windows 7 drivers

Ashfield · 14 Sep 2009 at 16:17

Been having a look on the Asus site for Win7 64bit drivers for the P6T Deluxe motherboard but there doesnt appear to be any...

Can you use the Vista drivers or is that going to nuke it?

stoofa · 14 Sep 2009 at 16:19

Vista 64bit drivers will be fine.
The two os's are a lot closer than most people seem to think - they share the same driver model.

ChileanLlama · 14 Sep 2009 at 16:20

You shouldn't need any drivers - not the Asus ones anyway.

Windows should install most things for you out of the box, it might be worthwhile seeing if Intel have updated drivers direct, same with any other hardware drivers, e.g. sound.

Otherwise yep, you should be able to use Vista 64bit drivers if there is something missing that only Asus provide like ACPI.

Ashfield · 14 Sep 2009 at 16:22

fantastic, thanks lads

Ashfield · 14 Sep 2009 at 16:25

One more thing...

Am I right in thinking I wont need RAID drivers on a floppy like you used to have with WinXP when first loading the OS?

ChileanLlama · 14 Sep 2009 at 16:29

Nope, no need for them with x58

You should get the latest Intel Matrix Storage application/drivers though once Windows is installed - this gives you the RAID monitoring software and performance can be slightly better. Not necessary - but highly recommended.

[Edit: To be safe, when installing make sure you only have your boot drive/boot RAID enabled/attached - the Win 7 setup can get confused if you have more than one bootable controller/disk]

Ashfield · 14 Sep 2009 at 16:31

thanks mate

Ashfield · 14 Sep 2009 at 16:34

So are the windows drivers ok to just use now then? always recall being best of using the proper ones.

ChileanLlama · 14 Sep 2009 at 16:36

Yes - they are perfectly fine, the Windows drivers are just old/generic ones and don't give you the bells and whistles like RAID status monitoring, and turning on some of the caching which speeds the array up.