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So my classmate came up to me the other day and told me that he had $1500 to spend on a new PC, and wanted to pay me to build it for him. After collecting my jaw from the floor, I hastily agreed and set to work. Then, I realized I've been out of the PC building scene for awhile, the last one I built used an AMD 955 and Radeon 5770. Not all THAT long ago, but still, your help would be appreciated.
Here's the drill:
Budget must include a decent monitor, Windows and a keyboard.
He likes the Antec 900 case, wants an SSD, needs to play BF3 spectacularly, as well as handle some video editing (Nothing super serious, he fancies himself a "youtube director")
Finally, he'd prefer to save some of the budget for games (Not to mention my fee!). Also, to any of you who have done this kind of work, how does it usually go down? Order the parts to your house and assemble them there, then take the completed thing to client's house? And what kind of commission is fair? Do you provide your own tech support?
Feel free to ask if I left something out.
Thanks!
[QUOTE="Roggirek"]I went in and looked around in BIOS. I made sure the SSD was the primary drive, and couldn't find anything about AHCI mode. There WAS something (IDE mode?) that was set to enhanced. I tried to set it to compatible, but all I got was a BSOD, so I immediately changed it back. Booting back in, windows launched startup repair which was promising, but to no avail. kungfool69
yeah that kinda needs to be changed to AHCI to get the most out of it.....maybe even reinstall.
Reinstall....what? I'm really grateful for your help, by the way.So after wrestling with trying to get windows 7 to recognize my 320GB HDD as well as my 120SSD, I finally went to install a fresh copy of windows. Alas I had forgotten I only had an upgrade, so I went searching for my old Vista disc. I formatted both drives, took the HDD out, installed vista on the SSD and upgraded it to 7, then put the HDD back in and fired her up. No boot.mgr. Now BIOS isn't even showing my SSD. I had successfully booted into windows while the SSD was alone, now I can't even SEE it? Please help, I'm at the end of my rope.
Windows 7 home premium upgrade (64 bit)
Windows Vista home premium 64bit ASUS OEM disc
120GB Vertex 2 SSD
320GB Scorpio WD HDD
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