Intel Z370 Windows7 drivers
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Topic: Intel Z370 Windows7 drivers
Posted By: Damian
Subject: Intel Z370 Windows7 drivers
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2017 at 5:33am
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" rel="nofollow - Hi, I just ordered an AsRock Z370 Extreme4 motherboard because on the site was support for Win7 64bit and today when i searched for the dirvers it's not available anymore. I have a friend who has the same motheroard and was lucky to install all the drivers for Win7 64bit last week (whithout VGA driver) and work flawlessly with his machine. Wat's happened with Win7 drivers?
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Posted By: max2k
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2017 at 12:01am
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No way i got my Mainboard Today ... If i am not geting Windows 7 drivers here i have to send it back and go with another Brand. No on who knows what he is doing wants to go to Windows 10 and why should i buy an 8th generation CPU if i lose all the gain to a bogus OS. |
Posted By: Xaltar
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2017 at 3:42am
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There is no brand that will provide windows 7 drivers for 200 or 300 series boards. This is down from on high (intel and Microsoft) not manufacturers. If it were not for the fact that linux still sucks for gaming I would ditch windows. This is a royal pain for those not wanting to upgrade their OS but sadly, there will be no legitimate windows 7 drivers. ------------- 
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Posted By: Damian
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2017 at 10:24pm
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Until one week ago on the AsRock site i found the drivers for the Z370 chipset for windows 7 and 8.1(all the drivers wich are avaible now for windows 10, apart the VGA one) and now is not anymore. This is strange since the drivers were created first and was availble for short period, but were removed, and this is bad. The other manufacturers have the drivers at least for Lan and Audio.
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Posted By: Xaltar
Date Posted: 12 Nov 2017 at 2:29am
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LAN and Audio are third party and not restricted to 200 and 300 series boards so they will be available from their respective vendors. Intel's LAN controllers are used on a wide variety of boards (even AMD boards) and many of these boards are supported by Windows 7 so they will continue to be supported. The same goes for the audio chips. The problem is chipset and display drivers as they are tied to the platform and not supported on anything pre Windows 10. Again, this is not a manufacturer issue, it comes from Microsoft Intel (200 and 300 series) and AMD (AM4). I highly doubt display and chipset drivers were available on ASRock's product pages for windows 7. ASRock does not create the drivers, intel does and if intel never made it (or won't release it) then NO manufacturer can release it. I am sorry but that is just how it is, there is no legitimate way to get windows 7 drivers for 200 and 300 series chipsets. There may be workarounds available on the net but you will not find a "click and install" official download anywhere. I managed to install windows 7 on my Z270 board using workarounds but it was tricky and time consuming. If there were drivers for Windows 7 on the product page then they were pulled down because they don't work. Intel's chipset drivers work for a range of products so the same driver package used to work across a broad spectrum of chipsets. It is only since the 200 series chipsets that compatibility was restricted (for windows 7). If something is pulled down from ASRock's driver pages it is always for one of 2 reasons: 1. The driver was buggy or harmful 2. ASRock was asked to take it down by it's developer (intel, AMD, Realtek etc) These actions are never taken to spite users. -------------
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Posted By: Xaltar
Date Posted: 12 Nov 2017 at 2:33am
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For what it is worth, I had to track down intel BETA drivers for my Z270 chipset and 7600K iGPU display drivers. They were no longer available on intel's website and had to be tracked down on 3rd party driver sites. These beta drivers were made before the decision was made not to support older windows operating systems. I don't think the same workaround will work for 300 series boards sadly, the decision not to support older windows versions had already been established so no Windows 7 beta drivers would have been released. -------------
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Posted By: heptaplus
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2017 at 8:52pm
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" rel="nofollow - Did anyone happened to download the ASRock Windows 7 drivers that can put them in a mega upload? I reeeeeaaaaally don't want to use Win 10.
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Posted By: mutissj
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2018 at 10:55pm
 huahusahusahusha full working 100% stability Windows 7 on motherboard ASRock Z370 Taichi all drivers Z370 can be found on the website http://www.station-drivers.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.station-drivers.com
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Posted By: mephistFlo
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 7:33am
| Unfortunately the Asmedia ASM-3142 USB 3.1 Controller driver isn't available to download there. I just get an error message every time. |
Posted By: wardog
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 7:49am
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" rel="nofollow - <cough>StationDrivers.com<cough> Sure. If you don't mind dl'ing whatever someone, any one, upped. meph, what board, and what driver you needing? |
Posted By: wardog
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 8:07am
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Here ya go I've known Fernando, owner of win-raid.com, personally for over a decade now. https://www.win-raid.com/t834f25-USB-Drivers-original-and-modded.html" rel="nofollow - https://www.win-raid.com/t834f25-USB-Drivers-original-and-modded.html |
Posted By: mephistFlo
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2018 at 11:16pm
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Thx man! I thought i needed the Asmedia ASM-3142 USB 3.1 Controller driver, but it seems to work fine without it.
