building my first computer

[autumn herald]

Like the build

[dry inlet]

Which bars

[autumn herald]

Like the figure

[dry inlet]

You already took them out

[autumn herald]

The thing which holds the bars

I’m tryna put my gpu

And no work

Idk how to

[pallid vault]

lol sorry but your pics are often at bad angles that dont help

[autumn herald]

Like it doesn’t seem to get in

[autumn herald]

My bad

So what do I do chat

Tips

[dry inlet]

I dunno what to tell you, you make sure the GPUs teeth line up with the slots in the case and you stick the GPU into the PCIE slot

There's not really much to it

[autumn herald]

Alright

Is it the silver

Or black one

@dry inlet

.

[pallid vault]

it doesn't make much difference IF either card is at LEAST PCIe 4 x16. But do the topmost slot (silver) ideally. that is the highest-bandwidth PCIe slot. But please consult your manual for verification on these things

The 4090 is a PCIe 4 x16 card

so it should go in a slot that is that speed or faster

[autumn herald]

Look

That’s the teeth right

The thing I put in

[pallid vault]

am i crzy? i dont see gold contacts on that card. is there a cover over the "teeth"?

[autumn herald]

Oh my fucking god

There is

😭

[pallid vault]

heh.... yeah you gotta look for those things lol

[autumn herald]

That would of helped

An hour ago

Ok it’s in

@pallid vault

Btw what’s this thing for

[pallid vault]

um is that part of the GPU support bracket?

[autumn herald]

Idk

It came with the rtx

[dry inlet]

Use the top slot

[autumn herald]

I did

[dry inlet]

Manual

[autumn herald]

Manual only has 1 page

[pallid vault]

you can also check the website

[autumn herald]

How is that setup

I just gotta screw it in

Then I connect it to psu

And I think I’m done

Hopefully it doesn’t explode

[pallid vault]

look it up

[autumn herald]

Ok

Btw can you guys make me a list of things to go over

Before booting

[dry inlet]

No

You boot and see if it works

You troubleshoot if there's issues after that

[autumn herald]

Ok

Ok chat is screwed in

@dry inlet

So the gpu came with this thing

These 4

I connect to psu right

And I use one of the cables the psu came with to connect it

@pallid vault @dry inlet

Do I plug in all 4?

[dry inlet]

Is it the 12VHPWR cable

[autumn herald]

How do I check

It only says evga on it

[pallid vault]

your 4090 wouldve come with a 12VHPWR adapter which connects to four separate PCIe PSU cables

[autumn herald]

Ye look it’s these right

It came with that thing

And I connected it in

So now I just gotta plug in psu cables to that right

[pallid vault]

yes connect that to four PCIe/VGA cables

to the PSU

[autumn herald]

Manual says to use seperate PCIe cables

For each graphic card power connection

[pallid vault]

that's what I said

[autumn herald]

So I use 4 different

Ones correct

[pallid vault]

yes lol

[autumn herald]

Alright

I’m so nervous

Hopefully it doesn’t explode bro

😭

[autumn herald]

@dry inlet

So I connected them

But one cable

Has like an extra extra

Connector

Do I just ignore it?

All 4 are plugged in already

But one cable has an extra connector

@pallid vault

[pallid vault]

Yes you can ignore

[autumn herald]

Ok chat

I think I’m done

I’m so scared 😭

You guys think it’s gonna explode

Btw I connect hdmi to graphics card right

[pallid vault]

yeah

you can use your motherboard's video output instead but it's not ideal of course

[autumn herald]

Ok

@pallid vault

@pallid vault

[pallid vault]

?

[autumn herald]

I forgot to use this cable

Is it important?

[pallid vault]

i cant even tell what that is

[autumn herald]

Came with motherboard

[pallid vault]

that's a SATA data cable for 2.5/3.5" drives

[autumn herald]

Oh ok

So not useful

[pallid vault]

if you dont use those drives you dont need to use the cable

[autumn herald]

I’m m2

Bruh right when I’m gonna test pc

I can’t find the psu power cable

😭

Ima go search it in table

@pallid vault

@pallid vault

@dry inlet

LETS FUCKING GO

IM SO THANKFUL I LOVE YOJ GUYS

SO MUH

[pallid vault]

congrats

[dry inlet]

Are you getting display?

