Windows 7 on Asus P5N32-e SLI

[Mauro Sacchetto]

I've a (rather old) Asus P5N32-e SLI. When I try to install
Windows 7 from DVD, I receive the message:
"It lacks a DVD or CD driver",
and installation aborts. I red a lot of messages in the net,
but I'm rather confused. I don't understand if my motherboard
is supported, because the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor
doesn't find any trouble.

Thanx M.

 

[Dennis Pack]

I've a (rather old) Asus P5N32-e SLI. When I try to install
Windows 7 from DVD, I receive the message:
"It lacks a DVD or CD driver",
and installation aborts. I red a lot of messages in the net,
but I'm rather confused. I don't understand if my motherboard
is supported, because the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor
doesn't find any trouble.

Thanx M.

Mauro:
Unfortunately Asus hasn't written the drivers for this mother
board yet. You have to contact Asus for the drivers. Have a great day.

Dennis Pack

 

[c_atiel]

I believe (I am too lazy to look it up) ASUS P5 motherboards are socket 775
with Intel chipsets: these are compatible with the Win 7 installation DVD. I
have a two year old (ancient!) ASUS P5 motherboard (different model) that
has had several flavors of Win 7 installed.
Intel socket 775 chipset motherboards are still being sold in new machines
factory loaded with Win7. Intel chipset drivers are the same regardless of
mobo manufacturer. Intel writes them, not the motherboard maker. Intel is
likely to have more up to date drivers on its website than ASUS. Ditto for
NVidia.
You are having some other issue and need to supply more information.
Core system CD/DVD drivers are universal and the ones on the Win7
installation DVD should work with whatever brand optical drive you have. The
error message about DVD/CD drivers should not be related to the motherboard.
Are you upgrading from XP?
Is there an activated version of a qualifying OS on the computer now?
Are you trying to install an upgrade DVD from boot rather than through an
existing version of Windows?
How far do you get in the installation process?
Are you certain there are no hardware problems in your computer?
One trick is to copy the Win7 install DVD to your hard drive and install
from that. Voila, no optical drive needed! You can also make a bootable USB
thumb drive.

 

[housetrained]

I believe (I am too lazy to look it up) ASUS P5 motherboards are socket
775 with Intel chipsets: these are compatible with the Win 7 installation
DVD. I have a two year old (ancient!) ASUS P5 motherboard (different
model) that has had several flavors of Win 7 installed.
Intel socket 775 chipset motherboards are still being sold in new machines
factory loaded with Win7. Intel chipset drivers are the same regardless of
mobo manufacturer. Intel writes them, not the motherboard maker. Intel is
likely to have more up to date drivers on its website than ASUS. Ditto for
NVidia.
You are having some other issue and need to supply more information.
Core system CD/DVD drivers are universal and the ones on the Win7
installation DVD should work with whatever brand optical drive you have.
The error message about DVD/CD drivers should not be related to the
motherboard.
Are you upgrading from XP?
Is there an activated version of a qualifying OS on the computer now?
Are you trying to install an upgrade DVD from boot rather than through an
existing version of Windows?
How far do you get in the installation process?
Are you certain there are no hardware problems in your computer?
One trick is to copy the Win7 install DVD to your hard drive and install
from that. Voila, no optical drive needed! You can also make a bootable
USB thumb drive.

agreed, win 7 32 bit is running on my sons P5N32-e SLI with no problems

 

[Mauro Sacchetto]

I believe (I am too lazy to look it up) ASUS P5 motherboards are socket
775 with Intel chipsets: these are compatible with the Win 7 installation
DVD. I have a two year old (ancient!) ASUS P5 motherboard (different
model) that has had several flavors of Win 7 installed.

Yes, 775 socket.

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Core system CD/DVD drivers are universal and the ones on the Win7

DVD is a Pioneer DVR 112 (in IDE mode from BIOS)
and works very fine with XP and Linux.

installation DVD should work with whatever brand optical drive you have.
The error message about DVD/CD drivers should not be related to the
motherboard. Are you upgrading from XP?

I've an XP installation on my Windows partition.
Do u think it better to format before installing Windows 7 ?
In any case I didn't try an upgrade, but a new installation.

Is there an activated version of a qualifying OS on the computer now?

As before, Windows XP ServicePack 3.

Are you trying to install an upgrade DVD from boot rather than through an
existing version of Windows?

No, the DVD is a complete and new Windows 7.

How far do you get in the installation process?

It begins, asks me to choose the language,
and after is no more able to continue. The installation program
tells me that a DVD/CD driver id lacking.
At all, 2 or 3 minute.

Are you certain there are no hardware problems in your computer?

Yes. It work without any problem with XP, Debian and Slackware.

One trick is to copy the Win7 install DVD to your hard drive and install
from that. Voila, no optical drive needed! You can also make a bootable
USB thumb drive.

From XP?

Thanx!
M.

 

[Robert Sudbury]

http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool

.... and on that page is the link:

http://images2.store.microsoft.com/prod/clustera/framework/w7udt/1.0/en-us/Windows7-USB-DVD-tool.exe

I believe (I am too lazy to look it up) ASUS P5 motherboards are socket
775 with Intel chipsets: these are compatible with the Win 7 installation
DVD. I have a two year old (ancient!) ASUS P5 motherboard (different
model) that has had several flavors of Win 7 installed.

Yes, 775 socket.

[cut]

Core system CD/DVD drivers are universal and the ones on the Win7

DVD is a Pioneer DVR 112 (in IDE mode from BIOS)
and works very fine with XP and Linux.

installation DVD should work with whatever brand optical drive you have.
The error message about DVD/CD drivers should not be related to the
motherboard. Are you upgrading from XP?

I've an XP installation on my Windows partition.
Do u think it better to format before installing Windows 7 ?
In any case I didn't try an upgrade, but a new installation.

Is there an activated version of a qualifying OS on the computer now?

As before, Windows XP ServicePack 3.

Are you trying to install an upgrade DVD from boot rather than through an
existing version of Windows?

No, the DVD is a complete and new Windows 7.

How far do you get in the installation process?

It begins, asks me to choose the language,
and after is no more able to continue. The installation program
tells me that a DVD/CD driver id lacking.
At all, 2 or 3 minute.

Are you certain there are no hardware problems in your computer?

Yes. It work without any problem with XP, Debian and Slackware.

One trick is to copy the Win7 install DVD to your hard drive and install
from that. Voila, no optical drive needed! You can also make a bootable
USB thumb drive.

From XP?

Thanx!
M.


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