New Build Question

[Cuzman]

I'm doing a major upgrade (and essentially my first homebuild). I have the
following spec laid out and ready to put together (when I remove some stuff
from my current system):

- New Tsunami Sagittarius ATX window case & 350W PSU
- New K7S5A Pro mainboard
- New AMD Athlon 2600XP CPU (older 266 FSB version)
- New ThermalTake Volcano 11 Xaser Edition CPU heatsink & fan
- New Western Digital 80Gb 7200rpm 8MB Cache hard drive
- 2 x 256MB PC133 Kingston SD-RAM (from current system)
(I will buy 2 x 512MB DDR-RAM later)
- New ATI Radeon 9200 Pro 256MB graphics card
- Sony 1.44MB Floppy Drive (from current system)
- LG DVD-ROM GDR-8161B 16x48 (from current system)
- LG CD-RW W8520B 52x24x52 (from current system)

I will be getting XP Pro to go on it before I even attempt to post the
system, but I was wondering whether the screen will even display without the
ability to add drivers for the graphics card. What's the story?

 

[Crimson*]

You'll get a display, but until you install specific drivers for your
hardware you probably won't be able to get higher resolutions, refresh
rates, etc.

 

[ToolPackinMama]

You'll get a display, but until you install specific drivers for your
hardware you probably won't be able to get higher resolutions, refresh
rates, etc.

Specifically, you want to load the motherboard drivers, the video card
drivers, and the monitor drivers. THEN you'll be able to get the best
possible display (but you'll still have to set up the display settings).