[autumn herald]

@dry inlet

no

I think the motherboars

Is not turning on

😭

Look the thing is red

[dry inlet]

holy fucking shit

[autumn herald]

What happen with

[dry inlet]

ur sped

[autumn herald]

AHAT GAPPENED

[dry inlet]

i stg

[autumn herald]

What happened

[dry inlet]

You didn't plug in the CPU power cables

[autumn herald]

Oh

I plugged in the 24 but though

That’s the one you told me to

😭

[pallid vault]

you need CPU power too

[autumn herald]

Lowkey I’m glad it works at least everything else

Let me go find the cable

To plug it in

[dry inlet]

I told you, you need to plug in the CPU cables as well

[autumn herald]

My bad

I’ll do it rn

@dry inlet

Each one

Individual cable right

[pallid vault]

you dont have to keep pinging us

[dry inlet]

Yes

[autumn herald]

Sorry

[autumn herald]

It’s like instant response

Cause yk

Anxious to try it out

[autumn herald]

I can’t seem to find the cable

I found these labeled cpu

And I put them on

But I’m back of power supply

I couldn’t find the right entrance

@dry inlet

😭

Any clue on how they look like

[dry inlet]

show photos

[autumn herald]

Ima just try to plug in every cable

Just wait

The only ones that worked where the cpu labeled one but the entrance had this weird things look

It has those big things in front

And they don’t fit in power supply

Ima try to see if I can fit in connector of cpu

Oh wait it worked

[autumn herald]

@dry inlet

wait

I GOT DISPLAY

CHAT IT WORKED

[pallid vault]

pog

[autumn herald]

@dry inlet

Anything I should

Configure in bios

To get max pier

Power

Of my things

[dry inlet]

Not yet

[autumn herald]

In dram it says Corsair 32768mb 4800mhz

Enough though my ram speed

Supposed to be

6400

Is there a setting I turn on

Or is that how it should be

Nevermind

This thing has ai optimization

And it automatically fixes that for me

Also it says the motherboard is windows 11 ready

[mighty tapir]

W

[mighty tapir]

This means it can run windows 11 or windows 10, your choice

[autumn herald]

11

I think it’s smoother

I can finally play steam games bro

[mighty tapir]

W

[autumn herald]

156 days without using a windows computer

😭

Finally that ends today

[mighty tapir]

You have the windows installation USB?

[autumn herald]

Yes

I have a usb

Ima download windows 11 boot

And put it in

[mighty tapir]

Ok

[autumn herald]

I’m so happy it works

[opal cedar]

Best thread, I’m following this

[mighty tapir]

I’m building a new pc once I save up enough money for all the parts

[mighty tapir]

Pc is already built btw

[opal cedar]

Nice. I’ve also never built a PC but that’s because I really never got the time. I just bought a pre-built and works good

[dry inlet]

Don't use that

It's been known to cause problems

[dry inlet]

Turn on XMP after you finished installing Windows

[autumn herald]

@dry inlet

I’m installing windows and it does show my m2 drive

@pallid vault

Help

😔

[dry inlet]

It doesn’t?

[autumn herald]

No

Ima turn of the ai thing

[dry inlet]

Does it show in bios?

[autumn herald]

Where to check

[dry inlet]

Load into bios and take a picture

[autumn herald]

I turn on xmp

And I got this

Ima try again

[dry inlet]

Load back into the windows setup and show me where it says it can’t detect your drive

[autumn herald]

I’m not using hard drive

I’m using m2

Do I need a hard drive?

@dry inlet

[dry inlet]

No

[dry inlet]

Go into bios and press F7

Then take a photo of the entire screen

[dry inlet]

Press it again and take another photo

[dry inlet]

what bios settings did you touch

[autumn herald]

Nothing

All I did was turn on xmp

Is it because of the port

Maybe the port

I’m using motherboard port

[dry inlet]

Reset the cmos

There’s probably a button

[autumn herald]

How

Is it the power button!

On my motherboard

Is the cmos the battery

Thing?

The silver one

@dry inlet

[dry inlet]

That’s one of the methods

Your motherboard most likely has a button on the rear io

[autumn herald]

What’s another easier one

[autumn herald]

Do I gotta then power of?

@dry inlet

Do I have to format it

It says no work

Wth

@dry inlet

😭

What’s going on

Bios detects m2 but not windows

I’m confused

[dry inlet]

How did you create the usb drive?

[autumn herald]

It’s my usb

Which I put windows on

Which is plug into my pc

?

