New build, having some trouble.

[Syribo]

I just got my last computer part today, and spent the entire day putting it together. I got it to boot up, everything seems to be plugged in correctly.. However...

I can NOT get my computer booted up properly. I can not get it to recognize my hard drives. I did exactly what the manual said to do. I got into the BIOS (I put the Vista CD in so it would stop saying "Reboot and select proper boot device", and from there, I'm confused. I tried going to Integrated Peripherals and enabling RAID. After that, it says to press F10 to save and reboot, so I do. When I do that, the system will reboot and really fast I see these bits and pieces of text:
No hard drives detected...
RAID disabled.

I SWEAR I enabled RAID in the settings... It's also supposed to bring up a RAID menu when it reboots, but it doesn't. If I don't press DEL to get into the BIOS it will go straight to the Vista installation. It doesn't ever say 'Press F10 for RAID menu" or something. I even try pressing F10, but it doesn't do anything.

If anyone has the time... Would you help guide me through this? By maybe just writing some really dumbed down instructions? This is my first PC build ever.. so I'm pretty noobish and have no idea what I'm doing. I'm still surprised I got it to boot up!

It actually won't even detect the drives in the BIOS either. It just says "Not Detected", but it DOES detect my DVD-RW drive... And that drive works because it runs the Vista CD. Everything is definitely 100% hooked up correctly.

Thank you so much for your time! All of the specs of the new system are in my signature.. Please let me know if you need anymore information.

 

[Syribo]

Ah.. update..

After trying each drive separately at a time.. Found that one drive works and one doesn't. DOA for me My first build too! Damn you Seagate and NewEgg

 

[colinstu]

Go and RMA it back to newegg so you can get a new drive. DOA's happen...