Operating System / Software Installation Guide

[mktsurf]

Just powered up new system.
Have blank floppy in floppy drive.

But the monitor says no connection check signal cable.

Am I not going to get anything on lcd screen till do the reboot with the windows xp cdrom?

thx.

mktsurf

[pointreyes]

Originally posted by mktsurf
Just powered up new system.
Have blank floppy in floppy drive.

But the monitor says no connection check signal cable.

Am I not going to get anything on lcd screen till do the reboot with the windows xp cdrom?

thx.

mktsurf

For anyone that can assist with this please assist on this thread: http://www.abxzone.com/forums/showth...246#post622246

Thank you.

[heinz_abx]

thanx for your installation guide mr Steveo
One question: nr 25 get on the net without an firewall or portblocker?
seems very unwise....to my mind


greetz

[Mr Steveo]

Originally posted by heinz
thanx for your installation guide mr Steveo
One question: nr 25 get on the net without an firewall or portblocker?
seems very unwise....to my mind


greetz

I can see why you would be concerned.

If you want to install a software firewall before updating Windows and you are certain the fire wall will have no negative or preventative effects on installing core OS patches, then give it a try. Of course this would also mean having a software firewall before installing sound or video drivers.

This is just my opinion but being without a software firewall for only 20 or so minutes is less of a risk than trying to install drivers and base OS patches overtop of unnamed brand of software firewall.

More than likely youre not going to get hacked in that short amount of time online. If youre seriously concerned, though, you could get a hardware firewall and eliminate both concerns listed above all at once.

[heinz_abx]

Well I dont think I would get hacked in 20 min, thats a very small chance...
But I do think you almost certainly get a rpc virus or other nasty!
( you should see my blackice log!)
Which is not very good for the stabilty of your new system!
And you would have to get rid of that intruder as soon as possible, probably

thanx

[victor010170]

1st, let me tell you what I have. D875PBZLK mobo with intel 2.6C ghz, 1 120 gb sata hard drive connected with sata connector. I connected my primary IDE with cd-r, and secondary IDE with dvd-rw.

Double check every thing, I turned on the pwr. the screen came on with message "can not find NTLDR" in boot device.

The mobo has a 3.5 disk, Intel accelarator 3.0 version, came with it. I inserted disk in the drive, reboot. Same message came out.

Going through the instruction from Mr. STEVEO, I put blank cd in my cd-r, and so on. Then I replace with window XP disk. This window XP I got it about a yr a half ago an it was installed one time from my other PC

Hit ctl-alt-del, disk is running. I missed select F6, I let it runs. Then the next screen ask me to select 3 options. I didn't remember what were they. I stood up to strectch and lose the balance, fell on the key board.

I did not remember what keys I hit,; once I got the chair to sit on again, the screen was blank, dark black screen with blinking cursor on the top of the monitor. I retried the step and nothing happened again. I tried to put the xp disk on the dvd-rw, still not work. I turn off the pc and turn on again with nothing on the disk, I did not get the same previous message as the first start-up which was "can not find NTLDR" The screen just blank.

HELP PLEASE.

[BBThumper]

.....I just installed SP2, it made me reload my video drivers and directX. Do you guys think I'll need to reload the chipset drivers too?...........

[giga_dude]

SP2 beta right ?

[BBThumper]

.......SP2 beta 2055..........

[heinz_abx]

bye bye mr steveo

( usa = united states of arrogance?)

[blackmack56]

Hi everybody. My first post here , and my first complete install of XP on a Brand new PC that I partially put together myself. So please bear with me.

First off I would like to thank Mr Steveo for the helpful guide. I followed it to the tee, except bios update. The motherboard,CPU,BIOS was all assembled in the case. I just could not get up the nerve to update the BIOS without being certain that I would cause it to crash, so it is one version behind.

Everything went fine, Everything is working , even the tuner card.

Now when it came to the registry cleaning, I ran a software called "System Suite 5" by VCOM. Upon checking the registry with a program within this, It found 69 problems marked in RED.
26 problems in "User Software Settings"
43 problems in "Machine Software Settings"

So how would I go about deciding which ones are critical and should be left alone, and which ones can be deleted or try to repair?

For instance the File Path " C:\WINDOWS\TRACING " is listed over 20 times. Seeing how this is pretty much new to me, I do not want to wipe out the registry and not be able start XP.

The program does have an "UNDO" feature which lists registry fixes, etc. If a problem were to occur, could I try booting in safe mode and maybe using this feature, or will missing registry files prevent safe mode from working also.
I hope someone can understand my questions, cause I am starting to confuse myself.
Thanks

[wayne_abx]

Originally posted by heinz
bye bye mr steveo

( usa = united states of arrogance?)

Not called for!

-wayne

[giga_dude]

you might want to try 'registry cleaner' or 'system mechanic' to clean your invalid registry keys.

You can backup & restore your registry manually before you attempt any registry changes if you want.........

Start > Run > Type: Regedit > File > Export > Type filename and make sure that you know where you saved it (use the import menu feature to restore)

Hope that helps

[BBThumper]

Originally posted by heinz
bye bye mr steveo

( usa = united states of arrogance?)

......you got to be kiddin me ...........

[Cole_abx]

Originally posted by heinz
bye bye mr steveo

( usa = united states of arrogance?)

If this is what you think. Dont expect help here!