spinksy Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 Well i've just received my new pc!!! Looks awesome and is a good spec - but i just have 1 quick question. I've always bought my pc's/laptops from places such as pc world etc where you just open box and plug & play. With this pc i need to install an operating system - which is fine as i have a windows 7 & a windows vista disc set, but my question is the pc came with the graphics card cd and instructions -- will this have already been installed? or do i need to install it - and if so when? (before installing windows or after)? any help will be great! EDIT-- just found the motherboard cd too - same question for that aswell :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor. Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 If its Windows 7 it should recognize the drivers right away, Microsoft has drivers downloaded from there site.If you do have the drivers available on disk i do suggest install them. Windows 7 is alot better then Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimboUK Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 Install Windows 7 (64bit if you have more than 4GB of RAM), then the drivers off the CD, I'd do motherboard then graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinksy Posted September 6, 2010 Author Share Posted September 6, 2010 right ok, cheers! ive kinda already installed vista (will upgrade it later) but im abit stuck again! ive installed vista ok - now put the motherboard disc in and selected for it to install everything! its now doing that but keeps asking if 'generate serial ATA Driver diskette[Y,N]?' when i clicked press n (no) it just reboots and gets to same screen - if i press y(yes) it asks 1.Generate RAID Driver diskette for Windows XP2.Generate RAID Driver diskette for Windows 20003.Generate RAID Driver diskette for Windows XP644.Exit which one do i choose? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimboUK Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 It's far better to do a clean install of Windows 7 than it is an upgrade from Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcole254 Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 And of those options (I am assuming you only have one HD in that computer) so you would want to do none of them. A RAID is a virtual HD created from an array of multiple HD's acting as one single one. and +1 on a fresh install of windows 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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