A8N SLI - Premium - Which Drivers?

[AnotherMuggle]

Hi Everyone,

I just received my Asus A8N SLI Premium board in the post and have installed it into my computer.

All good so far!

I have had a look at the Asus website and there are so many drivers. Which ones do I need to install, does anyone know or can anyone tell me which exact ones I should install.

Also, should I update the BIOS using the provided utilities?

Thanks,
TK

[Masaki 7-11]

If you have everything working after the drivers are installed, then you don't need to flash the bios (unless you are upgrading the laptop later on to a new processor). All you will need to download is the audio and LAN drivers.

[AnotherMuggle]

Originally Posted by Masaki 7-11 If you have everything working after the drivers are installed, then you don't need to flash the bios (unless you are upgrading the laptop later on to a new processor). All you will need to download is the audio and LAN drivers.

Thanks

Do I need to download the nForce4 chipset drivers from Nvidia? I notice I have devices such as:
PCI Memory Controller
SM Bus Controller

amongst a few others that are not detected.

ALSO: at startup I keep getting presented with an option asking me to press CTRL+S or F4 to set up the RAID... I dont want to use this. Am I able to turn it off?

[Masaki 7-11]

I don't think you can turn it off since it's most likely a BIOS related option. nForce4 chipset drivers aren't needed, just make sure you have the drivers for audio and LAN from the Asus website, and the video card drivers for the video card. The other components of your computer should run fine with generic drivers.

[glc]

Yes, you need the chipset drivers. You should be able to find a setting in the bios somewhere to turn off RAID and run the controller as a standalone.

[Masaki 7-11]

Originally Posted by glc Yes, you need the chipset drivers. You should be able to find a setting in the bios somewhere to turn off RAID and run the controller as a standalone.

Why do you need the chipset drivers? As far as I know there are individual drivers for the LAN, Audio and Video, other than that there isn't anything really that windows doesn't support beforehand (RAID drivers may be necessary, but since the system has worked fine so far, and RAID isn't going to be used, doesn't seem like there is need for it either).

[AnotherMuggle]

Thanks guys.

I have one device left as "Unknown Device" and it looks like its this ACPI Virtual Device.

What is that? Do I need it?

[liambl]

Originally Posted by Masaki 7-11 Why do you need the chipset drivers? As far as I know there are individual drivers for the LAN, Audio and Video, other than that there isn't anything really that windows doesn't support beforehand (RAID drivers may be necessary, but since the system has worked fine so far, and RAID isn't going to be used, doesn't seem like there is need for it either).

Why not install the drivers? When I installed my chipset drivers it increased my hard driver tranfser by 8mb/s and also gave a really advanced IDE controller properties with speedtests, DMA control and such.

[Masaki 7-11]

Originally Posted by liambl Why not install the drivers? When I installed my chipset drivers it increased my hard driver tranfser by 8mb/s and also gave a really advanced IDE controller properties with speedtests, DMA control and such.

I've never installed the chipset drivers before for any of my computers and had them working fine, so that's why I'm asking. I never knew there was a benefit to installing chipset drivers, but now that I know, I'll update my computers with the chipset drivers. Thanks for answering the question.

[glc]

I have one device left as "Unknown Device" and it looks like its this ACPI Virtual Device.

That's what the chipset drivers are for.

Masaki, if you have *ANY* unknown or flagged devices in device manager, install the chipset drivers.