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| 18 Jun 2010 | #1 |
| | Is it still necessary to install chipset/mobo drivers? Just wondering this as i thought windows 7 pretty much has everything built in. I have been running 7 since the betas early last year and really have never installed any. However after i reinstalled 7 a couple weeks i have been having major issues, i just got around to reinstalling it again and everything is smooth. Just wondering if i should leave it as be or start installing stuff off the gigabyte site for my board? thanks |
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| 18 Jun 2010 | #2 |
| | How old is the motherboard and the chipset drivers? What kinds of problems were you having with the previous install? |
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| 18 Jun 2010 | #3 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by CarlTR6  How old is the motherboard and the chipset drivers? What kinds of problems were you having with the previous install? very odd, problems i never had before, freezes, blue screens, ect..I think something went wrong during install. All is fine now but i am just wondering EP-45-UD3P is my board |
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| 18 Jun 2010 | #4 |
| | With the investment MS made in drivers for the Windows 7 installer and via optional Windows Updates, you really only need to seek other drivers if one is missing or performance dictates. With your bluescreens, I would have troubleshot it thoroughly in error logs then if still a problem tried the mobo maker's chipset - with the ability to roll it back if there was no improvement. Since you report no continuing problems, I would wait to see how performance pans out. **A small inexplicable exception to this is that NVIDIA chipsets may report a missing "CoProcessor" driver which requires the factory or NVidia chipset to remedy. (Maybe someone from MS will see this one day and fix this oversight) |
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| 18 Jun 2010 | #5 |
| | I'm using a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R rev 1.1 board and I haven't used any chipset or mobo drivers. Everything from Windows 7 is working good. The only 3rd party driver that I am using is from Nvidia for my 9800GTX+. |
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| 19 Jun 2010 | #6 |
| | If the board was built for Windows 7, or if the vendor's site has Windows 7-specific chipset drivers, I would at least look at the versions of those drivers and compare them with what you have installed now. I would only install their drivers if they were newer than the ones you have. |
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| 19 Jun 2010 | #7 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by gregrocker **A small inexplicable exception to this is that NVIDIA chipsets may report a missing "CoProcessor" driver which requires the factory or NVidia chipset to remedy. |
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