Hi im building a new computer and i was wondering how to install the operating system and the drivers.?

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Hi im building a new computer and i was wondering how to install the operating system and the drivers.?

Answer 1

It relies upon on the equipment. What CPU do you have, and how plenty RAM? in case you have 4GB or greater of RAM, circulate with a sixty 4 bit version of whichever OS you opt for for to place in. The 32 bit version won't be in a position to handle that plenty. in case you have a speedy processor and numerous RAM, deploy Vista. I geared up a working laptop or pc in November (Gigabyte GA P35 DS4 mobo, Intel Q6600 CPU, 4GB RAM, ATI card with 512MB DDR3 RAM) and Vista basically precise runs without issues. i'm surprised that it hasn't crashed as quickly as. I ordinarily run open source apps and each little thing i take advantage of is properly matched with Vista - you have problems with older commercial apps. yet Firefox, Thunderbird, VLC, Gimp, OpenOffice and numerous others are basically nice. there's a studying curve, yet i stumbled on i myself like the hot OS once I made it over the hump.

Answer 2

Put the computer togther first.



Then, when you boot up for the first time, make sure everything comes up (through the power on self test - POST). If everything is okay, then you will come to an error saying something like "no O/S found". When you power it on again, go into the CMOS setup and configure the computer to boot off of the CD ROM drive. Place the O/S setup disk in the CD ROM drive and reboot.



The setup will then start. During the installation process, the O/S should recognize the devices installed and install the OEM supplied drivers. After the successful installation of the O/S, you then can update the drivers of the components using the manufacturer's supplied CDs and disks.



Hope this helps.....

Answer 3

the os will install the drivers for you if its xp aslo make sure your using a legal version if you have any prob take it to a computer store happy instalation and keep asking :)

Answer 4

dont do it urself.. cuz u could fry up some delicate electronic components in any of the computers borads.. by just touching them with ur bare hands



Well about the OS and drivers... if u re using Windows Xp

then all u have to do is to insert da CD-rom into the drive before turning on da computer.. and setup starts automatically

Answer 5

Install the operating system first, by turning on your computer and booting off the operating system CD (change boot options, to boot off of CD). Open setup (in MS-DOS, of course) and install the operating system. After the operating system is installed, install the (necessary) drivers by installing them off a CD.



Note: Some drivers might already come with the operating system. It won't be neccessary to install these again, unless there is a newer version of them.

Answer 6

hire somebody to do it for you.

Answer 7

Congrats for your new computer!

Instructions for setting up any Windows OS.

Set up the hardware first. Be careful with electricity, earthing and avoid shorting any device. Otherwise you cannot fry anything in the system.

Then access the bios (system setup). You'd have to watch the screen at boot up real quick to see the relative key stroke for your motherboard to enter the BIOS screen. Navigate and change the boot priority to CD first. Save changes and exit.

You will now have to partition and format the hard drive to make it usable.

Insert a bootable cd containing fdisk and format commands.

Follow the link for detailed info on fdisk screens http://alri.org/step2/fdisk.html

Choose y to the 1st question asking you if u wish to enable large disk support.

Then follow the screens wisely cos this is your system foundation.

Basically you need to create 1 primary DOS partition and set it active.

Create n allocate space to other partitions (extended n logical) if u wish to.

For ex, if you want 2 partitions (C: and D:), then allocate 50% space to the pri DOS partition n 50% to the extended DOS partition. You'd have to toy around with logical drives in the extended DOS partition if you want any more partitions.

Exit fdisk n format the drives. I recommend formatting in DOS if you want FAT32 file system, even tho it takes time. But if you want NTFS partitions, then better do it with the OS cd. Use the following link

http://www.cyberwalker.net/faqs/how-tos/reinstall-faq.html

Insert the OS cd in the drive and reboot. If its XP or any Windows OS, then the setup is simple. Just follow instructions.

You may have to enter your time zone, language, computer name, your name n organization n a few other details. The system will also boot a couple of times. Its normal.

Once done with the OS, change boot device priority to Hard drive again by entering the BIOS.

Install drivers only in the following sequence to avoid conflicts. And yes, reboot after each driver is installed:

Chipset drivers(your motherboard)

Video drivers

Audio drivers

Network drivers (As in modem, LAN card)

Install all other drivers in any sequence after that.

Finally install programs, softwares n applications.

You should be good to go !!

Dont worry about doing it wrong the first time. U cn keep tryin till u get it right. No harm to the system unless you short something in the hardware. Software is piece of cake. You'll learn on your own and more so, you'll be the master of ur system.

Ask again if you have any further doubts.