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Award BIOS / CMOS Setup

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<div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">This is the BIOS setup for Award BIOS v6.00PG. If you have a different version of the Award BIOS their would be a lot of similarities. If your BIOS is AMI or Phoenix then the common BIOS features would have some similarities. Whatever BIOS you have, this setup guide should give you an idea about how to setup a BIOS. Please note that setting up BIOS incorrectly could cause system malfunction, therefore it is recommended that you also follow the BIOS guide provided on your motherboard manual. If you decide to make changes to certain options it is safer to make a note of what you have changed. Then restart the system to see how it performs. If the system behaves abnormally or becomes unstable you can revert back to your previous settings.</div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Click on any of the BIOS setup options below to setup that feature.</div><table align="center" border="0" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><tbody>
<tr bgcolor="#0066CC"><td><div align="left" class="style14"><span style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/sw/bios_setup.htm#softmenu" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: yellow;">Softmenu III Setup</span></a></span></div></td><td><div align="left" class="style14"><span style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/sw/bios_setup.htm#pc_health" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: yellow;">PC Health Status</span></a></span></div></td></tr>
<tr bgcolor="#0066CC"><td><div align="left" class="style14"><span style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/sw/bios_setup.htm#standard_cmos" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: yellow;">Standard CMOS Features</span></a></span></div></td><td><div align="left" class="style14"><span style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/sw/bios_setup.htm#fail_safe" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: yellow;">Load Fail-Safe Defaults</span></a></span></div></td></tr>
<tr bgcolor="#0066CC"><td><div align="left" class="style14"><span style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/sw/bios_setup.htm#advanced_bios" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: yellow;">Advanced BIOS Features</span></a></span></div></td><td><div align="left" class="style14"><span style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/sw/bios_setup.htm#optimized" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: yellow;">Load Optimized Defaults</span></a></span></div></td></tr>
<tr bgcolor="#0066CC"><td><div align="left" class="style14"><span style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/sw/bios_setup.htm#advanced_chipset" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: yellow;">Advanced Chipset Features</span></a></span></div></td><td><div align="left" class="style14"><span style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/sw/bios_setup.htm#set_password" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: yellow;">Set Password</span></a></span></div></td></tr>
<tr bgcolor="#0066CC"><td><div align="left" class="style14"><span style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/sw/bios_setup.htm#ip" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: yellow;">Integrated Peripherals</span></a></span></div></td><td><div align="left" class="style14"><span style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/sw/bios_setup.htm#with_saving" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: yellow;">Save & Exit Setup</span></a></span></div></td></tr>
<tr bgcolor="#0066CC"><td><div align="left" class="style14"><span style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/sw/bios_setup.htm#pm" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: yellow;">Power Management Setup</span></a></span></div></td><td><div align="left" class="style14"><span style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/sw/bios_setup.htm#without_saving" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: yellow;">Exit Without Saving</span></a></span></div></td></tr>
<tr bgcolor="#0066CC"><td><div align="left" class="style14"><span style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/sw/bios_setup.htm#pnp_pci" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: yellow;">PnP/PCI Configurations</span></a></span></div></td><td><div align="left"><span class="style12"><span class="style14"></span></span></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: black;">Softmenu III<a href="" name="softmenu" style="color: #2c64b4;"></a></span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Softmenu III is where you can setup up the CPU without setting jumpers on the motherboard. You can setup the CPU simply by selecting the speed i.e. Pentium III 750 from the list. This ensures that the CPU bus, multiplier, voltage etc, is correctly set for that particular CPU. However you can manually setup each feature if required. Once you have finished with the setup press ESC to return the previous menu. See figure 1.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Standard CMOS Features<a href="" name="standard_cmos" style="color: #2c64b4;"></a></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here you can setup the basic BIOS features such as date, time, type of floppy etc. Use the arrow keys to move around and press enter to select the required option. You can specify what IDE devices you have such as Hard drive, CD-ROM, ZIP drive etc. The easiest way to setup the IDE devices is by leaving it set to auto. This allows the BIOS to detect the devices automatically so you don't have to do it manually. At the bottom, it also displays the total memory in your system. See figure 2.