Chew;
The way I usually set up a new computer, is get the system up and running
with
the floppy, harddrive and cdrom working then just boot from
the XP cdrom, it will partition and format the drive for you if you wish.
you can setup a swap partition if you wish or do it later with partition
magic.
On the Bios flash - Intel's page shows that you can indeed flash the bios in
a windows environment.
That a new one to me, but I'm learning all the time :-)
.

<>< Larry Fisk
         Fisk Computers
           Fruitvale, Idaho

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chew Yoke Lim" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 12:08 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Setup for a new PC
> mainboard.
>
> 1. What is the first thing to do when I finally switch on power to the
> PC?  Is it to partition the hard disk?  If so, will XP automatically get
> me there, the hard disk being a completely new one?  Is it
> necessary (or better) to use Partition Magic?  I haven't use it but
> that which a friend uses seems to show that there is an overhead
> in the hard disk when using Partition Magic.
>

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