Happy Day, and a question for the puter/IT/gamer geeks

[Tater]

[quote name="bubbleheadchief"]Okay, got everything last night, built the box.....and nothing....mainly because I am a 'tard and forgot to attach the 4 pin power connector to the little slot for the actual CPU. Yes, I was that dumb, and to think I do this for a living, kind of. Anyway, brought it with here to work, and we "Technikeans" quickly got it up and running, loaded the drivers, windows 7 and the rest, and now it is ready to go home and load some games tonight.[/quote]



Grats!

 

[Pez68]

[quote name="bubbleheadchief"]Okay, got everything last night, built the box.....and nothing....mainly because I am a 'tard and forgot to attach the 4 pin power connector to the little slot for the actual CPU. Yes, I was that dumb, and to think I do this for a living, kind of. Anyway, brought it with here to work, and we "Technikeans" quickly got it up and running, loaded the drivers, windows 7 and the rest, and now it is ready to go home and load some games tonight.[/quote]



Sweet.... I think everyone has made a stupid mistake like that when building a computer.

 

[bubbleheadchief]

Special person mistake number 2....no sound....dammit....on it right now trying to figure out sound issue....****** is fast though!!!!!!

 

[TSD]

[quote name="bubbleheadchief"]Special person mistake number 2....no sound....dammit....on it right now trying to figure out sound issue....****** is fast though!!!!!![/quote]





On board sound?



Check drivers.

Make sure onboard sound hardware is enabled in the bios.

What kind of speakers are you using? (digital/analog).



If they are digital speakers with analog output from the hardware you wont hear anything. Same goes if you are outputting digital to analog speakers. (most speakers are analog).

 

[TSD]

[quote name="Pez68"]



Sweet.... I think everyone has made a stupid mistake like that when building a computer. [/quote]





For sure, theres nothing worse than shelling out money on a New PC building it, pressing power and nothing happening. Usually its something stupid like the PSU being switched off Or a loose connector.



Hey its better than having it spin on for a second shut off and smelling burnt plastic or the like.



The worst thing I almost had happen is the switch on the back of my PSU was set to european mode on one of my builds, fortunately, the PSU was switched off when I went to power it up, and noticed it when I went to switch the PSU on. Most modern quality PSU's are auto-switching though and dont have that 115/220 switch.

 

[bubbleheadchief]

[quote name="TSD"]





On board sound?



Check drivers.

Make sure onboard sound hardware is enabled in the bios.

What kind of speakers are you using? (digital/analog).



If they are digital speakers with analog output from the hardware you wont hear anything. Same goes if you are outputting digital to analog speakers. (most speakers are analog).[/quote]

GOt afeeling will be drivers or in BIOS, as the front panel headphone plug owrks fine, as I can attest to right now because I cant hear shit anymore...OWWWW



Let me edit this and say, YES, I am atotal and comlpete Special person.....you wont hear anythign from POWERED speakers unless they have power supplied to them....first rule of troubleshooting, Check the On/Off switch and that itis actually plugged in you fucking idiot....thank god my wife is not here right now.

 

[Pez68]

[quote name="bubbleheadchief"]

GOt afeeling will be drivers or in BIOS, as the front panel headphone plug owrks fine, as I can attest to right now because I cant hear shit anymore...OWWWW



Let me edit this and say, YES, I am atotal and comlpete Special person.....you wont hear anythign from POWERED speakers unless they have power supplied to them....first rule of troubleshooting, Check the On/Off switch and that itis actually plugged in you fucking idiot....thank god my wife is not here right now.[/quote]



:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[MassHavoc]

[quote name="bubbleheadchief"]

GOt afeeling will be drivers or in BIOS, as the front panel headphone plug owrks fine, as I can attest to right now because I cant hear shit anymore...OWWWW



Let me edit this and say, YES, I am atotal and comlpete Special person.....you wont hear anythign from POWERED speakers unless they have power supplied to them....first rule of troubleshooting, Check the On/Off switch and that itis actually plugged in you fucking idiot....thank god my wife is not here right now.[/quote]

AWESOME.

 

[mill500]

[quote name="bubbleheadchief"]Sorry mill, wll be doing the same thing once i get mine put together....if I get it done before you, I will let you know what I did...everybody I know using win 7 says it rocks.[/quote]



Got mine set up as well. The transfer of settings and files from XP to Win7, at least by Microsoft standards, was very easy. I had a 60G external drive, and you just open the program in 7, load it to the external drive and it prompts you to load the files and settings on the old computer, then to the new one. Everything on the old one, including all shortcuts, bookmarks, etc. transferred over. Pretty slick. They do have an option in which you buy a USB cable called an Easy Transfer Cable that just connects to the 3 machines, then there's no swapping of the external drive, and is probably faster but I didn't feel like finding one of them.



The network setup wasn't quite as easy. Apparently, Vista will connect directly to 7 but XP to 7 is a little clumsier. It's working now, but not as fast as I think it should. I got pissed off last week with trying to make another 6 year old machine network with the new one so I just ordered another laptop from Dell outlet and it will be here tomorrow. Should help.



Between the 2 new machines and a new copy of Office 2010 (I was on Office '03) I dropped some bucks, but just got fed up trying to keep the business working on 8 year old shit.

 

[bubbleheadchief]

[quote name="mill500"]



Got mine set up as well. The transfer of settings and files from XP to Win7, at least by Microsoft standards, was very easy. I had a 60G external drive, and you just open the program in 7, load it to the external drive and it prompts you to load the files and settings on the old computer, then to the new one. Everything on the old one, including all shortcuts, bookmarks, etc. transferred over. Pretty slick. They do have an option in which you buy a USB cable called an Easy Transfer Cable that just connects to the 3 machines, then there's no swapping of the external drive, and is probably faster but I didn't feel like finding one of them.



The network setup wasn't quite as easy. Apparently, Vista will connect directly to 7 but XP to 7 is a little clumsier. It's working now, but not as fast as I think it should. I got pissed off last week with trying to make another 6 year old machine network with the new one so I just ordered another laptop from Dell outlet and it will be here tomorrow. Should help.



Between the 2 new machines and a new copy of Office 2010 (I was on Office '03) I dropped some bucks, but just got fed up trying to keep the business working on 8 year old shit.[/quote]

Mine was easier then that as it was a clean fresh load of Win 7. Have my office disk floating around here....just havent found it yet. I really dont want to float another $80 if I dont have to.