ASU Maximus VI Hero

[Johan45]

I have a bit of a connundrum. I've installed Vista32 on this system ( Hero/4770k) for benching. The support CD says that the OS is unsupported. So I went to ASUS' site to download driver and they don't have them for Vista. So the question is should I use the Win7 32 drivers instead? It makes me wonder if only Win 7+8 are supported for this board. I suppose I can just try them and find out, it may not even let me install them. Just curious if anyone else has seen this??

 

[Tyerker]

I know I had an ASUS board that released with 6 months of the VISTA release (M2R32-MVP AM2+ 580X) that never ended up with Vista drivers. I think ASUS may have never really supported Vista, to be perfectly honest. I would imagine you could find a 7 upgrade key for pretty cheap, and not have to worry any more.

You can try the 7 drivers, but if I remember right mine said they did not support the installed OS.

 

[Woomack]

Most Win7 drivers are also working in Vista. Intel chipset drivers are one package for all systems and some other manufacturers make one package for Vista/Win7 too so I would just look for drivers on chip manufacturer's site.
If you need Vista for benching only then you only need chipset drivers and disable everything else.

 

[Johan45]

Thanks woomack that's kind of what I thought. Just wanted to check since this is my first Intel