best order for installing drivers?  

What is the best order for installing drivers and windows updates?

Install the chipset driver first if it is available. I think Intel now calls it "chipset software installation utility".

I'd probably then make sure I had a working Internet connection--that requires an Ethernet driver.

Not sure it matters after that.

Windows Update will normally feed you only certain updates, depending on what it sees when it analyzes your PC.

You should be sure you have Service Pack 1, but it won't be offered unless certain other updates are in place.

The normal advice is to take the updates a few at a time, rebooting after each batch---rather than taking 50 in one dose.

Thanks buddy :) I used wonder why windows update never gives me sp1.

Thanks for the answer guys and thanks for giving me the advice on installing the updates at a time instead all at once, took me 30 minutes while the initial process usually takes me 2 hours with some errors. I still havent receive the sp update yet?

Keep updating until there are no more critical/important updates left to get.

If you are sure you do not have SP1 now and it is not eventually offered through Windows Update, start a separate thread about it in the Update section of this forum.

You can also download SP 1 directly, rather than getting it through Windows Update, but it probably would not install if your PC did not have the required updates already installed.

No Karlsnooks ( nice name btw) there is no failure to activate windows 7 i just used the one that is pasted on my machine. Yesterday day i did manage to get the update took about 1 hour to download but before that i had to download about 12 new ones then after that windows handed me the sp1, thanks for the answers guys everything is working good.