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Offline KillaX
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MOBO installation question
« on: September 24, 2003, 08:42:02 AM »
I just bought a Gigabyte K7 Triton GA7N400 Pro MOBO, a AMD Athlon XP 2500 333MHZ processor and 256MB of 333MHZ DDR memory and I am putting it in on my own.   what should I do BEFORE I install it?????  I have a Soundblaster Audigy MP3+, an ATI Radeon 9700Pro, a nework card in there right now.  what files should I back up just in case????

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« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2003, 10:11:32 AM »
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what should I do BEFORE I install it?????


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« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2003, 11:42:58 AM »
Most likely you are going to have to wipe the hard drive anyway.  Definitely if you are running XP as it doesn\'t like major hardware changes.  Besides doing a clean install of windows will make your system run better with the new hardware you are installing even if it managed to run after you upgraded.
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« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2003, 07:17:22 PM »
well.......the worst has happened, the board didnt fit the case so I took it to the experts and XP didnt like it at all and wouldnt even boot to safe mode.....sooooooo I had to buy ANOTHER version of XP pro due to the people who put the first OEM version in didnt give me a key or a cd....I hope they can get all the data possible off of HD before re-installing the OS....DARN BILL GATES DARN HIM TO HECK!  (I am not in the mood to cuss right now)

in Hindsight.....maybe I shoulld have backed up the stuff I needed to keep.........

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« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2003, 10:18:18 AM »
I got it back with the data intact!!!!!!  they used the rescue disk with XP Pro and all is good!

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