ASUS Sabertooth Z87 Driver Question

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PeaceKeeper21

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Hey I am just wondering which drivers are necessary to running my board. I want to put them onto a memory stick off the ASUS website as opposed to using the installation disk that comes with the MOBA. The problem is I don't see USB drivers listed and im not sure which other drivers I should install.

47 files are listed under my particular MOBA.

http://www.service.asus.com/#!downloads/c1wax

Any help would be appreciated.

 
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If I understand you correctly You are building a new computer and you have not loaded any drivers after loading Windows. I always load the drivers that came with the motherboard. They may not be the latest but they do work. I my experience the most important drivers are the video drivers. With the latest version for the motherboard the newest drivers for your video card will work as made. The other reason to load the CD is so you can do the bios updates while in Windows. If you are not experienced the old fashioned way using a floppy disk it will be very difficult. The usb drivers should be on the disk and rarely change.
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If I understand you correctly You are building a new computer and you have not loaded any drivers after loading Windows. I always load the drivers that came with the motherboard. They may not be the latest but they do work. I my experience the most important drivers are the video drivers. With the latest version for the motherboard the newest drivers for your video card will work as made. The other reason to load the CD is so you can do the bios updates while in Windows. If you are not experienced the old fashioned way using a floppy disk it will be very difficult. The usb drivers should be on the disk and rarely change.
 
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mc962

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Windows comes with it's own generic USB drivers I believe

When I got my Sabertooth up and running I just downloaded all the latest versions of the drivers onto a USB stick and stuck it in after Windows booted. Everything worked fine and I updated as needed.
I did decide to use the disc first and then later updated them through a USB as it was my first time. However, you can just go through the USB if you want and bypass the disc

I would install all the drivers and most of the utilities listed in the Downloads section(make sure you know what each utility is, I didnt want one of the wireless tools they gave me so I just unchecked the box).

However, I believe the most important ones that you want to be sure to have are:
LAN driver (else you have no internet)
Chipset drivers, and Intel MEI stuff
Integrated gpu driver
Dedicated gpu driver (if you have one, download from the manufacturer of your gpu)
And be sure to get the Asmedia driver for your 3rd party asmedia ports, I believe that one is best installed from the disc if you don't already have it

Be sure to install the sound, but that's more of a secondary thing after you've done the other key stuff
AI suite is a good one as well

And the intel rapid storage driver if you're doing SSD

If you want to do BIOS update you can also grab that to and throw it on the USB, then flash using the EZ Flash 2 utility in BIOS
 
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