Reply With QuoteMy experience has been (so far) that vista drivers work with win 7
Windows 7 and a older Motherboard and Video card
I'm just doing some sniffing around before I spend more money buying a new SATA Hard drive to replace my suspect IDE hard drive that is giving me grief and the question I would like to ask is,,,, Drivers yes drivers for my motherboard and PCI Express video card
My motherboard is a ASUS M2NPV-VM
My Video card is a ATI RADEON X1050 PCIe 128MB.
I have checked the ASUS site for support for Win 7 (32 bit) for this motherboard and it seems there are no drivers for Win 7 (32bit) Also no Audio drivers.
(Please note the above link is for vista 32bit, click on the Win 7 one)
I have also checked AMD for my video card being the ATI RADEON X1050 and they also do not have drivers for Win 7 (32 bit) but tell you you can use the Vista 32 bit one with a question mark.
Will the above work on Win 7 32bit?.
My concerns are spending more money on a new Hard drive, Installing my new copy of Win 7 32 bit on it only to find out that the Computer will have no sound, the video not working correctly and other problems related to missing or incorrect drivers.
If this is the case am I better buying a case/box only combo "eg" New case/motherboard/cpu/ram/HDD/DVD Burner so on, so on.
What do you think
Last edited by Mr 672A; 11-04-13 at 09:27 AM.
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My experience has been (so far) that vista drivers work with win 7
Mr 672A (11-04-13)
you wont need drivers for motherboard or sound, win 7 will have them in it
your correct, ati drivers for that card are same as vista, although the card will still work without them, just not as good performance wise
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Mr 672A (11-04-13)
Once again thanks for your help.Originally Posted by Philquad
Just another question the motherboard I'm using being a ASUS M2NPV-VM supports SATA (has 4 ports) but being a old board will it be ok for today's SATA hard drives.
I'm thinking of buying this drive from ebay
From memory the early sata ports ran a little slower but newer HDD are backwards compatible like usb2 and usb3 so it will work ok but maybe not to its full potential
That makes sense so if my motherboard is SATA1 what are the HDD up to today SATA 4, 5 ,6???
Why not be adventurous and install Win 7 64bit. Your audio and video cards both have vista 64bit drivers and will work with Win 7 64bit. Before you do go the 64bit road check that your printer and other peripherals also support 64bit. There are advantages going 64 bit way.
Unfortunately both my printers and scanner do not support 64 bit Win 7
SATA 3 from memory
Yes they up to SATA 3 & there is now 3Gbps & 6Gbps
Edit: this may help with forward or backward compatibility.
Last edited by Tiny; 11-04-13 at 06:48 PM.
Cheers, Tiny
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sata is sata, its not brain science
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did you try them?
try compatability mode
windoz update
you love that
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honestly I didn't as I have bought Win 7 32bit.
If you download an untouched Windows 7 64bit of the same version you bought, you can use the same product key.
It would help if we knew what make and model of printer and scanner you have.
Tiny (13-04-13)
I agree with you joezep, I just upgraded from xp to Win8, so Googled my printer model + win 8 + drivers, first result was my printer manufactures web site, downloaded the driver, installed & all going great.
Cheers, Tiny
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The information is out there; you just have to let it in."
Sorry for the delay guys been off colour the last two days.
Printer Epson R310, Printer scanner combo Canon MP 240.
My SATA drive arrived today.
win7 32bit or vista 64 (theres no win7 64)
( again no 64 bit)
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thanks mate.
It will be Fridays job of installing win 7. Tomorrow after my usual chores it will be time to install my new 1tb sata drive.
I reading on the net for any tricks if any required for installing Win 7 using SATA drive/motherboard and other.
pretty str8 forward, but before you ask, i might just tell you
unplug any old hard drives for the moment, hook up new sata, go into bios & set cd as 1st boot, put cd in. press any key to boot to cd when asked
have a stubby
when its ready, it will offer custom install, take it, then you can make a 200gb partition for windows by selecting the new button & put in 200,000
leave the rest, let it install to the 200gb partition,
have 2 stubbies
welcome to windows 7
once installed, you can go to cpanel, disk manage, & allocate the rest of the disk as say 2x 400gb partitions (e & f)
this is for safe storage & backing up so when windows claps out 1 day(it will) you wont have to ask us how to recover all the data you lost on c drive
have 5 more stubbies
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Last edited by Philquad; 16-04-13 at 04:46 PM.
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Tiny (16-04-13)
LOL,LOL!!!
Philquad
Your above post is 99% what goggles told me except for the last and yet very important bit being : "once installed, you can go to cpanel, disk manage, & allocate the rest of the disk as say 2x 400gb partitions (e & f)"
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