Abit Airpace drivers

[alexma]

Hi Everyone, I have an Abit Airpace (AW-GE870) wireless network adapter (PCI Ex1) & cannot get drivers for it. I did try to d/load from Abit but got a dialogue box saying Vista (64bit) cannot/will not use unsigned drivers. It works ok in my other PC (XP Home) Does this mean I have wasted my money on this card? Why should M/soft dictate which drivers to use? The utilities loaded ok just not the drivers. I used Driver Detective to no avail also. Any help or advice will be much appreciated.

[2x3i5x]

I believe in windows vista 64, Microsoft has disabled the use of non-Microsoft signed drivers so Windows will not use those.

[Broni]

Install ReadyDriver Plus: http://www.tipandtrick.net/2008/permanently-turn-off-and-disable-64-bit-x64-windows-vista-forced-driver-signature-signing-with-readydriver-plus/

[Quantos]

I believe in windows vista 64, Microsoft has disabled the use of non-Microsoft signed drivers so Windows will not use those.

Is there any citation for this?  I'm curious for my own needs here.

[Broni]

That's true. It should rather say "Microsoft has disabled the use of non-Microsoft UN-signed drivers"

[2x3i5x]

Thank you Broni for correcting my small error 

So basically 64 bit windows will not use any drivers that do not have Microsoft's digital signature coming with it without the help of a third party tool ...

[Broni]

Here you go

[Quantos]

Thanks guys.