Missing Motherboard CD for P5K - Help!

Davinator · Post by **Davinator** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:25 pm

I found out what the "vanilla" is in the plain vanilla P5K - no installation CD!

Since I planned to use the onboard audio as well as the included chipset!

those parts of the CD are rather important.

Is this the sort of thing a distributor will send separately (Directron.com) or will I have to RMA the whole motherboard package to get the complete package?

Nick Geraedts · Post by **Nick Geraedts** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:21 pm

Just grab the drivers from the ASUS site. You should always get the latest drivers. From what I remember, the ASUS site doesn't allow hotlinking, so you're on your own.

Davinator · Post by **Davinator** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:23 pm

That's what I managed to do, and put them all on a flash drive.

Thing is, some are .rar files instead of .zip, and the new computer's XP doesn't like .rars, so I'm searching to figure out how to install those drivers from a .rar file.

nzimmers · Post by **nzimmers** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:53 pm

Davinator wrote:That's what I managed to do, and put them all on a flash drive.

Thing is, some are .rar files instead of .zip, and the new computer's XP doesn't like .rars, so I'm searching to figure out how to install those drivers from a .rar file.

gzip or winrar will work for those

stange, I didn't know asus was using rar files now days

Davinator · Post by **Davinator** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:59 pm

gzip or winrar will work for those

Thanks, I'll look them up.

How would the Installation CD have opened them? Would it have a self-extracting file on it?

stange, I didn't know asus was using rar files now days

It's been since '04 that I've bought an Asus bd, so I was surprised to see rar.

Then again, that's just what I got at the web site here. What 's on the CD may be different.

Nick Geraedts · Post by **Nick Geraedts** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:19 pm

The CD most likely has the uncompressed files on it. ASUS has just compressed the files to save some bandwidth.

7-zip is a good freeware program that can open RAR files. WinRAR is a commercial piece of software that limits you to a trial version.