Upgrading ASUS F8 Vista(32bit) to Win 7 64 bit

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:09:21 Z

First off windows 7 has installed and it works great aside for some some small issues. I am starting this thread in hopes that somebody else has done the footwork on this otherwise Ill do a little more research.

First after installing all of the drivers at the ASUS site I still have 2 unknown devices. I'm not sure of all the drivers I need to install because on their site (asus) it appears I have to get drivers from different releases of windows. Ill probably call them this afternoon or next week to see what drivers I need.

Second my computer properties doesn't display my computer make/model information, it says unknown, is there a way I can fix that?

Third: The media buttons and the fn keys aren't working. I think that could be an asus driver issue.

So that is where I sit, any advice would be appreciated.
mbs

Upgrading ASUS F8 Vista(32bit) to Win 7 64 bit

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:42:19 Z

I'm down to one unknown device. For the most part I found the drivers on nescessary, asus's site. After downloading drivers and trying them out I was able to get my webcam, sound card, touchpad all to work. NOTE: the ATK devices and drivers did not work Ill explain later. I installed the ati drivers from the ati website and the fingerprint reader was a little more obscure, but it turns out it is an authentec fingerprint reader and I found a link to Windows 7 authentec fingerprint soft on these very forums.

http://www.authentec.com/win7beta64.cfm

Works great, I wouldn't bother with the ones provided by asus though they worked.

ATK was the larger trouble I tried the ATK hot keys software and it wouldn't install because of an error, missing atk0100 driver, sorry I didn't copy it at the time. I looked around and found a link on a forum:

http://redirectingat.com/?id=525X832&url=http%3A//downloadmirror.intel.com/df-support/12669/eng/ATKDrv_V1043.2.15.66_logo_Vista64.zip

There is the link for the driver, which wouldn't not install using the installation program, but I went to the device manager, and updated the driver with the contents of the zip file and it works great now, then I was able to install the ATK hot keys, so now my fn keys and media type keys work. I have not installed all of the atk tools just for preference. The forum link will have more information if you haven't found all your drivers yet.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=100357

So my last unknown device is the infrared reader. ACPI\ITE8708, Ill reply if I find it or if anybody else has...

thanks

mbs

Upgrading ASUS F8 Vista(32bit) to Win 7 64 bit

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:26:09 Z

Okay, Everything is setup. I actually ended up going to realtek to download the audio drivers, they have a windows 7 x64 version which work great. ACPI\IE8708 driver I found on another forum with a link to some strange fileshare program. The driver appears to work fine. Hopefully ASUS will make this a little simpler in the near future since they are releasing their computers with the windows 7 upgrade.

The forum with the drivers was here:

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?board_id=3&model=X55Sv&id=20080704205520750&page=2&SLanguage=en-us

http://rapidshare.de/files/40111155/ITE-8708_WinXP_x86___x64_drivers.zip.html

I would like to find a more secure source for thes drivers though.

mbs