do you bother installing drivers on win 7?

NoobieOCer · 17 Sep 2011 at 12:40

do you guys install your motherboard drivers when using windows 7?

i found windows 7 pretty much got the motherbooard drivers covered, im going to do a clean install again and just thinking should i even bother?

marc2003 · 17 Sep 2011 at 12:51

yup, i always use the latest manufacturer drivers on a clean install.

Paul11 · 17 Sep 2011 at 12:57

i didnt bother on the last install

Deleted member 77746 · 17 Sep 2011 at 13:29

I don't bother, just use Windows update to get what it finds. If there is anything left to get then yes I will get them but most motherboards support it now out of the box.

nitr0uk · 17 Sep 2011 at 20:19

I usually acquire the latest manufacturers drivers from their websites.

Meatball · 17 Sep 2011 at 22:09

Always

. It's So easy now as you can download/run web apps from the main parties (nVidia, Ati, intel) that detect your hardware an automatically download the latest drivers

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asim18 · 17 Sep 2011 at 23:41

Never. Only driver I manually install is for the graphics card.

andy_mk3 · 17 Sep 2011 at 23:46

I only install anything it doesn't do itself and get graphics card drivers.

Philtor · 18 Sep 2011 at 01:44

Only drivers I downloaded was for my Graphics card and Sound card.

bledd · 18 Sep 2011 at 06:10

chipset
graphics
sound
lan/wlan

anything else, I use the built in drivers / windows update

theheyes · 18 Sep 2011 at 11:19

Only graphics card drivers.

Azuse05 · 18 Sep 2011 at 11:41

Chipset? Only out of habit. Windows picks up any chipset updates (inc/ amd) after a reboot so I assume it would find them all automatically.

Gpu/soundcard drivers on windows update seem to be out of date - always. If your mobo had just hit the market odds are widows update wouldn't have all the drivers, or have old ones.

theheyes · 18 Sep 2011 at 14:39

The flip side is that the ones on WU tend to be quite stable, if not the highest performing ones.

Darklord2150 · 18 Sep 2011 at 14:57

I install most of the drivers manually, for some reason I just don't trust the Windows Update drivers.

Deleted member 77746 · 18 Sep 2011 at 15:36

Darklord2150 said:
I install most of the drivers manually, for some reason I just don't trust the Windows Update drivers.

Done it from day 1 and not a bit of bother.

Vimes · 18 Sep 2011 at 15:42

even less of bother is to not do anything at all as WU seems to take care of everything for me.
The only PC which I need to install something for is the HTPC and that is due to WU failing to find drivers for a co-processor that turns out to be part of an NVidia chipset driver.

theheyes · 18 Sep 2011 at 17:19

I don't see the logic of not trusting the drivers from WU. They're from the manufacturer anyway, and they have to pass Microsoft quality control to get distributed. The only thing you can't rely on it for is getting the latest drivers.

pooley · 18 Sep 2011 at 17:44

philtorrens said:
Only drivers I downloaded was for my Graphics card and Sound card.

+1

Pawnless Endgame · 18 Sep 2011 at 18:05

Windows 7 picked up pretty much everything, but like a few said, I'll update the graphics as it does resolve some gaming issues.

My printer's a weird one. It's a wireless Deskjet 5800. Windows 7 will install it but you have to select the 5600 in the wizard.

daisycutter · 19 Sep 2011 at 18:43

GPU only here, had no issues. like others have said Win update seems too find a install anything needed.