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AMD 9 series chipset drivers: Still not on AMD's site?

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chucky2

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My brothers 7 series board is flaking out for gaming, so I bought him a 9 series board to replace it...it arrived today.

So I go to AMD's website to download the 9 series chipset drivers.....they don't exist there. 😕😕😕

I then call AMD to ask/let them know about this. The most disinterested person picks up, I explain what I'm looking for, they're like, Yeah, those aren't there.......silence.....I go, You still there? He's like, Yep.

Haha, the excitement was palpatable!!! :biggrin:

So I ask when they'll be up, super excited guy says he doesn't know. I ask him if they know they need to be put up, he says Ya think so, or something like that.

Things must suck there right now... 🙁

Looks like I'll just have to use the older drivers from Asrock...

Chuck
 
No need for chipset drivers. Windows' default drivers are just fine.

On my last 4 computers that I have built, and 3 laptops that I have owned, I have never installed chipset drivers.
 
The system will obviously work with the standard Windows drivers (at least most of the time), but still, the chipset drivers exist for - some - reason. I like installing them right off the bat, after the Windows updates but before any of the other drivers. I guess I'm old school like that...
 
It is odd that they are not up on amd's site, but your board mfg should have them either on the cd or there website
 
AFAIK the 9 series chipsets are more or less rebranded 8 series chipsets with no changes other than to some electrical tweaks to support AM3+ FX chips and BIOS update for SLI support.

The 8 series drivers linked to above should function just fine.
 
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Cool, thanks All! I'll roll forward with those...still found it odd that AMD wouldn't have their own current platform listed...just weird...
 
That's what I thought. I just downloaded the Gigabyte drivers for my 970A-UD3 board and they are listed as 8-series. I'm like wtf!

anyway, I'm installing the latest 8-series from amd.com.

-=Mark=-
 
"No need to install chipset drivers" - I should point out that chipset drivers are supposed to fix issues specific to the chipset. For example, AMD 7 and 8-series chipset drivers include a USB filter without which can cause many a BSOD when plugging in USB devices. Evidently not every device every time, because otherwise you would be complaining that this hardware is rubbish because you get BSODs all the time, but still.
 
Catalyst 12.1 include all of them. They just haven't updated the website to show "specific" 9 series drivers. Just grab any catalyst 12.1 for series 7 or 8 and you are set 😉


Alex
 
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