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lemike09   07-02-2009 at 01:27:36 AM

Anyone have this Motherboard running Windows 7 RC? I'm building my first computer and was wanting to run the RC to save myself 100$ for an OS but I have read some people have issues and can't get it to work but I have came across a few reviews of people who have it working. Is there something I need to make sure I do to get it to work or what?

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MomoCC   07-02-2009 at 04:59:49 AM
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He lemike09, mind linking to where you saw these issues? What kind of issues do those mobo users have?

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lemike09   07-02-2009 at 05:20:45 AM
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I was just browsing through the reviews at newegg. One said the drivers weren't compatible with it, and someone else said they had to force it into compatibility mode? I thought I read somewhere though that all vista drivers should work with Windows 7 RC, is that true?

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Bynextfall   07-10-2009 at 02:54:04 AM
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I have it running on Windows 7 64bit beautifully

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Anonymous   08-27-2009 at 03:35:15 PM
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I just bought the M4A78-E and set it up last night, I wasn't able to get win7 to install on my RAID cluster, but I think that may be a fault of the RAID drivers, I just found newer ones on softpedia (not sure if they are any better than the CD that came with it, but at least they specify win7, were the CD only shows vista)

I've been running various installation of win7 all year on various hardware and all runs great. normally vista drivers work fine with it. I'll post a reply once I actually get my OS installed on this system and let you know how it goes.


ASUS M4A78-E
AMD Phenom II x4 3.0GHz
8GB - Kingston HyperX 1066MHz
Saphire VaporX Radeon HD 4890
Antec 850W Modular PS
LG BD-RE
4x1TB SATA HDD RAID5

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dpease   09-12-2009 at 07:08:52 PM
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ASUS M4A78-EM
AMD Phenom II x4 3.4GHz
4GB - Kingston HyperX 1066MHz

Just built but BIOS gives this error: The CPU you use is higher than the specification that this motherboard is intended to support. Asus's AI protection can work with your cpu with some adjustment of cpu working frequency.

Anyone have an idea how to adjust the frequency?

The CD Rom that comes with the mother board does not work with Windows 7. However all drivers seem to load okay but unable to access Asus's feature's on the motherboard except thru BIOS.
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Dave Pease

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xc_champ_mike   09-14-2009 at 04:31:28 PM
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same mobo and os here
same thing as dave said
win 7 working great once got drivers through asus

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jbart   09-18-2009 at 11:39:57 PM
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ma78-em and win7 64-bit
downloaded the drivers from ASUS and updated the ATI Catalyst controller. no problems.
overclocked the GPU safely in 100 mhz increments but not able to get to 950 as in tom's hardware article. my first build and very happy with asus and amd. very cool mobo and processor.
amd 64 x2 250 3. ghz. 2x2 GB kingston ddr2

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