Never Reformatted... Help?

i.Angel

i.Angel

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Hey guys... ignore the post count because they don't mean anything:o I have a newb question.:(

I've had Windows 2000 for a long time now and I've been getting sick of taking all this crap from my buds at the LAN parties that we have. I want to reformatt my hard drive and put Windows XP Professional on it. However, I lost my drivers to my motherboard because I built my PC so long ago:( .

Can I get my drivers from the manufacturer website? The mobo that I have is in my sig. My dad built this PC for me so I don't even know how this process works.

So could you guys help me out? Thanks so much! I've been wanting to do this forever but my dad is always busy so I thought "what the heck? I need to learn this anyway!"

Thanks for ya'lls help!
 
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http://www.windowsreinstall.com/

http://www.uli.com.tw/eng/support/drivers.php ALi - Download - Home Page

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871,00.html AMD - Download - Home Page

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894 ATi - Download - Home Page

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Product_Filter.asp?ProductID=816 Intel - Download - Home Page

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp nVidia - Download - Home Page

http://www.sis.com/download/ SiS - Download - Home Page

http://www.uli.com.tw/eng/support/drivers.php ULi - Download - Home Page

http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=2 VIA - Download - Home Page^ TOP
Step 5 - Video Drivers


http://www.voodoofiles.com/type.asp?cat_id=1 3dfx - Download - Home Page

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894 ATi - Download - Home Page

http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/ Intel - Download - Home Page

http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/home.cfm Matrox - Download - Home Page

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp nVidia - Download - Home Page

http://www.powervr.com/Downloads/Drivers/Index.asp PowerVR - Download - Home Page

http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=2 VIA - Download - Home Page

http://ranger.s3graphics.com/swlib/?license=accept S3 - Download - Home Page

http://www.sis.com/download/ SiS - Download - Home Page

http://www.xgitech.com/sd/sd_download.asp Trident - Download - Home Page

http://www.xgitech.com/sd/sd_download.asp XGI - Download - Home Page
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Step 6 - Sound Drivers

PC_Wizard.jpg
Multimedia.jpg
Device Audio


http://forms.analog.com/Form_Pages/soundMAX/soundMAXtechSupport.html Analog Devices - Download - Home Page

http://www.cmedia.com.tw/e_download_01.htm C-Media - Download - Home Page

http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/ Creative Labs - Download - Home Page

http://www.esstech.com/techsupp/drivers.shtm ESS - Download - Home Page

http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/...OUNDCARDS_SU&slg=AEN&scy=US&tmplt=&SearchTxt= Philips - Download - Home Page

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads.aspx Realtek - Download - Home Page

http://www.sis.com/download/ SiS - Download - Home Page

http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=2 VIA - Download - Home Page

http://www.yamaha.co.jp/english/product/lsi/us/support/downloads.html Yamaha - Download - Home Page
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Step 7 - Network Drivers

PC_Wizard.jpg
Network.jpg
Network Card


http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/...t=prodnum&fileid=5&prodcat=19&fname=&os=22902 3com - Download - Home Page

http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/ Broadcom - Download - Home Page

http://support.dlink.com/ D-Link - Download - Home Page

http://www.davicom.com.tw/eng/download/driver.htm Davicom - Download - Home Page

http://www.intel.com/support/network/sb/CS-016238.htm Intel - Download - Home Page

http://www.linksys.com/download/ Linksys - Download - Home Page

http://kbserver.netgear.com/dnld_main.asp NETGEAR - Download - Home Page

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads.aspx Realtek - Download - Home Page

http://www.sis.com/download/ SiS - Download - Home Page

http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?event=downloads.searchCriteria&localeCode=EN_USA SMC - Download - Home Page

 
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Do I need to download all of those drivers? Or do I just need to go to Gigabyte.com, find my mobo, and then just download the drivers? Can I even do that?
 
Thanks dude! Anything else that I should be aware of when reformatting? I'm completely new to this... :(
 
I'm a somewhat of a newbie too. I just learned that if you have a pre built comp you can find a list of drivers on the support sites. If not there are many other sites you can download from. As for formatting, This was kind of helpful for reformattting.
/lifehacker.com/157578/geek-to-live--how-to-format-your-hard-drive-and-install-windows-xp-from-scratch:)
 
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