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No, the only one that shows up is the original HDD and its three partitions. Now I can no longer see it in the Device Manager, but I definitely hear it spinning. Strange. Any ideas other than shipping it back?

I tried disconnecting the boot drive to see if I could run the Windows 7 DVD and possibly use it to partition the new HDD. No luck. Still not visible on BIOS. Tried switching out cables and SATA ports too, but no change.

Hi everyone, Getting my new build up and running but as is always the case with these things, there's always one or two snags that hold things up. I have two internal SATA drives in this build: the old one from which the system boots and a brand new 1TB drive that does not show up in the BIOS...

Ah, the 8 pin ATX 12V power wasn't plugged in. What an amateur!

Taking out and putting RAM back in didn't work. btw, i ran a psu calculator and everything came in under 300w, so I'm thinking there's enough power to the video card.

Switched to the other PCI x16 slot. No change; still no signal to video. The specs say the card requires 300 watts or greater power supply with a minimum of 18 amps on the +12 volt rail. Not sure what that last part really means, but I do have 430W power supply, and so now am wondering if a...

Hi. Just built a new system, replacing my old mobo and CPU. My monitor connects into a VGA out, but the new motherboard has no onboard graphics card. Didn't occur to me to check this beforehand. I bought a $30 graphics card so I'd have something to plug my monitor into, but when I start the...