MSI Build for wife

**tracker34** · October 30th, 2008, 03:00 PM

OMGmissing link I bought a MSI R4670-2D512 Radeon HD 4670 512 MB video card to go with this board and a VEiwSonic VX2233wm 21.5"%ms Widescreen 16:9 Monitor to go with this Pc..Don The PC will be in a Cooler Master Centurion 534 RC-534 case with a Antec-NeoPower ATX 550 550W powersupply and aAMD Phenom 9850 2.5 AMD2+ 125watt quad core PCU.....Don

**slgrieb** · October 30th, 2008, 05:39 PM

I've found the Gigabyte to be stable and trouble free. One thing to keep in mind while reading reviews of the two boards in question is that the MSI has 31 reviews vs. 132 for the Gigabyte. In the end, Newegg users gave both boards an average of 4 stars. I like user reviews; in fact I think they are often more useful than "professional" reviews, but there's a tendency for them to get skewed to the extreme ends of the bell curve. There's also the "grain of salt" factor.

My general observation would be that Vista is more unforgiving of memory problems than XP, and a lot of issues with systems booting, rebooting, waking up from sleep mode (especially hybrid sleep mode) are usually RAM related.

**tracker34** · November 5th, 2008, 07:45 AM

Well I put everything together and it booted first time. Its shows my 650 Gb drive as IDE on SATA channel 2 Master. I had a hecka hard time getting the board to go in the I/O panel,power switch and hd light and everything worked first time except floppy drive light stayes on, the cable must be in backwards. ...Don

**NooNoo** · November 5th, 2008, 07:50 AM

Yep, twisted end to the floppy drive, red stripe should be pin1 to pin1...

**tracker34** · November 5th, 2008, 10:31 AM

Windows Vista installed very smoothly. Not one problem. The chipset drivers and the Land drivers also installed smoothly. I installed Vista on a WD 100 Gig IDE hard drive. My 650-gig SATA hard drive doesn’t show up in my computer but when you go to device manager it is listed under disk drives.Going to install video card drivers next. How can I get this drive to show up??...Don

**tracker34** · November 5th, 2008, 10:39 AM

The 650 GB SATA drive shows up in disk management correctly but not in when you click on “computer”….Don

**NooNoo** · November 5th, 2008, 11:56 AM

You need to partition and format it for it to show up in Computer.

Computer only shows drives that are ready for read/write

**tracker34** · November 5th, 2008, 12:02 PM

Thank you NooNoo I will do that now just loaded 33 updates. Don

**tracker34** · November 5th, 2008, 12:12 PM

NooNoo I went to disk Management and clicked on the 650 gb drive but I could not format it. I need a little tutoring on this I think.....Don

**NooNoo** · November 5th, 2008, 12:45 PM

First you must partition it...

there is a thorough tutorial here

**tracker34** · November 6th, 2008, 08:56 PM

I have everything working fine now. Windows Vista 64 bit was a very smooth, fast instal, Hp wireless printer installed fast and works fine. Added 120 MM fan in front to cool harddrives. Haven't tried to burn anything yet will try tomorrow....Don

**NooNoo** · November 7th, 2008, 03:20 AM

Sound like you have a winner!

**tracker34** · November 7th, 2008, 06:03 AM

Thank you NooNoo and everyone who pointed me to Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H Board. You people are very thoughtful, and unselfish in helping people on this board. I am sure my machine isn’t perfect but when I have any problems I know where to get some great support…..Don