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Beardy5

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I'm not entirely positive about what to do once all of the components have been installed.

Do I just turn it on and put the OS and driver discs in? If so what order should they be going in?:confused:


P.S. I was thinking of going 64-bit Vista because I'll want to upgrade to 4 gig of RAM at some point, but just wanted to check that there's plenty of signed drivers out there now for it to be worth getting. Don't want to commit to x64 if x86 will have much better support and everything will definitely run! :P


Thanks for answering, if you do! :P Looking forward to any feedback from you guys!
 
Thanks guys I figured it was that way round but wanted to make sure so I didn't have to wipe the hard drive to start again or anything :D :P

Thanks for the quick replies :)

EDIT: any recommendations on the x64 or x86 quetion? :P I'm basically just asking is it worth going x64 now or wait until I want to upgrade my RAM up to the 4 gig? :)
 
dougland said:
So would he turn the computer on, then as its turning on eject the disc tray and insert the OS disc?
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turn it on, hit your delete button or a specific f key (it will say at the bottom of your first screen after the computer posts which button gets you to the bios) and you'll go to the bios. wait there, open the drive and put in the disc. close it, and then go into your bios and change your primary boot device to your cd drive so that it reads the disk first. then leave the bios and your computer will boot up through your cd. the first time windows reloads go back into the bios and change your primary boot device back to your hard drive and your disc as the secondary, save, and exit. next time your computer boots it will go through the hard drive into windows.
 
If you have a video card, how does it work w/out drivers installed? Like lets say you install the OS how does it show video if the video card drivers aren't installed or the motherboard drivers aren't installed?
 
dougland said:
If you have a video card, how does it work w/out drivers installed? Like lets say you install the OS how does it show video if the video card drivers aren't installed or the motherboard drivers aren't installed?
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It will work, just can't run 3D applications or games. You'll need to install drivers when you get to Windows (after installation).
 
Beardy5 said:
I'm not entirely positive about what to do once all of the components have been installed.

Do I just turn it on and put the OS and driver discs in? If so what order should they be going in?:confused:


P.S. I was thinking of going 64-bit Vista because I'll want to upgrade to 4 gig of RAM at some point, but just wanted to check that there's plenty of signed drivers out there now for it to be worth getting. Don't want to commit to x64 if x86 will have much better support and everything will definitely run! :P


Thanks for answering, if you do! :P Looking forward to any feedback from you guys!
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1) You turn the computer on, go to the bios and set the boot order, putting (floppy drive first if you have one), then CD drive, then hard drive
2) Save the setting and reboot
3) Put in OS disc, hit enter when asked to boot from CD, then follow the directions to install the OS, including partition and formatting
4) After installing the OS, reboot and install all the drivers, generally starting w/ the graphics card driver.

dougland said:
So would he turn the computer on, then as its turning on eject the disc tray and insert the OS disc?
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yes, and don't forget to hit enter when it wants to boot from disc.

dougland said:
If you have a video card, how does it work w/out drivers installed? Like lets say you install the OS how does it show video if the video card drivers aren't installed or the motherboard drivers aren't installed?
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The graphics card will use the default drivers built into the OS. It works, but it's not pretty, and it will cause lag when scrolling.
 
If you wernt sure you install the drivers after the OS has been installed and you have set up Windows. You install them just like you would a game or software, once windows has loaded up :)
 
I'm going to build a pc this week, and I bought Vista home premium 64 bit so I can use 4gb of ram too. I didn't even realize there was going to be an 86. Never heard of it. I think it's worth it to get the 64, because I want to go with what's available right now and I'm not going to get a weaker OS so I can buy a more advanced one later. Hopefully I don't need more than 4 gb of ram anytime soon, and I can get Vista updates as they come along.
 
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