Anyone running Windows 7 on an Asus P5K?

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Looking to make the move from Vista to W7. However, I'm not sure what drivers to use for everything, chipset, LAN, sound etc.

Can anyone point me in the right direction please?. It's a "vanilla" P5K with a Q6600, spec in my sig.

Also, what Windows 7 would I see the best results from installing, 32 bit or 64 bit?. I'm probably going to buy a retail version and as far as I know, both 32 bit and 64 bit comes in the box?. Currently running Vista Ultimate x86 so 64 bit operating systems will be a "new" thing for me. :)

But yeah, back to my original question - drivers. Any advice?. Ta.
 
With 4GB you'd be best served with 64bit W7.

I've never had a problem finding a driver for anything apart from my audigy 2 which doesn't like 64bit, but that's a creative issue.

When setting up W7 64 bit on my gigabyte ud5 it has a driver for absolutely everything motherboard related installed automatically. Asus will also offer drivers on their website I'd imagine, gigabyte do.
 
Thanks Tealc. So what you are saying is that during the install of W7, it will pretty much install all the drivers I need automatically without having to download and install anything specific from the Asus site?.

*Edit* - Hatter, got any links to the drivers?. I had a look at the Asus site but I'm not sure where and what to go for?. I did find a compatibility list for W7 and Asus boards that listed various P5K's but didn't have any mention of the "P5K" vanilla one with no added prefix?.
 
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Ahh, no worries - Found the driver page for the P5K and it lists the driver downloads as being for Vista/Windows 7 in both x86 and 64 bit flavours so I guess I'm on the right page there.

So - To just let W7 auto install everything and leave it at that or once the fresh install of W7 is complete, download and install the Asus drivers from the site?.
 
Slightly off topic but do you guys get the false start with that mobo , i.e you switch on the PC & the fans spin & then stop & pause for a 3 seconds or & then the system seemingly restarts & loads as normal?

It's a known bug with this mobo & I wonder if I upgrade to win7 it might stop doing it
 
P5K Deluxe here.

No problems running Windows 7 x64. Using chipset drivers from the Asus website and not using onboard audio. Everything else is left to Windows.

I also suffer from the false start, but only when the machine has been powered off completely (i.e. all power cut). The board was purchased in April 2008.
 
Cheers guys, I think I'll go with a fresh install of W7 64bit and see how it runs with just the Windows 7 built in drivers to begin with then use the Asus ones if needed. I am actually using the onboard sound and find it fine so I'll maybe have to look into that by the sounds of things. I get the "false start" thing on my P5K under Vista but I wasn't aware it was a bug, I thought it was supposed to do that?.
 
izzy eckerslike said:
Slightly off topic but do you guys get the false start with that mobo , i.e you switch on the PC & the fans spin & then stop & pause for a 3 seconds or & then the system seemingly restarts & loads as normal?

It's a known bug with this mobo & I wonder if I upgrade to win7 it might stop doing it
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Quite a few asus mobos do this as a power on self testing function. Its quite normal if you have powered your system off at the mains, and nothing to do with the O/S.
 
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