Installing fresh copy of Windows XP

DougH wrote:
  >> and that the very
  >> first thing that should be installed are the chipset drivers??? Is this
  >> correct? My notebook will have a AMD Athlon 64 3400 processor in it, do
  >> AMD's have chipsets that need to be installed or is that only for Intel?
 >
 >
 > Yes, the first thing to install would be the chipset drivers. I forgot to
 > install chipset drivers once and didn't understand why I was getting disk
 > drive access errors. My Abit motherboard was picky that way. After that
 > would be your video drivers. The rest would be pretty much up to you.

Agreed.

Apparently there is a processor update too.

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_9706,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_9...,00.htm</a>

I would probably do that after the chipset drivers. Or if you're paranoid,
before.

The chipset drivers will obviously be specific to the chipset manufacturer:
nVidia: <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp" target="_blank">http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp</a>
VIA: <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=300" target="_blank">http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=300</a>
SiS: <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://download.sis.com/" target="_blank">http://download.sis.com/</a>

You might find that they don't support the mobile versions, in which case,
you'll have to see your laptop vendors site.

If your graphics is ATI, Omega provide some nice up to date drivers that
support the mobile versions.

You should also see:
alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64



Ben
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