June 2002
Beginner to intermediate
816 pages
32h 59m
English
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Step 12: Install Software
Install the operating system per the manufacturer’s instructions. During installation or immediately thereafter, as appropriate, install any driver disks provided with hardware components. If possible, do this during installation to prevent problems. For example, when installing Windows NT 4, we first used the drivers provided on the NT CD for the Intel PRO/100+ Ethernet adapter. As it turns out, those drivers simply didn’t support our more recent Intel adapter. We could have saved considerable time simply by supplying an updated drivers disk during installation rather than using the Microsoft-supplied drivers.
Warning
Don’t assume that you should always install all motherboard utilities and drivers supplied by the manufacturer. After we finished building this system, we installed patches and drivers in the order recommended by Intel, which was to install Windows 2000, followed by SP1 (we actually used SP2), followed by the INF update, followed by DirectX 8, followed by the Intel Ultra ATA Storage Driver (which was subsequently incorporated into the Intel Application Accelerator utility).
After we installed the operating system and service pack, we benchmarked the system. SiSoft Sandra reported hard drive performance of 25,374. We then installed the INF update, DirectX 8, and the Intel Application Accelerator. When we benchmarked the system again, we found that hard drive performance had dropped to below 10,000. Thinking that perhaps there was a conflict ...
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