Tweet
I am working up to yet another clean install. Reset CMOS, reinstall latest BIOS. Clean Win 7 64 install. My first install on the new machine worked fine. I have not been able to get back there.
I have spent a large amount of time trying to identify what is on the Gigabyte install disk and what parts of that is actually necessary to install for a basic system that makes use of all the facilities of the motherboard and Windows. My last attempt to actually use the disk resulted in a failed install. And everything on it is out of date anyway. There is a whole bunch of stuff on the disk whose purpose and necessity I simply can not understand. One particularly confusing question is which of the available Intel chipset and disk controller packages I need to actually install and in what order.
Some sources (like the MB manual) say I have to provide drivers during install. Other sources (web posts and Intel) say I don't. The names of the installation packages mutate (Intel being a particularly confusing set). I believe some named and separate installs are simply obsolete versions. And how does one actually install each of these files.
I just do not know what I am doing. Is there somewhere that I can find an understandable list of what actually needs to be installed on a GA-P55A-UD7 (minus comments like - well you don't need that if you ....). I want a fully functional install. Everything I paid for. All the motherboard and OS features that actually contribute something to the actual operation. I see massive installs that seem to do nothing but make the pretty lights flash, or use a lot of cpu for little or no reward, or constantly hit the disk drives. Obscure (bordering on spyware) packages (Browser Control Utility). There is just so much crap.
I have spent most of my days for over a month trying to figure this out. I have failed. Utterly and completely. I can't fix the old install and I don't know enough to install the correct drivers and applications from the list on this web site.
I feel like applying the AK-47 override command to the thing. All this from a bad update/deletion.
I have spent a large amount of time trying to identify what is on the Gigabyte install disk and what parts of that is actually necessary to install for a basic system that makes use of all the facilities of the motherboard and Windows. My last attempt to actually use the disk resulted in a failed install. And everything on it is out of date anyway. There is a whole bunch of stuff on the disk whose purpose and necessity I simply can not understand. One particularly confusing question is which of the available Intel chipset and disk controller packages I need to actually install and in what order.
Some sources (like the MB manual) say I have to provide drivers during install. Other sources (web posts and Intel) say I don't. The names of the installation packages mutate (Intel being a particularly confusing set). I believe some named and separate installs are simply obsolete versions. And how does one actually install each of these files.
I just do not know what I am doing. Is there somewhere that I can find an understandable list of what actually needs to be installed on a GA-P55A-UD7 (minus comments like - well you don't need that if you ....). I want a fully functional install. Everything I paid for. All the motherboard and OS features that actually contribute something to the actual operation. I see massive installs that seem to do nothing but make the pretty lights flash, or use a lot of cpu for little or no reward, or constantly hit the disk drives. Obscure (bordering on spyware) packages (Browser Control Utility). There is just so much crap.
I have spent most of my days for over a month trying to figure this out. I have failed. Utterly and completely. I can't fix the old install and I don't know enough to install the correct drivers and applications from the list on this web site.
I feel like applying the AK-47 override command to the thing. All this from a bad update/deletion.
Comment