After testing Windows 8 Pro OEM for several months on backup machine, finally decided to transfer it to my main machine, which has an Intel DX58SO2 extreme mobo.
To my surprise Intel site said the board was discontinued and driver support stopped at Win7 aside from a single driver for the onboard wireless LAN device to connect to other PCs.
The board was purchased on March 25 2011 for $400 odd, and was only discontinued by intel about 6 months back. The funny thing is Intel provide W8 drivers for my back up machine mobo DH65CL which cost $125.
Has anyone got any suggestions for a work around? The board has eSATA, SATA 2 & 3, USB3, 3D graphics, SLI linked graphic cards, etc.
I tried running it with just the drivers provided by W8, but had too many issues to list.
Other problems I had on the backup machine were:
1. Zone Alarm stopped WinLiveMail sending/receiving emails. The work around was to switch off ZA while checking mail, then turn it back on again. Pain in the butt.
2. On board blue tooth would work straight after installing software, but on re-boot was not able to be initialized.
3. Acronis 2012 is incompatible.
To my surprise Intel site said the board was discontinued and driver support stopped at Win7 aside from a single driver for the onboard wireless LAN device to connect to other PCs.
The board was purchased on March 25 2011 for $400 odd, and was only discontinued by intel about 6 months back. The funny thing is Intel provide W8 drivers for my back up machine mobo DH65CL which cost $125.
Has anyone got any suggestions for a work around? The board has eSATA, SATA 2 & 3, USB3, 3D graphics, SLI linked graphic cards, etc.
I tried running it with just the drivers provided by W8, but had too many issues to list.
Other problems I had on the backup machine were:
1. Zone Alarm stopped WinLiveMail sending/receiving emails. The work around was to switch off ZA while checking mail, then turn it back on again. Pain in the butt.
2. On board blue tooth would work straight after installing software, but on re-boot was not able to be initialized.
3. Acronis 2012 is incompatible.
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 7 Ult Reatil & Win 8 Pro OEM
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Built as DIY
- CPU
- 6 core 12 thread & 4 core
- Motherboard
- Inel Extreme & Intel standard
- Memory
- 12GB & 8GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- 3 top end SLI linked & onboard
- Sound Card
- In built in graphics card & onboard
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 24 & 23 inch Samsung LED backlit
- Screen Resolution
- High def
- Hard Drives
- Corsair Force 128GB SATA3 SSDs in each machine. Plus several external USB3 and eSATA spinner HDs