PC Problems? I am a PC TECH.

[johndowe]

Hi there.

Wiping everything is VERY easy, when you go through the process of starting to install windows, and you are at the select destimation disk drive for installation, you read and select the "c:" particion and you enter d to delete it, win will ask you to confirm and you do so (with all the partisions), and then you select the unpartitionned space (the whole disk) and you do a FULL format, it takes longe but it erases everything and it rewrites the whole disk in effect doing a good job of checking it, and you follow the rest of the win installation.

DRIVERS...

Drivers aren't a bitch to find as you seem to think, unless of course the manufacturer of your PC's main board is out of business.

Brand Name PC's: Ex: DELL Optiplex GX280.

You go on to the internet to www.dell.com and look on the page for "support or driver download".

Then you enter the model name & Number; Optiplex GX280

Then the OS Win XP

and you D/L the Audio, Video (not Monitor), Chipset, Lan, if you have a modem and other interfaces you will need to D/L them too.

Then you install them one at a time and reatart as they require.



JohnDowe.

[sailove]

Thanks once again for your reply, I'm going to try it tommorow, so if you don't hear from me it didn't go well. LOL

Originally Posted by johndowe

Hi there.

Wiping everything is VERY easy, when you go through the process of starting to install windows, and you are at the select destimation disk drive for installation, you read and select the "c:" particion and you enter d to delete it, win will ask you to confirm and you do so (with all the partisions), and then you select the unpartitionned space (the whole disk) and you do a FULL format, it takes longe but it erases everything and it rewrites the whole disk in effect doing a good job of checking it, and you follow the rest of the win installation.

DRIVERS...

Drivers aren't a bitch to find as you seem to think, unless of course the manufacturer of your PC's main board is out of business.

Brand Name PC's: Ex: DELL Optiplex GX280.

You go on to the internet to www.dell.com and look on the page for "support or driver download".

Then you enter the model name & Number; Optiplex GX280

Then the OS Win XP

and you D/L the Audio, Video (not Monitor), Chipset, Lan, if you have a modem and other interfaces you will need to D/L them too.

Then you install them one at a time and reatart as they require.



JohnDowe.

[johndowe]

Hi there.

Sorry, i wanted to include this part to my previous post but i spaced it.



If your CPU is a clone the startup screen may identify what brand and board number if you are lucky, otherwise you may have to open the case (you only need a medium phillips + screwdriver) and look for the p/n, many are like this:

P4PE

or

P5S2-ATI Rev1.1

Then you go to the manufacturer's web site ex "asus" @ www.asus.com and fund the driver d/l page enter your bord # and OS and download all the drivers and install them.


Then do the same for all the other cards that are in the CPU A flashlight might be usefull.



JohnDowe.