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Posted By: badbri
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2018 at 6:56am
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Note: I Post this for informational purposes only ! Drivers (and date of driver) that I have used successfully 3 times installing Windows 7 Sp1 64bit to Z370 boards, one being the Z370 Pro4. I have NOT installed to NVME, just to various SATA drives. see corresponding * below for known issues I have found. Chipset/Inf: Intel v10.1.1.44 (V101144_20170830) *1 USB 3.0: Intel v5.0.3.42 (20170328-0342) *2 SATA: Intel Rapid Storage v15.8.1.1007 (20170913_WHQL) *3 *4 Intel I219V LAN: Proset v22.6.6.0 (v22.6.6.0_20170905) Audio: Depends on the motherboard, check your manual/specs. Note: The Asrock Z370 Pro4 and Z370 Killer uses Realtek ALC892, Realtek Audio 6.0.1.8186 or 6.0.1.8210 (v8210_FF00) driver works. Video: there are no Win7 drivers that will work with the new 630 UHD Display that comes with 8000 series cpus except native basic Windows drivers. Use an add-on PCIe card to get best functionality. *1 There will be a yellow flag in Device Manager about PCI Simple Device, that is relative to Intel Management Engine and can be left alone unless you specifically need it. Have not installed IME and do not know which version will work with Z370 and Win 7. *2 There are no USB3 drivers included in Windows 7 SP1 install disks, either: Create a special Win 7 install disk with USB 3 drivers merged OR use PS2 port (if avaliable) and PS2 keyboard to install Windows and USB driver. *3 needs .Net Framework 4.5+ for the IRST Control Panel applet or may error, the bare SATA drivers do not need .Net Frameworks and will install properly. *4 NVMe drives need a Hotfix in order to work with Windows 7, look for MS windows kb2990941 Hotfix |
Posted By: wardog
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2018 at 7:01am
AWESOME POST!!! |
badbri wrote:Posted By: badbri
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2018 at 9:04am
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Thanks, will try to post the files to a free file sharing site in case anyone wants them and cannot find the files elsewhere. |
Posted By: ssateneth
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2018 at 2:54pm
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I just want to add, 10.1.1.44 is not the latest chipset drivers. 10.1.17570.8068 is the latest. Ignore the driver date. Intel purposely set the driver date to year 1968 as a homage to the day the company was founded date, and to prevent 3rd party drivers from being overwritten by intel's. 10.1.17570.8068 has also merged in the server family of chipsets (X79, X99, X299 and enterprise variants). When installing the latest chipset drivers, make sure to use the "-overall" command flag without the quotes when launching the chipset setup program to install all the related drivers.
