was pretty old, it could be that "AHCI" vs. "IDE" issue for the SATA ports. If that's the case, you can then look around in the BIOS of your new board and look for where it mentions AHCI. Switch that setting over to IDE or "Legacy". The old Windows will then boot. I get no error at all, it just stops as Windows is being started The Windows CD will get mailed to me | ||
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
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Cyro
United Kingdom20344 Posts
On June 20 2014 02:55 WindWolf wrote: Even with high-end graphics cards? Because one thing that speaks more to me here is the additional HDD mounts over the Air540 (I'm only buying one now, but you never know about storage in the future) Air540 has two HDD mounts, but you can put some in the back if you want. It has a stack thing that supports like eight 2.5" drives, too On June 20 2014 04:08 Leon1das1 wrote: Quick question, will a GTX 750ti stream League of Legends on very high settings at 60 fps or higher? Yea, at like 250fps max settings aside from shadows. Just depends on your CPU mostly | ||
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SilentchiLL
Germany1405 Posts
On June 20 2014 04:52 Ropid wrote: I bet that's exactly that AHCI/IDE error. What you do is this: look for where you configure the SATA controller in the BIOS. Switch it over from SATA to IDE (or it might be called "legacy"). You might have two controllers, one from Intel and one third party. You need to find the settings that configure the Intel one. I'll try to find it, but the H97 pc mate has click bios 4, which is probably very nice and useful, but I'm not used to it so I'll need a bit to find it | ||
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SilentchiLL
Germany1405 Posts
I logged in | ||
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
At some point in the future, you should google how to switch your Windows installation to AHCI. It's better performance than IDE and also very important to use for SSDs. There's a tiny Registry change you have to do to make Windows load the AHCI driver instead of the IDE one. Afterwards, you restart and go into the BIOS and turn on AHCI. It's not hard, you just need to find a guide that talks about exactly your Windows version (there's differences between Vista and 7 and 8). Alternatively, if you decide to reinstall Windows on this new PC, don't forget to set it to AHCI in the BIOS before you run the Windows installation, or it will again install in IDE mode. | ||
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SilentchiLL
Germany1405 Posts
And I have win7 Should I do anything special now to get things to work? | ||
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SilentchiLL
Germany1405 Posts
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
 I feel it's a bit strange that it doesn't work. I thought Windows supports basically all current adapters by default. About that AHCI/IDE business, if you want to switch it over to AHCI now, I found a guide: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=313676 So it's really very easy. It's just finding that key in the registry, and setting it to zero. Then take a trip into the BIOS when restarting. [You should probably do a backup of your files. You could also wait with experiments like that until you got your Windows DVD in the mail or downloaded a disc image and created a USB stick, so that you can reinstall Windows if something goes wrong.] | ||
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WindWolf
Sweden11767 Posts
On June 20 2014 04:57 Cyro wrote: Air540 has two HDD mounts, but you can put some in the back if you want. It has a stack thing that supports like eight 2.5" drives, too It support four 2.5" in the back plus two 2.5"/3.5" drives by default. I know that the back is pretty spacey, but what I'm wondering if it is a good idea to "just lay down" HDDs | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20344 Posts
On June 20 2014 05:32 WindWolf wrote: It support four 2.5" in the back plus two 2.5"/3.5" drives by default. I know that the back is pretty spacey, but what I'm wondering if it is a good idea to "just lay down" HDDs Oh, it's just a lot, like way more than i thought to use. You can leave SSD's hanging anywhere, as for HDD's if you don't want external and a pair of drives is not good enough for you, then you can get a bracket or something to use more | ||
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