Asus A7N8X-LA with nForce2 IGP (Crush18)

[smokeyjohn]

this is my first time on here and first at this my son has an older hp with Asus A7N8X-LA with nForce2 IGP (Crush18)
motherboard and i wanted to install w7 which i did but was not able to get all functions like internet and audio and probably others which i have not checked everything out because of missing crucial parts with out the drivers available for them
i see here that much talk about nf4 thru nf7 but his has nf2 any help would be greatly appreciated i can also post more info
on the set up he has i do have everest so all the info is availabe to me but some stuff is a little more than i know. computers is a hobby of mine i think everyone always can learn more that is my saying any help would me great on this
matter i want to install w7 ultimate with 32bit thanks alot for youre time

[go_for]

Here a couple of links, hope they help :

http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Rejuvenating-Old-Hardware-with-Windows-7

http://digg.com/news/technology/How_To_Vista_and_Nforce2_With_Full_Driver_Support

http://sites.google.com/site/nf2stuff/

I tried Win7 RC1 on an Epox NF2 board in the past, it went without any major issues.

[smokeyjohn]

awesome info thanks alot for the help info worked a charm the link was not found but i croped the limk back some took off a little bit on the end of link then it worked i dloaded the one you mentioned and installed them i updated bios first then drivers and kept telling then to install anyways as it did not want to really just keep telling it to do each one. it seemed for some reason the on board ethernet connection would look good and says it was working properly but never could get it to go online tried several different things to get it to work but as i wanted it to use a wireless card that was a little bit hard
to do but i had a linksys card installed pci card the only way i could get it to work was by using the cd it came with and
going to the start up file on the cd right clicking it going to the compatibility tab and tell it to run in windows xp sp2 mode
and check the box run as admin.
the pc has windows 7 ultimate 32 bit 1 gig of ram and a nvidia gforce 9400 card pci
my boy is playing silkroadonline and halo2 even though it says not enough ram right now thanks again for the info

[go_for]

Great! If you are not using onboard Ethernet you can disable it in BIOS. Same with COM and Parallel ports, and perhaps onboard VGA if you have discrete card.
That will save some resources and make system a little bit more responsive.