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Urgent Help Needed! Anyone know a good Computer building site?

HeartBrokenHeartBroken Member Posts: 128
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Hi, I'm building a pc, and I need help. Can anyone reccomend a site that has nice pictures and easy to understand instructions. It should be up to date, and include the necessary steps to installing a SATA drive. All the sites I googled seem to talk about PATA only. Heres a lits of my componemts.

3.2 Ghz Intel CPU

p4s800d-x Asus motherboard

Radeon X300 video card

some LITEON burner

SOme 512MB stick of Crucial RAM

80GB Western Digital SATA Hard Drive

Logisys Cracula Case 480W Power Supply

If you can help, plz help. I don't really have much to do until I finish it. I've installed the Cpu, RAM, and heatsink. I've also installed the motherboard into the case. I'm having difficulty connecting my hard drive. Yes, I'm sure my motherboard supports SATA, and I know where the plugs are.

Thanks,

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  • blissendblissend Member Posts: 6

    Here is a pretty decent guide...

    http://www.buildyourown.org.uk/

    It is up to date with what you need and includes pictures/videos (some SATA instructions too).

    Read the instructions that come with your SATA hard drive. It will probably explain best how to install it. If you don't have it then check their website... I think this is it in PDF form...

    http://www.westerndigital.com/en/library/sata/2079-001042.pdf

    If you are still having trouble with the SATA instructions, you can probably call them for support.

  • HeartBrokenHeartBroken Member Posts: 128

    haha thing is it didn't come with anything! Just the disk wrapped in those bubble things.::::21::

  • terstaxterstax Member Posts: 353

    Originally posted by HeartBroken
    Hi, I'm building a pc, and I need help. Can anyone reccomend a site that has nice pictures and easy to understand instructions. It should be up to date, and include the necessary steps to installing a SATA drive. All the sites I googled seem to talk about PATA only. Heres a lits of my componemts.3.2 Ghz Intel CPUp4s800d-x Asus motherboardRadeon X300 video cardsome LITEON burnerSOme 512MB stick of Crucial RAM80GB Western Digital SATA Hard Drive Logisys Cracula Case 480W Power SupplyIf you can help, plz help. I don't really have much to do until I finish it. I've installed the Cpu, RAM, and heatsink. I've also installed the motherboard into the case. I'm having difficulty connecting my hard drive. Yes, I'm sure my motherboard supports SATA, and I know where the plugs are. Thanks,


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  • ElapsedElapsed Member UncommonPosts: 2,329


    Originally posted by HeartBroken

     Yes, I'm sure my motherboard supports SATA, and I know where the plugs are.

    What exactly seems to be the problem then? Do you have the drive connected and it's just not being recognized? I haven't used SATA drive yet myself but I think you might have to change the drive setting the bios from PATA to SATA.

    Here's the link to your motherboards manual if your looking for that.

    http://www.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/sock478/p4s800d-x/e1753_p4s800d-x.pdf

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