Install asus drivers and not the windows 8 ones

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I have a new pc with an asus motherboard and i want to install windows 8.1 x64 in it, but despite all the searching i have done i haven't seen a clear answer to my question. So i want simply ask this: Let's say i will install 8 asus drivers for chipset, usb 3, etc... when i finish installation of windows i don't want windows to automatically install the generic windows drivers but i want to install the 8 asus ones.How i can do that? If i don't install any updates but right after windows installation i install asus drivers would do what i want? or again windows will install its drivers?
And second if i install updates first and after the asus drivers then apparrently will happen the same. But again if i do either the first or the second windows will install its generic drivers and simply i will install my asus drivers after the generic ones. The point is that when you install a driver for a device always you must uninstall the previous ones e.g. graphics card etc...So what will i do? Uninstall the generic ones,( and where to find them in device manager there many many...)Or simply install the 8 asus from the .exe file and hope to overwrite the generic ones? So basically the question is how to properly install the motherboard drivers and how to check it if the hardware components are installed with the generic or the motherboard's ones?
thanks :)
 
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Its possible that Asus gave Microsoft a pack of win 8 drivers that match your motherboard so after you first install windows 8.1 it will find the pack on its driver server and install it via windows update. I know Microsoft do that on Windows 10 so I assume it is the same on win 8.1. So those generic drivers are soon replaced by Asus drivers anyway - but not always the newest.

Depending on which Asus motherboard you have, you can install AI suite 3 after Windows is installed and if its a fairly new board (last 2 generations) then you can run Ezy Update from inside AI Suite and it will check the Asus server and confirm you have latest drivers. If you have a Z97 or older board, this feature doesn't exist... I wouldn't use it to update...
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Its possible that Asus gave Microsoft a pack of win 8 drivers that match your motherboard so after you first install windows 8.1 it will find the pack on its driver server and install it via windows update. I know Microsoft do that on Windows 10 so I assume it is the same on win 8.1. So those generic drivers are soon replaced by Asus drivers anyway - but not always the newest.

Depending on which Asus motherboard you have, you can install AI suite 3 after Windows is installed and if its a fairly new board (last 2 generations) then you can run Ezy Update from inside AI Suite and it will check the Asus server and confirm you have latest drivers. If you have a Z97 or older board, this feature doesn't exist... I wouldn't use it to update BIOS though, but its safe for other drivers.
 
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