ULi Sata HD drivers

[Jeff Mudway]

Hello Davey,

I am trying to install Windows 7 Pro on an Evesham Vale PC with an AMD Athlon cpu but I can't find the correct drivers for Windows 7 anywhere.

I have looked on the nvidia website but found nothing.



Can you please help?

[davey6]

thats a pretty old pc jeff and windows 7 should have most if not all the drivers built in to the O/S

if your having problems with some of the hardware then i will need a everest break down report of the machine so i can check for driver updates.

you can give me the motherboard details from everest as well and i will use that plus any plug in cards you have added such as your video card, sound cards e.t.c

you can grab everest from here.
http://www.davesdrivers.com/forum/showth...hp?tid=656

load that program up and run it, then click report, plain text
it will take a while for it to run its report, once its done click send in email. ( smtp mode ) to davesdrivers @ mail.com

or copy and paste that report in to a email and send it to me.
i will study the hardware and see what i can find out.

the main prroblem i can see is the age of the pc but that does not mean i can't check up for you.

is anything giving you a problem by not working jeff ?

[davey6]

i got the report jeff and checking it over now, looks like a right mix and match oem msi motherboard.

jeff one thing that stands out a mile you don't have enough memory to run windows 7.

windows 7 will eat that 1 gig all for its self and the pc will be slow as hell.

its a ATI chipset with a nvidia chipset sound, very strange never come across that before i will finish reading this report before i post back and try and double check what this report is saying.

[davey6]

ok that was almost too easy, your bios id string just gave away what that motherboard really is its a msi RD480 Neo2

Evesham Vale PC oem number is MS-7194.

now double cross that at msi and you get this board.
http://uk.msi.com/product/mb/RD480-Neo2....div=Detail

which going by the spec has one thing of interest listed.
down in the spec sheet it say's Audio

• Azalia link controller integrated in ULi® M1573 chipset
• 8-channel audio codec Realtek ALC880
- Compliance with HD Audio (Azalia) 1.0 spec

which means the HD audio controller is built in the southbridge but its using a realtek HD chip on the end of that pci lane.

a double check with msi show's no drivers listed for vista or windows 7 other then update drivers for the realtek sound
that would mean everything is built in to the O/S and it should run out the box drivers and install on its sata with no extra input.

i see on the report your still on xp at the moment but just out of interest i want to find out what sound card drivers are installed and see which ones windows are using.
if you click start , control panel, sounds and audio devices.
click the audio tab.
just see what is listed as default playback device.

I can't really see there being a problem with windows 7 other then the low memory and your using onboard video.
windows 7 just like vista is a pretty heavy o/s to run so it likes a good amount of memory and a good gpu.
it will install on the system you have now with no updates to your memory or video cards done but it will run like a pig

if you can update your memory to 2 gig and plug in a pci express video card.

your motherboard support 4gig memory max
if your not a game player but want all the windows 7 effects without a massive pricec tag get the nvidia 9600gt.
they are cheap to buy now even brand new on ebay and they don't draw too much power.