Well I managed to put a computer together without breaking anything (AFAIK)

"I have another burner, try to guess it!" (ihaveanotherburner)
05/23/2018 at 19:45 • Filed to: None

Haven’t even hooked up a mouse and keyboard to it yet, but I already know enough to review it as at least a gaming PC.

1/10 needs MOAR RGB. Wouldn’t recommend to a friend unless it had at least RGB SATA cables. 10/10 would rather remain console peasant.

I’m kidding of course. Although now I need to google/YouTube what to do next. I know it involves installing Windows from a flash drive, but idk what to do from the haxxer screen, I don’t watch many movies from the 90's and early 2000's.

On a serious note, the case was way more A E S T H E T I C than I intended. Because with a mail in rebate this was the cheapest case I found that didn’t have completely lackluster reviews. And I had to get the LED fan for the front because cheap pretty colors.

Also completely forgot to mention. Thank you whoever made that post about the Harbor Freight class action suit, about a year ago. I got a check for $40 out of it a few weeks ago.

DISCUSSION (9)

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > I have another burner, try to guess it!
05/23/2018 at 20:08

So windows 8 is fucking magic. A few years ago the hard drive on my now kaput laptop died, I replaced it with a 1TB one. So when I built this desktop, I bought an SSD and just reused the HDD from the laptop, since it was so big.

I though I was going to have to do a clean windows install on the SSD and boot from there since obviously the desktop and laptop had such different hardware.

Anyways, after sitting at the original boot menu or whatever for a few minutes. The damn thing just boots from the HDD without me doing a damn thing. Not only saving me having to purchase a fresh operating system. But I literally did nothing after hitting the power button to for this thing to boot from the laptop HDD. Now I have all the programs and files from the laptop on PC. Down to the internet cache files which is how I’m back on this burner again.

Either I completely misunderstood how swapping hard drives worked, or windows 8 is quite possibly the greatest thing since sliced bread.

KnowsAboutCars > I have another burner, try to guess it!
05/23/2018 at 20:16

Yay, for successful 1st time (I’m assuming) computer build. I too built my first pc few months back.

facw > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
05/23/2018 at 20:24

That can work with a hard drive swap. As long as Windows has at least basic drivers for everything critical, it will happily load up and go. I normally don’t even bother trying unless it is going from Intel->Intel or AMD->AMD, but even for larger platform swaps it’s got a chance.

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > facw
05/23/2018 at 20:30

Tangentially. Do you know what to do about the SSD not showing up? It showed up in the BIOS as you can see in the picture, but Windows 8 isn’t seeing it, even when I went into disk manager and had it rescan for disks.

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > facw
05/23/2018 at 20:31

Never mind, I’m just blind as a bat lol.

facw > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
05/23/2018 at 20:35

Yeah, I’d expect it to be in the disk manager if it is in the BIOS. A few things to check:

Check if you need any storage drivers. Look in device manager for anything without drivers, and make sure you’ve installed any platform/chipset/storage drivers from your motherboard site.

In the BIOS/RAID setup, check that your SATA controller is set up to function as independent disk rather than RAID.

Try connecting it to a different SATA port.

facw > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
05/23/2018 at 20:36

Ha! Glad you found it.

I have another burner, try to guess it! > KnowsAboutCars
05/23/2018 at 21:09

Yep it’s my first build. I was worried I wasn’t grounding myself correctly or accidentally ruined something handling it to rough. But it all works!

KnowsAboutCars > I have another burner, try to guess it!
05/25/2018 at 05:21

Sounds familiar. The biggest mistake I really made was that I should’ve bought a slightly more expensive mobo which had integrated wifi and more importantly PCI-E connectors in different order from mine.