D-DayDan

Thanks for the reply! I'll take it into consideration when setting up the fans and also thanks for the how to video it will really help.

The case I purchased didn't come with any fans for air flow so I'm going to have to buy some. I know that there are 4 places to put fans that are as follows. Front: 80/92/120mm Back: 80/92mm Side: 80mm and 100mm I was wondering is anyone had any idea of how to set these up to create a good air flow plus the compatibility issues for the power and motherboard etc. I'm running a 500w PSU at the moment.

SUCCESS! The RAM I had was totally incompatible with the motherboard and was causing all the problems. Just popped to pc world asked the people there a bit of help and bought some new RAM with no problems to report for hours. Thanks for all the help guys, really do apreciate it!

Nah it jsut dies I think I have a RAM compatibility problem, going to go and buy some new chips. Just trying to find what chips are compatible.

Thanks for the help guys I finally got it installed. Basically I set the BIOS to SATA like I had done so many times before and it detected the hard drive :S. Now I'm having blue screens left right and centre mainly PFN list corrupted and memory management or something like that. They show up so quickly that I don't have enough time to write them down fully. I think I still have a fair old way to go before I make this system stable.

For some reason it was the only way to get the drive detected initially. Thanks for the link :).

Tomorrow I'm going to work hard on fixing this but if anyone has any suggestions for me I'd be happy to hear them :). I'm keeping notes so after I've eventually fixed it I'll make some form of guide for people who may have a similar problem.

OK, I sort of got it working a minute ago but now it has stopped working and won't detect again. This is a long one :P. I started the hard drive in native IDE mode which detected it in the bios and basically kept making it restart every time I got a blue screen or message that said some files were corrupt until it got to the windows 7 installation screen. Here I chose the repair function then used command prompt. I typed "diskpart" then "lis vol", it showed up the HDD. I then typed "sel vol X" then "clean" and it wiped the drive I guess. This was a success and windows detected the hard drive in that mode so I restarted and went back into bios to sset the hard drive to start as AHCI and began the installation again. Windows 7 detected the drive and allowed me to install windows on it. However, when it came to expanding the files in the installation process it crashed at around 11% with an error message. So I tried a second time and on this occasion it got all the way to completing the installation, then blue screened and restarted the computer. It started up in Windows normal mode but when it came to services set up it just said I had to restart and re-install. I booted from the cd rom again and the Hard drive was detected but couldn't be written to for some reason. So I went to clean it in the same way I did before through command prompt, but it doesn't detect it in "diskpart" even when the bios hard drive settings are set to the native IDE one which found it before. It is still detected in the BIOS on native IDE mode, but this is really baffling me.

Unfortunately the new system I've got is the only one I have with sata. I tried to use different jumper configurations which seemed to knacker it up more. Is there any way to do it by putting in my old hard drive or wiping it clean on the new build?

well I got it to detect the drives as native IDE but when I went to install windows it brought up this blue screen: c0000021a {fatal System error} and another code. It's catch 22 now, I either get blue screen with the drive detected or some way through the installation process with no drive detection :S.

I'll have a look for similar options. I don't think the BIOS I have is very user friendly :S.

Hi thanks for replying :). I have a floppy drive because I've exhausted any other format I can think of. I've tried a USB flash drive and cd rom, all have the same result. Basically when I try to load the driver it comes up, I select it, it makes a few noises which definitely include the HDD itself. I can't install the OS because it isn't detecting the HDD at all even after all the attempts with the drivers. Where would I find the HDD in BIOS?

I've just built a new computer from scratch and I've got up to the drivers screen for the hard drive. The drivers came with the motherboard and the floppy seems to work, then nothing bad happens, no error messages as if it has installed them. It then takes me back to the original screen yet still no hard drive. I'm using a Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H rev 1.4 and the hard drive is a Samsung SpinPoint F1 750GB SATA-II set to AHCI. I have no idea what to do now :S

Hello, I'm Dan and I've just built my first computer which I'm having some problems with :S I hope I can help you guys in return for getting my new system up and running :)