Guide: What to do AFTER building your computer...

What's up guys Jays, $0.02 here and I'm talking to the new guy, the guy who just built his first tower and doesn't know

what

to do next, so we'll assume you guys have built

your

tower. on and everything and now you say: do I do it? I don't have a DVD drive, how the hell do I install Windows? I mean, controllers, I don't know

what

to do next, everyone is talking about

building

the tower, very few people are talking. about the hardest part for some people, which is just figuring out how to get everything up and running, so today we're going to try to cover that topic, and if you're a veteran, maybe you have some helpful ways to do what I'm about to do. show you even more efficiency, so watch this video, comment below with

your

best tips and tricks and let's get started.

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Do we actually install or create new installation media based on the latest versions of Windows? That's really simple. If you go to Google and just search for Windows installation media you will find the tool that you can download with just a couple of clicks and then It will be a much newer version of Windows and if you buy one off the shelf get a USB stick that has at least eight gigabytes and then follow the tutorial process. Now that you have the installation media, let's go ahead and insert it into our system and now we assume that this is a completely fresh installation, it will not take any hard drive from another system that has a Windows installation, if so you will want to disconnect it. from your drive before we go any further, we'll talk about that in a second, we'll boot up our system where we'll enter our BIOS, so to enter the BIOS, you'll simply press a delete key on this particular bias if we scroll down to the part bottom right here, we get the easy mode if we click on it.

This is kind of a dashboard, a snapshot of everything that's going on within our system here, so if we look, there's a 3800 x8 core, here's both memories. sticks we want to make sure they all show up and are running their base clock, we're not going to overclock that yet, we're not going to enable CP or any of the XMP profiles or anything like that. of stuff because we want our system to be as stable as possible during installation, we can go and play with all that stuff later to get the advertised maximum speeds, so just leave everything out of the box, don't fiddle with the overclock buttons , no Don't play with the fan curves, nothing, just let it go, Bielsa, the other thing we're looking for here is to make sure that all of our drives show up so you can see that we have a drive that shows up under SATA, this system in particular has a SATA drive and an nvme drive, so if you don't see both drives there because you are using an nvme, don't panic, because it usually shows up in a different place, we can also see that we have our central server.

Voyager Mini 3.0 0 0 0 a partition 1 which is this guy here that has our Windows installation media, which is what we're actually going to install to or from right, we're installing on this system from this, the other thing that However, what I want to make sure is that our actual nvme drive is showing up and then to do that in this particular BIOS, it's a little strange, we have to go back to standard mode, go to peripherals, go down to nvme and there it is, Samsung. 970 Evo plus 1 terabyte, so what we're going to do now, just because we know they're all showing up, is we're going to turn off the power to our SATA drive.

This is fine as long as the drive is active in BIOS probably. It scares a lot of people, but it's okay, it still shows because it saw it when it initialized, but we don't want to get into a boot override and this will again depend entirely on your particular motherboard. We're telling our BIOS to boot to this, if it's not a boot device then go to this and that's the drive we just unplugged, we don't want it to go to that and the reason we're doing that, this It just gives us the best chance to have a fresh, clean installation on the drive we want to install on, sometimes the drives are a little hard to tell apart in the Windows installation tool and we'll show you where the only drive we have is. connected.

If the point is where we want to install, then we know we're not going to accidentally format or override a backup hard drive, maybe pull out a hard drive from another system that has all your game files and other images on it, if that's the case. . you plug it in and install it accidentally, guess what erases it and then you lose all that data, technically you lose all that data, it's easier to get it back if you're a more advanced user, but obviously that's not the point of today's video, so with That's Let's go ahead and just press 10 to save the settings and exit.

It will reboot into our Windows Media. I know a lot of people have wondered, but where is the DVD drive? I like DVDs. I'm more comfortable with DVDs, believe me, this is much, much faster than a spinning drive is optically spinning in terms of installation speeds, these are the days of waiting an hour for all your files to be copied are gone, so So what you're going to do now is just click on Next Install now, this is where you put your key. I'm not going to show you my password. They need to use their own key.

However, that key depends on you. I don't particularly care, so once they enter their installation key, this is the next screen. you have to accept the terms and license blah blah blah so we are not upgrading we are doing a custom install which is funny its something that should say clean install it says windows installed custom only advanced so now you can only see the The unit we want is displayed. If you had three or four drives and didn't unplug them all, more than one would show up right there. Because this is the drive I want to install as well, this is the nvme and you can see it now. why we disconnect our drive because it is not labeled it doesn't show a name it just says drive zero unallocated space on one drive MB, one drive to drive three and that there are partitions that you would see drive zero partition one drive zero request do with your eyes, so it can be confusing for someone who is not used to dealing with partitions and multiple drives, so since that is the only drive that shows up, we can click Next, if this existed, you had existing data that you just want to delete because come from another unit.

