Hey all!

I'm glad I found this board of ABIT IP35 PRO gurus. Can you help out a little bit of a return-newbie to this mobo?


I have a system I put together some time ago. I went with a bit of a minimalist approach and did not use the Quick-Install function on the included CD. Instead, I opted to install drivers one at a time, manually, with updated ones I found.
The user is not using RAID. The SATA drives worked just fine without any drivers. Windows Update picked up the RealTek Ethernet Driver. And Windows also picked up an HD Audio Driver that worked fine--can't remember if I installed the RealTek one or not with the extra options. In other words, I THINK all I installed was the chipset driver...


I've since been working with other boards and have come back to this one and can't remember for the life of me which of all these drivers I used or didn't use. I was hoping someone could help me out and give me sort of the "noob-look" at each of these drivers and why or why not I should consider getting them installed.


I checked the main ABIT site and grabbed all the updated stuff:

  • INTEL Application Accelerator RAID Driver - I don't think this should be needed... no RAID is being utilized... only 1 hard drive anyways.
  • INTEL Chipset Driver - The main mobo driver... handles all the USB and stuff too... installed. The ABIT site lists v9.0.0.1007 but I grabbed 1008 off this site.
  • Intel RAID/AHCI Installation Disk - I'm not even sure what this is.. but it seems related to RAID.. so I skipped it.
  • JMicron RAID/AHCI Installation Disk - The same thing.. but for JMicron.. not sure what that means.. but skipped it too.
  • JMicron SATA Driver - All the HDDs are working fine... I skipped this because I'm not sure it's needed...
  • Realtek High Definition Audio Driver - Skipped so far, since the audio is working great. Does installing it get you anything other than some fancy effects software? I notice R190 on the abit site, R196 posted here.
  • Realtek LAN Driver - This isn't even on the ABIT site... but Windows Update picked it up.. so I assume it should be all set.
  • Intel Matrix Storage Manager - I notice this topic also lists this thing... no idea what this is, but I have not installed it.
  • uGuru - Lastly, uGuru... I remember the last time I did NOT install this, and device manager had an error because of uguru on the board.. I ended up finding a way to install the driver and NOT the software, and can't remember for the life of me how it was done.


FYI this system is on Vista Ultimate 32-bit, with an nVidia 8800 GT.


All I really appreciate you helping me out. Ya'll are the best.