Build

So the PS was the last thing to come because I decided to trade up from the one I originally bought, as described in parts.

Had put everything else in, then when the PS arrived I saw that I couldn't plug in the processor power connectors, heatsink was in the way. So had to remove the heatsink, plug in the two processor power connectors, then put the heatsink back in.

Since I have a modular PS, it was easy to plug the cables into the MB, then later plug the other end into the PS.

Bios update

Took be a little to figure this out, I needed to update the bios on my motherboard before I could do anything. I couldn't boot up my win 10 usb installation stick. Then I tried debian, and it gave me some error message that gave me a clue.

Downloaded new bios from gigabyte website, loaded it from the existing bios, then everything worked fine.

Dual boot

I decided to make it a dual boot machine. It will boot up in Windows 10 and Linux. Actually made enough partitions for Win10 and two instances of Linux.

You can find really cheap Windows 10 licenses on ebay if you are willing to download the ISO file (about 5G) and burn it to a USB stick for installation.

I installed windows 10 first. Use the microsoft windows media creation tool, you should find it on the microsoft windows 10 download page. Run the tool, and it makes it really simple to make a bootable usb stick, downloads the image and everything.

Then put the stick in the PC, and boot up the PC to the stick.

I assigned made the first partition 100G size, for win 10.

It made 4 partitions when I did this.

Then I made 5 more partitions per this map.

5. debian partion 50g

6. debian swap partition 3g

7. HQPlayer OS 10g

8. HQP Swap 2g

9. Data - rest of 240g drive about 70g