Installing fresh copy of Windows XP

I'm buying a new notebook in the next few days and I had a quick question.
I know how to do a clean install of the OS but once that is done, I need to
install the drivers for the hardware in the notebook. I have heard there is
a specific order in which they should be installed in, 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?

If anyone can give me the exact order I would appreciate it.

Thanks.

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.

DougH

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.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...1_9706,00.html

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: http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp
VIA: http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=300
SiS: http://download.sis.com/

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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