Installing Windows 7 : Does anyone bother with separate chipset drivers?

[Draeger]

As above. I've eventually made the jump from Vista x86 to Windows 7 64bit on Home Premium. The only separate drivers I have installed are the latest Nvidia display package and the Realtek HD Audio drivers to get my onboard sound working properly on my Asus P5K. In device manager, everything is looking ok so do I really need to go hunting on the ASUS website for Windows 7 64bit chipset drivers or does everyone else here just leave "as is" after installing Windows 7 these days?.

 

[jrwagh333]

I left it "as is" for me and everything is working fine.

 

[Memphis]

If it works, leave it.

Personally I would usually look on (in my case) the Intel website to see if there has been a recent release of the chipset drivers and manually update them, however I know it's not necessary to do so. I never bother going to the motherboard manufacturer as they're usually a few releases behind the actual chipset supplier.

 

[Draeger]

Cheers folks. The PC is running sweet so I think I will leave it for now. Would it be the case if there was a new/recent release of chipset drivers from Intel that Windows update would inform me?. After I first ran update it certainly noticed I had an "unknown device" in my Device Manager and pointed me at the ATK011 ACPI Utility and also updated an Atheros driver. Would that be the case for chipset drivers to?.

 

[Broken Hope]

Intel boards don't require chipset drivers, the chipset drivers you would download from Intel's site are just INF drivers that rename the drivers already installed in device manager. The only time you'd need to install Intel INF chipset drivers is if you had unknown devices in device manager.

 

[Cake]

In certain cases, Windows Update will offer updated drivers for you, e.g. on my laptop recently there was an update for my display driver. You can find them under "Optional Updates".