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Posted By: badbri
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2018 at 7:13am
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ssateneth wrote: > I just want to add, 10.1.1.44 is not the latest chipset drivers. 10.1.17570.8068 is the latest. I never said 10.1.1.44 was the newest and thank you for listing the newer one. 10.1.1.44 also supports x99, and x299 as well as z370. I will test the new in a clean install on a Z370 board and see how it works. ------------- https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V9/display.php?id=99573335296 |
Posted By: badbri
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2018 at 9:55pm
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" rel="nofollow - Z370 Windows 7 Sp1 64bit Drivers and where to get them: Intel Chipset 10.1.1.44: https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/drivers/driversdetails?driverId=H41NR https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27004/ says Win10 but is for Win7, 8 and 10 Intel Chipset 10.1.17479.8054 https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27504/ Intel SATA: full package Intel Rapid Storage: 15.8.1.1007* note requires .Net Frameworks 4.5+ https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27442/ driver only: http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/05SATA/RST_15.8.1.1007_20170913_WHQL.zip download and extract, driver only is in Driver folder Intel SATA: full package Intel Rapid Storage: 15.9.0.1015* note requires .Net Frameworks 4.5+ https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27400/ USB 3.0 v 5.0.3.42, A02 https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/drivers/driversdetails?driverId=4H5XG https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds101850 Intel(R)_USB_3.0_eXtensible_Driver_5.0.4.43 https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/65855/ Intel Gigabit I219v lan driver: Version: 22.6 https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27174/ Intel Gigabit I219v lan driver: Version: 23.1 https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/18713/ Used this to merge USB3 drivers into Win7 Sp1 ISO: http://nitroflare.com/view/7DA1C84F3663AFE/Win7-USB3.0-Creator-V3-Win7Admin.zip read the included "how to" text edit: forgot to link a USB3 creater tool ------------- https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V9/display.php?id=99573335296 |
Posted By: badbri
Date Posted: 30 Apr 2018 at 9:07am
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Minor update Z370 Windows 7 Sp1 64bit Drivers and where to get them: Intel Chipset 10.1.17479.8054 (.exe dated 11/9/2017) https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27504/" rel="nofollow - https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27504/ Intel Chipset v10.1.17541.8066 (.exe dated 1/10/2018) ftp://asrock.cn/Drivers/Intel/INF/INF(v10.1.17541.8066).zip Note: the contents is about same as 10.1.17479.8054 except for a few differant descriptions, mainly of the PCIe 16x Intel SATA: full package Intel Rapid Storage: 15.8.1.1007* note requires .Net Frameworks 4.5+ https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27442/" rel="nofollow - https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27442/ driver only: http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/05SATA/RST_15.8.1.1007_20170913_WHQL.zip" rel="nofollow - http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/05SATA/RST_15.8.1.1007_20170913_WHQL.zip download and extract, driver only is in Driver folder Intel SATA: full package Intel Rapid Storage: 15.9.0.1015* note requires .Net Frameworks 4.5+ https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27400/" rel="nofollow - https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27400/ Intel(R)_USB_3.0_eXtensible_Driver_5.0.4.43 https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/22824/" rel="nofollow - https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/22824/ Intel Gigabit I219v lan driver: Version: 23.1 https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/18713/" rel="nofollow - https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/18713/ NOTE: I suggest extracting the USB_3.0_eXtensible_Driver and using its drivers if you are creating a fixed bootable DVD or thumb drive. The drivers in 5.0.4.43 are newer than those in the Asrock and Intel creation tools. ------------- https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V9/display.php?id=99573335296 |
Posted By: kilirm
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2018 at 1:18pm
That is absolutely not true. Asus does provide windows 7 drivers for z370 boards in their website. I know that there is major crookery and dishonest market aggression from microsoft but you're not accurate when you tell people that no 300 board manufacturers provide win 7 drivers. This whole thing is laughable, microsoft is as horrible as it gets. We all know the chipset and the cofee lake processors support win 7 flawlessly apart from onboard video in some models. |
Posted By: badbri
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2018 at 6:44am
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Asus removed the Windows 7 Intel USB 3 drivers from their website for most Z370 boards back about a year ago, there are still USB drivers for boards with Asmedia USB 3. Looking at Prime Z370-P shows Realtek Audio and Realtek LAN and Intel Chipset but no Intel USB drivers.... ------------- https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V9/display.php?id=99573335296 |
Posted By: zsolex
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2018 at 6:59pm
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hi, I am searching audio driver for Z370 Extreme 4 (Realtek ALC1220 Audio Codec). |
Posted By: zsolex
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2018 at 7:04pm
| I can't find 1220 on https://www.realtek.com/en/component/zoo/advanced-search/474?Itemid=276 |
Posted By: badbri
Date Posted: 26 Dec 2018 at 8:35am
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If you are using 32bit Win 7 you may be out of luck... For Win 7 64 bit try this one: Version 6.0.1.8219 2017/09/05 754.52 MBytes Audio_6.0.1.8219_20170901.zip https://rebyte.me/en/asus/166411/file-2002840/ or https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/01AUDIO/Audio_6.0.1.8219_20170901.zip ------------- https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V9/display.php?id=99573335296 |
Posted By: badbri
Date Posted: 11 May 2019 at 10:03am
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Sorry to not update this thead for a while. An updated Chipset driver for Z370 under Win 7 was released from Intel a while ago which also supports H310, H370, Q370 and QM370/Qm380 Chipsets. https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/28182/Chipset-INF-Utility?product=126380 No new official Intel USB 3.0 drivers have been released for Win 7 since mid 2018. ------------- https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V9/display.php?id=99573335296 |