new pc without OS

Put your Os disk in first, go into bios and change your boot to CDROM then exit and save. You will be asked to hit a key to boot from cdrom. do this and away you go. At the first reboot, go into bios again and change your boot to HDD 0. For me I disable all boots from floppy or cdrom for faster boot. I even disable the floppy seek. I haven't used a floppy for 2 years. Although I may use it for bios flash if needed. Once your Os is installed, the proper order to load everything is :

Windows updates(I just stick with my OS. SP2 is too buggy) motherboard drivers Direct X 9c then vidcard drivers and soundcard drivers( no particular order that Ive seen but I like to load my vidcard drivers first) After installing my vidcard drivers, I like to reinstall direct X, uninstall and reinstall my vidcard drivers as I noticed better performance. ATI recommends installing there drivers overtop the direct x. -- PC3200 Samsung 512mb, SB Live OEM WD120gb + 80gb HD 8mb buffers Pioneer DVR-110D 16X - 4X Dual Layer Thermaltake Lanfire, 420 Watt PS ViewSonic 19" A91f+ CRT Micrsoft Sidewinder Precision 2 Joystick

Overall Score-2066, cpuscore-2926 in 3DMark2005 basic 1078X768, No AA