Installing w2k,What are the proper steps. Thank you..

[M O M O]

Howdy, about to install w2k for the 50th time. This time feel like doing it right.. Looking for advice in installing drivers,patches. Would like to know what version of via 4 in 1, and what parts of it i really need... I've seen a post with order in installing everything.. but cant seem to find it..
well heres my system..

kt7a raid 1.2(266fsb)
geforce 2 gts
soundblaster live 5.1 gamer
linksys network card
2 gxps raid 0
wd boot drive
256 micron cas 2
wintv d

Any info would be greatly loved going to do the install very soon.

 

[igiveup]

50th time? Wow. To be honest I have only done 2 win2k installs: Once at home and then when I about had an orgasm, once at the office after I convinced em I needed to try it out for them.

As far as basic all around good advice I would go ahead and download all of the current drivers for all of the hardware you have, and then check your most used applications web site to see if there are patches for 2k. Especially check for any new SBLive drivers as I heard there was some issues with them. Burn it on a CD, might come in handy later. I would even download the service pack. I went ahead and did the huge administrator version so even if I changed hardware later on it would still be a good service pack. Repartition if you want to change that around and then boot from CD. I leave myself a partition that is about 2 gig (9GB HD) just so that I can leave MP3s and stuff on (goes fast) if I need to reformat later on. Once you get through the CD booting up you can format the partition for whatever you would like. I would say FAT 32 as I have had a performance decrease after I converted the drive to NTFS. Anyway, format the thing and then tell it to install. I wouldn't set up your RAID array until you get 2k completely installed. In fact, I wouldn't even worry about any 4 in 1 drivers or anything. Let 2k see if it can pick stuff up. Check with VIA to see if they have some recommendation on what to install and in what order. They probably have some experience with this I would then do the Service Pack install, then the compatibility update. After those two are done then things should be OK. There shouldn't be any issues with doing the NVidia drivers at any time after the install finishes.

I know this wasn't quite what you were looking for but I figured I could help at least a little.

 

[Davegod75]

Install Win2000 (hit F6 to install your raid controller drivers)
Install VIA AGP Chipset Driver Update (here)
Install All Fixes/Patches/Updates from windows update. (lots of fixes here)
Install Service Pack 1 (can get here)
Install Via 4.29 Final Drivers (install all parts, can get from here)
Install DirectX 8.0a and DirectX video patch (Get from here)
Install Video drivers (get from here)
Install Sound Card Drivers (Get here)
Install Network card drives if needed
Install Drivers for WinTV
Install all software etc


My FTP where you can get all patches etc is 129.2.216.46
User momo, password is momo

 

[TomBilliodeaux]

After all that, make a system backup to CDRW or CDR using Norton Ghost 6.5 or Drive Image 4.0.
Then you won't have to go thru that again.

 

[M O M O]

thank you guys.. .. i'm going ot be trying it out very soon.. i'll keep you posted..

 

[vailr]

There's a new "ZT" bios for the KT7 board, which is supposed to address SBLive/VIA conflicts.
http://www.viahardware.com/faq/kt7/kt7faq.htm
There's a 1.30 beta version of VIA 4-in-1 driver out.