https://forum.asrock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:33:09 +0000 Sun, 09 Aug 2020 22:18:02 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://forum.asrock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=15130 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_images/web_wiz_forums_black.png https://forum.asrock.com/ https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=15130&PID=77903&title=new-to-building-computers-and-need-some-help#77903 Author: SkyForce6
Subject: 15130
Posted: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:18pm

Regarding that DVD disc that is only a simple drivers and utilities disc it is not a bootable disc for Windows installation. To create a bootable Windows disc you use the Windows Creation media tool to create an image file containing the installation files and BOOT files that you can then burn onto a DVD disc. However the more common method these days is to create a bootable USB stick and install Windows from that because it is much faster then using a DVD disc (also most people these days do not use optical drives). You use the same tool from Microsoft Windows media Creation Tool to create a bootable USB installation stick. This tool can be found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10]]> Sun, 09 Aug 2020 22:18:02 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=15130&PID=77903&title=new-to-building-computers-and-need-some-help#77903 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=15130&PID=77902&title=new-to-building-computers-and-need-some-help#77902 Author: SkyForce6
Subject: 15130
Posted: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:06pm

Your M.2 form factor SSD is a SATA drive and will only work in the lower secondary slot on the motherboard. However according to the specifications this motherboard only supports booting from NVME drives and not SATA drives in the M.2 slot. So to boot the system you need to buy anew NVME type drive rather then SATA. I hope you can still return the drive you bought and use that money to get a new NVME M.2 drive. SATA M.2's are these days primarily made for external use in a USB enclosure or for older boards that only supported SATA trough the M:2 interface. Thse days in modern systems you are primarily supposed to run NVME drives in the M.2 slots. They are slightly more expensive but only slightly but have many times faster sequential write and read speeds for larger files. In regular daily operation for most users though a SATA SSD drive will feel almost as fast as a NVME drive.]]> Sun, 09 Aug 2020 22:06:30 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=15130&PID=77902&title=new-to-building-computers-and-need-some-help#77902 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=15130&PID=77869&title=new-to-building-computers-and-need-some-help#77869 Author: Wickednick
Subject: 15130
Posted: 07 Aug 2020 at 2:33pm

Ok so figured some of it out I have to keep hitting the F2 key through start up because the keyboard doesn't power on until right before the Asrock logo shows up.

Still can't get the ssd drive to work.]]> Fri, 07 Aug 2020 14:33:06 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=15130&PID=77869&title=new-to-building-computers-and-need-some-help#77869 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=15130&PID=77864&title=new-to-building-computers-and-need-some-help#77864 Author: Wickednick
Subject: 15130
Posted: 07 Aug 2020 at 2:04pm

So I'm a long Mac user moving to Windows and building a computer and Windows is really foreign to me and I need some help. I can get my computer started but I can't load into bios and when I try installing windows it wont recognize my ssd drive in the M.2 slot. I'm kind of at a loss at what to do.

I know that your supposed to use F2 to enter bios at start up but the computer just keeps asking for a boot drive. I've tried booting from the dvd included with the motherboard but it just asks for me to enter a date and time and then give me a C prompt.

The motherboard I'm using is a B550m pro4, the cpu is a Ryzen 5 3600, 16gb DDR4 3000 Aegis memory, RX580 graphics. WD blue 500gb SSD, 2TB Seagate HDD.

I can't boot from the Seagate because that has all the files from my old Mac: saved games, music, movies, etc.

So any advice going forward here would be really appreciated.]]> Fri, 07 Aug 2020 14:04:07 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=15130&PID=77864&title=new-to-building-computers-and-need-some-help#77864