K9a Platinum MOBO Drivers or Sapphire?

Hello,
I am set up on a k9a Platinum and am also running two Sapphire Radeon 1950 Pro (w/crossfire).  My question is simple and ask forgiveness if its already been addressed.  When I am installing from anew, MSI provides the AMD Chipset driver, which is just a bundled AMD/ATI Catylyst Control Center (w/display, c++ Vis basic, etc.)   Do I also install/update with the package from Sapphire Tech?

Yes, the MSI driver is for Chipset (although it seems to install CCC) but not Graphics drivers (unless you have integrated video).

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        * Corrupted or incompatible storage drivers
        * File system problems
        * Boot sector viruses
        * Outdated firmware
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        * File system initialization failed because the system did not recognize the data on the boot device.
    Quote
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314082
    You receive a Stop 0x0000007B error after you move the Windows XP system disk to another computer
    SYMPTOMS
    After you move the Microsoft Windows XP system (boot) disk to a backup computer, you may receive the following Stop error when you try to start the Windows XP-based backup computer:
    STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF741B84C,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
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    RESOLUTION
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    Heh, heh! Very nice Microsoft, but I plan to update my computer, so I NEED to use different components
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    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324103
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    •   A device driver that the computer boot controller needs is not configured to start during the startup process.
    •   A device driver that the computer boot controller needs is corrupted.
    •   Information in the Windows XP registry (information related to how the device drivers load during startup) is corrupted.
    Hardware Issues
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    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316401/
    SYMPTOMS
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    CAUSE
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    Method 2: Repartition and format your hard disk and reinstall Windows XP

    Alright I got the situation over.
    Quote from: Roskaposti on 19-May-07, 04:44:59
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    I did try all all the above, and none of them helped.
    And by the way: after installing the new Hyperion (VIA chipset drivers), I was finally able to also uninstall. It also uninstalled the IDE SATA (I think) and PATA drivers.
    But what I had to do, was to make a REPAIR installation of Windows XP.
    So, I was wondering now afterwards: this is really, really silly. Why the hell we need to re-install Windows if we move the SYSTEM SATA drive to another computer? We don't have similar problem with parallel IDE drives. Whom should we thank here??
    The issue is to insert the driver files and the information of the ide drivers Windows should use with the next boot. How can it be this difficult?
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    - and the vendor's IDE drivers to the %SYSTEMROOT%/System32/drivers folder.
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    LEAVE IT ALONE, UNLESS YOU ABSOLUTELY NEED TO MESS WITH IT.
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