Need help with choosing Motherboard!

Started By JohnnyBeGood, Jan 16 2012 04:22 AM

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#1 JohnnyBeGood

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 04:22 AM

Hi all,

Just spent 5+ hours reading here and trying to figure out with which brand/model of MB to go.
I have Asus P5B Deluxe with 4GB RAM, ATI x1950, C2DUO 6600 CPU that is my HTPC in our bedroom and for the test I installed
WHS2011 on 1TB HD and install went fine just it would not recognize onboard audio and Intel controller that made me read and get a feel for what would be best option and so that I don't have driver issues but didn't figure out anything

It seems like that people have more luck with Gigabyte as far as drivers.

I'm planning to buy an i3 CPU for sure and to build low power use box that I will keep in garage. It will be mostly used for back of pictures and movies and I'll be trying just for test maybe one IP security camera (possible on WHS2011?).

Edited by JohnnyBeGood, 16 January 2012 - 04:44 AM.

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#2 jmwills

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 06:50 AM

I've got three ASUS boards all within the last year and have had no driver issues. Of course, I go to the ASUS website to make sure the driver disc I have is the most current.

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#3 ImTheTypeOfGuy

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 07:20 AM

I am pretty sure you can't load sound drivers on a server.

By the way, nice avatar.

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#4 ikon

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 10:20 AM

I am pretty sure you can't load sound drivers on a server.

By the way, nice avatar.

Interesting. I've had my WHS2011 prompt for audio drivers a few times but I've never bothered to try and load any, so I never found out first hand whether the server would accept them or not.

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 10:51 AM

WS2K8R2 uses the same drivers as Win7 so no issues loading sound card drivers on servers. WS2K3 and XP is a nother story...

As for mobos

I use ASUS for my high performance stuff and GigaByte for most of my other builds. No issues with either of them, other than I cannot stand the clown color pastels gigabyte uses.

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#6 ikon

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 11:01 AM

I use ASUS for my high performance stuff and GigaByte for most of my other builds. No issues with either of them, other than I cannot stand the clown color pastels gigabyte uses.

Picking a mobo based on it's colour scheme; that's a new one on me

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 11:13 AM

Aesthetics can be very important, especially in a windowed/showcase build. If all else is equal I'm picking it based on color. Whichever one doesn't make me barf every time I open the case.

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#8 JohnnyBeGood

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 12:41 PM

By the way, nice avatar.

Thanks

Edited by JohnnyBeGood, 16 January 2012 - 12:41 PM.

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#9 JohnnyBeGood

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 01:00 PM

WS2K8R2 uses the same drivers as Win7 so no issues loading sound card drivers on servers. WS2K3 and XP is a nother story...

As for mobos

I use ASUS for my high performance stuff and GigaByte for most of my other builds. No issues with either of them, other than I cannot stand the clown color pastels gigabyte uses.

I've tried all versions win7, vista and win2003 every one gives me this error:
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#10 ikon

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 03:04 PM

This just looks like a simple case of trying to use 32 bit drivers on a 64 bit OS. Can you find 64 bit drivers for the sound card?

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#11 JohnnyBeGood

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 04:58 PM

This just looks like a simple case of trying to use 32 bit drivers on a 64 bit OS. Can you find 64 bit drivers for the sound card?

I got it to work by selecting update driver and selecting option "have a disk" All of them were 64bit drivers. Running setup.exe was giving this error.

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#12 ikon

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 05:07 PM

I got it to work by selecting update driver and selecting option "have a disk" All of them were 64bit drivers. Running setup.exe was giving this error.

That's great news. I myself usually use the Update Driver - Have Disk option.

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#13 ImTheTypeOfGuy

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 05:51 PM

Interesting. I've had my WHS2011 prompt for audio drivers a few times but I've never bothered to try and load any, so I never found out first hand whether the server would accept them or not.

Interesting, I have tried on v1, v2, and s2008r2. None of them worked. I will have to try again.

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Posted 17 January 2012 - 10:02 PM

I would not bother with sound on a server as it is not really useful. As for which brand, either will be fine are good MFGs, but honestly I have had issues with Asus software. Should not be an issue with WHS as all you need to load is the Intel chipset drivers and you are good to go.

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#15 JohnnyBeGood

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Posted 18 January 2012 - 08:48 PM

I would not bother with sound on a server as it is not really useful. As for which brand, either will be fine are good MFGs, but honestly I have had issues with Asus software. Should not be an issue with WHS as all you need to load is the Intel chipset drivers and you are good to go.

Thanks for the reply!

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#16 ikon

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Posted 19 January 2012 - 11:01 AM

Aesthetics can be very important, especially in a windowed/showcase build. If all else is equal I'm picking it based on color. Whichever one doesn't make me barf every time I open the case.

I can understand that. I've never felt the urge to make a showcase build myself, but I can see where it might be appealing.

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