"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
09/27/2018 at 02:41 • Filed to: None
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"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
09/27/2018 at 02:41 • Filed to: None | 0
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Something always goes wrong. Yesterday the board booted fine on my desk, but when I put it in the case it was stuck in a reboot loop. Somehow the BIOS became corrupt; thankfully this thing has two and I was able to reboot and reflash. Hours of painstaking rebuilding and installation followed, rebooting after every single change to make sure it wasn’t going to blow up again . When it would boot, Windows wouldn’t start, saying something about an NTFS error.
One of the bays in that 2.5" dock isn’t working. It’s probably just a loose or disconnected SATA cable. Hopefully. At least the other three are working just fine.
One of the hard drives isn’t being recognized. Probably another loose cable. The SATA cables I have are either too long or too short, with too many having 90 degree connectors, with most of those facing the wrong way.
Things don’t fit. The cooler is too big for the case (and has stupid red LEDs; the plain one was $3 more and I’m a cheapskate, so stupid red LEDs it is...) so the side panel is ajar. The 1000W power supply took up too much space leaving little room between the PS cables and the devices in the 5.25" bays.
The cable for the media reader is too short, so that can’t be connected, at least not until the USB header splitter/multiplier thingy arrives, but the new USB2/USB3/media reader will have arrived by then making this point moot.
I’m out of internal SATA ports, even with a SATA III/USB 3.0 combo card; if I want it connected it’ll have to be via eSATA. 8 out of 8 in use.
Some of the fan cables can’t reach the motherboard and will probably require extensions, things I may have to make from scratch.
I didn’t get the full complement of cables for the modular power supply (I downgraded from the 1000W unit to one with only 850W), so extra devices need to run off of splitters. There seemingly isn’t any standards on modular PS cables, even from the same manufacturer.
Windows is no longer activated. When I tried to use the key that showed up in Speccy it said that it wasn’t valid. How do I retrieve the correct key?
There aren’t enough empty slots on the back of the case when the PCI and PCIe slots are in use, so no extra headers or anything other than those four USB 2.0 ports currently blocking the last PCIe port.
Nobody seems to make a case with five or more 5.25" bays so I’m left to scour CL for something that will fit all these bits and pieces.
The two USB ports by the PS/2 ports didn’t seem to work earlier. I’ll have to try them again as something Intel and USB wasn’t working earlier according to device manager but wasn’t a problem later.
Different apps have reported the GTX 1080 as having either 1 or 4 GB of RAM. As I recall, it’s supposed to have 8GB...
This case is too tall to easily slip under the desk, so I’ll have to place it elsewhere or lift the desk to get it underneath.
The fun shall continue tomorrow. Like anything in life, the last 10% takes 90% of the time...
Svend
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
09/27/2018 at 03:44 |
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It’s like reading an alien language.
The total extent of my computer bui lding is taking out the computer from the box it came in, connecting the cables to the relevant points, turning it on and setting up the WIFI.
Hell my current computer has the hard drive built into the monitor and the keyboard and mouse are wireless so the only cable I had this time was the power cable.
Good luck with the, erm, whatever it is your doing and hope it works like you want it to soon.
RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
09/27/2018 at 03:45 |
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Windows is no longer activated. When I tried to use the key that showed up in Speccy it said that it wasn’t valid. How do I retrieve the correct key?
Are you using an upgrade from Win7? All of those show the same Win10 key in the registry so using that key won’t work.
I remember when I used to enjoy building computers ... what the hell was I thinking
NKato
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
09/27/2018 at 04:13 |
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One thing for you. Static discharge bracelet. Saves you a lot of grief like what you encountered.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
09/27/2018 at 07:23 |
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This is a job for CableMOD!!!
https://cablemod.com/introducing-cablemod/
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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire
09/27/2018 at 16:31 |
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Exactly - it used to be fun. Nowadays I’m pushing the limits of acceptability with my old-school mentality, bumping up against those that want to have a computer that looks all bright and pretty and colorful. I don’t want to see my computer and I don’t want to hear it. I’d be happier if it was in another room, with just the screens and keyboard/mouse in front of me.
I did contact Microsoft and found that I could reactivate Windows 10 Pro if I used the Windows 7 Pro key I used for the upgrade. OK, whatever. It’s a good thing I didn’t trash the old HP with the needed Windows 7 key...
atfsgeoff
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
09/27/2018 at 22:08 |
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All the 5.25" bays you could ever want. If you can find someone with it in stock. Otherwise go Thermaltake:
https://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-Chaser-VP40031W2N-Tower-Chassis/dp/B00FPRAW3S/
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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> atfsgeoff
09/27/2018 at 22:24 |
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I don’t think that Thermaltake actually has that many 5.25" bays. It’s a lot like the one I looked at last weekend, with 5.25 covers up front but the area behind them blocked by the hard drive racks. Deceitful at best.
The Lian Li is exactly what I want, but that price tag - yikes. Now if I could find someone to take my Blackbird 002 case in a straight across trade that would be perfect...
