P4C800-E Delux (and in general all 865/875 boards) software sutup order

[not me]

Hi,
I will be setting up a new P4C800-E Delux board when the rest of the
parts arrive and I was wondering the best order to do the software
setup. I plan to:

1) Upgrade the BIOS to the latest and enable Hyperthreading in the
BIOS.
2) Install XP Pro

After that what order is best to install the chipset drivers, DirectX,
Windows updates, and Video card driver? Does it matter? Are there
any windows updates for XP that cause problems and should not be done?

I have a 2.4C Processor, 10K Raptor hard drive, 2 512MC2 Corsair
modules, Matrox P750.

Thanks.

 

[radz]

Hello,

When you're installing W.XP you will need to install the SATA drivers at the
beginning of a fresh install.
Place the drivers on a floppy is best way.
The drivers are on the Asus support cd click drivers, then Promise, copy
378ata to your floppy.
When installing W.XP one of the first install screens will ask u 2 press F6
if you have drivers to install.

Good luck!

Oasis

 

[not me]

Thnaks for the tips. I know there are many ways to do this and have
it work but these tips will help make it go faster/

 

[Paul]

Thnaks for the tips. I know there are many ways to do this and have
it work but these tips will help make it go faster/

There is a sticky thread on Asusboards about installing the OS.
You may get a few helpful hints from it:

http://www.abxzone.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34558

Paul

 

[BNR]

I'd upgrade the Bios completely, then move to DirectX. I wouldn't worry
about WinXP patches at this point. DirectX before Video Drivers. I'd hold
off on Video Drivers until I found good DDR timings using memtest86. Test
and retest your DDR memory timings for errors. Here is where you will do
your OC'ing to figure out the best voltages and cooling settings. This is
where you have to decide your acclimation to noise and electric
emmisions(not many OCers talk about the static radiation). If your content
with the timings and your BIOS. Then install SiSandra and do a burn-in
wizard. Try to crash your system with whatever diagnostics/multitasking you
can get your hands on, before you put Video Driver on. Open 50 IE windows.
CPU-z is good, I've read. You might wanna turn off WinXP error reporting.
This can get rather annoying.

It's a real pain to configure it, then have it go into a rebooting frenzy
because of a malfunctioning part or driver, and not know what driver is
causing it. There are alot of passive devices in to contend with. Sure
WinXP will give you an error message, but it'll look like this.. Ax000000B12
or something. Do the SiSandra wizard after each reconfiguration(addition of
a driver). Don't be in a hurry to throw all the software on the machine.
Make sure to reboot when it asks for it.

And always, ALWAYS backup your Favorites folder. It'll sure save you alot
of time Googling later on. This is what I preach. Amen!

Brad