Hi,
hope you guys can help - not quite at tearing hair out stage yet, but before I spend fruitless hours trying to work out what dumbass mistake(s) I've made, I thought I'd get some expert advice...
Hardware
ROG Crosshair X870E Hero
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X Processor
Corsair Dominator Titanium RGB DDR5 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 6000MHz CL30 AMD EXPO
ZOTAC Gaming GEFORCE RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
Corsair MP700 PRO M.2 PCIe Gen5 x4 NVMe 2.0 SSD
EVGA GQ 1000W PSU
Noctua NH-D15S cooler
Questions \ Issues
1 the 8 pin PCIe power by the main ATX power socket - does this need to have power to it? I've gone through the cables that came with the EVGA PSU - the CPU ones aren't a fit and the others are VGA \ SATA ones. Do I need to get a PCIe power cable? If so, where would it plug in the PSU (the sockets are all labelled - there isn't a PCIe one, just CPU\VGA\SATA\couple of others I don't recall - presumably because it's an older PSU).
2 First boot all good - got into BIOS, had a scan around, set date\time all good. Exit and boot from Windows install USB and we're off - Windows up and running. However... no network devices available. Hmmm. Okay, one for tomorrow...
3 Next day... power on. Expect it to boot to Windows - ends up blank screen. Power off, boot again. Seems to be doing something - Q codes 25 then 26 then 27... oh no, that's it showing temperature - let's reboot and turn temp display off...
4 Reboot with temp display off - get's to blank screen Q code Ad - which I think is trying to pass off to OS start
5 Okay, let's boot from USB and reinstall Windows - that succeeds - Windows running - still no network "no intel adapters are present on this computer" (I think is what it said). I had enabled network stack in BIOS to see if that fixed it.
6 Shutdown Windows - let's see if a reboot helps... back to black screen and Q code Ad
So, what have I done wrong \ missed? Be gentle... I can plug stuff together but not at all expert in all the BIOS settings stuff
Thanks in advance for any assistance
