Abit AX78

Manged to get a version of windows 7, thing is i cant get onto the internet to register or download any new drivers because it wont find my ethnic controller for my Abit AX78 motherboard, i have downloaded the newest N force drivers fo Vista....but no good, any thoughts on this?

Many thanks

Are you dual booting on the same machine as Vista at the moment? If so, you could run it as a virtual OS within vista instead and piggy back on to your Vista network connection.

The latest nForce drivers are probably your best bet to get it working standalone, so you may just need to wait for nVidia to update them closer to the release date.

Thanks for the quick reply Ian, im using it on a stand alone hard drive...think i will have to wait for the nVidia drivers...pity though it looks good.

Have a read of this and see if it helps with regards to running it under Vista

Run Windows 7 in VirtualBox

I do this on one machine and it works great!

Hi Ian, i have installed virtaulbox using vista then windows 7...but i still cant get it to connect to my network.

Did you enable the network connection under the settings tab? I have mine attached to "NAT" using the virtual "Intel Pro/1000MT" adapter and it works great - try those in virtualbox and it should work. It relays the connection through your vista network card.

Thanks Ian...up and working and now on the net, thing is it wont find my graphics card now...i have a Geforce 6800GS...but Windows 7 just see's it has a standard card.

what version of BIOS are u using?

The card is too old, windows 7 has a list of cards up to a certain model that fall under a "generic" drivers set. E.g the oldest ATI card that is recognised under 7 is something like the HD3850, so my X1950's are under generic w7drivers as a result