Old Mobo drivers

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We are piecing together a PC using an Asus P4TE board with a Northwood
CPU which is perfectly functional. It was set aside for an upgrade that
we did to a C2D that you folks helped me with here.

I owned the system with the Asus board since March of '02 and probably
had to do a clean install of Windows 2-3 times for various reasons incl
a failed "C" drive. I never had to install motherboard drivers, ever.
Actually, I never know there was such a thing until I started to do
research for the new board I actually installed. I had a heck of time
getting the PC with the upgraded board to run and had to make some
adjustments in the BIOS, but finally figured out that I had not loaded
the motherboard drivers and then all was well.

For all the times I clean installed Windows, I never had to load mobo
drivers for the Asus. We left the Asus board, the CPU and memory all
intact. I'm going to format the drive and do a fresh install of WinXp. I
will get the BIOS files and the chipset drivers, just in case. My
question is are there some setups that don't require the motherboard
drivers to be loaded separately? As I said with my new board, each
Windows install requires the motherboard drivers to be installed. I
never had to do it with the Asus.

Can someone clarify this for me? I would appreciate the education.
Thanks.

Diane
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I know you mentioned XP but one other solution would be worth your time,
Linux. Try PCLinuxOS. You may be pleasantly surprised at how well your
system operates.
 
We are piecing together a PC using an Asus P4TE board with a Northwood
CPU which is perfectly functional. It was set aside for an upgrade that
we did to a C2D that you folks helped me with here.

I owned the system with the Asus board since March of '02 and probably
had to do a clean install of Windows 2-3 times for various reasons incl
a failed "C" drive. I never had to install motherboard drivers, ever.
Actually, I never know there was such a thing until I started to do
research for the new board I actually installed. I had a heck of time
getting the PC with the upgraded board to run and had to make some
adjustments in the BIOS, but finally figured out that I had not loaded
the motherboard drivers and then all was well.

For all the times I clean installed Windows, I never had to load mobo
drivers for the Asus. We left the Asus board, the CPU and memory all
intact. I'm going to format the drive and do a fresh install of WinXp. I
will get the BIOS files and the chipset drivers, just in case. My
question is are there some setups that don't require the motherboard
drivers to be loaded separately? As I said with my new board, each
Windows install requires the motherboard drivers to be installed. I
never had to do it with the Asus.

Can someone clarify this for me? I would appreciate the education. Thanks.

Diane
 
DMP said:
We are piecing together a PC using an Asus P4TE board with a Northwood
CPU which is perfectly functional. It was set aside for an upgrade that
we did to a C2D that you folks helped me with here.

I owned the system with the Asus board since March of '02 and probably
had to do a clean install of Windows 2-3 times for various reasons incl
a failed "C" drive. I never had to install motherboard drivers, ever.
Actually, I never know there was such a thing until I started to do
research for the new board I actually installed. I had a heck of time
getting the PC with the upgraded board to run and had to make some
adjustments in the BIOS, but finally figured out that I had not loaded
the motherboard drivers and then all was well.

For all the times I clean installed Windows, I never had to load mobo
drivers for the Asus. We left the Asus board, the CPU and memory all
intact. I'm going to format the drive and do a fresh install of WinXp. I
will get the BIOS files and the chipset drivers, just in case. My
question is are there some setups that don't require the motherboard
drivers to be loaded separately? As I said with my new board, each
Windows install requires the motherboard drivers to be installed. I
never had to do it with the Asus.

Can someone clarify this for me? I would appreciate the education. Thanks.

Diane
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Windows XP is pretty good with getting drivers installed...
and is likely to contain all that's needed for many older motherboards..

For many of the new mobo's (and depending on the chipsets)
the manufacturer's drivers are needed to get optimal performance...

I know that with some of the older Intel motherboards...
Windows will install just fine...
but if the Intel drivers are installed, there is some degree of enhanced
performance
 
We are piecing together a PC using an Asus P4TE board with a Northwood
CPU which is perfectly functional. It was set aside for an upgrade that
we did to a C2D that you folks helped me with here.

I owned the system with the Asus board since March of '02 and probably
had to do a clean install of Windows 2-3 times for various reasons incl
a failed "C" drive. I never had to install motherboard drivers, ever.
Actually, I never know there was such a thing until I started to do
research for the new board I actually installed. I had a heck of time
getting the PC with the upgraded board to run and had to make some
adjustments in the BIOS, but finally figured out that I had not loaded
the motherboard drivers and then all was well.

For all the times I clean installed Windows, I never had to load mobo
drivers for the Asus. We left the Asus board, the CPU and memory all
intact. I'm going to format the drive and do a fresh install of WinXp. I
will get the BIOS files and the chipset drivers, just in case. My
question is are there some setups that don't require the motherboard
drivers to be loaded separately?
Yes.

As I said with my new board, each
Windows install requires the motherboard drivers to be installed. I
never had to do it with the Asus.
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It's entirely possible that Microsoft supplied drivers worked with
the hardware on the motherboard, or that the manufacturer supplied
drivers to Microsoft for inclusion it the operating system.

Your problems begin when you use a motherboard that uses chipsets
that are built after the operating system has gone to "press".
That's when you have to use newer/up to date drivers.
Can someone clarify this for me? I would appreciate the education. Thanks.

Diane
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Hoped that helped.

Bill
 
Thanks to all the Bill wrote:

It's entirely possible that Microsoft supplied drivers worked with
the hardware on the motherboard, or that the manufacturer supplied
drivers to Microsoft for inclusion it the operating system.

Your problems begin when you use a motherboard that uses chipsets
that are built after the operating system has gone to "press".
That's when you have to use newer/up to date drivers.


Hoped that helped.

Bill
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My thanks to those who responded. That certainly answers my question.
The upgraded mobo much newer then WinXP.

As for any form of Linux..out of the question. It was a battle moving
the hub from Win98(not even SE) to Windows XP and I haven't won him over
just yet.

Thanks again, guys.

Diane
 
DMP said:
Thanks to all the Bill wrote:





My thanks to those who responded. That certainly answers my question.
The upgraded mobo much newer then WinXP.

As for any form of Linux..out of the question. It was a battle moving
the hub from Win98(not even SE) to Windows XP and I haven't won him over
just yet.

Thanks again, guys.

Diane
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I figured that you were not going to take the Linux route >G<


FWIW: PCLinuxOS for anyone who *is* interested in Linux...is an
*excellent* choice. I've been using Linux at least part of the time for
about 7 years PCLOS is great!
 
FWIW: PCLinuxOS for anyone who *is* interested in Linux...is an
*excellent* choice. I've been using Linux at least part of the time for
about 7 years PCLOS is great!
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We agree on that 100%. A good example which you may have duplicated
involves printers.

You go to install printers and the application reports no printers
connected to this computer. Absolutely true, I'm sitting outside with my
laptop using wireless. Click the tab marked "Configured on other
machines" and it has each of my networked printers ready to go.
 
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