How to reset everyting to Initial state!

[CheGuevara]

I just built a computer
and i have win2k running with a few programs
but there's a few things that i did that's keeping the pc to run at full speed, i just want to know how to reset everything. From formatting the hard drive, uninstalling windows and resetting the MB to it's original version
now that i have a few more ideas how to build, i would like to start all over again.


and would that process need for me to take out all components and adding them one by one again?

Any ideas? thank you

 

[Looney]

Well, when you format the drive, you'll obviously be removing windows already... so to format the drive, get a win9x bootup disk, and boot to dos, then use the command at the A: prompt: FORMAT C: (or whatever letters of the drive you want to format).

For your mobo, you can get information on how to reset the bios (really easy).

And no, you won't have to take out all your components.. just reset the bios, then configure it how you want it, then install Win2k again.

 

[Looney]

btw, you don't even need to reset your bios manually (unless you're OCing and run into problems, or other bios related problems where you can't reach CMOS)... you can just go into CMOS (noramlly the DEL key when your computer first boots up and does the ram check) and there should be an option to RESET TO FACTORY SETTING, DEFAULT SETTING, or OPTIMIZE SETTING or somethign similar.