WillHenry

I just finished installing drivers etc on my mini ITX build. I have a gigabyte aorus pro x570i mobo, phantom gaming 5500xt OC GPU, installed an RGB strip and then a cooler master ML120L CPU cooler. Issue 1- RGB I plugged everything into the splitter that came with the cooler and then into the RGB addressable header, but the light strip, cooler and fan are not lighting up. I plugged the cooler block into the CPU fan/AIO header and it seems to be working, just no lights. The GPU and MOBO are lighting propertly and I am able to control those colors etc, but the CPU block, 120mm fan and the light strip aren't coming on. I've unplugged and reinstalled the splitter plug into the RGB header to make sure I had it lined up triangle to 12v side etc. everything seems to be right. The cooler also cam with a controller that requires a two pin plug to molex, but I thought I could just use the mobo header to control and because I used a silverstone SFX PSU, there wasn't a molex cable so that wasn't an option without buying another 6pin to molex cable for the PSU. Seems there have been others who have had issues, but nothing I can find fits my particular problem. Issue 2 software/driver? For some reason, I had an issue come up with the audio driver. The computer wanted me to reinstall the driver over and over and over again. I finally just pulled the plug and held the power button, seems to have solved the issue and it stopped prompting driver install and restarts- this happened over and over in cycle prior to unplugging. Then came up that windows needed to be activated, so I did that again and seems to have solved those issues. l Today, computer comes on but monitor doesn't receive signal. I did the same thing with the computer- unplugged, held power button for 30 seconds, did the same to the monitor and it came on as it should. I bring these issues up because it seems there has to be something going on that the driver issues are continuing to be a problem issue 3 HDD I installed 2 M.2 drives on the MOBO which I planned to run in RAID but the bios never did see them. I finally got Windows going and installed on one drive. Windows recognized both and now only one. still doesn't recognize the 2TB 3.5" HDD at all. In system, I can find both the M.2 Drives, but I can't find the HDD. However, when going into START it only shows C drive, so one drive. I did try to enable RAID, so it is possible I guess that the system could recognize those two m.2 as one drive, I've read that several places, but I just don't know enough as this is the first experience I have with these type of drives. The last computer I built was 5 years ago and I'm not as tech savvy as I should be apparently. Thanks for reading- I sincerely appreciate it! Any help is very much appreciated.