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Advanced BIOS Features<a href="" name="advanced_bios" style="color: #2c64b4;"></a></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you can see from figure 3, there are numerous advance settings which you can select if required. For most cases leaving the default setting should be adequate. As you can see the first boot device is set to floppy. This ensures that the floppy disk is read first when the system boots, and therefore can boot from windows boot disk. The second boot device is the Hard disk and third is set to LS120. If you want to boot from a bootable CD then you can set the third boot device to CD/DVD-ROM. See Figure 3.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Advanced Chipset Features<a href="" name="advanced_chipset" style="color: #2c64b4;"></a></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here you can setup the contents of the chipset buffers. It is closely related to the hardware and is therefore recommended that you leave the default setting unless you know what you are doing. Having an incorrect setting can make your system unstable. If you know that your SDRAM can handle CAS 2, then making changes can speed up the memory timing. If you have 128MB SDRAM then the maximum amount of memory the AGP card can use is 128MB. See Figure 4</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Inegrated Peripherals<a href="" name="ip" style="color: #2c64b4;"></a></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This menu allows you to change the various I/O devices such as IDE controllers, serial ports, parallel port, keyboard etc. You can make changes as necessary. See figure 5.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Power Management Setup<a href="" name="pm" style="color: #2c64b4;"></a></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The power management allows you to setup various power saving features, when the PC is in standby or suspend mode. See figure 6.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>PnP/PCI Configurations<a href="" name="pnp_pci" style="color: #2c64b4;"></a></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This menu allows you to configure your PCI slots. You can assign IRQ's for various PCI slots. It is recommended that you leave the default settings as it can get a bit complicated messing around with IRQ's. See figure 7.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>PC Health Status<a href="" name="pc_health" style="color: #2c64b4;"></a></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This menu displays the current CPU temperature, the fan speeds, voltages etc. You can set the warning temperature which will trigger an alarm if the CPU exceeds the specified temperature. See figure 8.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Load Fail-Safe Defaults<a href="" name="fail_safe" style="color: #2c64b4;"></a></b></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you made changes to the BIOS and your system becomes unstable as a result, you can change it back to default. However if you made many changes and don't know which one is causing the problem, your best bet is to choose the option "Load Fail Safe Mode Defaults" from the BIOS menu. This uses a minimal performance setting, but the system would run in a stable way. From the dialog box Choose "Y" followed by enter to load Fail-Safe Defaults.</span></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img height="96" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/bios_failsafe.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="240" /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Load Optimized Defaults<a href="" name="optimized" style="color: #2c64b4;"></a></b></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like the Fail-Safe mode above, this option loads the BIOS default settings, but runs the system at optimal performance. From the dialog box Choose "Y" followed by enter to load Optimized Defaults.</span></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img height="94" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/bios_optimized.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="240" /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Set Password<a href="" name="set_password" style="color: #2c64b4;"></a></b></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To password protect your BIOS you can specify a password. Make sure you don't forget the password or you can not access the BIOS. The only way you can access the BIOS is by resetting it using the reset jumper on the motherboard.</span></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img height="70" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/bios_password.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="240" /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Save and Exit Setup<a href="" name="with_saving" style="color: #2c64b4;"></a></b></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To save any changes you made to the BIOS you must choose this option. From the dialog box choose "Y".</span></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img height="93" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/bios_save.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="240" /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Exit without Saving<a href="" name="without_saving" style="color: #2c64b4;"></a></b></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you don't want to save changes made to the BIOS, choose "N" from the dialog box.</span><span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><img height="93" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/bios_dontsave.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="240" /></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Recommended Processors:</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Intel:</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;" />Intel Core i3-2100 Processor 3.1GHz 3 MB Cache Socket LGA1155<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=builapcstepby-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B004JEVGMO" style="background-color: white; border: none !important; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px !important; padding: 5px; text-align: justify;" width="1" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> </span><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?l=pv3&t=builapcstepby-20&o=1" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; padding: 5px; text-align: justify;" /><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=builapcstepby-20&l=as3&o=1&creative=373489&camp=211189&i=1" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; padding: 5px; text-align: justify;" /><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=builapcstepby-20&l=as2&o=1&creative=9325&camp=211189&i=-1" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; padding: 5px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;" />Intel Core i5-2400 3.10 GHz 6 MB Cache Socket LGA1155 Processor<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=builapcstepby-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B004EBUXIA" style="background-color: white; border: none !important; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px !important; padding: 5px; text-align: justify;" width="1" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> </span><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?l=pv3&t=builapcstepby-20&o=1" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; padding: 5px; text-align: justify;" /><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=builapcstepby-20&l=as3&o=1&creative=373489&camp=211189&i=1" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; padding: 5px; text-align: justify;" /><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=builapcstepby-20&l=as2&o=1&creative=9325&camp=211189&i=-1" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; padding: 5px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;" />Intel Core i7-2600K Processor 3.4GHz 8 MB Cache Socket LGA1155<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=builapcstepby-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B004EBUXSA" style="background-color: white; border: none !important; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px !important; padding: 5px; text-align: justify;" width="1" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> </span><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?l=pv3&t=builapcstepby-20&o=1" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; padding: 5px; text-align: justify;" /><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=builapcstepby-20&l=as3&o=1&creative=373489&camp=211189&i=1" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; padding: 5px; text-align: justify;" /><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=builapcstepby-20&l=as2&o=1&creative=9325&camp=211189&i=-1" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; padding: 5px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">AMD:</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;" />AMD FX 4100 4-Core Processor, 3.6, Socket AM3+<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=builapcstepby-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B005UBNL0A" style="background-color: white; border: none !important; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px !important; padding: 5px; text-align: justify;" width="1" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> </span><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?l=pv3&t=builapcstepby-20&o=1" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; padding: 5px; text-align: justify;" /><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=builapcstepby-20&l=as3&o=1&creative=373489&camp=211189&i=1" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; padding: 5px; text-align: justify;" /><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=builapcstepby-20&l=as2&o=1&creative=9325&camp=211189&i=-1" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; padding: 5px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;" />AMD FX 6100 6-Core Processor, 3.3, Socket AM3+<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=builapcstepby-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B005UBNKWO" style="background-color: white; border: none !important; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px !important; padding: 5px; text-align: justify;" width="1" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> </span><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?l=pv3&t=builapcstepby-20&o=1" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; padding: 5px; text-align: justify;" /><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=builapcstepby-20&l=as3&o=1&creative=373489&camp=211189&i=1" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; padding: 5px; text-align: justify;" /><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=builapcstepby-20&l=as2&o=1&creative=9325&camp=211189&i=-1" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; padding: 5px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;" />AMD FX 8120 8-Core Processor, 3.1, Socket AM3+<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=builapcstepby-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B005UBNKZG" style="background-color: white; border: none !important; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px !important; padding: 5px; text-align: justify;" width="1" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> </span><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?l=pv3&t=builapcstepby-20&o=1" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; padding: 5px; text-align: justify;" /><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=builapcstepby-20&l=as3&o=1&creative=373489&camp=211189&i=1" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; padding: 5px; text-align: justify;" /><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=builapcstepby-20&l=as2&o=1&creative=9325&camp=211189&i=-1" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; padding: 5px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;" /></div>

Award BIOS / CMOS Setup

This is the BIOS setup for Award BIOS v6.00PG. If you have a different version of the Award BIOS their would be a lot of similarities. If y...

How to Install Windows 7

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<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">This step-by-step guide demonstrates how to install Windows 7 Ultimate. The guide is similar for other versions of Windows 7 such as Home Premium.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">The best way to install Windows 7 is to do a clean install. It is not difficult to perform a clean installation. Before you start the installation process I recommend that you check <a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/systemrequirements" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Windows 7 System Requirements list </a>to ensure that your hardware is supported by Windows 7. If you don't have Windows 7 drivers for all your hardware, it is a good idea to download all the drivers from the hardware manufacturers website and save all the necessary drivers on a CD-R or a USB drive before you start the installation.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Windows 7 DVD is bootable. In order to boot from the DVD you need to set the boot sequence. Look for the boot sequence under your BIOS setup and make sure that the first boot device is set to CD-ROM/DVD-ROM.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><strong>Step 1</strong> - Place Windows 7 DVD in your dvd-rom drive and start your PC. Windows 7 will start to boot up and you will get the following progress bar.</div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/windows7_1.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows 7 pic1 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="111" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/small/windows7_1.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>Step 2</strong> - The next screen allows you to setup your language, time and currency format, keyboard or input method. Choose your required settings and click next to continue.</div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/windows7_2.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows 7 pic2 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/small/windows7_2.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>Step 3</strong> - The next screen allows you to install or repair Windows 7. Since we are doing a clean install we will click on "install now".</div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/windows7_3.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows 7 pic3 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/small/windows7_3.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>Step 4 </strong>- Read the license terms and tick I accept license terms. Then click next to continue.</div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/windows7_4.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows 7 pic4 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/small/windows7_4.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>Step 5</strong> - You will now be presented with two options. Upgrade or Custom (Advanced). Since we are doing a clean install we will select Custom (Advanced).</div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/windows7_5.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows 7 pic5 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/small/windows7_5.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>Step 6</strong> - Choose where you would like to install Windows 7. If you have one hard drive you will get a similar option to the image below. You can click next to continue. If you have more that one drive or partition then you need to select the appropriate drive and click next. If you need to format or partition a drive then click Drive options (advance) before clicking next.</div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/windows7_6.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows 7 pic6 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/small/windows7_6.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Step 7</strong> - Windows 7 starts the installation process and starts copying all the necessary files to your hard drive as shown on the image below.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/windows7_7.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows 7 pic1 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/small/windows7_7.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left"><strong>Step 8</strong> - It will go through various stages of the setup and will reboot your system few times.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/windows7_8.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows 7 pic2 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/small/windows7_8.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left"><strong>Step 9</strong> - When your PC reboots it attempts to boot from DVD as its the first boot device. Do not press any key during the boot prompt so Windows 7 will continue with the installation by booting from the hard drive.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/windows7_9.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows 7 pic3 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/small/windows7_9.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left"><strong>Step 10 </strong>- After the reboot your computer will be prepared for first use.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/windows7_10.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows 7 pic4 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/small/windows7_10.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left"><strong>Step 11</strong> - At this stage you need to choose a user name and computer name. Click next to continue. The user account you create here is the Administrator account which is the main account for your Windows 7 that has all the privileges.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/windows7_11.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows 7 pic5 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/small/windows7_11.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left"><strong>Step 12</strong> - Choose your password and password hint just incase you forget your password and need to jog your memory.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/windows7_12.jpg" style="color: #dd0000; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows 7 pic6 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/small/windows7_12.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="center"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Step 13</strong> - You can now type the product key that came with Windows 7 and click next. If you do not enter the product key you can still proceed to the next stage. However Windows 7 will run in trial mode for 30 days. You must therefore activate Windows within 30 days otherwise you can not access your computer after 30 days.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/windows7_13.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows 7 pic1 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/small/windows7_13.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left"><strong>Step 14</strong> - Help protect your computer and improve Windows automatically. Choose Use recommended settings.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/windows7_14.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows 7 pic2 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/small/windows7_14.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left"><strong>Step 15</strong> - Review your time and date settings. Select your time zone, correct the date and time and click next to continue.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/windows7_15.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows 7 pic3 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/small/windows7_15.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left"><strong>Step 16 </strong>- Select your computer's current location. If you are a home user then choose Home network otherwise select the appropriate option.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/windows7_16.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows 7 pic4 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/small/windows7_16.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left"><strong>Step 17</strong> - Windows will now finalize the settings for your computer and restart.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/windows7_17.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows 7 pic5 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/small/windows7_17.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left"><strong>Step 18</strong> - After the final restart Windows 7 will start to boot up.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/windows7_18.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows 7 pic6 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/small/windows7_18.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Step 19</strong> - Finally you have the logon screen. Just type your password and press enter or click on the arrow to logon to Windows 7 for the first time.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/windows7_19.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows 7 pic1 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/small/windows7_19.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left"><strong>Step 20</strong> - After you have logged on to Windows 7 for the first time, you will see similar desktop to the image below. At this point you can start using your computer. However it may not be fully configured. You need to make sure that all the hardware is detected correctly and the necessary device drivers are installed. This can be done from the device manager.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/windows7_20.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows 7 pic2 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/small/windows7_20.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left"><strong>Step 21</strong> - To go to device manager click -<em> Start Menu -> Control Panel -> System and Security -> System -> Device Manager</em>. You will see all your hardware listed as shown on the image below. You need to check if you have any yellow exclamation marks next to the name of the devices, similar to "Multimedia Audio Controller" on the image below. This indicates that the driver has not been installed for this device.</div><div align="left">At this stage you can install the driver for this device. To do so, <em>Right Mouse click on Multimedia Audio Controller -> Update Driver Software...</em></div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/windows7_21.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows 7 pic3 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/small/windows7_21.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left"><strong>Step 22 </strong>- You can choose to "Search automatically for updated driver software" or "Browse my computer for driver software". If you have the driver CD or if the driver is on a USB drive then choose "browse my computer for driver software". Window 7 will search and install the driver from the CD or you can locate the driver manually.</div><div align="left">Once you have removed all the yellow exclamation marks from the device manager your Windows 7 configuration would be fully complete.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/windows7_22.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows 7 pic4 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/small/windows7_22.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left"><strong>Step 23</strong> - Finally check if you have successfully activated Windows 7. Click <em>Start Menu -> Control Panel -> System and Security -> System</em>. You will get a window similar to the image below. Towards the bottom you will see Windows is activated followed by your product ID. This shows that your copy of Windows 7 is fully activated.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/windows7_23.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows 7 pic5 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_7/small/windows7_23.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><br />
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<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">This step-by-step guide demonstrates how to install Windows Vista.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">The best way to install Windows Vista is to do a clean install. It is not difficult to perform a clean installation. Before you perform the installation I recommend that you check <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/systemrequirements.mspx" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Windows Vista System Requirements list </a>to ensure that your hardware is supported by Vista. If you don't have Windows Vista drivers for all your hardware, it is a good idea to download all the drivers from the hardware manufacturers website and save all the necessary drivers on a CD-R before you start the installation.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Windows Vista DVD is bootable. In order to boot from the DVD you need to set the boot sequence. Look for the boot sequence under your BIOS setup and make sure that the first boot device is set to CD-ROM/DVD-ROM.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><strong>Step 1</strong> - Place Windows Vista DVD in your dvd-rom drive and start your PC. Windows Vista will start to boot up and you will get the following progress bar.</div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/winvista_1.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows Vista pic1 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/small/winvista_1.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>Step 2</strong> - The next screen allows you to setup your language, time and currency format, keyboard or input method. Choose your required settings and click next to continue.</div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/winvista_2.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows Vista pic2 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/small/winvista_2.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>Step 3</strong> - The next screen allows you to install or repair Windows Vista. Since we are doing a fresh install we will click on "install now".</div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/winvista_3.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows Vista pic3 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/small/winvista_3.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>Step 4 </strong>- You can now type the product key that came with your Windows vista.</div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/winvista_4.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows Vista pic4 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/small/winvista_4.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>Step 5</strong> - If you do not enter the product key you can still proceed with the installation in which case Windows will ask you which version of Vista you have purchased. Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business etc. Select the version you have purchased and click next.</div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Please note, although you can select any version of Windows and proceed to next stage. It is not good idea to select a different version to the one you have purchased because you will not be able to activate Windows at a later stage. Windows Vista can detect which version you have purchased once you enter your product key.</div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/winvista_6.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows Vista pic5 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/small/winvista_6.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>Step 6</strong> - Tick "I accept the licence terms" and press next.</div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/winvista_7.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows Vista pic6 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/small/winvista_7.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Step 7</strong> - Choose the type of installation you want to perform. You will notice that upgrade option is disabled as we have booted from the DVD-R. Therefore we can only select Custom (advanced) option which basically installs a clean copy of Windows from scratch.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/winvista_8.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows Vista pic7 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/small/winvista_8.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="left"><strong>Step 8</strong> - Choose where you would like to install Windows Vista. If you have a new unpartitioned hard drive you would get your hard drive listed as shown on the image below. If have have an old hard drive with data or other partitions it will show up as logical drives. You can select the drive options (advanced) to format, delete, or create new partitions. Because I am using a single new hard drive I will select next to continue. Windows will create a partition and format it using NTFS files system.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/winvista_9.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows Vista pic8 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/small/winvista_9.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left"><strong>Step 9</strong> - Windows starts the installation process and starts copying all the necessary files to your hard drive as shown on the image below. It will go through various stages of the setup and will reboot your system few times. When your PC reboots it attempts to boot from CD as its the first boot device. Do not press any key during the boot prompt so Windows Vista will continue with the installation by booting from your hard drive.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/winvista_10.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows Vista pic9 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/small/winvista_10.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"><strong>Step 10 </strong>- After installation copy process is complete you are presented with the Setup Windows dialogue box as show below. At this stage you need to choose a user name, password and a picture for your user account. The account you create here is the Administrator account which is the main account for your Windows Vista that has all the privileges. Click next continue.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/winvista_11.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows Vista pic10 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/small/winvista_11.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="left"><strong>Step 11</strong> - Now you need to choose your computer name and desktop background. Click next to continue.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/winvista_12.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows Vista pic11 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/small/winvista_12.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="left"><strong>Step 12</strong> - Choose whether your want to Help protect Windows automatically. Select "Use recommenced settings" to continue.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/winvista_13.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows Vista pic12 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/small/winvista_13.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"><strong>Step 13</strong> - Review your time and date settings. Select your time zone, correct the date and time and click next to continue.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/winvista_14.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows Vista pic13 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/small/winvista_14.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="left">Next screen presents you to select your computers current location. You can choose between home, work, public location. Choose home to continue. You will finally get a "Thank you" screen which confirms the end of the interactive installation process. This is not the end of the setup process. There are still many after installation configuration to be done. Click next to continue</div><div align="left"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Step 14</strong> - Windows now runs a benchmark type of application which checks the performance of your system. You will see a status bar at bottom which shows the progress. Once the process is complete you will be presented with the logon screen.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/winvista_15.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows Vista pic14 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/small/winvista_15.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="left"><strong>Step 15</strong> - Finally you have the logon screen. Just type your password and press enter or click on the arrow to logon to Windows Vista for the first time.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/winvista_16.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows Vista pic15 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/small/winvista_16.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="left"><strong>Step 16</strong> - Soon as you logon you will be presented with welcome center. You can use the welcome center to configure, customize, and update Windows vista.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/winvista_17.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows Vista pic16 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/small/winvista_17.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="left"><strong>Step 17</strong> - Finally you need to check if all your hardware has been detected correctly. You can do so by checking your device manager. To access device manager click Start menu -> Control panel -> System -> Device manager. You will see all your hardware listed as shown below. You need to check if you have any yellow exclamation marks next to the name of the device similar to "USB 10/100 LAN" on image below. This indicates the driver has not been installed for this device.</div><div align="left">At this stage you need to install Windows Vista drivers by double clicking on "USB 10/100 LAN" or your device. The properties dialog box will appear. Click on Reinstall Driver. Then you can choose whether you want to install the driver from the internet (if available) or install manually from a CD or other media</div><div align="left">Once you have removed all the yellow exclamation marks from the device manager your Windows Vista configuration would be fully complete.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/winvista_18.jpg" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Windows Vista pic17 - Click to enlarge" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.buildeasypc.com/pics/windows_vista/small/winvista_18.jpg" style="border: none; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px;" width="200" /></a></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><br />
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