I also have an ASROCK motherboard and, yesterday after several weeks of questions and answers about upgrading an existing K8 Upgrade 1689 motherboard (socket 754 AMD Athlon) from Win XP Pro (32) to Win 7 (32), I got an e-mail indicating that ASROCK was not planning to upgrade the controller on the board and therefore it would not meet MS specs for Win 7. The board meets the specs under the MS Upgrade Adviser. What does this situation mean going forward? Thanks