Fitting mobo

[Vasquez]

I should be getting my new mobo in a few days, I was wondering if you have any tips on fitting it. Any tips for reinstalling windows so that I don't format my hard drive like last time? (:()

[Daymare]

you shouldn't have to reinstall wintoast. When it comes to the mobo, follow the instructions that comes with it, and make sure that your tower supports that kind of screw settings, gl! =)

[Ludicrouse]

Actually it depends.

Nforce board drivers sometimes have a really annoying tendancy to be a pain to remove.

Also VIA drivers tend to dig deep and not totally remove, so when u put in a new board that is not VIA your PC goes into shock and fucks itself.

[Hovis]

Bread top tips:

For the hardware:-

1. Buy in loads of screws, spacers, cable ties and that sort of shit before you start. That'll make life easy.

2. Make sure you treat the CPU as gently as if you were performing surgery on your own little general because if you fuck it up you're going to look a prize nana.

3. Slap in as many of those little spacer screws as you can, you want the mobo to sit rock solid and flat. Only dirty boys have a bent motherboard and its not kosher.

4. Put in all the parts first. Then do the wiring. Do it one wire at a time and tie each of the little fuckers up and out of the way as you go. If you don't rule the wiring with an iron fist it'll only get worse and pretty soon your PC will look like it was built by a chimp.

5. Don't panic if the motherboard speakers screams at you and gives you an error message. There's always a million things that could be out of goose when you mash together a homegrown system. Keep the mobo manual handy and hit their tech support forums if the problem isn't immediately obvious.

Getting the software right...

1. You MUST reinstall windows. I'd advise a formatted hard drive too (next time partition the OS into a small chunk so you can format without losing your pr0n). If you don't reinstall windows it doesn't run properly with the hardware and you'll lose performance.

2. Install the chipset and motherboard drivers FIRST. Stick the lot on. You can always disable shit later.

3. Install the graphics drivers SECOND. The graphics card likes to know what its sitting on when it sets up.

5. Make sure you did it that way round or you won't get top monstering from your system. If you failed, install windows from scratch and punish yourself for your foolishness by listening the JCB song non-stop for the entire time you are reinstalling.

6. Let windows update. A fresh install is about the only time you can let windows do the full gamut of updates without fear of it shitting the bed.

7. Install games and shit and u r l33t like teh bread.

[Daymare]

one more thing to add to that list I suppose would be to install anti virus software before pluggin in your net wire, but I guess thats obvious =)

[Fusion]

one more thing to add to that list I suppose would be to install anti virus software before pluggin in your net wire, but I guess thats obvious =) Who connects to the net without being behind a hardware firewall/router? :p

[Daymare]

quite a few is my guess ^^
well.. not without a router :P

[Hovis]

I just have a router with security features, plus the hardware firewall built into the Nforce 4 chipset. My gaming PC runs an incredibly spartan set of programs. Nothing that could ever dream of theiving any CPU runtime is allowed in the background. :D

[Echor]

Spartan is the way to go imo, so many things run that aren't needed, that said I like to be able to play music, print stuff, online updates etc, so could cut more out if needed.706

[Hovis]

That's an impressive lack of stuff :eek: