At this point, you are ready to pour on the system for the first time.
To prepare for this, connect the following.
Keyboard, mouse, display and power.
Note that I did not include connecting in network cable.
I usually recommend you do that after the operating system has been installed along with any updates
and after you have ensured you are either behind a router or have the operating systems built in firewall
turned on.
Now that everything is connected, you can power up the system and run the BIOS setup program.
This enables you to configure the motherboard to access the install devices and set the system date
and time.
The system posts or port or self test also runs to determine whether any major problems exist.
To run the BIOS setup and configure the system.
Do the following power on the monitor first and then the system unit.
Observe the operation via the screen and listen for any beeps from the system.
Speaker.
The system should automatically go to a post consisting of video bios, checking in RAM test and usually
an components report.
If a fatal error occurs during the post, you might not see anything on screen and the system might
beep several times indicating a specific problem.
Check the motherboard bios documentation to determine what the beep codes mean.
If there are no fatal errors, you should see the post displayed on screen depending on the type of
motherboard bios or you use such as Phoenix, Am I Award or others?
You have to press a key to enter up the normal boot sequence and get the BIOS setup program screens
that enable you to enter important system information.
Normally, the system indicates via the onscreen display which key to press to activate the BIOS or
EFI setup program during the post, but if not, check the motherboard manual for the key or keys to
press to enter setup command keys that are used to enter bios or you efi setup are f1f to delete key
f ten escape key and insert key press the appropriate key to enter the BIOS setup when prompted.
Because the post in modern motherboards is so fast, it is easy to miss the time you are supposed to
press the key.
So I usually start tapping the key repeatedly just a second or two after pouring on.
In some cases this can generate a keyboard error message which you can ignore as the bios setup screen
appears.
You should now be in the BIOS setup.
If you didn't press the key in time you set the system on, try again Check the BIOS version reported
on the main setup screen and ensure that it is the latest version.
If it isn't, nor would be a good time to install the updated flash bios image.
The easiest method to do a bias upgrade on newer system is via a flash drive containing the BIOS image.
To do this on another system, visit the motherboard manufacturer website and download the ISO file.
Burn this image to a flash drive and then place the drive into the USB port of the new system and reset
it.
Follow the prompts on the screen to complete the BIOS image.
Many motherboards do not support bootable BIOS upgrades via SATA optical drives.
In that situation, you must perform the upgrade via a Windows based executable or a bootable USB flash
drive.
Check the various BIOS setup screens to ensure your processor and memory are being properly recognized
and supported.
Check CPU type speed cache, total RAM, dual channel mode and so on.
Disable any ports or devices that will not be used such as serial ports, parallel ports, consumer
infrared ports and so on.
Check to see that all the installed drives are being detected.
Check the drive configuration and ensure that the system is set to HCI at a minimum, or even better,
ensure that it is set to read mode.
I recommend read mode even if you don't plan to use read because it includes all HCI functionality and
allows for a future read migration without having to reinstall the OS or drivers.
This is called read Ready set the ID mode if you are install it on older OS that does not have HCI or
reader drivers.
This will unfortunately reduce driver performance because advanced SATA features such as NC queue or
native command queuing will be disabled.
Note you cannot use ID mode with an SSD check, font control and hardware monitoring called PC held
on some systems to see that all funds are being recognized and that all the funds are reporting proper
rotational speeds.
Also observe components temperatures.
Note that some components such as the chipset ICE, FX or IO controller hub are designed to run from.
90 degrees Celsius to 115 degrees Celsius.
So high temperatures are normal and even expected for that chip check memory configuration.
I recommend leaving the default auto settings, which will automatically set the memory timing according
to the modules you have installed.
Check the chipset configuration if you're running Windows Vista or newer, I recommend enabling the
HPT or High precision event timer because it is supported in these versions of Windows but not in Windows
XP.
In the security menu, enable VTT or virtualization technology if available.
This allows virtualization software such as virtual PC or VMware to use the hardware virtualization
circuitry in the chip, which improves the performance of virtualized voices and applications in the
power menu.
Check the ECP, suspend state and show that it is set to S3, which is suspend two RAM instead of SW
one, which is sleep.
The reason is that S3 uses virtually the same amount of power as being completely off, thus saving
up to $100 per year or more in energy costs per system in the boot menu.
Check the boot order and show that the optical or USB flash drive precedes the hard disk or solid state
drives, which will enable a successful OS installation from CD or DVD or bootable USB flash drive.
After you check all the settings in the BIOS setup, follow the instructions on screen or in the motherboard
manual to save the settings and exit the setup menu.
At this point, if you are starting with a new drive, you must install the OS.
If you are using a Non-windows OS, follow the documentation for the installation procedures.
On a newer system in which you are installing windows, there isn't really anything you need to do other
than simply booting from the disk or flash drive.
You might have to enable the optical or USB drive as a boot device in your BIOS setup and follow the
prompts to install the OS windows.
Automatically recognize whether the hard drive needs to be partitioned and formatted and allows you
to do that.
At the beginning of the installation, Windows comes with integrated drivers for most newer chipsets,
so you should not need additional storage drivers in most cases.
However, if the hard drive is not recognized at the start of the OS install, storage drivers are probably
required.
You can supply them via optical disk or USB flash drive.
You can also install windows from a bootable USB flash drive Installing via a flash drive not only works
faster than when using a DVD, but it also enables you to easily install windows on systems that don't
have an optical drive to create a bootable USB drive for installing windows, you need an eight gigabytes
or larger USB flash drive.
If windows is from online and an ISO file creation tool such as Windows USB Flash DVD download Tool.
When you are ready, first download the Windows ISO from the Microsoft website, then create an ISO
file by using an ISO creation tool such as Windows, USB or DVD download Tool and then use the Windows
USB Flash DVD Download Tool to copy the ISO file to the flash drive.
When complete, you will have a bootable flash drive that will work just like your original DVD for
installing Windows to install Windows ten from a flash drive, use the Windows download tool utility
to prepare the flash drive for use after you have the OS installed, I recommend installing the drivers
in general.
Older operating systems have fewer drivers included on the installation disk, meaning you have to install
more drivers after the OS is installed.
This often includes chipset drivers for your motherboard, drivers for newer video cards, sound cards,
network cards and more.
Of these, the motherboard chipset drivers are the most critical and should be installed.
First, a disk containing these drivers should have been included with your motherboard.
Insert the disk and follow the prompts to install the chipset drivers.
Then install other drivers such as video sound and network.
After the important drivers are installed.
You should install any US updates that weren't already integrated into the OS install disk.
For that last step, you probably need to connect the network cable and go online.
If your computer uses a wireless connection, use the Operating Systems Wireless Connection Manager
to connect to the wireless network, providing the SSID on encryption key as prompted.
As long as you've installed the latest update, the built in firewall is turned on by default.
After the operating system updates, you can install your favorite applications.
Put the system in service?
No, You have a fully functional PC.