Update Asus A43SM to windows 8 base on windows 7
This article is only my experience of update my laptop to win8. It means you might has different result when you upgrad to windows 8.
Please remember back up your data before your update progress.
I already updated my laptop(A43SM) to windows 8 base on windows 7.
It's very quick and easy. (I use SSD hard disk)
Just put in the installation disk/usb into your device then follow the setup wizard.
I did not meet any problem when upgrading process.
When upgraded finished A43SM + windows 8 is working good for my laptop, all my data is exist.
However, I just update to windows 8 directly and did not re-install driver so that most of driver are working good except BT driver. I download BT dirver from Asus official websit to fix this problem.
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| Metro UI |
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| Only Bluetooth Driver has problem |
Asus official website also provide some driver for windows 8 (64bit)
Please read the Note from asus official website. Please see below:
Note!! If your system contains IRST (Intel Rapid Storage Technology) or Nvidia VGA driver, please read below issues thoroughly and follow the driver installing SOP to upgrade your system.
Subject SOP IRST Please do not uninstall the Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver. User only could install the new IRST driver directly to update. Nvidia VGA driver Please remove old version of NVIDIA VGA driver and install NVIDIA VGA driver V9.18.13.0668 or above version under Windows 7 environment before upgrade to Windows 8.
To install all new windows 8 on A43SM
If you want to install all new windows 8 on your laptop, please download the driver for Win8 from Asus official website first.The device components might have some different between each devices.
Please check your device component(Device Manager) and download correct one.
I download the driver I needed is shown as below:
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| The all driver I need |
The BIOS update is optional, if you do not know what is that please ignore it.
I install driver follow the folder sequence:
Chipset -> Intel related driver -> Display -> Audio -> LAN -> WLAN -> BT -> USB -> Touch related -> Card Reader -> ASUS tools
