Building a gaming rig! Need assistance

[BarTmaN]

Everything came except for the motherboard, CPU cooler, and SSD. Says it will be here the 25th. Going to be a long wait, especially with everything else just sitting here!!

 

[vierasniper]

Till the 25th? outrageous, find yourself a Gameboy.

 

[BarTmaN]

Till the 25th? outrageous, find yourself a Gameboy.

Haha! I'll be busy with work, so it'll be all good

 

[ezeht]

Why not post your specs of what you bought exactly. Then maybe some photos and comments maybe some bench marks after you build it etc?

So we know what you are getting and be happy for ya and or jealous- ha ha.

 

[BarTmaN]

Yes definitely. I will update the specs tomorrow when I get off of work (don't feel like typing everything out right now on my phone). I'll be taking photos throughout the build

Here's a little teaser, as you can probably see what the case is. Wound up getting a full instead of a mid.

 

[ezeht]

The case is very nice..

 

[BarTmaN]

The rest of my stuff came.. Time to build

 

[BarTmaN]

Okay, it is built and running! I'm actually on it now. I just have a few questions... My resolution is 1360x768 and it is a little off, one side is a bit cutoff on my monitor (26" Sony Bravia LCD HDTV). Any way to fix this? I am using a regular VGA monitor cable, but will be switching to HDMI in a few days. Also it is a 'scratchy' picture. Seems like a lot of fuzz. Anyone know what would be causing this? It was fine when I was able to make the resolution different, don't remember what it was. It was before it labeled my monitor as my Sony TV. Then after something installed, it became all fuzzy.

Also, my second HDD doesn't seem to show up.. It showed up when I loaded the OS but now I can't seem to see it.

Thanks guys! I am going to update my specs soon, and post some pictures of my build!


EDIT:

 

[ignatzatsonic]

The second HDD might show up after a reboot or two or you might be able to get it going through Disk Management where you can do a rescan of all drives from one of the menus.

 

[ezeht]

Hmm, normal monitor cable. Is that connected to a dvi adapter/connector? Did you double check your nv cp and set it for your monitors native res- I guess 1920x1080?

I am not sure what to say. Maybe the hdmi cable will help it. Not sure about your hdd not showing up either. I guess you installed your security. Is it possible your security is hiding it? Does it work?

I noticed the other day my marvel controller is not showing up in device manager under storage controllers but it works, or I would not be on my system now. My sataIII is on my sata7 sataIII port and when I reboot the black load screen shows that marvel is installed and says at 6 gig speeds. I am not sure if my security is hiding it or my reg has messed up. I have read it is not un common for w7's reg to get funky. W7 can be a pain in the butt it really can be. I have not sweat on it because it is working. I do not understand it. but it is working. XP was a far less glitchy os, but I always used tuneup utilities 04 with xp too. I am afraid to use anything like that with w7 especially anything other than tuneup utilities- something I have never used before and maybe hose my os. Seems it is hosed any way. I am not sure.

I have been reading lots of info, been thinking about over clocking my rig some. Now thinking about maybe my reg has got messed up I am not sure now. I remember seeing marvel in device man when built system and before security. I am not sure what to think now. I am afraid to bother with it and maybe mess it up more and maybe have to reinstall the os.

I swear man w7 can be suck sometimes.. Maybe the few times stupid fo3 froze my system and I hit the restart button- then start as normal messed it up. My power went off for like 4 hours the other day, but I had already noticed my marvel was not showing up in device man under storage controllers? I use spy sweeper to turn off marvel tray from loading at boot, but if I turn it back on and reboot it is still not showing in device man [tested- not showing so I turned it back off in spy sweeper]. Again it all seems to be working fine tho..

I would like to think avast or spy sweeper or maybe defender is hiding it, but that does not sound right really. Maybe it got messed up a few months ago when I put sp1 on here? I never thought to have to check that stuff and have deleted the back up now after holding it like 2 months. What 92 megs free space now? I am not sure what I will do about it.. My system seems to be running well.

I do not have the yellow triangle showing prob in device man- my marvel is just not showing?? Ha ha its stupid.

Not trying to high jack your thread- just saying is all. If I go to trying to fix it I will start my own thread..

 

[ezeht]

I started my own thread and linked back to this thread..>

http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware...vice-man-storage-controllers.html#post1365566

 

[BarTmaN]

Yes it's connected to a DVI adapter. It's weird though because before something installed then rebooted, the picture got fuzzy. It was fine at the beginning. The resolution I have it on now is the native one.

I will try that disk management thing when I get back home in a little while.

