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Cardinal5fanatic

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I really want to format my wd raptor and I dont know how I should go about doing that......is it any different from a normal IDE hard drive? help please
 
it is a brand new one......it is my only hard drive on the pc......and i screwed up installing drivers after i installed windows so i need to start out from scratch again....
 
my problem is that when my graphics card is enable with the driver installed everything is completely unstable and when i disable it everything is fine again......when i installed all my drivers i didnt reboot until every driver was installed on my system....somebody told me that i was supposed to reboot after each major set of drivers.....example is......

chipset drivers
reboot
graphics card driver
reboot
directx 9
reboot
etc.
 
Whoever told you that is wrong. You do not need to reboot every time you install a single driver.

Give us a list of your specs here and what drivers you are using on your videocard.
 
this is a post i made in the past.....

alright, I have built my first pc. Here are the specs....

Asus A8V Deluxe
Athlon fx-53
1GB corsair ddr
Antec 550 watt true control
WD raptor 74GB
plextor 12x DVD burner
plextor 52x32x52 CD burner
creative labs sb audigy 2 zs
eVGA Geforce 6800 gt
Windows XP pro sp1

After I installed Windows the first thing i did was install the motherboard's drivers.....after that i installed my graphic card's driver......well the next time i booted up my computer was screwed up....my desktop had 2 or 3 weird lines going vertical down my screen and the computer was obviously unstable and after about 3 minutes of my LCD flickering and constant lockups it went to a blue screen and shutdown.....so i spent forever trying to fight through the system and the first thing i disabled was the graphics card to see if it was faulty.....well everything worked fine after i disabled it.....so I got an RMA from eVGA and my new card does the exact same thing after the drivers were installed. I have tried many different drivers....deleting the installed one before i try another one.
Please help....getting really frustrated......
i just installed the newest asus BIOS and the newest VIA 4 in 1 driver and nothing..........
 
Ok, sounds like a strange problem here.

Try tearing out all the unnecessary components. Strip down to just the MB/CPU/Vid card/512MB RAM/HDD. Then, try installing your videocard drivers(make sure you try the latest dets from nvidia)Try a different video card if you can, too.

If you still have this quirk after you install the GT, boot into safe mode by pressing F8 before windows boots up and remove the vid card driver.
 
hey do you know of a program to go through and delete every graphics card driver?.....even though i uninstalled every one....some parts have been left behind
 
I think it is important to install the motherboard's chipset drivers and reboot, before continuing on with video-card driver installation. That gives Windows a handle on what capabilities the AGP bus has for the mobo it's been installed on, and then when the video drivers arrive on the scene, Windows knows what kind of capabilities to advertise to the video drivers. There is no benefit to trying to cram it all into one huge jumble, unless you are really THAT desparate to save a couple of reboots. 😉

Bottom line, if a driver package is prompting for a reboot, do it. If this were an Intel board then I could give you Intel's authoritative answer on the matter, but the same principle should apply here too.

Bigger picture: if your Audigy 2 ZS isn't in the PCI4 slot already, try it there. That slot doesn't share its IRQ with the AGP slot or with any of the other PCI slots or soldered-down PCI hardware. Also, since the Audigy2 has Firewire, MIDI, Gameport and audio (duh), disable those functions on the motherboard itself, in the motherboard's BIOS menus.

Also, if your RAM is running at Auto voltage, try 2.7 volts.
 
Originally posted by: Cardinal5fanatic
ok....so how do i format my hard drive.....it is a sata hard drive.....i want to start over......
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Just start Windows Setup again and proceed as before. When it gets to the point of asking what partition you want to install Windows on, you can point it at the existing C: partition (or delete and recreate it if you want), and then you'll have the option to have it formatted before Setup continues. Good luck 🙂
 
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