AMD 3800 Evaluator Guide - Page 30

30579 Rev. 3.74 March 2007 AMD Processor Performance Evaluation Guide Driver Installation 1. Install the Windows® XP Professional processor drivers as follows. a. Go to http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources. b. Click the Utilities and Drivers link under Support. c. Click the appropriate link under AMD Athlon™ 64/FX Processors. d. Click the Download Now! link next to AMD Athlon 64 Processor Driver for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 to download the installer file (amdcpusetup.exe). e. Click the Download Now! link next to AMD Dual-Core Optimizer for Windows XP to download the installer file (tscsetup.exe). f. Double-click the amdcpusetup.exe installer file. g. Click Yes to acknowledge the license agreement. h. Choose a destination folder and click Next. i. Click Finish, then click Yes (the system restarts). j. Double-click the tscsetup.exe installer file. k. Click Next. l. Click Finish. 2. Install the October 2006 version of Microsoft DirectX End-User Runtime as follows. a. Download the installer file (directx_oct2006_redist.exe) from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=013C0F78-3C9B44DC-B8BE-46783BCAC3CB&displaylang=en. b. Double-click the installer file. c. Select I accept the agreement to acknowledge the license agreement, then click Next to download and install the complete DirectX package. d. Click Finish (the system restarts). 3. Install the video drivers as follows. a. Place the installation disk supplied with the motherboard in the CD drive. b. Navigate to the NVIDIA GeForce graphics driver installer file (93.71_forceware_winxp2k_english_whql.exe). c. Double-click the installer file. d. Click Yes to acknowledge the license agreement. e. Click Next on the next two screens. f. Click Finish to complete the installation. g. Click Yes (the system restarts). Note: Make sure an SLI-related message is shown in the system tray after restart. Benchmarking System Configuration 31