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Last edited by swarfendor437; 01 Jun 2011 at 07:25.
Hi essenbe,
Been a while since I checked out the MSI site which is now new - found this page:
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/K8T-Ne...&os=Vista%2032
They only appear to have produced drivers for Vista - I know some Vista drivers run on 7 (which is Vista 6.1 really!) - so should I be ok with installing these do you think? I have downloaded all of the drivers for consistency (VIA4in1, via raid (though RAID will not be used as such but SATA connectors will - just had to order a new hard drive as armature 'clunking' on file selection of XP partition) and Gigabit ethernet driver (though not in use).
Last edited by swarfendor437; 01 Jun 2011 at 07:30. Reason: wrongly said XP drive - corrected to partition
I wpuld suggest either trying the Vista drivers or getting in touch with tech support to see what they say.Some vista drivers will work on windows 7.
Thanks guys, will try in compatibility mode as bowtie has suggested. Will let you know in due course - probably wait til new drive fitted tomorrow. Thanks again - I hate being stumped!
You generally do not need to put Vista drivers in Compatibility mode to work, try it without compatibility mode first, and if that fails, then use it with compatibility mode. You are lucky you are even getting Vista drivers for your motherboard, which is quite of date, you can't really complain to them for a Windows 7 driver, unless they are extremely nice, they won't do/make it. Also, you should try DriverMax DriverMax - free driver updates. It can detect possible missing drivers and latest (official or unofficial) drivers. It is really useful and helped me install Windows 7 over a Windows XP laptop, which is around 9 years old, and runs great!
Hi guys, updated the mobo drivers but still no joy on the bottom 2 ports at the rear of the 4 available; repositioned the USB PCI-Express 4/5 port USB card in bottom slot and picked up by Windows 7 automatically this time! So problem mainly solved - thanks for all your inputs!