MSI 865PE Neo2 drivers installation help

mazakmanmazakman Montreal Qc Canada
edited December 2003 in Science & Tech
Hi all, and Merry Christmas.
My son's friend left me his computer to re-configure but did not bring the drivers or the manual. I have to rip it apart to clean out the dust and put his radeon 9800 pro back in his computer (I had it in mine, small price for him to pay :D ) and then re-install win XP along with sp1. I've downloaded the drivers from the MSI website, should they be installed in any specific order (mainboard driver, networking driver and the intel chipset information)?
Thanks for any help!
Hi Keto! :canflag:

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  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Chipset info, mainboard chipset drivers if any(like AGP and IDE only), restart, video driver, restart, then networking driver, restart, then sound and audio drivers. Then the misc. things like DVD, CD-RW, etc.

    Then control panel, system, hardware tab, device manager, look and see if anything is faulted (eitehr disabled by XP or yellow bordered exclamation point that indicates device resource conflicts. If no errors, and all works, done with drivers. Do yourself and him a favor, make a rollback point including system state at this time. Call it something like Install_Backup.

    HTH :D

    John.
  • mazakmanmazakman Montreal Qc Canada
    edited December 2003
    Thanks, I definitely will create a roll-back point.
  • ketoketo Occupied. Or is it preoccupied? Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Hi Alex! Merry Christmas sir. I use a slightly different order with absolute success - mainly, I do video drivers last and networking much sooner, thus:

    SP1->Intel INF->Intel IAA if applicable(RAID on 875)->LAN (I figure it's part of the chipset/mobo and often need them at this stage if I don't have a disk burnt with other drivers, plus see next step)->Windows Updates ALL including DX9->audio->video last, thinking that, though it likely has little net effect, they are most likely to be changed in the future so let everything else embed "under" them. I have always installed both the video drivers and control panel (ATI) without rebooting inbetween with no problems, though ATI wants the system to reboot. Sometimes I'll even load permanently resident small utilities such as WinZip, Cacheman, TweakUI before I do the video drivers.

    If you want to be REALLY picky, defrag after each step!
  • mazakmanmazakman Montreal Qc Canada
    edited December 2003
    Hi Kent, and thanks for the best wishes! :bigggrin:

    Well, all is done and I had to put back his Sapphire 9800pro. :(
    While being in the mood I took the time to tear apart my own computer for maitainance, the 3 toranodos and the 2 smart fans were very dirty (My wife and I are smokers so the accumulation of dust and nicotene was scary to say the least).

    Thanks for the tips guys! :bigggrin:
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