XP Drivers for ASUS Maximus VII Hero

[satishsinghi]

hi guys, after searching for hours on the internet, I could not find the XP Drivers for this model. Does anyone know how to get the XP driver for this model? I know that XP is not supported, but I need to use XP due to some applications which won't run on W7.

 

[runswindows95]

Overall, will be nearly impossible to find XP drivers for any newer motherboard especially since Microsoft stopped supporting XP in April of 2014. Also, which applications exactly?

 

[Math Geek]

you are better off running xp inside of a virtual machine than running your whole system on xp for the sake of a few programs. it is easy to set-up and will run well on a modern system.

you just lose so much sticking with xp than going with win7 or 8.

you can find it here https://www.virtualbox.org/ plus tutorials and such are easy to find and to follow. i am running xp and x86 android on a vm to play around with some older stuff myself.

 

[Wolfshadw]

If you're using Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate, your best bet would be to run Windows XP Mode.

-Wolf sends

 

[satishsinghi]

Thanks for such a quick response guys. Is there any work around to install directly from Dev Mgr using the files? I tried browsing to the respective folders from DevMgr but didn't work. VM/Compatibility Mode are not the options for me unfortunately 🙁

 

[runswindows95]

What applications exactly?

 

[Math Geek]

in the past i have had some success finding driver for individual pieces of the mobo rather than all at once. i have not tried it lately with such new mobo on xp but when vista/7 came out, i could still find xp drivers for some newer hardware chip by chip. look at the lan chip, audio chip.... individually. the manufacturer of the chip might have some older drivers for it.

this is a long shot but has helped me in the past. might get lucky and the lan/audio/etc chip has been used for a while on other older mobo's. see if you can find an older mobo that uses the same chips. that mobo's site page might have links to older drivers.

 

[Quixit]

I recommend installing XP in a virtual machine like VirtualBox or VMWare Workstation. Because Microsoft stopped supporting it last year there are have been no security fixes for nearly a year. At least if you're running it in a virtual machine it won't take out everything else when you get hacked or get a virus.