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Hey guys! I finished building my new PC. But now I am not sure what to do from here.. Can you please tell me the steps on what I must do in order to install all the drivers? Must I install it in a certain order or what?

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did you install an operating system and does it have internet

 

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Just now, Jskn said:

did you install an operating system and does it have internet

 

So when I am done building, I must just edit the BIOS and then install Windows, then download the drivers from the website? Correct?

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1 minute ago, Telebubbies said:

So when I am done building, I must just edit the BIOS and then install Windows, then download the drivers from the website? Correct?

what do you mean edit the bios.  then yes.  if you dont have internet, just get drivers through a flash drive and install them.  I did that for a while because my mobo didnt have wifi

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Just now, Telebubbies said:

So when I am done building, I must just edit the BIOS and then install Windows, then download the drivers from the website? Correct?

 

Correct, set the BIOS to boot to USB or whatever media your OS install is on.

 

If your OS doesn't give you a generic LAN driver you might have to download the LAN driver from another device before you can access the internet.

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If you bought all new parts, you should have got some driver disks.
So you may need to use those to connect to the internet if you dont have another way to download network drivers. Then the rest of your drivers. Then antivirus is next after that. Then youre pretty much good to go I suppose.

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3 minutes ago, Telebubbies said:

So when I am done building, I must just edit the BIOS and then install Windows, then download the drivers from the website? Correct?

If you install windows 10 it will install the drivers for you :)

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1 minute ago, Telebubbies said:

So when I am done building, I must just edit the BIOS and then install Windows, then download the drivers from the website? Correct?

Default BIOS settings should be good to go, unless you want to change Boot priorities.

 

Next up is of course the OS installation, when that is done you can gather all the drivers, some drivers are even installed by Windows update but you may want to check if they're the latest. Next up, or even prior to it you can go ahead and perform Windows Updates, the order doesn't matter that much in most if not any cases.

 

Finally, depending on if you have a SSD, you may want to change the links for your Library folders so that they use a location on a harddrive if present.

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2 minutes ago, Jskn said:

what do you mean edit the bios.  then yes.  if you dont have internet, just get drivers through a flash drive and install them.  I did that for a while because my mobo didnt have wifi

What I mean is checking if it has everything setup correctly through the BIOS. 

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Just now, Telebubbies said:

What I mean is checking if it has everything setup correctly through the BIOS. 

oh then yes

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first install your OS, then download drivers for everything like GPU and such from there first party websites and insall them, then get some kind of anti virus like Avast and then go download steam and start downloading them games :D 

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Is there a certain order that I must install the drivers in? 

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Just now, Telebubbies said:

Is there a certain order that I must install the drivers in? 

Most of the time not, though I myself tend to start with the crucial parts first like the chipset and LAN/WLAN.

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1 minute ago, Serath said:

Most of the time not, though I myself tend to start with the crucial parts first like the chipset and LAN/WLAN.

Ok, thanks!

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Also, clearing your GPUs of any old drivers is a nice step, using display driver uninstaller. My video cards had some trouble being detected by windows, so i just cleared them and resintalled drivers and all was good. I built mine 3 days ago. On startup it was BIOS, windows, drivers, benchmarking software, and games :P

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