Built new computer, but...

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I built my new computer (amd 4200+X2 oc'd to 2.8ghz, 3850 256mb oc'd slightly, 2gb ddr2 800 ram, Tforce board, HEC orion psu, 80gb OS hdd) and i get vista installed and everything is working great except for 2 problems.

1. Vista won't recognize my IDE 250gb HDD. I plug it in to the ide cable and the psu and its running i can tell, but vista just will not recognize it. It is a good drive as i had it in an external drive and it worked just fine on my laptop, but vista will not recognize it.

2. On startup i always go to a screen that asks if i want to continue (press f1) or 2 other options that i have forgotten, and i have to press f1 to start up vista. Is there anyway i can just get to vista immediately? I put my 80gb hdd as what to boot from, but it still brings me to this screen.

Thanks, Mike
 
The drive now won't get recognized in my external hdd case and gets very hot very quickly after being plugged into the psu....im starting to think i fried it somehow..
 
oscaryu1 said:
Agreed... why would you plug a HDD in the computer while it's on? Plain idiotic... (no offense)
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Ya it was my bad, i really don't know what i was thinking...sucky part is i lost around 90gb worth of videos that i'm going to have to re-rip to a new hard drive.

I guess its just all part of a learning process though.
 
Never plug in anything while the computer is on because you can no only damaged the part but also other parts.

And i think that you have fried the drive.
 
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