So I have never really reformatted windows before, and people recommend it all the time. So I have a question, how should i go about reinstalling the drivers? I lost the disks, so should i just copy the driver folder?
[QUOTE=Mike!;30251753]So I have never really reformatted windows before, and people recommend it all the time. So I have a question, how should i go about reinstalling the drivers? I lost the disks, so should i just copy the driver folder?[/QUOTE]
You get the newest ones from the manufacturers website.
Windows 7 Can fetch most drivers itself, as-long as you install a driver for the ethernet/wifi and it's connected to the internet.
[QUOTE=Van-man;30252010]You get the newest ones from the manufacturers website.
Windows 7 Can fetch most drivers itself, as-long as you install a driver for the ethernet/wifi and it's connected to the internet.[/QUOTE]
Just to add on though, DON'T USE WINDOWS' DEFAULT GPU DRIVERS at least. I recommend getting the audio drivers from the manufacturing website as well. Can't think of other drivers you necessarily need to find.
[QUOTE=drummerundrcovr;30252105]Just to add on though, DON'T USE WINDOWS' DEFAULT GPU DRIVERS at least. I recommend getting the audio drivers from the manufacturing website as well. Can't think of other drivers you necessarily need to find.[/QUOTE]
True, forgot about that.
The audio drivers win7 finds are only good enough to get sound from, but they gimp the functionality of your sound"card" (stereo mix is one of the things you wont get with stock win7 drivers, in some cases)
You'll want your chipset drivers(AMD or Intel) for your motherboard, drivers for whatever network card you have(built in or one you added), and the latest videocard drivers.
That should be enough to get you online, with the right display settings, and with your motherboard squared away. From then on you'll be adding things as needed, like Directx, antivirus, firewall, and so on.
For me Windows 7 already has the Ethernet driver installed on reformat lol.
You shouldn't need to download the chipset drivers, I never did.
Step 1: Download all your drivers you need, just look up your motherboard's model, and goto its website and download all those, then goto nVidia/ATI's website and get the latest driver, that's all you should need. Put them on a flash drive. If your flashdrive is big enough (and the disk isn't SP1 already), also download w7 SP1 from [url]http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=c3202ce6-4056-4059-8a1b-3a9b77cdfdda&displaylang=en[/url] this will make updating Windows a lot quicker.
Step 2: Before installing anew, go into your BIOS and make sure your SATA disk drive isn't in IDE mode, it should be in ACPI mode. It's faster.
Step 3: Install windows, install all drivers, install SP1.
There is a software called double driver, use it. it will back up your driver, after reintalling, you can restore your drivers.
here is video tutorial: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d9hdCBGpOA&feature=related[/url]
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