The driver sequence for installing the driver

The installation of the driver is a necessary step for the software installation after each DIY is installed. If the hardware accessories you choose are not a well-established combination, you should pay special attention to the driver installation sequence. If you do not need it, it may cause frequent illegal operations, some hardware cannot be recognized by windows, or there are resource conflicts. Even a black screen of death.

  First, install the motherboard IDE driver

  among the various drivers, the most important primacy motherboard identification and management of the hard drive IDE driver or patch, It is highly recommended to install the IDE driver or patch before installing the AGP driver or patch. Because the current popular display cards are all AGP interfaces, AGP has a big feature that it will borrow the system's physical memory to supplement the video tasks when its own memory is insufficient. After the video task ends, the AGP display card should release the occupied physical memory, so the system must first record the memory occupied by the AGP display card, and coordinate other programs in the windows background to no longer call this part of the memory; then release After the physical memory, the system is notified to re-mark the partially released memory as available. These steps must be coordinated and recorded by the relevant files in the windows directory on the hard disk. Therefore, the AGP display card has a close relationship with the hard disk except for the AGP slot on the motherboard. If the IDE driver of the hard disk is not installed, it may seriously affect the use of AGP's graphics card.

  Secondly, if the IDE driver is not installed, your hard disk manufacturer and model may not be recognized by Windows, so you cannot use the ULTRA DMA function; after you install the IDE driver, Windows uses its DMA. The functional work, installing other drivers and DIRECTX etc. will also be faster. Therefore, you should give priority to the IDE driver of the motherboard, pay attention to carefully read the README file of the manufacturer, and the correspondingity of the driver in the installation CD--because a CD-ROM often contains the IDE driver of other motherboard types of this manufacturer, if you install If it is wrong, it will probably cause the windows to crash when entering the graphical interface (even the security mode can not enter), and no other tasks can be performed. Therefore, installing the IDE driver should be a priority, and be careful. If you find that the motherboard IDE program is not compatible with your accessories, you can also replace it in time, so that you can find it if you have all the other things installed in Windows.

  Second, AGP graphics card patch

  display card driver because it affects the status of other tasks display, badly is also a crash and black screen frequently, so it should be placed The sound card, network card and other boards are installed before.

  Some motherboards installed AGP driver on the display card can not fully use some of the features of the display card, to install its patch. It is recommended that you download the latest patches before installing the machine, and you should install the AGP graphics card patch after the IDE driver. I have seen a 16M display card of a Savage 4 on an elite SIS735 motherboard, because the driver of the display card is installed without the IDE driver, and the result is a crash when entering Windows 98. After uninstalling in safe mode, it was only reinstalled with Windows 98, and the latest IDE patch of SIS was installed first, and then the display card driver was installed, and it worked normally. At that time, because I did not expect the problem of the driver sequence, many of the driver versions of the display card were black screen invalid. It took a long time to find out the reason. Although this is not a very common problem, please be careful, or be safe to install the IDE driver first, so as not to reinstall the windows system and reset the desktop, user habits due to crashes.

  Third, MODEM and printer, mouse order

  Now everyone prefers the built-in MODEM price is cheap and does not occupy the desktop place. But the built-in cat (especially attached to the motherboard) has a common problem is to love the mouse or the print port to grab the system resources, usually compete for the IRQ interrupt number, so after installing the IDE and the display card driver, if it is normal Should first back up the windows settings, then install the MODEM driver, don't be busy with the sound card or video capture card, stock card and other driver installation, because if you find the conflict affects the mouse, you have to re-coordinate, the mouse is not normal It is very difficult for you to continue to debug the machine, so it is better to get MODEM first. Note that the IRQ and other related options should also be set in CMOS. If you want to access the LAN, the driver of the network card should also be installed before the audio and other boards.

  Fourth, do defragmentation after GHOST backup

  other hardware driver order does not matter. To remind everyone, after all the drivers are installed, please set your desktop and user's color, password, mail account, etc., and then do a disk defragmentation, remember to save your best state of windows with GHOST Oh.