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Which came first the mb cd-rom or win7

I have an asus p8z77-m motherboard that came with a disc I assume that has drivers on it, etc. my question is do I need this disc if I plan to install win 7 on my computer ? If I do need to run the motherboard disc, then what is the sequence of running the cd-roms, do I run the motherboard installation disc, then windows 7 ?

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When running windows 7 if it ask for additional drivers how will I insert the motherboard disc if the win 7 disc is in the pc...i also own an external cd rom drive so perhaps I should use this in anticipation of being prompted for the motherboard disc ?

rindi

iAs I mentioned, I prefer downloading the drivers directly from the site. If any driver is needed for the installation, it is the driver for the disk controller. So that I unzip, and then I store them on a USB stick. If your Windows 7 Setup doesn't see the hard-disk, just search for the driver on that stick, and after that the Hard-Disk should get available for the installation.

Once the OS is installed, install the chipset driver (if there are any for your OS), reboot, and after that install the other drivers.

als315

If it will ask for drivers, you can safely extract Windows disk, insert disk with drivers. Later setup ask you to insert Windows disk back (and later may ask to insert motherboard disk again). You can, of course use external drive of even download drivers from ASUS site, unpack and place them to USB flash

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