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Offline wiskyfog

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New build done now what?
« on: January 17, 2014, 10:40:34 AM »
Just built my first pc, bios screen comes up, loaded win7 cd in usb optical drive and a message comes up saying im missing a driver but does not say what driver???
Which is installed first, drivers on mobo cd or win7 ?

Specs:

1 x CORSAIR Vengeance 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ4GX3M2A1600C9B


1 x  OCZ Agility Series OCZSSD2-1AGT120G 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)


1 x AMD A6-5400K Trinity 3.6GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) Socket FM2 65W Dual-Core Desktop APU (CPU + GPU) with DirectX 11 Graphic ...


1 x MSI FM2-A75MA-E35 FM2 AMD A75 (Hudson D3) SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

 windows 7 64 bit
 500 gig mech drive from previous pc.



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Offline MrRiplEy[H]

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Re: New build done now what?
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2014, 11:07:23 AM »
Quote from: wiskyfog on January 17, 2014, 10:40:34 AM
Just built my first pc, bios screen comes up, loaded win7 cd in usb optical drive and a message comes up saying im missing a driver but does not say what driver???
Which is installed first, drivers on mobo cd or win7 ?

Specs:

1 x CORSAIR Vengeance 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ4GX3M2A1600C9B


1 x  OCZ Agility Series OCZSSD2-1AGT120G 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)


1 x AMD A6-5400K Trinity 3.6GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) Socket FM2 65W Dual-Core Desktop APU (CPU + GPU) with DirectX 11 Graphic ...


1 x MSI FM2-A75MA-E35 FM2 AMD A75 (Hudson D3) SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

 windows 7 64 bit
 500 gig mech drive from previous pc.


Windows 7 doesn't have built in USB3 support so make sure your optical drive is plugged in the USB2 port. USB3 ports are blue inside, USB2 black/white.

Optical drives are so slow that losing USB3 speed probably won't make any difference.
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Offline gyrene81

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Re: New build done now what?
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2014, 11:54:21 AM »
Quote from: MrRiplEy[H] on January 17, 2014, 11:07:23 AM
Windows 7 doesn't have built in USB3 support so make sure your optical drive is plugged in the USB2 port. USB3 ports are blue inside, USB2 black/white.

Optical drives are so slow that losing USB3 speed probably won't make any difference.
where do you see that he's trying to use a usb cd drive?
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Re: New build done now what?
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2014, 11:57:36 AM »
Quote from: gyrene81 on January 17, 2014, 11:54:21 AM
where do you see that he's trying to use a usb cd drive?

In the first line of his post.  Really.
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Offline gyrene81

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Re: New build done now what?
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2014, 12:15:30 PM »
Quote from: eagl on January 17, 2014, 11:57:36 AM
In the first line of his post.  Really.
:uhoh where did i not see where he is using a usb drive?  :headscratch:  i plead insanity  :old:
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