Right, so ive finally built my computer (hopefully without breaking anything). In the Bios i can see the 4gb of ram, the proccessor, the harddrive and dvddrive on SATA ports, the graphics card probably works seeing that the moniter is plugged into it.

What i want to know is, where do i go from there. Ive put the vista install disk in, but it doesnt work when i boot it from there.

When it is loading up it says it finds the mouse, keyboard and stuff, then says it cant find the HardDrive.

How do i configure or format the hardrive.

(Step by step please)

Thanks

Right also, when i boot from the disk (vista install) it comes up with the black screen, with the loading bar in the middle. Then it goes to the plain vista background (the one on the login screen) with nothing else anywhere and stays on that.

Ive googled it and someone said that setting the memory to the correct voltage fixes it.

How do i set the voltage for my ram?

Btw, i have a Asus P5K/EPU mobo.

We need more info.
MB=Asus P5K/EPU
CPU=?
Ram=?
Graphics=?
HDD=?
ODD=?
PSU=?
Vista 32bit or 64bit?

k, i managed to get the ram to 1.96, as the it said to set it to 1.9-2.0

CPU=q6600
RAM=GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz Black Dragon DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
Graphics=Gainward ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI
HardDrive=Samsung SpinPoint F1 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
PSU=Corsair TX 650W ATX2.2 SLi Compliant PSU
Vista Home Premium 32bit.

About as far as i get is, I turn it on, it flashes something up about no harddrive detected. Then it says something about loading the stuff needed for vista, then it goes into that black loading screen with the green bar in the middle. Then it goes onto the blank vista background (blueygreeneyish, sorta looks like sun rays)

I did try upping the voltage of the ram, atm its on 1.96 as i said. (was on defult of 1.8, but didnt make a difference to installing vista.)

K, i just had to wait like half an hours for that blank screen to go away, i have vista all installed, drivers installed everything is fine.