Quick Question About New Vista Installation!

harris1986 · 19 Sep 2006 at 13:24

ok guys i should be receiving my conroe upgrade today, but as i have just burned a copy of vista i installed it on my hard drive just to see what it's like!

Now what i'm wandering is as i haven't installed any motherboard chipset drivers or drivers in general, would i be able to do a straight swap with my conroe hardware and carry on using the same hard drive with vista on it? or would i need to re-formatt my hard drive and install vista again with my intel hardware?

Phate · 19 Sep 2006 at 13:42

more than likely not.

I've done a motherboard upgrade, where its been on the same socket, using all the old hardware etc. and it reboots when loading windows.

It might load, but it'll most likely be slow/crashing a lot etc.

just reformat

harris1986 · 19 Sep 2006 at 13:49

kool, shall do then!

doran1801 · 19 Sep 2006 at 16:01

you might as well just try it before you format, you got nothing to lose

maddness · 19 Sep 2006 at 16:16

there is a very high chance it will work fine.

ive changed from amd to intel without a clean install and it worked all fine.

on the other hand its good to have a clean install on new major hardware changes though.

harris1986 · 19 Sep 2006 at 16:48

kk i'l give it a go first off

the reason i asked is because as no amd drivers are installed as of yet how does it make a difference what cpu and motherboard did the windows installation?

Phate · 19 Sep 2006 at 18:07

the processor doesnt have drivers, the motherboard does, and it has to use SOME kind of drivers for it to atleast run windows.

harris1986 · 20 Sep 2006 at 09:54

ok guys just installed vista with my conroe setup, and tried installing the motherboard drivers on the disk but i can't access it because the os isn't supported and it just exits the driver setup? would i be ok to run without the motherboard drivers or should i just go back to xp?

maddness · 20 Sep 2006 at 10:03

check device manager and see if everything is installed. (i/e no unknown devices), if it is its all good.

besides the manufacturer should have updated drivers on the download page.

harris1986 · 20 Sep 2006 at 10:13

hehe the keyword in that sentence is "SHOULD" they haven't updated them at all which sucks a tad lol, upon start up i get no new hardware findings at all but then i'm just a little worried that it won't have picked up everything and parts won't work lol! also a few bits that i want off the cd like the asus update utility

Fluffy Bunny · 20 Sep 2006 at 11:09

could you use the compatibility mode to install the disc?

harris1986 · 20 Sep 2006 at 11:19

bah that's true never mind hadn't tried that, installing xp now, seemed like a lot of messing around and i want to get to clocking this conroe hehe

Phate · 20 Sep 2006 at 13:38

Ok, things like usb ports etc etc, 9 times out of 10 will install automatically, it was usually things like network ports needing extra drivers. BUT i should imagine Vista would have drivers for all of these anyway. its the Chipset driver that you should always install...

harris1986 · 20 Sep 2006 at 14:30

ahh yes but problem is if i can't get to the chipset section on the cd how do i install them?

Phate · 20 Sep 2006 at 18:19

download the xp version then run under xp compaitability mode

csmager · 20 Sep 2006 at 18:32

Vista's built in chipset drivers should be more up to date and vista-specific than the XP ones on the disc. I really wouldn't bother.

Phate · 20 Sep 2006 at 18:46

some pc's will run fine without upto date chipset drivers,

some will APPEAR to run fine, like my mates, his appeared to be fine, nothing missing in device manager, took him 20mins to load bf2 though...

harris1986 · 20 Sep 2006 at 21:03

ahh kk excellent, think what i'l do then is update bios then install vista again and see how i go, may be able to run the compatability wizard on the disk to get the drivers

thanks all love to you guys

harris1986 · 20 Sep 2006 at 23:29

Ok folks solved this issue without using the compatability wizard as this didn't work! all i did was copied the files from the disk to my desktop then i used the setup within the folders to install the desired file and hey presto it worked

Phate · 21 Sep 2006 at 00:56

Nice one mate

glad to hear you got it working.

Now I'll tell you, you did all that for a prettier XP