I just finished the W7 install, and have installed nothing on this machine other than the W7 OS. Step 2 in my system install was to use the CD that came with the mobo to try and update the Chipset, graphics media accelerator, LAN, and audio.
So the Intel Express Installer worked well for you? I popped my old ethernet card into the machine so that I could get online and make posts, but the chipset, Graphics media accelerator, LAN, and audio all fail at 1%.