What you could do if you had multiple partitions is click on each partition and press delete and then you can press format if necessary if you had data there; otherwise, since this is a cleanup, we'll just go ahead and hit next. Now that you are preparing the files for installation, this is the part that is super fast now compared to what it used to be now. Here's the other thing: There's an interesting little trick that people will tell you: you can't install Windows to an offline account anymore. stupid, you need a windows account, the way you do it is you don't have internet connected at install time, so if you plug in your ethernet cable right now, it will automatically connect and say, "Hey, we're connected" .

We need a Windows account to advance, which is something we hate around here. We don't want to force ourselves to need online Windows accounts, so by not having an Internet connection, we can create just a standard Windows user account that is not connected to Microsoft Comm, so just restart it on its own, one of two things will happen: it will restart the Windows installation depending on whether the BIOS is smart enough to recognize it. Hey, there's an operating system on this hard drive. Now let's move on. that if the screen appears again where it's like accepting the EULA to move forward blah blah blah, then what you would do is unplug the drive and reboot the system, so now that I see that on this screen, we are booted. the hard drive or the SSD that we have installed and we can take the installation media and throw it aside now that we are in the UK, so we are going to go ahead and do it in the UK, so obviously choose your region here.

We're not going to go on the Internet, so we're going to say I don't have Internet, at which point Microsoft plays, that's a little strange, so what we're not going to do is go online now because now I'm going to do everything I can to say . Hey, plug in your cable, please, we won't spy on you. I swear we won't force you to connect to the Internet to use Windows. We promise liars, so we'll continue with a limited setup. Don't let that fool you, what that means. Anyway, it won't automatically install junk you don't want. Well, who is going to use this PC?

Internet will use this PC. Password, one, one, create security questions, what was the name of your first pet?, failed, what is the name of the city where you were born Mars what is your childhood nickname fat man okay do more on all devices no I don't want it to automatically sync my devices because the last time I did it it deleted one of my other devices because what's so smart Phil remembers that J wasn't a happy J that day so no we're not going to sync get help for my digital assistant we are going to get that a big yes now this is all the spyware that Windows wants to install automatically and they want your permission to do it, so we are going to give you the big news, it is finishing its installation in the background, it is preparing a lot of things for you, whatever that means we are not going to the Internet, now here are most of the drivers and everything you need for your For the system to work properly it will work only with the basic drivers that Windows It has preconfigured inside.

You know this is an AMD system. It will automatically install only the basic AMD chipset drivers. Ethernet Sande. Most of these now tend to be one of three different ones. write intel real tech or the third party, but there are basic drivers to get all this working out of the box. Same with video drivers, it will install a basic VGA driver, you could install an old and outdated Nvidia driver if connected to say Internet and then it will install the DCH driver which we don't particularly like around here so we'll let it do its thing, we will take you to the desktop and we'll show you what to do next, so now You're on the Windows desktop from the first time you can see our audio driver.

It's like you don't have an audio driver. What the hell? And it's funny, if you click on it, it tries to detect problems, but Windows is pretty stupid. to where it's like, oh look, which one of these drive controllers do you want to fix? None of them because we'll handle all of that in a moment. Obviously we have that unit that we disconnected, so what we are going to do now is because we believe. whether or not it is hot swappable. I'm just going to plug that SATA back in with Windows running and it may or may not automatically detect the drive our drive doesn't even show up and this is the part that scares many. people outside and because it's a new drive with no partition or formatting type, what we're going to do here is click on the little Windows Start button at the bottom left and we're not connected to the Internet yet. that's perfectly fine, we will type disk management and it will start to appear create in format hard drive partition, click on this type and it detected our drive.

Now see, this is the part that makes me so angry at Microsoft is that it knows this, why couldn't it suddenly do this on its own? Why can't it be automatically like a new drive is detected? set it up. No, you have to look for disk management, so GPT should already be selected, if so. disk 0 not selected, that's fine, then you will see that it is black, which means that right now it is an unusable drive, so here are the partitions that we configured and installed Windows. It has the efi system or its own 100 megabyte partition.

