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Nf7-s setup/ general setup

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Seraphim974

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so my friend is getting a nfs-7 motherboard, 2500+ Barton, 512 DDR ram, and is using a HDD that he had previously installed in his mother's computer. What do we have to do? after you physically build the system and boot with the WD boot disc (i assume it comes with one as my seagate did) then the boot disc will tell us to install windows xp but i was wondering whether everything will be taken care of by the motherboard/BIOS. I am concerned simply because i read somewhere recently that you have to make your BIOS recognize your processor speed automatically or else it will burn up or something like that. Any suggestions will be appreciated. :)

Oh, and what about reformatting that HD, how do you go about doing that? Do you do the format while it is in the old computer? Does all a format do is completely clear the HD?
 
You don't need to use a WD boot disc first of all. Once you physically build it just put in the Windows XP CD and everything is done with that, including a format. Make sure you have boot from CD-ROM as the 1st boot device in the BIOS, which you can get into by repeatedly hitting the Delete key after you power up(gets you into the BIOS). You can also change your processor speed in the BIOS, you should put it at 166FSB which is the 2500+'s default speed. With the NF7 you can also just choose 2500+ instead of adjusting the FSB manually if you would rather do that.

Yes, a format removes everything from the drive so make sure to make backups.
 
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