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Post-installation tasks

Post-installation tasks

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Post-installation tasks

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- Once you've installed Windows onto a system, that's where the real work begins. So in this section, which I call post installation tasks, these are all the little jobs we've got to do after Windows is installed. So the first place we went ahead over to is Device Manager. Now when you do an initial install, Windows has tons and tons and tons of device drivers in there. But if you take a look, you'll see that we show a couple of errors here, and they're invariably really scary errors, like Base System Device or South Bridge Controller or core system. What you're looking at here is there's stuff on the motherboard itself that Windows simply doesn't recognize. And in that case, what we've got to do is we've got to find the optical media that comes with this motherboard, and we have to go through the process of installing it. This can take a while, and a lot of times, especially if you're buying a motherboard that's a couple of years old, still a great motherboard, but the drivers…

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