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In the Win 95 days I remember having to first install MB drivers before the graphics card drivers.

Is this still true for Win 7? Or does Windows go out and get these automatically.
 

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MS paid a lot of money to vendors to write drivers for Windows 7. Unless your system is 4 or 5 years old, Windows 7 should have all the drivers already. Some drivers will be outdated but system should run and then you can check for updates. Download and run this tool on your system.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/get/upgrade-advisor.aspx

Jim :geek:
 

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MS paid a lot of money to vendors to write drivers for Windows 7.
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Where did you hear that?
 

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SIW2 said:
MS paid a lot of money to vendors to write drivers for Windows 7.
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Where did you hear that?
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There were lots of information before Windows 7 was released and stated that MS was paying vendors to write their drivers and get them certified before Windows 7 was released. They didn't want another Vista.

Jim :geek:
 

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Windows 8.1 Pro w/Media Center 64bit, Windows 7 HP 64bit
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the jimmy said:
In the Win 95 days I remember having to first install MB drivers before the graphics card drivers.

Is this still true for Win 7? Or does Windows go out and get these automatically.
Click to expand...

Windows 7 is most compatible windows ever, I got no major drivers issues, on each system I have tried it on.
 

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Thanks for the responses
 

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Zotac GeForce GTX 550 Ti
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