Also, no I did not install any of my security software yet.

 

[ezeht]

Hmm. I have read many times that some monitors etc can act funny until it is connected like it wants to be.

But you say it seemed right at one point and now is not- is odd. Ya I asked about security, it is not above security hiding such things to protect your system. May hide drive names and or locations etc. Scratch that tho..

I do not know what to think about w7 sometimes???

 

[BarTmaN]

Hmm yeah I don't know. It's bothering me about the displAy though.. I don't even know what to try to fix it. Well hopefully hdmi cable fixes it

 

[BarTmaN]

After turning my computer back on, the screen is no longer fuzzy. It is just slightly 'off' (meaning that it is ever so slightly cut off on one side).

And I tried the rescan for the HDD, but it still didn't find it. It's odd because when I was doing the OS it showed up. And in the device manager it recognizes both drives.

 

[ezeht]

Bart I guess it is possible w7 has some registry bug.

As for screen being a lil off. I do not notice it on my desk top but some games the gui can be as you say a lil off center. I think a lil more to the right than it should be. I notice the left side is a lil off- but is no adjustments for it using my lcd. Using my cry I could adjust such things. You may have to live with that and if as you say it is off center by just a lil..

As said I only notice that in a few games.. I never tried to see if I could adjust it in my vid card cp because it does not happen when on my desk top and I can not get to the cp when in game and full screen so. I might not sweat that..

As for your drive prob- if it is working and at proper speeds you might want to let that go to. I am thinking and posted same in my thread I started. Marvel is working it is just not showing where it should be in storage controllers. I do know it was there before- why not now I can not answer. I refuse to pull out hair over it or go trying to do a lot of junk and reinstalling drivers etc and maybe make it worst.

It is some other info I will look for laters. I think it is movie time or stalker soc or mafia2 time now. just had some bbq bacon chicken onion pizza- I am good to go..

Either way I hope you get it right and happy with it. Your system and or specs are sweet. I am very happy for ya. You post in gaming area- so I hope you have lots of joy gaming and our other forum member gamers too. W7 has some great folks. I am new here but this is maybe my favorite site or I would not hang out here like I do. I can talk a lot. I am pure gamer and budget rig enthusiast but because I am poor mostly. Some of us do not always agree on everything- but folks here are great. I am happy to be a 7 forums member..

See ya..

 

[BarTmaN]

Yeah, it just stinks though because I want to put my music and stuff on this computer, but can't because I can't seem to be able to format the drive.


After looking through the disk manager I see that it says the drive is there. Says it is unallocated. I don't know how to format it since it is not at the top. Screenshot for reference:

 

[ezeht]

Hmm I see what you are saying now. As fact I have seen same thing here talked about. Sorry I can not remember how it was fixed.

It might be you have to format it to ntfs and or the whole drive reformat it and then it shows up as it should- I am not sure about multi partitions I never multi partition my drives. If I remember right if you reformat it it fixes it- and seems it is just a storage drive any way.

I am almost certain I have seen same prob here or on other sites using w7. I think format solves it..

 

[IownAmoneyPit]

Yeah, it just stinks though because I want to put my music and stuff on this computer, but can't because I can't seem to be able to format the drive.


After looking through the disk manager I see that it says the drive is there. Says it is unallocated. I don't know how to format it since it is not at the top. Screenshot for reference:

Hi BarTmaN just right click on the drive with unallocated space and select format (quick format) then assign a drive letter and it will show up in windows explorer.

PS: Nice build.

 

[ezeht]

Going back to gaming- and seems folks here are good folks and honest. I wish it was a game many of us had and liked and we could all play together. Many games today are say suck gfwl junk and up to only 10 players. Maybe something like a ut04 would be good and can have 16 or more players. I love mp games I just hate cheaters etc.

I did play some of the older cod games they was ok- but ut04 was my game. I liked bioshock2 mp also, few maps tho and gfwl sucks and only 10 players. 10 players is not so bad tho, gfwl id rather fall on my head for fun. Then the suck crap with dlc's and the haves and have nots sucks. I never liked quake or hl2 mp stuff. UT04 you could play 10 new maps a day for 4 years and not play them all and seemed more fluid and a natural feel player movement etc and weapons balance etc. Other games seem more arcade or bouncy or jerky what ever.

UT04 was a sweet game and so many game modes and maps and skins what ever. Love that game- cheaters ran me off from it tho. Even 3 more folks for some borderlands co op would be great- better if it had up to 10 players tho- and some normal mp modes like tdm or dm would have really been great.