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Sumax

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I am running a older system (fatal1ty an8-sli). im getting ready to upgrade my OS from XP Pro to 7 Ultimate, and I'm trying to my drivers together first. I don't see any Win 7 drivers for my mobo can i just use the 64bit drivers? Does anyone use this mobo on win 7 that can save me some time and trouble? Also i am running a 2 disk raid 0 and I'm concerned about the change on this also. any help is appreciated.
 
Do you have an extra HDD laying around? I would guess that Win7 would have many of your drivers baked in, but doing a test install doesn't take long and would save you a lot of headache if there were any issues.
 
Sumax said:
I am running a older system (fatal1ty an8-sli). im getting ready to upgrade my OS from XP Pro to 7 Ultimate, and I'm trying to my drivers together first. I don't see any Win 7 drivers for my mobo can i just use the 64bit drivers? Does anyone use this mobo on win 7 that can save me some time and trouble? Also i am running a 2 disk raid 0 and I'm concerned about the change on this also. any help is appreciated.
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Hi, Sumax,

The first thing I would do is run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor to see what issue(s) it may flag. If your processor does not support hyper-threading you'll be limited to the 32-bit versions of Win 7. Since you board does I wouldn't be too surprised if drivers weren't much of an issue.

Hope this helps.

Chuklr
 
I would be really hesitant to install 7 on hardware that originally came out 6+ years ago. If you were able to purchase win7, maybe upgrading the cpu/mobo/ram would be a good idea.
 
Man has it been 6 years, system still runs strong with its amd4800x2. Win 7 adviser says I'm good for all but 64 bit xp mode. since i only have 2 gig of memory in this box. win 7 was a exchange for a bad bet :) cash flow wont let me upgrade system right now though. I'm mainly worried about the raid drivers. luv the raid would hate to go back to 2 drives.
 
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