{"id":33657,"date":"2011-09-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=33657"},"modified":"2012-03-22T21:57:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T21:57:43","slug":"upgrade-old-creation-station-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/upgrade-old-creation-station-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I upgrade my old Creation Station to Windows 7?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your Creation Station was purchased in or after 2009 then it is safe to upgrade.  You will need updated chipset drivers for your motherboard once Windows 7 is installed which can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/support.asus.com\">http:\/\/support.asus.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is possible to install Windows 7 on a computer without the motherboard drivers and only use the class compliant drivers for your motherboard chipset, however the performance of the PC can severely degrade, especially when connecting external peripherals like external hard drives and audio interfaces.  The pre-2009 models do not have these drivers available.  In this case we would recommend looking into our current series of Creation Stations which you can find here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/creation_station\/\">https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/creation_station\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[3],"tags":[35746],"storecat":[],"itemids":[3031,20294,20327],"manufacturers":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out the Can I upgrade my old Creation Station to Windows 7? page at Sweetwater \u2014 the world&#039;s leading music technology and instrument retailer!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/upgrade-old-creation-station-windows-7\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can I upgrade my old Creation Station to Windows 7? - SweetCare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If your Creation Station was purchased in or after 2009 then it is safe to upgrade. 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