Abit AX78 MB and Windows 7 64 bits Upgrade  

And a good evening to you MadMax1963!!,

I share your feelings on the Gigabyte boards...I am running my "main" pc w/ all Gigabyte (motherboard and video card) parts. It has been running non-stop and trouble free since I first fired it up. (see my system specs for the lowdown )

I have also had great luck w/ Asus as well. My son's desktop is a 930D Intel based system. Good processor, but runs VERY HOT and drinks power! I bought it w/ a Biostar MB from Tiger direct for cheap, but the MB couldn't take the CPU for long. Picked up the current Asus MB and we now have it running great (we did have to water cool the thing though...way too hot w/ fans).

Good luck w/ the upgrade!!

All My Best!!

Michael

Good evening guys,

I'm back and running Windows 7 64 Bits with no problem or conflicts.

I really wanted to thank you guys...Jonathan_k and Mkensinger....for taking the time to answer my post and helping me out...you guys gave me confidence and peace of mind I needed to go on with my installation..so..THANK YOU BOTH.

The installation was very straight forward and most of the drivers needed where included in the Win 7 disk, I did have a few issues with the realtek High Definition Audio but that was solved after I installed the drivers from realtek and re-connected my speakers. It seems that the default drivers installed by windows uses the digital autput channel to send audio to my speakers and since I had my speakers connected to the analog plugs in the back I could not hear anything.

But that was about it, the rest was really easy to setup..the only reason I did not post earlier was because before I got on line I wanted to have all my antivirus, antispyware and AntiMalware (all of the usual Anti's) installed before I started surfing again and that took me a few days since work was taking too much of my time.

So to sum this up, Installing Windows 7 64 bit on a Abit AX78 board is very straight forward, no need to be afraid that Abit doesn't have the drivers for Win 7 because they closed shop; Windows 7 has all the drivers needed for an easy installation. And if you find yourself that after installing Win 7 you have no audio, just go to the realtek website and download the Realtek High definition drivers for Win 7 , unplug your speakers and plug them back; this causes the realtek application to sense your speakers and adjust accordingly.

Or you can Google for a solution since this seems to be an issue with all boards using the Realtek High Definition Adio chip.

MK and JK..again, thanks guys and you all have a great weekend.

Regards,

MadMax1963

mkensinger said:

And a good evening to you MadMax1963!!,

I share your feelings on the Gigabyte boards...I am running my "main" pc w/ all Gigabyte (motherboard and video card) parts. It has been running non-stop and trouble free since I first fired it up. (see my system specs for the lowdown )

I have also had great luck w/ Asus as well. My son's desktop is a 930D Intel based system. Good processor, but runs VERY HOT and drinks power! I bought it w/ a Biostar MB from Tiger direct for cheap, but the MB couldn't take the CPU for long. Picked up the current Asus MB and we now have it running great (we did have to water cool the thing though...way too hot w/ fans).

Good luck w/ the upgrade!!

All My Best!!

Michael

Hey Asus was no surprise to me, since a few years ago they where considered the best board on the market, but Gigabyte really was a shocker; when I bought the board I had no idea they where that good.

Another board that I used to love was Soyo..remember those guys? wonder whatever happened to them.

Eventhough I have never worked on a Biostar I have a few friends that use them and they are happy..I think as a stream line or mid-range board, Biostar is good; it's like those PCchips boards, really inexpensive and as long as you use them for surfing the net or using Office they are ok..but once you get into things that demand heavy resources..then you might get into trouble.

Heck, In the past years I must have built over 20 or 25 computers using PCchips boards, even with the SIS Chipset, but those machines where for people that just wanted something to surf, chat, read email or work with office, nothing demanding like heavy gaming, graphics design or heavy engineering applications.

Now that you mention water cooling, that is one thing I have yet to try...still gives me the jitters to know that I have water running on the inside of my computer..lol..what can I say..I'm really old school..my first pc was a Commodore Vic 20 with a cassette deck to save my programs..lol.loll

LOL from that Vic 20 I graduated to a commodore 64..lol...actually and now that I think about...my first pc was not a Vic20..that was my second PC..my first pc was a Timex Sinclair..lol...OH GOD...I'M OLDDDDDDDDDDDDD !

Hope to hear from you soon MK.

MadMax1963

Vic 20 eh? LOL Oh yes...I remember all of that stuff...heck I had a Coleco ADAM with the tape drives...what a joke! I got my first true blue IBM PC with a 10mb disk drive, a 360K 5-1/4" floppy drive and a green screen at work for only $5,000.00 as a spare part for a system because the OEM wanted $20,000.00 for the same thing!

I used to play with the old Zilog Z80 based microprocessor boards to automate certain operations...All that processing power on a single board...

So see MadMax1963, you're not so old after all...

All My Best,

Michael

MadMax , I have same problems , do you still manage to change it to win 7 64 bit without problems , with regards
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