I had my pc built by a mate sometime ago now. But having dramas with drives ect so im looking to just do a fresh install anyone able to point me to some decent guide/guides for doing so ie installing drives ect as id just wack win disk in install n thats about where id be at.

Cheers

We need to make/model of motherboard and vid card to give you links to your drivers. Speccy should tell us that....





Get SPECCY here: http://www.piriform.com/speccy/download ...get the FREE version from the: Piriform Link ...Speccy is a really nice system hardware/temperature, information Utility....simply install it...and run the program...then post a screen shot of the main page of the program, when posting a problem/question on these forums.



But here's the guide:






First thing you need to do is download all necessary drivers, for motherboard and Vid card(s), Antivirus and Malware software, and save them to a USB Flash Drive or CD. This is so you do NOT have to go on the internet, before your computer is protected !


First make sure to disconnect any other SSD's or HDD's, except the one you're installing Windows on, and that it is formatted as Primary, NTFS and Default Cluster Size

Install stuff in this order:

Unhook Internet
Install Windows
Install motherboard drivers
Install vid card drivers
Install sound drivers
Install Security programs
After everything is installed, open Services, and make sure Windows Update is set to Manual.

Rehook Internet
Install Windows updates. ONLY the Important and Critical ones. Read though all those as well, and UN-check any that have to do with vid card, sound or motherboard drivers.
Install utilities like CCleaner, 7Zip, IMGBurn
Install w/e other games or programs you want.


Right after, you do all this and update everything, run all your cleaners and scanners, and tweak Windows w/e, to however you want it...MAKE A BACKUP. Use either Windows built in backup (make the rescue CD too) or free 3rd party Backup software like Macrium Reflect(make the bootable CD too).



This post was edited by Ghot on Feb 10 2015 12:49am

motherboard is ASUSTeK Computer INC. P8Z68-V (LGA1155) and graphics cards are dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590s

reasons for install are unable to update graphics drivers or sound drivers (sound dissapears and graphics simply wont finish its install) pc has had a problem with crashing since it was built for some reason (cant remember offhand what it says when it crashes)


just needs a good freshen up..

motherboard drivers: http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P8Z68V/HelpDesk_Download/ ...this will have all the drivers except the vid card driver.

Vid card drivers: http://www.geforce.com/drivers ...do the manual search for the 500 series drivers on w/e version of Windows you're running.

Cheers hopefully lvl get time for it soon