c_atiel wrote:
> 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.