Post by hbkjason on Aug 23, 2016 16:50:10 GMT -5
Hi guys,
Ok so I have been a gamer for around 30 years, but in all that time I have been a console gamer and never once have I dabbled in PC gaming. Anyway my son who also loves video games has stated his desire for a gaming PC this Christmas.
I was going to just buy an all in one gaming PC of Ebay, but my brother in law told me that “building one” was the way to go, would be cheaper and was easy to do. He even had a base unit that I could use which he said had a graphics card far better than any of the budget priced gaming pcs I was looking at. I took the base unit and he gave me this shopping list of things I would need to get it up and running. The unit he gave me had a power supply, motherboard, hard drive and fan so I did not need to get those.
A DVD drive
A copy of Windows (he said 7 would be fine for what my son wanted it for)
A monitor
Keyboard and mouse
I bought all this stuff and when I saw how easy it was to connect the DVD drive and the monitor I thought this PC stuff was easy…….. then came time to install Windows!
I put the DVD in and the computer told me to press any key to boot (or something close to that) I did as I was instructed and it said “Windows is loading files” after a short while the Windows Is Starting screen came up with the Windows logo and then that turned to black and then a whole lot of nothing happened. I waited longer than finding out what the deal with the island on Lost was!
I got in touch with my brother in law who despite his best efforts was not much help at all. He said I might need to download driver for the motherboard. Which I have looked for and found a huge list of things to download. What specific one do I download? I assume I put it on a USB drive, but then what do I do with it?
The motherboard in the computer is a Gigabite GA-H61M-S2PV
But I am totally lost at what to do here, any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Jason
Ok so I have been a gamer for around 30 years, but in all that time I have been a console gamer and never once have I dabbled in PC gaming. Anyway my son who also loves video games has stated his desire for a gaming PC this Christmas.
I was going to just buy an all in one gaming PC of Ebay, but my brother in law told me that “building one” was the way to go, would be cheaper and was easy to do. He even had a base unit that I could use which he said had a graphics card far better than any of the budget priced gaming pcs I was looking at. I took the base unit and he gave me this shopping list of things I would need to get it up and running. The unit he gave me had a power supply, motherboard, hard drive and fan so I did not need to get those.
A DVD drive
A copy of Windows (he said 7 would be fine for what my son wanted it for)
A monitor
Keyboard and mouse
I bought all this stuff and when I saw how easy it was to connect the DVD drive and the monitor I thought this PC stuff was easy…….. then came time to install Windows!
I put the DVD in and the computer told me to press any key to boot (or something close to that) I did as I was instructed and it said “Windows is loading files” after a short while the Windows Is Starting screen came up with the Windows logo and then that turned to black and then a whole lot of nothing happened. I waited longer than finding out what the deal with the island on Lost was!
I got in touch with my brother in law who despite his best efforts was not much help at all. He said I might need to download driver for the motherboard. Which I have looked for and found a huge list of things to download. What specific one do I download? I assume I put it on a USB drive, but then what do I do with it?
The motherboard in the computer is a Gigabite GA-H61M-S2PV
But I am totally lost at what to do here, any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Jason