We have the The rest of the boot drive is here and here is our recovery drive, which is normal, so we do itWhat you're going to do here is right click on new simple volume, click Next, this is where you can set the size of the volume that we're not. I'll worry about dividing it into several units. Click Next. Make sure it has a drive letter because this is the part where it sometimes doesn't work. Let's just make sure it has a drive letter. Then you can name the drive here if you want, we will call it Gans If we press Next and finish now, our unit will appear and there.

It's there, so it's a very common problem that people have, like where my albums appear, and we even have the name that if you don't like the name you can always come in here and just change the name and say right now what we're going to do is to go ahead and plug this guy into the internet and this is the part where the gauntlet starts and what I mean by that is as soon as I plug this in a couple of things will happen what will happen oh my gosh you're not on , it will also start trying to install any missing drivers, like the audio driver you saw will automatically install a video driver.

The video driver that will install it will probably be outdated. Another way to speed this up is to click a small Windows Start key and perform the search again. check for update, as you can see we had a lot of missing updates here, some driver security stuff. It looks like we need to install chipset drivers for AMD. There is an update 1903 malware removal tool framework driver, so let everyone. This is like I said, it will probably download some outdated stuff, specifically the video card driver, but once everything is done and rebooted we'll talk about what to do next, now it's important in my opinion.

To install these updates before the drivers, the reason depends on the version of Windows you have, some drivers require certain versions of Windows to unlock all their features. AMD Rison, for example, requires a certain version of Windows and newer to get many. from the increase in CPU health and you know the performance activity and the performance settings and all that to be active in the driver or in the OS, same with Nvidia graphics card if you are running an RT X graphics card .in this case, it's a super twenty eighty if you need a certain version of Windows and a certain version of the driver that you can't get unless you're on the right version of Windows to enable the RT X features we covered with Battlefield 5.

It's like why don't we get DX? Our option to show up well is because we had too old a version of Windows that was necessary to get the latest driver that had everything enabled. Now you will notice that there will be several. reboots during this process, some of these need to happen in certain orders for them to finish the installation, so what will happen is it will reboot and then go back to the next part of the installation and a lot of this will happen in the background. without you knowing, that's why I like to tell people to automatically go here and look at it visually to see what's happening because you might be doing things in the background, you're like what's happening, my systems want to reboot. or this is It doesn't work well because all this happens in the background, so the first thing you should do, honestly, is updates.

Look at the driver, Windows video drivers. Yes, I went to the fourth key, so if we look here we are. in version four, three, two, zero, zero, but if we go to the two in videos website, you will see that the latest driver is actually four, four, 2.19, yes, four, three, two, zero , zero, it's not even in the latest driver, like in November. 2019, so we're going to go ahead and download the latest driver, we're going to download this, we're going to save it and we're going to install it ourselves after we do everything else, so now that you're done installing the framework for the 1903 update, you want to reboot now. now you can schedule a restart for later if you're still installing a game or something you're trying to do at the same time, but it gives us the option to restart it manually, which we'll have it do from time to time the other ones that said pending installation or reboot they should all install automatically then the list will be updated with any updates left so you want to move down the list until at the end it says it's up to date once it says that then we can move on. to some of the fun stuff which is getting a little bit more speed and just some general tips and tricks to make your system run better so we went ahead and made the optional update for the main 19:03 so it's the updates main. optional due to its size, but we decided that we want to go ahead and update this system completely, so with that came other smaller updates that accompanied the big one, so once those are done, it will say you're done. to date, well, it only took about 20 minutes or so, we're completely up to date.

Now we are lucky because here we have 2 fast Gigabit Ethernet, obviously it will depend on your internet speed, so we are completely up to date, so remember. that driver that we downloaded from Nvidia, we'll go ahead and double click on it and run the installer for 4 2.19. Now one of the things we're going to do when we install this is we're going to do a clean install instead of installing the differences over the old driver, we just want it to completely remove the old driver and install a new one from scratch. Many strange problems can occur on the

computer

if installers are installed over older versions. over and over again as time goes on, so one of the best practices I always do is keep things as up to date as possible.

Yes, the update is so new bro, it is not well updated and by default you will want to install the driver and GeForce. experience I personally don't use the GeForce experience, so I installed just the driver, accepted and continued with the customization. Next, this is where you can click do a clean install and you can leave all the defaults selected and deselect the GeForce experience which is the only difference between the above. oh, that click and/or the other radio button on that one and the one we choose to do a clean install, press next no, you could reboot during this, sometimes with the clean install it will reboot the system at some point it won't be okay now. you want to get the most speed out of your video graphics card, this is what we're going to do, click on manage 3D settings on the right, you'll come down here where it says we have a g-sync panel, so it's auto power. optimal power management mode we will set it to prefer maximum performance now I do this which is what will make the GPU nut idle all the way it will introduce a little more heat into your GPU but this is what it gives us better scores and our benchmarks and things that most people won't notice this, but this is what I do and then the other thing we do is we go down here to the texture filtering quality and I set it to high performance.

