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Old 11-10-2007
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Want to reformat but no disks

ok im not sure if this goes here but i got an asus p4vp-mx motherboard and i wanna reformat but the problem is i dont have ANY of the disks except windows xp and the drivers for my 3d card so my question is with everything intergrated onto the motherboard except the 3dcard will i have issues with drivers and if so how can i fix said problem anyway thanks in advance
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Old 11-10-2007
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Just download all your mobo drivers first from the Asus website and burn them to a cd.

Then once you`ve done the format and reinstall, install your mobo drivers etc.

Regards Howard
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thank you i got all my drivers but now i need to know how to reformat without recovery disks ive never had to do it before
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Make sure your bios is set to boot from cd, put your wondows xp cd in the drive, and away you go.
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i did that it asked me to put in a recovery floppy
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and i dont have a recovery floppy
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