hi all
my new asus e-deluxe mobo will be arriving soon and tbh im a little worried building this my one and only comp i own i built myself is now nearly 3 years old lol
so ive been reading up as much as i can on forms and stuff
god i hope all the parts i ordered are working else im shafted lol
right to the point i have read that it is best to install the nf2 chipset driver after installing dx9 but before gfx drivers
so am i installing this all right and is there anything missing i need to install i will be giving the onboard soundstorm a 10/100 ethernet a go instead of using my own
1.format h/d then install xp
2 install dx9
3 install nforce2 chipset drivers
4 install gfx card drivers
5 install any extras on cd with mobo
does the soundstorm drivers and 10/100 drivers come included with the nf2 chipset
also on my current comp i had to install a aspi file my old one is a via chipset will i still need to install this
also i am right in thinking i no longer need the hyperion drivers cuz they are for via and mine will be nforce 2
all my stuff comes on friday so i would like this to be a huge info thread for things that can help me ie. mobo settings jumper settings a page to somewhere that correctly tells you about applying paste to the cpu will be nice just to make sure i got it right
i also keep seeing peeps say xp2500 will run at 200 fsb straight the way but i thought this was only for unlocked barton 2500 i have just ordered mine so its got to be locked and isnt a mobile one
stuff ordered and coming any help or info on these aswell would be great
tagan 480w psu
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
Lite on LDW-811S / 1S81/ 851 DVDRW±
barton xp 2500 processer
leadtek fx 5900 gfx card (from old machine)
80 gig western digital hard d rive with 8meg cache
512 meg corsair matched pc 3200 (only value but all i could afford will upgrade later )
ALL