P35/P45 vista drivers from intel/mobo manufacturers

[konakona]

Just what the topic says. Everything seems to be working fine with whatever that came with vista, but I wonder if things are less than ideal without these drivers manually installed.

 

[Qbah]

Bought a GA-EP35-DS3R, created a RAID0, popped in the installation CD, everything is working great for the past few months, no extra drivers except the Vista DVD, were needed (not counting video drivers, obviously). That's a P35 mobo.

 

[o1die]

I've tried about 4 different boards with vista, including 2 older ones, and vista found all the device drivers. I would run it as is without trying to change any of the drivers. You can check the device manager for yellow or red marks next to any device. If you find any, the device driver didn't load properly or has a conflict with another device.

 

[konakona]

Never had any problem with driver detection, just wondering if the drivers from intel is better than the ones MS gives you. It got me wondering after a craptastic experience I had for being lazy (or daring) enough to try the ATi drivers that came with windows update. While I realize video card drivers are particularly notorious for conflicts when proper and complete unistall are not carried out, it is generally accepted that the versions issued directly from the chipmakers are your best bet. I was just wondering if same applied to the mobo chipset drivers. Who knows? 🙂

 

[imported_Scoop]

I just installed whatever there was on my abit ip35-e installation disc in order of chipset, network and audio.

 

[postmortemIA]

P35 is younger that vista, so vista can partially recognize it... not sure if vista sp1 fixes that. does it hurt to install chipset software from intel?

 

[ghost recon88]

Chipset drivers from Intel will give you better performance. It has unique and specific drivers for your chipset, and PCI-E 16x slots. Vista just uses a generic one AFAIK. Plus the Intel ones are a lot more up-to-date then the Vista ones.

 

[nerp]

It's good to install the inf update utility and some Intel chipset drivers after a fresh install. I tend not to worry about it too much after that and only check for new updates from intel after a few months.

I remember when nforce4 boards were new to market and checking for updated platform drivers semidailiy. I'm glad those days are over. 🙂

 

[suklee]

I had to install some mobo drivers to get Vista device mgr to recognize 1 thing on my DS3L. Forgot what it was...

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: ghost recon88
Chipset drivers from Intel will give you better performance. It has unique and specific drivers for your chipset, and PCI-E 16x slots.

No, it doesn't. Intel's chipset software provides device INF files and registry support only. The actual drivers used for all Intel devices are the same default Microsoft drivers, except for storage class drivers (which are provided by the Intel Matrix Storage Manager package, not the chipset support package).

Still recommended to use them, though, for device ID support and configuration purposes.

 

[GundamF91]

Vista's great at recognizing drivers, and there's almost no need for drivers unless you have the latest stuff that Vista SP1 doesn't have yet. Even then, sometimes Vista recognizes it and downloads driver for it.