New PC Setup: Windows Install, BIOS & Drivers

Setting up a new PC, including Windows 11 installation and activation (with or without a Microsoft account), required BIOS changes, and installing motherboard and GPU drivers. The focus of this video is achieving the driver installs bloatware-free, which is how I personally always set things up. This video follows the specification and construction of a new PC in these ExplainingComputers episodes: Choosing PC Build Components: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNPFqsRqUC8 Building a $500 PC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NT1LmG3hMo If you want to further configure Windows 11, you may also be interested in my video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqLbk-PmX2Q Links to the web pages shown in the video are as follows: Microsoft Windows 11 download page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11 Rufus ISO imaging utility: https://rufus.ie/en/ NVIDIA GPU drivers: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/ AMD GPU drivers: https://www.amd.com/en/support/download/drivers.html Intel GPU drivers: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/discrete-gpus/arc/software/drivers.html Microsoft Windows 11 purchase page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/get-windows-11 For completeness, here’s the link to the motherboard page that I downloaded drivers from. However, this is only relevant if you are using the same Gigabyte B760M DS3H DDR4 motherboard: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B760M-DS3H-DDR4-rev-10#kf Finally, you can find find a “Intel PC Build” section for the PC in this video on my Amazon storefronts as below. Note that, as an Amazon affiliate, I will earn commissions from any qualifying purchases: EC Amazon US Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/explainingcomputers EC Amazon UK Storefront: https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/explainingcomputers More videos on film and other making, plus retro tech, can be found on my Christopher Barnatt channel: http://www.youtube.com/@ChristopherBarnatt Chapters: 00:00 Titles & Intro 00:44 BIOS Settings 05:14 Windows Installation 11:20 Local Account 14:34 Motherboard Drivers 22:14 GPU Driver 26:01 Windows Activation 28:53 Wrap #Windows #Installation #BIOS #Drivers #PC #Windows11 #ExplainingComputers