Remember to backup your data, documents, media and important files, even the Outlook .pst files, if you have emails that you want to preserve.
Before you begin to format/reinstall your operating system, be sure to visit the computer manufacturer's website to Download the Chipset Drivers and any other Drivers they may have available for your machine. – Save to CD
When reinstalling, follow this order of events:
Install XP
Install DirectX 9.0c from Microsoft website http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details…;displaylang=en
Install Chipset Drivers (which you earlier downloaded and saved to a CD)
Install XP SP2 if it is not included in your XP installation CD
Install other peripheral device drivers (printer, scanner, etc)
Install JAVA RunTimeEnvironment : http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
(you can download and save JRE offline installation to the same CD that you use for Chipset Drivers
Install your Application Software
Copy/Paste any documents, data, media and important files that you may want to have available on the machine.
That should make your machine good to go!
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