Originally posted by: tenax
Originally posted by: Beachboy
This post has me smiling... my E6400 is set to show up next tuesday and my ASRock Dual board on wednesday although Newegg sometimes cheats the system by a day... so earliiest is tuesday night and latest is wednesday night. I build systems for lots of people so I estimate a total build time of around 45 minutes.
I know I said it in another thread but I feel like a little kid at Christmas waiting for this gear to show up! :laugh:
yep...my build time was super quick compared to some..the expensive a8v pretty much required me to have an engineer degree to get through the 400 page manual (seemed like it anyway..i remember thinking when i bought it do i really need all this to do the build..and i'm no stranger to building new rigs). the msi neo had a little trick where you had to put in slower memory, change timings and then put in the ddr 400 which took me 2 or 3 days to figure out.
the only issue at all i had with setting this board up was:
-my system interrupt controller wasn't installed. the board was working fine..but i got a tip to put in the cd that came with the mobo to see if it would find the driver..it did and that went away.
-got some freezes on the windows boot menu when i got to setting up my display so it could go to my big screen tv..came this close to reinstalling windows..then decided to uninstall the 6600 in system devices and upgraded from an 89 version driver to the 91's available at nvidia's site..no problems since.
i mention this stuff especially given that i never did reinstall the os even though i was far from convinced going from via to via chipset was going to work..but it appears to have worked fine. last time i did that, there were duplicate incidences of all kinds of stuff so i don't know if i have windows xp or via to thank for being able to do this. the bonus was i was able to do the same putting my wife's hd with windows xp into the msi system (going from gigabyte 7vtxe that has to be about a 4 year old board) and it's working fine as well!
one question i do have is, how do you get the cd rom to be used as a boot device while still having a hd with operating system as a boot device? i know a big lettered message comes up saying that there is a bootable device in the cd player player, but pressing enter when that comes up gave me nothing (even though i had the cd rom set as first boot device, the os hd as second). i ended up taking the hd out of the equation as a boot device and got an error of some kind.
but i only got the standard message that allows you to boot from the cd, yes or no when the hd was not set as a boot device.. a catch 22 there. i'm assuming i just have to find the right button to push