Recent content by Thlorian

Hello all! Just wanted to thank you all again as my system is up and running smoothly. I'll be oc'ing the black edition 965 this weekend, as well as the MSI 5570 vid card and can't wait! It cost me a bit more through this project but I learned quite a bit of tech stuff and got my wife's xmas...

Thanks Folks - I have a Win NT disk and it did not work so I ordered the Win 7 OEM disk and will pick up tomorrow. Thanks everyone for all your help and I learned quite a bit from this!

lol - No that was two weeks ago when I thought I had fried everything up. Now I am determined as a newbie to get this up and running and I am very close! Yes, I bought another HP system but my wife ended up taking it as her xmas gift because she needs one so that worked out ok. So my loss...

BTW - the OEM key did not work...

Ok thanks - So next step before throwing $100 out the "window" (no pun intended) is to go into my BIOS and somehow figure out how to switch something related to my HD to IDE mode (instead of SATA mode?). Then reboot with the Win XP upgrade disc intact. When the XP upgrade disk asks me to pass...

Ok thanks cadaveca - How do I do this: "switch the drive controller to "IDE" mode" Is this done in the BIOS and it will work even though all connections are SATA? Thanks

Thanks n-ster Got the OEM - I will try it right now and brb...

I was stuck in the win 7 set-up on the partition section but took a tip from this thread and deleted the partition. This allowed me to create a new partition (lifting the "grey out" from the "new" option) and I was able to get all the way up to the key entry. I am going to try to get back to...

Yep - Took one of your suggestions and deleted the partition and it worked...sort of...windows installed but then the key I used from the upgrade would not work....so I have two choices....extract the key from one of the HP systems I have and try to use it...or buy the full version for $98...

Thanks NdMk2o1o - I guess my only question left please is will the full version get me past the partition block? Do you know by chance?

Actually Directron down the road has an OEM 64 bit full version for $98. I'm thinking of just making the purchase so that I can save some time plus have a much newer full version on hand (bye bye WIn NT) fo future upgrades, builds, etc....

Thanks streetfighter 3 -This is pretty new to me but I am willing to try it. So all I need is to download and then use the key extraction program on my current computer (the one I am using right now to converse with you online) to extract the factory win 7 key from this computer and save it to...

SO I may have to bite the bullet and buy a win 7 full version? I don;t mind as I have always upgraded since Win NT. But will buying the full version allow me to get past this partition block (should your suggestions/tips above in this thread not work out)? Where can I get a good price on...

I have an odd question on something please - If I have two h-drives, one has win 7 on it with my files from a previous set-up, and the other is my new empty h-drive, why won't my new build setup and BIOS recognize the h-drive with win 7 on it and thus allow me to avoid a reinstall of the win 7...

Thanks gamulek - I will give this a try before resorting to booting up with Win NT (My only full version cd). :rockout: