Recent content by cbaze19

This is a LCD I bought for my new Gaming PC I just built... I really like it. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...master%20p2370 2ms Response time with a 50000:1 contrast ratio Definitely impressive in my opinion, but there may be others out there that top it. I would recommend it to you...

Sounds like it. If the drive isn't recognized by another computer that pretty much confirms your diagnosis.

Yeah, run some tests. I had a similar problem with a defective WD HDD that I had to send back. But my difference is that in the BIOS, my drive would show up as "MASTER CHANNEL 1: " with nothing after the colon. But if you say that the BIOS recognizes it then it may be some other problem.

Yep. The drive was defective. Went up to best buy and bought the same drive and came back and it recognized it right away without any issues. Sending the old one in for a refund. Thanks again everyone. Appreciate the help :)

Alrighty. Well thanks again for the help! Time to call and get a replacement on the way...

haha for real.

@Harvey: I'm pretty sure that it isn't the connections or the cables due to the fact I tried another HDD from another comp via sata connections and it recognized it right off the bat and started up windows xp. This is a new drive that I just received from newegg a few days ago. So I don't think...

oh and also... i tried an old hdd from another computer that had sata ports and plugged it in and the bios recognizes it. Maybe it's a bad HDD?

Alright... Well I just built my first computer. Everything has gone smoothly until now. I booted up the computer, and set the CMOS date and time etc... and then popped in the windows 7 installation disc. It did its thing until the part where it asked where I wanted to install windows. There were...