re: PC Build Help. Think my mobo died. UPDATE Building question. Atx V12 connect?

I think I found it....

In BIOS, should I enable the NVME Raid for the SSD?

No.

If I have the drive showing on Bios and device manager, it then should be "enabled" already for windows right?

My disk management shows a (device 0 partition 3) but not matching the space for the drive. I'm wondering if that is a screw up from when it tried to make the disk partition?

It claims to be

Alright. No idea what I did but it now has appeared and I have it working.

Maybe disabling it and re-enabling it from device manager prompted it. No clue.

Where do I send your bill?

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Alright. No idea what I did but it now has appeared and I have it working.

Maybe disabling it and re-enabling it from device manager prompted it. No clue.

Where do I send your bill?

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Honestly, yeah, that might have been it. Windows can be fricky

And no worries, mate. Just paying forward the help I got when I was first getting into the hobby, because I didn't know shite about frick back then

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I love it despite the frustrations

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In fairness, and for any newbies who come along after, 90% of your frustrations were because you were trying to be cute and clever. If you had just tried from the start to plug the CPU1 cable into the CPU1 slot, you could have avoided a shite ton of aggravation

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You are absolutely correct.

I'm just proud it fired up on the first attempt to start it after getting everything plugged in

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It genuinely is a great feeling. I think I still kinda hold my breath for that few second gap between that first time I hit the power button and when the post screen flashes

Yes. No smoke or odd sounds

The difference is remarkable.