[autumn herald]

I plugged it into laptop then downloaded windows installer

And put it in the usb

@dry inlet

Help

😭

[dry inlet]

You touched some shit

[autumn herald]

That I just went to commands

And typed in disk

This guy helping me he said I need to install a driver

For my motherboard

And that’s it’s normal

[dry inlet]

Have you reset the cmos

[autumn herald]

Nope

How do I do

How do I take the thing out

[dry inlet]

Does your motherboard have a button for it

[autumn herald]

Idk

@dry inlet

I took it out

Put it back in

Now bios doesn’t start

I probably put it in wrong

[dry inlet]

Please don’t touch the battery

[autumn herald]

I did

Bro you told me to take it out

[dry inlet]

You have no clue what you’re doing, you’ll break something

[autumn herald]

I put it back in

[dry inlet]

There is 4 ways to reset your cmos. I told you about the button

[autumn herald]

I couldn’t find one

Let’s hope I didn’t break anything

I put battery back in

[dry inlet]

Which motherboard again

[autumn herald]

Z790e gaming wifi

[dry inlet]

It does

[autumn herald]

Bios isn’t turning back on

Bro

I think I broke it

😭

I took out battery like you said

And put it back in

[dry inlet]

Never said take out the battery

Take a photo of it

[autumn herald]

You said replace cmos

Nevermind

BIOS IS BACK

Omg I got so scared

Cmos is the lithium battery

[dry inlet]

I said reset the cmos, yes. There are 4 ways to do that

[autumn herald]

My bad

Taking of is one way though

Right

[dry inlet]

No it isn’t

[dry inlet]

Not the way you did it. Your motherboard has the button

[autumn herald]

I couldn’t find

You didnt tell me where and how it loocoed

[dry inlet]

Power down your pc, unplug it, hold the power button down for 5 seconds

[dry inlet]

I told you it was on the back io

[dry inlet]

Then, hold down the reset cmos button for 10

[autumn herald]

I just took it off

Doesn’t that reset?

I think it reset

Because xmp is off

Now

[dry inlet]

Take a picture of bios

[dry inlet]

Did you touch anything

Don’t touch any settings unless I tell you

Go back into Advanced Mode and take a picture

We’re going to enable/disable CSM

[autumn herald]

No

Ok

@dry inlet what do I do

This guy told me to go to asus and download the driver thing

[dry inlet]

what driver thing

[autumn herald]

Load driver

I think

Let me see if works

Ima put the usb in with the asus driver

And see if it makes a difference

But first let’s do what you said

[dry inlet]

Okay I don't really know how to do this so I'm kinda guessing

Go to Boot and take a picture

[autumn herald]

Ok

@dry inlet doesn’t work

Same issue

[dry inlet]

wdym

[autumn herald]

Only shows this

[dry inlet]

Take a photo of the boot tab

[autumn herald]

@dry inlet ?

[dry inlet]

what

[autumn herald]

So what we do now

[dry inlet]

take a picture of the boot tab

[dry inlet]

click on csm

[autumn herald]

Ok

[dry inlet]

Actually don't

Click on Secure Boot and take a photo

[autumn herald]

Ok

[dry inlet]

You're installign Windows 11 correct?

[autumn herald]

Yes

[dry inlet]

Click on secure boot mode and take a picture

[dry inlet]

click standard

Then go back and click on csm and take a picture

[autumn herald]

Ok

[dry inlet]

Okay click on exit

[autumn herald]

Ok

No work

[dry inlet]

did you save your changes

[autumn herald]

Yes

I did f10

Save changes and exit

Then I plug in usb

Wait

I may be onto something hold up

I fixed it

@dry inlet

[dry inlet]

how

[autumn herald]

This guy

He told me to download the driver from asus

And load into usb

And then just choose that driver

When installing windows

Thanks for everything @dry inlet

Thanks to you I have pc

[chilly vector]

Could've also just turned off Intel Rapid Storage..

That is the pain in the ass that requires some special driver. But turning the whole thing off that needs that driver makes it just work fine

Basically all there is / was to do:

• Turn on XMP for the RAM speed
• Turn off Intel RST (rapid storage tech)
• Install Windows

But using the driver works too ig

Have fun with your computer! If you need any more help with software for example then feel free to reach out here on the forum or in #tech-support :)

[lilac tapir]

slipstreaming the driver into the ISO is the more advanced and proper method, I am both surprised and impressed you managed to do that :D

I hope you enjoy the computer!

[autumn herald]

@dry inlet

I just realized

After 1 week

The gpu fans where not spinning

😭

And that’s why it was clocked so low

Honestly I ain’t even realize

Cause I had good fps

Nevermind

It’s a new graphics card feature

They spin when it’s needed to

[dry inlet]

They spin when a certain temperature is reached