I've never noticed anything. difference in texture quality between the two, but I have noticed a performance difference in terms of how fast the graphics card is since not everyone uses a graphics card and some people use AMD and the control panels are different. I'll show you how to set your maximum refresh rate if you're using a panel above 60fps or even if you're using a 60fps panel it might say 59. I'll show you how to set your maximum refresh rate to desktop anywhere . just right click go to display settings go down here to advanced display settings and you can see here your resolution and scale and all that so make sure it's set to the maximum resolution of your panel go to the advanced display adapter configuration screen. properties to show one is at the bottom then click on monitor now you can see we're set to 59 Hertz like I just said but this panel is capable of 144 so we'll go ahead and click on that okay it applies , it will restart the The panel keeps the changes and now everything you can't see in this video because you only see it in the number 30, yes, but now we have 144 Hertz and we are going to do a reset in turns.

This will take us to our reboot menu, which will allow us to tell the system to reboot directly into the UEFI BIOS, so instead of removing the engines that are in the mash, you can simply say troubleshoot UEFI firmware setup. Advanced options and then reboot, so what it says is just go to the BIOS of your motherboard. without having to press anything, it will take us there, so we are not going to talk about overclocking because it depends a lot on the CPU, the board depends on too many factors, but what I will show you is how to get the maximum speed on the memory. that you paid for, so if we look here in the BIOS, you can see our memories running at 21:30 9.47, that's technically 2133, but we want to get the speed that we paid for now, that's the base speed of the memory that on progress. the base clock, so if we go here where the system is, it's the MIT system advanced memory settings, this is where we can go in here and change the profile.

You will now see the extreme memory profile. XMP is disabled and will be called two different things XMP. refers to extreme memory performance that is specific to Intel, but basically says that the advertised speeds of the fades are what that setting will set. You can also see P, which is the AMD specific memory we have. However, what I found is that so good, that's what it was and it wasn't. 34 or 36 so we were at 21 33 now it will go to 3200 so just press F10 to save and exit or whatever your particular BIOS is set to now our memory will run a little bit faster with Rison it definitely does a difference in computing. tasks and you know when you're doing general computing, even in games, so now our memory speed is back to what we paid for, that's a step that a lot of people forget to do or don't even know, they just think, oh.

I bought this 3400 RAM unit and I plugged it in and that's what works but it doesn't unless you go in and set it to that but we don't do any of that because on rare occasions the memory will work at that speed with one setting particular CPU will start generating weird blue screen crashes and stuff, and that's the last thing we want to deal with when doing Windows updates and driver installations, is a random blue screen crash in the middle of opening. We're creating a new can of worms that we don't want to deal with, so we don't do any overclocking and that's technically a memory overclock.

We don't do any of that until we are satisfied that our system is installed and working. running now, the last thing I would do at this point which I'll show you because it's very specific to your particular motherboard is go to your motherboard manufacturer's website and download the latest drivers for all feature sets, so the chipset drivers the ethernet driver there is a sound card the sound card driver and if you have RGB like an asus msi motherboard or whatever and you want to control that RGB or that lighting then you can download the respective software for that or a mystical light If you're using NZXT, you know the camera and all that kind of stuff, so there you have it as a longer video, but as a kind of help showing you how to go from a completely built tower without an operating system. how to install the operating system on the correct drive how to make drives that don't appear how to format them how to install windows update or updates how to update your drivers and then how to get your memory speed up to the speeds you actually paid for there is a couple of more utilities that you can download if you want to have fun, like MSI Afterburner, which works with AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards, we can play with fan profiles and a little bit of overclocking safely you will not break your system, brick or card graphics by overclocking through MSI.

They all have safety measures that won't let them go too far, but other than that, that's pretty much all there is to it, so tell me. What do you guys think about this video in particular? YeahIf you have any tips or tricks that we may not have covered or mentioned that you think would make it easier for new installers or new builders to get their systems up and running, please comment below your Top Tips and Tricks for Getting Your New System Up and Running. Thanks for watching, guys. If you have any other suggestions for tutorials like this and would like to see them, be sure to comment in the comments below and we'll do it. what we can to try to accommodate thanks for looking and see you next time