A couple of problems with my new comp.

helicon1984helicon1984 Sovici, Bosna i Hercegovina
edited July 2009 in Hardware
Hi. My new rig just arrived today preinstalled with Win7 and everything is working fine except that its showing 77.5 of 97.5 GB free space in Local Disk C: and its not showing any other partitions (maybe I have to format the disk - 640GB WD). However, in Comp. management it shows Disk 0 596.17GB online, System Reserved 100MB and 77.5 of 97.5 GB free space. I was gonna install Win7 myself and set up my partitions the way I want to but the guys that assembled my comp did it. So, I was wondering can I do another clean install of Win7 RC (64bit), set up my partitons there, format them and install Win7?

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  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited July 2009
    You can do whatever you want if you're going to reinstall the system. Wipe the hard drive and start over how you want it done. :)
  • helicon1984helicon1984 Sovici, Bosna i Hercegovina
    edited July 2009
    Snarkasm wrote:
    You can do whatever you want if you're going to reinstall the system. Wipe the hard drive and start over how you want it done. :)

    So, I guess it will show the whole disk size in Win7 install screen? I'm not short on space, right? Do I have to merge the existing partitions or do I just click on delete existing partitons?
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited July 2009
    The installer should show all available space. If it doesn't, something's wrong in BIOS or in the drive itself. If it does, just delete all the partitions and start over, make yours whatever size you're looking for.

    If it doesn't, let us know your mobo, BIOS, and hard drive information and we might be able to figure out why it's not all there. More than likely, though, the other partitions were just never initialized/formatted so Windows couldn't see them. You should be good going the reinstall route.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited July 2009
    The extra space is probably just not formatted. You may be able to even resize your partitions without reformatting from the disk management control panel tool.
  • helicon1984helicon1984 Sovici, Bosna i Hercegovina
    edited July 2009
    One more thing before I start the install. What BIOS settings should I change apart from the boot order? When I went into BIOS it showed on the page about hard drives etc. IDE CHANNEL 5 640WD as master and IDE CHANNEL 5 PIONEER DVR as slave. Both of those are SATA drives so why ist it showing IDE? Shouldn't SATA drives be configured as AHCI? Also, my mobo is Gigabyte's GA-EX58-UD3R and the Award BIOS.
    Also, when I go into Computer its not showing my DVD drive just Local Disk C.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited July 2009
    Your SATA controller is probably set up to mimic IDE; you should be able to change that to AHCI in the onboard controller settings section or something similar. Check the mobo handbook to be sure.

    As far as why the DVD drive isn't showing up, check your connections. Not really sure why that wouldn't show up aside from not being plugged in to power or data.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited July 2009
    If you change to ahci, you'll probably need to re-install (anyway).
  • helicon1984helicon1984 Sovici, Bosna i Hercegovina
    edited July 2009
    I found something in my mobo manual but you'll have to decipher it for me so I don't make any mistakes.
    In BIOS, under chapter Integrated Peripherals there's this:

    - SATA RAID/AHCI Mode () and it says under it:
    Enables or disables RAID for the SATA controllers integrated in the Intel ICH10R South Bridge or configures the SATA controllers to AHCI mode
    Disabled - configures the SATA controll. to PATA mode (default)
    RAID - ....
    AHCI - config. the SATA controll. to AHCI mode etc.

    - SATA Port0-3 Native mode (Intel ICH10R South Bridge)
    Specifies the operating mode of the integrated SATA controllers
    Disabled - Allows the SATA controllers to operate in Legacy IDE mode.... Set this option if you want to install operating systems that do not support native mode (default)
    Enabled - Allows the SATA controllers to operate in Native IDE mode....

    There's also this under the same BIOS chapter:

    Onboard SATA/IDE Device (GIGABYTE SATA2 Chip)
    Enables or disables RAID for the SATA controllers integrated in the GIGABYTE SATA2 Chip or configures the SATA controller to AHCI mode

    Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode (GIGABYTE SATA2 Chip)
    IDE
    AHCI
    RAID/IDE

    As for the CD/DVD drive it opens up and closes fine and when it does the light is on but its not showing in Computer next to Local Disk C where it should be. I also tried to play some music etc. but nothing. The guys that assembled the comp for me had to boot from it to install Win7 so it should be working. :confused:
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited July 2009
    Heh. Hooray, confusing manuals. You need (in order): AHCI, Enabled, and AHCI. You technically have two different SATA controllers on your motherboard - Intel ICH10R and a Gigabyte controller. The Gigabyte ones will be differently colored from the Intel ones, but if you just set them both to AHCI, all will be well regardless of which you put them in.
  • helicon1984helicon1984 Sovici, Bosna i Hercegovina
    edited July 2009
    Also, I have the i7 920 processor and I downloaded CPU-Z to check if it all shows up correctly and when I first open it, it shows clock speed as 2.66 but then it comes down to around 1500. I've attached the pic below. What kind of a problem (if any) is that about?
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited July 2009
    It's just SpeedStep. If you're not doing a ton of processor-intensive tasks, there's no reason for the processor to keep running at its highest speed. It'll throttle itself down to save power.
  • helicon1984helicon1984 Sovici, Bosna i Hercegovina
    edited July 2009
    Snarkasm wrote:
    It's just SpeedStep. If you're not doing a ton of processor-intensive tasks, there's no reason for the processor to keep running at its highest speed. It'll throttle itself down to save power.

    So, nothing's wrong with it? I can settle down, right? ;)
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited July 2009
    You can settle down. :)
  • helicon1984helicon1984 Sovici, Bosna i Hercegovina
    edited July 2009
    Snarkasm wrote:
    You can settle down. :)

    Thanks. I also took another snapshot below. Are the temepratures OK?
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited July 2009
    Those look a little high to be idle temps. Might want to check your heatsink and thermal paste.
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