Problems Installing the OS and drivers

[Oldwhpsian]

Hi guys, so I'm in a bit of a predicament.

I build my new pc and had everything connected etc. Then I turned it on and I couldn't get into the BIOS, it would just tell me in to in a "boot media device" and restart my PC. So I put in Windows 8.1 and let it run, it asked me where I want to install it (which one of my 2 drives; both were present) and I selected my SSD.

Now when I try and find my 2 hard drives it can only find the SSD on which windows is installed. I'm using a Gigabyte motherboard and in the manual it says some things about changing the system to AHCI and something about setting up RAID for my SATA hard drives.

I also cant find my video card when I go look at dxdiag. It say the name is "microsoft basic display adapter", yet it finds the chip-type to be nVidia and says it only has 256MB of memory as opposed to the 3GB which is on the card.

Have I done something wrong? I tried to enter the BIOS without anything on the PC but couldnt. Should I have placed the motherboards driver disk in before the windows disk?

And presuming I have to wipe it all and start again, how do I go about doing that?

 

[Suztera]

If you want to reinstall follow this guide
http://www.overclock.net/t/1240779/seans-windows-8-install-optimization-guide-for-ssds-hdds

 

[smorizio]

with intel motherboards some vendors set the onboard ipgpu as the main output. you may have to put the video cable onto the onboard video and then get into the bios and set the display to peg/pci. then install the intel or amd chipset drivers for your motherboard. in windows you have to use drive management to format and set up your hard drive.