Windows XP is now installed on the homebuilt PC and has been updated once with 46 updates. Now I am installing the motherboard drivers.

The Windows XP install worked and I updated the system using Windows Update

Now I am installing the drivers for the motherboard.

These include

• an Intel Chipset Inf Update Program, now at version 7.2.2.1006,
• a high definition audio driver that is a SoundMax ADI1988B Audio Driver version 5.10.2.4580,
• a Marvell 61xx SATA RAID Driver version 1.1.0.43,
• and finally a Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet Driver version 8.56.1.3

Now I am installing motherboard applications. These include

• a Marvell Yukon VCT application version 2.13.2.3
• ASUS AI Gear version 1.00.16
• ASUS AI Nap version

At this point the machine would not start Windows anymore so I am forced to reinstall Windows and this time not install so much stuff from the ASUS disk. This time I will not install the raid driver or applications. Hopefully this time I do not loose windows. I will also install the few drivers that I will install first then do a Windows Update. Strike one to ASUS.

I want to have the system up and running by 9:00 PM when I can play Eve Online again with the new expansion and hopefully in premium mode with advanced graphics.