Video Card Upgrade Install Guide
Hard Drive Restore Utility
A hard drive restore utility. I use GoBack. It's critical to have a hard drive restore utility so that you can completely restore your hard drive to the time prior to beginning the video card install should something go wrong. In a perfect world, you won't need it. But video card drivers are unpredictable. What works on one computer may not work at all on another computer. Even if you do everything exactly right, it might not work. One reason is because more than one driver package is always involved, so incompatibilities just between the video driver packages occurs. Throw in different motherboard chipsets, different video card vendors, different motherboard BIOS levels and settings, different video card BIOS levels and settings, and you can begin to see how hopeless it can be to try to fix it when it doesn't work. In most cases, you should be starting with a perfectly good computer. I have
GoBack which is available from Amazon.com, installed on for my video card upgrade. GoBack can be left enabled throughout the video card upgrade procedure. If something goes wrong and you wish you could just get back to where you were - then you can with GoBack!
You should install and enable GoBack now, before starting the video card upgrade procedure and before making any changes to your computer.
A point about GoBack. GoBack makes it's disk restoral log when the PC is idle. So after 10 seconds of inactivity, you'll suddenly see the hard drive light spring to life while GoBack catches up with the disk changes. After making any disk change, such as downloading a file or installing a driver, wait and give GoBack a chance to catch up before proceeding.
There are a couple of precautions I like to follow when installing new software. One is that I only install one thing between computer re-boots, and the other is that I do an extra computer boot after each install to make sure I have an easy to find GoBack safe point. So, for example, if I install software that does not require a boot to complete the installation then after the install is complete I re-boot the computer before doing anything else. If the software install required a re-boot in order for the install to complete then I do a second boot after that one has completed. I don't point this out during later steps, but so you know.
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