I have installed all of the components for my new ASRock Z97 Extreme 6 Mother Board which include:
SSD Hard Drive which is the boot HD
Two mechanical drives (Only one installed so far. Not using RAID)
Opitcal Drive
8GB RAM
So far so good. I was able to get Windows 7 64bit Home, SP1 installed but I have not activated the OS yet. I have taken a look at the drivers page and I want to make sure I am installing the correct drivers. I have installed some of drivers but not all of them.
Here is a list of the drivers on the ASROCK page located here.
I am listing the drivers in order as you see them on the page.
There are also a bunch of utilties which look to be programs which appear to be optional. I want to install what is needed but I do not want to install anything that is un-necesary.
Thanks, Bill
SSD Hard Drive which is the boot HD
Two mechanical drives (Only one installed so far. Not using RAID)
Opitcal Drive
8GB RAM
So far so good. I was able to get Windows 7 64bit Home, SP1 installed but I have not activated the OS yet. I have taken a look at the drivers page and I want to make sure I am installing the correct drivers. I have installed some of drivers but not all of them.
Here is a list of the drivers on the ASROCK page located here.
I am listing the drivers in order as you see them on the page.
Driver | Installed? | Note |
Realtek high definition audio driver ver:7004 | Yes | Needed for the Sound Card |
INF driver ver:10.0.21 | Yes | Needed for Chipset |
Intel Management Engine driver ver:10.0.31.1000_1.5M | No | Should I install this driver and the one below? |
Intel Management Engine driver ver:10.0.31.1000_5M | No | See note above. Install this one and the one above? |
Intel Rapid Start driver ver:4.0.0.1068 | No | I think I tried to install this driver but I got an error. Need a Windows file before I can install this driver. |
Intel Smart Connect driver ver:5.0.10.2907 | No | Do I need this? |
Realtek Lan driver ver:7086 | Yes | Needed for Realtek LAN card. |
Lan driver ver:19.0.27.0 | Yes | Figured it was related to LAN so I installed it. |
AppCharger ver:1.0.6 | No | Do I need it? |
SATA Floppy Image ver:13.1.0.1058 | No | Do I need it? |
ASMedia SATA3 Driver ver:2.0.8.0 | Yes | Needed for SATA |
Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver and utility | No | I need Microsoft .Net framework. Maybe this loads when I activate and update my OS? |
ASMedia USB 3.0 driver ver:1.16.15.0 | Yes | Needed for USB |
Intel USB 3.0 driver ver:3.0.1.41 | Yes | Needed for USB |
VGA driver ver:15.33.31.64.3993 | No | I have a dedicated graphics card and I have not installed it yet. I thought it makes more sense to install the software with the card vs a Generic VGA driver. Agree? |
Thanks, Bill
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