If you have an internet connection, Windows 7 automatically loads all of the drivers you will need. Once you have acquired a CIR receiver and install it, it’s time for drivers. This is the only place I’ve found them for sale. Currently, someone on ebay is selling the 8 pin version (the correct one for Intel boards) and it will set you back about 20USD. Finding a CIR receiver may prove to be the most difficult part of this task.
Best of all (sort of), it doesn’t require a USB adapter.Īll you need to do is find the CIR header on your motherboard, install a CIR receiver, and enable the CIR module in your BIOS settings. CIR is an acronym for Consumer InfraRed, is a standard of sorts that allows us to do fun things like turn on our HTPC with a standard IR remote. If you have a motherboard from Intel’s Extreme or Media series, you probably have CIR headers (some other manufactures have them as well, but it’s rather hit or miss).
So simple that I felt like an idiot when I did not get it to work right away.