What Gigabyte drivers/chipsets to install for Windows 7

Goose · 22 Oct 2009 at 18:18

I've just installed W7 and i'm in the process of installing all my drivers and whatnot. However, the CD i got with my motherboard (see sig) is borked so i'm gonna have to download them from here.

I'm a little confused though because when i select 'driver' and then choose my OS all i get are drivers for audio and LAN. Isn't there more to it than that? I thought i had to install a bunch of different chipset drivers and what have you.

Is it really just audio and LAN that i have install after clean install of W7?

Cheers.

PhillyDee · 22 Oct 2009 at 18:21

Thats all ive done with my 956p-ds3

Surprised tbh. I noticed that there is only sata raid and ausio on the gigabyte website too. I should probably choose Vista drivers, but the PC is working fine!

Engram · 22 Oct 2009 at 19:21

I guess all the other drivers are included with Windows 7.

Sultan of Ping · 22 Oct 2009 at 20:38

With Windows 7 x64, I found that if I installed the manufacturer's chipset drivers for my Asus P7P55D, I came across all sorts of stability issues - but now I've just gone with the drivers that Windows 7 auto-installed, there is no problem at all.

Literally all I've installed is the Realtek LAN driver and the Ati Catalyst 9.10 driver.

Rezident · 22 Oct 2009 at 21:28

Also wondering, so Windows 7 doesn't need chipset drivers?

PhillyDee · 22 Oct 2009 at 21:29

Im guessing that it already has them for previous motherboards . . .

DavyBoy · 22 Oct 2009 at 21:39

I haven't bothered with chipset drivers for my UD5..

zooankski · 22 Oct 2009 at 22:54

having just installed windows 7 on my new ud5 windows 7 reported no errors in device manage so i am leaving it-seems to all be working fine (so far!)

jbloggs · 22 Oct 2009 at 23:30

If you run your HDDs in IDE mode (on the ICHx(R) cont) you will get away without installing them, but if you run them in AHCI or RAID mode you will need to install them, otherwise you can run into problems, you can get the latest Here

jbloggs · 22 Oct 2009 at 23:33

jbloggs said:
If you run your HDDs in IDE mode (on the ICHx(R) cont) you will get away without installing them, but if you run them in AHCI or RAID mode you will need to install them, otherwise you can run into problems, you can get the latest Here

(Win 7 may contain these, but certainly not the latest version).

ETNiES · 23 Oct 2009 at 06:03

I was surprised to, I didn't have to install much either on my UD3R! Only problem I had came from Windows update with a realtek ethernet driver which killed my net, a rollback fixed it tho,

Pallaris · 6 Nov 2009 at 22:56

Same thing here Gigabyte UD5 - i did install the chipset drivers from the CD, although thinking about it that might not have been such a great idea.

Windows update of the realtek ethernet driver killed my net as well (disabled the lan adapter and could do nothing to get it back) roll back fixed the problem.

JimAroo · 6 Nov 2009 at 23:24

I just install the Vista x64 ones, if they refuse to install i install them in compatability mode. Works well for me.

MeatLoaf · 7 Nov 2009 at 08:47

If its an intel board just get the latest intel chipset driver from the intel site. It includes the storage and ethernet driver

You may need the audio driver from gigabytes site tho if it hasnt been auto detected.