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You should install Windows with only a basic system configuration
- disk, graphics card, CDROM and memory. Nothing else.
Follow the software installation order given below. Having
achieved a stable system like this, you should then introduce all
your other cards one-by-one.
A clean install of the operating system is recommended. The following
installation procedure is known to work for Windows 98SE and Me,
and can be easily adapted to Windows 2000:
- For a really clean boot ... boot into DOS using a floppy, then:
- Use FDISK to create DOS partition on disk (!!This
destroys existing data on disk!!)
- FORMAT C: /S to format disk (use /Q for quick format) (!!This
destroys existing data on disk!!)
- Install Windows
- If you have Windows2000, install Windows2000
Service Pack first. (SP2 currently, May, 2001). If you are
using AMD Athlon / Duron processor, you may need a registry fix,
please refer to Microsoft
Web Site. The document also be available on AMD
WEB Site ( you may need Adobe Acrobat
Reader ). Download the patch from AMD
Web Site.
- Install latest AMD
AGP Driver (download from AMD
web site).
- Install latest VIA
4in1 service pack. Please uncheck
VIA AGP driver during installation.
- Install latest VIA
USB filter driver (under all Windows 9x versions
after Windows 95 OSR2 and above)
- Install Microsoft
VIA USB patch (on Windows 98 or 98SE)
or Q246755
(for Windows2000).
- Install latest DirectX
and latest patches. The latest reversion of DirectX is 8.0. Users
of video capture devices should install Video
Capture Update after installing the DirectX 8.0 or 8.0a runtime.
- Install latest video drivers
- Add sound card and then install latest sound card drivers
- Install latest HPT370
software (on the KG7-RAID and other RAID onboard motherboards)
. If you are installing Windows 2000 or NT 4.0, you need install
HPT driver in step 2 by pressing F6 when you see the hint on the
blue booting screen. See the manual of Windows or our installation
guide.
- How to install
HPT366/370 driver in Windows NT 4.0?
- Quick Installation
Guide- How to install Windows XP with HPT37X driver 2.0.1019
- And other devices one by one, and Install their latest drivers,
e.g. joystick, graphics tablet, etc
- Install applications
- Confirm the system is working and then tweak BIOS if required
The basic principal is to work up from the most basic software
towards the higher-level applications. Some people have reported
that it is necessary to defrag before and after installing DirectX,
but this should be unnecessary if the disk was formatted before
installation. Note that on the KT7-RAID and KT7A-RAID it is advisable
to install the HPT370 software after the sound card software, to
avoid conflicts.
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