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Building a new desktop computer
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Building a new desktop computer
Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 10:19 am
Posted by Louis
(14 messages posted)
I am building a Windows Vista Home Premium desktop computer with a Asus M2N-E AM2
motherboard, a AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600 CPU, a MSI RX1550 256MB PCI Express X16 DVI
Video Card, a Western Digital Sata300 Hard Drive, and a Memorex DVD burner. In what
order should I put on the software? Do I put on the motherboard, or hard drive software
before I install the Vista operating system? Or do I install the operating system
and then put on the motherboard, and hard drive software? Will the Vista install
format the new hard drive? I would greatly appreciate any help.
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re: Building a new desktop computer
Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 10:55 am
Posted by Steve
(23811 messages posted)
Once you get all your Hardware installed, Boot to your Vista disk, and follow on-screen
Directions. After the install is done go to Device Manager to find what Hardware
Vista didn't have a Driver for. Then install any missing Drivers, and added software.
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re: Building a new desktop computer
Monday, May 28, 2007 at 11:30 am
Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE
(7132 messages posted)
To maintain compliance with the End User Licensing Agreement, you'll need to start
with a full retail or systembuilder/OEM license for Vista Home Premium.
Assemble hardware and install Vista as Steve noted. Vista should be able to see
your SATA mass storage controller chipset without you feeding it a driver, but if
not, the driver will be on the Motherboard CD and the motherboard manual will tell
you how to feed the driver to Vista.
After Vista is up and running, pop in the motherboard CD and allow it to install
drivers. Generally speaking, the drivers on the mobo will be more specific to the
hardware on the mobo, whereas drivers on the Vista DVD might be more generic in nature.
Finally, visit the mobo downloads page for that exact mobo model at asus.com, and
for the several compnonets of the motherboard, compare the driver version # of what
was installed by the CD to what is available for download. As a rule, you'll want
to download and install drivers that are newer, but my own rule of thumb is to never
replace and older but WHQL-certified driver with a newer but not WHQL-certified driver.
Then hit Windows Updates and get your updates. You might be offered driver updates
at Windows Updates, if so, evaluate them on a case-by-case basis and if in doubt
stick with what is installed and working.
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