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Windows 7 for P5WD2-E
Would the ASUS driver set for Vista 32-bit work with in an P5WD2-E Premium and Windows 7 32-bit? Hate to give up on this motherboard and Pentium D950 combination after WinXP end-of-life next April. We have a number of these still in use. TIA GR |
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Windows 7 for P5WD2-E
Ghostrider 00 wrote:
Would the ASUS driver set for Vista 32-bit work with in an P5WD2-E Premium and Windows 7 32-bit? Hate to give up on this motherboard and Pentium D950 combination after WinXP end-of-life next April. We have a number of these still in use. TIA GR Why not just find a Windows 7 evaluation copy, and note what chipset drivers are already installed. That would be fun... You could try the Windows 7 Preview for example. Even if the activation side of things, the "not genuine" part was there to annoy you. It might run long enough to examine Device Manager (devmgmt.msc) and see what got installed. Since my laptop uses Windows 7, I take the key off that, take a desktop PC, unplug the LAN cable, install Windows 7 using the key, and at least a get to see a desktop for a few days... Eventually, it'll whine about activation. The machine is pretty useless, with no LAN connection. But I've done that, just to prove the DVD I downloaded from digitalriver worked OK. There could indeed be peripheral chips that don't have drivers, but I expect better things on the 975X chipset side of things. So you might still see things that need fixing. My USB serial port dongles don't typically get installed when doing Win7/Win8, and have to be resolved later via Windows Update or from the manufacturers site. With Windows 8, and the insistence on NX, I expect they don't need to support as much hardware, as a lot of the old stuff gets chucked if you use Windows 8. No need for 440BX chipset support in Windows 8 :-) I'm sure you can cook up some sort of test case without too much trouble. If you need pointers to images, look for X17-24208 or X17-24209. As those are Home Premium for download from DigitalRiver. An official seller of OSes. I needed Home Premium SP1 DVD images, so I could reinstall the laptop OS with needed. I did such a house cleaning just recently, blowing away the Acer cruft, and leaving a nice clean OS. The cooling fan actually runs less often now. Sometimes, you can find "install only" keys, suitable for an OS that insists on the key before installation starts. With an install only key, you can later change the key to the "real, paid" key and complete activation. ******* If you just want the chipset package for 975X, you could try the Intel site. But I haven't gone hunting for a chipset driver over there, in ages. https://downloadcenter.intel.com/default.aspx Paul |
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Windows 7 for P5WD2-E
Ghostrider" wrote:
Would the ASUS driver set for Vista 32-bit work with in an P5WD2-E Premium and Windows 7 32-bit? Hate to give up on this motherboard and Pentium D950 combination after WinXP end-of-life next April. We have a number of these still in use. Have you checked with microsoft? http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...e-with-windows |
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Windows 7 for P5WD2-E
On 10/30/2013 11:32 AM, Bob F wrote:
Ghostrider" wrote: Would the ASUS driver set for Vista 32-bit work with in an P5WD2-E Premium and Windows 7 32-bit? Hate to give up on this motherboard and Pentium D950 combination after WinXP end-of-life next April. We have a number of these still in use. Have you checked with microsoft? http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...e-with-windows The Windows 7 compatibility test works just well enough to determine whether or not the computer meets the basic specs to run Windows 7 and the status of common devices such as printers, network cards, video, etc., and applications. It does not do any significant hardware workup. The point of the inquiry was to determine whether or not the Microsoft Vista drivers would work in this motherboard that uses the Intel i975X chipset. Intel did not write or update this driver set for Windows 7. I was interested in hearing the experiences of others before taking one of our working units out for experimenting. The planned replacement is an ASUS P9X79-PRO running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. GR |
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Windows 7 for P5WD2-E
Am 21.10.2013 09:30, schrieb Paul:
Ghostrider 00 wrote: Would the ASUS driver set for Vista 32-bit work with in an P5WD2-E Premium and Windows 7 32-bit? Hate to give up on this motherboard and Pentium D950 combination after WinXP end-of-life next April. We have a number of these still in use. TIA GR Why not just find a Windows 7 evaluation copy, and note what chipset drivers are already installed. That would be fun... You could try the Windows 7 Preview for example. Even if the activation side of things, the "not genuine" part was there to annoy you. It might run long enough to examine Device Manager (devmgmt.msc) and see what got installed. Since my laptop uses Windows 7, I take the key off that, take a desktop PC, unplug the LAN cable, install Windows 7 using the key, and at least a get to see a desktop for a few days... Eventually, it'll whine about activation. The machine is pretty useless, with no LAN connection. But I've done that, just to prove the DVD I downloaded from digitalriver worked OK. There could indeed be peripheral chips that don't have drivers, but I expect better things on the 975X chipset side of things. So you might still see things that need fixing. My USB serial port dongles don't typically get installed when doing Win7/Win8, and have to be resolved later via Windows Update or from the manufacturers site. With Windows 8, and the insistence on NX, I expect they don't need to support as much hardware, as a lot of the old stuff gets chucked if you use Windows 8. No need for 440BX chipset support in Windows 8 :-) I'm sure you can cook up some sort of test case without too much trouble. If you need pointers to images, look for X17-24208 or X17-24209. As those are Home Premium for download from DigitalRiver. An official seller of OSes. I needed Home Premium SP1 DVD images, so I could reinstall the laptop OS with needed. I did such a house cleaning just recently, blowing away the Acer cruft, and leaving a nice clean OS. The cooling fan actually runs less often now. Sometimes, you can find "install only" keys, suitable for an OS that insists on the key before installation starts. With an install only key, you can later change the key to the "real, paid" key and complete activation. ******* If you just want the chipset package for 975X, you could try the Intel site. But I haven't gone hunting for a chipset driver over there, in ages. https://downloadcenter.intel.com/default.aspx Paul Paul, you can even skip the Key - it works nevertheless. At least for some days - with updates and network ;-) regards Jochen |
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