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Thread ID: 103416 2009-09-22 06:26:00 Using XP drivers in W7 mzee (3324) Press F1
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812735 2009-09-22 06:26:00 I used Motherboard drivers for XP in W7 by copying the drivers from the CD, leaving out all the set-up code, just the bare drivers. I pointed the driver set-up searches to the 'inf' files and they were all accepted & running well.

So, if the Set-up CD is rejected, try the bare drivers.
mzee (3324)
812736 2009-09-22 07:55:00 That's the same method I used in two boxes I tested . Neither had W7 video drivers but using this method with Win XP drivers worked well.. paulw (1826)
812737 2009-09-22 08:18:00 I did the same thing with Vista. The old 754 mobo here doesnt have any drivers for Vista at all. I just searched windowsupdate through device manager, it found the audio drivers, so I installed them. And it worked fine

Saved me looking for the drivers. And for the ACPI drivers, I installed the vista x86 drivers for another mobo. It didnt do any harm. And Vista installed the LAN drivers which is good enough, (after I installed Vista), it hasnt crashed YET.
Speedy Gonzales (78)
812738 2009-09-22 08:33:00 Driver Backup! or DriverMax simplifies the process(espec. if you have mutiple drivers to import/export) Blam (54)
812739 2009-09-23 03:59:00 I have 'Driver genius' which works well, but in this case it didn't find any updates. It is a SiS650 chip set which goes back a while! mzee (3324)
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