Gigabyte Motherboard: Network and Audio Drivers?

[DaveLessnau]

I just bought a Gigabyte GA-EP45T-UD3P motherboard and am downloading all the most current drivers prior to the install. Using

http://www.gigabyte.us/Product...ew.aspx?ProductID=3015

as a starting point, I've got the latest manual, BIOS, Dynamic Energy Saver, and EasyTune. From, Intel's site, I got a more current chipset INF package. That left me with the audio (ALC889A) and network (RTL81111C) stuff. For some reason, Gigabyte doesn't have the network drivers on their site. My past experience with Realtek network drivers is that they get downloaded with Windows Update. Should I just let the network drivers update this way or should I go to Realtek and download them. I assume

http://122.146.118.42/download...TypeID=3&GetDown=false

is the right starting point.

The sound drivers are more interesting. Gigabyte has a download with a version number of 5.10.0.5793 and a size of 46.16 MB. The Realtek site

http://122.146.118.42/download...TypeID=3&GetDown=false

has their HD audio codec with a version number of 2.23 and a size of around 30 MB (which I can't download, anyway, since their site is so bad). Since the manual mentions Dolby Home Theater and (specific to Vista) the Dolby GUI Software, I assumed that the difference between the packages was that Gigabyte's included the Dolby stuff. But, from

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Sup...oard/Utility_List.aspx

I found a download for Dolby Home Theater that's 120 MB in size. So, that can't be it. Does anyone have any idea what I should be downloading?

 

[faxon]

check the pack date on your board. there's a good chance it has a lot of up to date drivers on the disk. i just did an install with my new UD3P, which is basically identical except yours takes DDR3, and it came with the second latest bios (F8) and the latest drivers on CD. if it's within the last month or 2 it's probably recent. idk the pack date on my UD3P, but it came in on a truck from the same distributor as my Q9650, which has a pack date of 2/5/09. usually any changes in that time to the drivers will be minor at best, unless it's a new release on a chipset.