- Joined
- Jan 11, 2004
- Location
- Virginia, USA
Okay long story short ( I started typing this earlier and my computer crashed..) my computer has been going haywire lately with a puzzling amount of randomness. I'm just about past trying to fix it really because I'll be switching to a laptop for my main computer (for school reasons...) and giving my desktop to my parents to use and such.
So I'm looking at a complete and total reformat, I want to get all my information off now, then reformat it and get it ready for my parents so they wont be dealing with all these crashes of sorts.
What I'm asking is if anyone would like to post a detailed step by step process of what they would do to basically set up a system from scratch after a reformat--all functional hardware, just setting up the software to get things running smoothly. Such as which drivers to install when, recommended software to set up, etc. Think brand new, out of the box, OEM
I'm not an idiot to computers or anything, but I have a habit of winging it and working out the details later, and I'm going to move out for school so I don't want to leave the folks with the working out the details part.
I apologize if this is in the wrong forum, but whenever I've tried reformatting, Windows itself has been the problem.
System:
K7N2 Delta ILSR Motherboard
AMD Athlon 2700+
GeForce 5700 Ultra
Generic optical mouse/usb keyboard
So I'm looking at a complete and total reformat, I want to get all my information off now, then reformat it and get it ready for my parents so they wont be dealing with all these crashes of sorts.
What I'm asking is if anyone would like to post a detailed step by step process of what they would do to basically set up a system from scratch after a reformat--all functional hardware, just setting up the software to get things running smoothly. Such as which drivers to install when, recommended software to set up, etc. Think brand new, out of the box, OEM
I'm not an idiot to computers or anything, but I have a habit of winging it and working out the details later, and I'm going to move out for school so I don't want to leave the folks with the working out the details part.
I apologize if this is in the wrong forum, but whenever I've tried reformatting, Windows itself has been the problem.
System:
K7N2 Delta ILSR Motherboard
AMD Athlon 2700+
GeForce 5700 Ultra
Generic optical mouse/usb keyboard