Windows 10

Has anybody else encountered network driver issues with Windows 10? I've had both of our desktops running it since ~April and had no problems at all, but lately (and all of a sudden it seems) my fiancee's machine keeps hitting BSODs... According to event-viewer or any other tools I use it seems to think it's a driver "less_than_or_equal" type error relating to the network adapter (Qualcomm Atheros)...

A Google or two suggests others have had this problem too but I can't see any concrete solutions - the driver is up-to-date (although "up-to-date" is still pretty old and there isn't actually a specific mention of Windows 10 support)... I'm wondering if it's likely that the motherboard is simply old enough now (Z77) that support has been abandoned etc...

For now I've ordered a PCI-E network adapter so will try disabling the board drivers and using that instead to see if it makes a difference... Any other ideas?
 
tot brill said:
Im currently still on Windows 10 Home 1511 build I believe. Somehow managed to avoid having the anniversary update install in any shape or form.

I really want to try Forza Horizon 3 PC version but it looks like that I will need to update to the AU version of Windows in order to play it.

Have there been any updates that have fixed the missing drive issues as I do have three drives on my PC. One SSD system drive which has windows and all of my programs/Apps installed and two standard drives which I use for data storage.
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u could download the ISO then just upgrade that way

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10
 
tot brill said:
Yes thats good thanks. But I wondered whether the particular issues I mentioned have been sorted in any way by further patches above the AU update.
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what do you mean by missing drive issues?

i have 10 hard drives (1 ssd, 3 usb drives, 6 standard drives) and I've not seen any drive issues
 
gareth170 said:
if your missing drives after the AU update then most likely you'll need to reinstall/update your sata controller driver
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There is a known issue with the AU update where it fubars the partition information on some secondary drives which can be messy to recover from i.e. not something you want to chance it and see - not sure what the current status is with regard to whether they've pushed an update to fix that or not.

darael said:
Is there a way to stop Windows 10 automatically updates device drivers?
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Good luck with that.
 
Rroff said:
There is a known issue with the AU update where it fubars the partition information on some secondary drives which can be messy to recover from i.e. not something you want to chance it and see - not sure what the current status is with regard to whether they've pushed an update to fix that or not.
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ohh ok. thats the first I've heard about it tbh...
 
I don't just view the overclockers forums. I look at many other tech type sites and view the forums (mainly states based) and you can read some nightmare type scenarios that have happened to people who have done the AU update.

As a matter of fact there was a few mainstream net media reports on this very issue, which is why I'm surprised that you have not come across this.
 
tot brill said:
I don't just view the overclockers forums. I look at many other tech type sites and view the forums (mainly states based) and you can read some nightmare type scenarios that have happened to people who have done the AU update.

As a matter of fact there was a few mainstream net media reports on this very issue, which is why I'm surprised that you have not come across this.
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just been reading about it, it's bad..

anyway anyone with this issue could try this.. https://www.partitionwizard.com/par...-disappears-in-win-10-anniversary-update.html
 
uncle_rufus said:
Has anybody else encountered network driver issues with Windows 10? I've had both of our desktops running it since ~April and had no problems at all, but lately (and all of a sudden it seems) my fiancee's machine keeps hitting BSODs... According to event-viewer or any other tools I use it seems to think it's a driver "less_than_or_equal" type error relating to the network adapter (Qualcomm Atheros)...

A Google or two suggests others have had this problem too but I can't see any concrete solutions - the driver is up-to-date (although "up-to-date" is still pretty old and there isn't actually a specific mention of Windows 10 support)... I'm wondering if it's likely that the motherboard is simply old enough now (Z77) that support has been abandoned etc...

For now I've ordered a PCI-E network adapter so will try disabling the board drivers and using that instead to see if it makes a difference... Any other ideas?
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Try googling the motherboard make and model number and specify drivers in the search and see if there's somewhere that has more up to date drivers as I'm guessing that the computer is suffering from generic microsoft driver-itis.
 
demonix said:
Try googling the motherboard make and model number and specify drivers in the search and see if there's somewhere that has more up to date drivers as I'm guessing that the computer is suffering from generic microsoft driver-itis.
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Seems that way - I've been searching but whenever I find drivers they are dated the same as the ones that are installed (~2013). The board is a Gigabyte Z77 D3H... Interestingly if I uninstall the driver then try to re-install it windows seems to find 4 near-identically named drivers, but it isn't obvious what the differences are
 
uncle_rufus said:
Seems that way - I've been searching but whenever I find drivers they are dated the same as the ones that are installed (~2013). The board is a Gigabyte Z77 D3H... Interestingly if I uninstall the driver then try to re-install it windows seems to find 4 near-identically named drivers, but it isn't obvious what the differences are
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If it's an Intel board, check the standard Intel drivers rather than Gigabyte's own. There's Atheros drivers there from the end of 2015. Check which revision board you have and look at Station Drivers.
 
Steampunk said:
If it's an Intel board, check the standard Intel drivers rather than Gigabyte's own. There's Atheros drivers there from the end of 2015. Check which revision board you have and look at Station Drivers.
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Ah okay, will have a look thanks - I had originally tried to go directly via Atheros/Qualcomm rather than Gigabyte but either way the versions I was finding were listed as being much older
 
It did that (stalled at 95% download) on my laptop, but it managed to complete after a few hours (however, there might have been a fail on the first attempt as it had to download all the updates twice) and it looks like it installed without any problems either.
 
Cosimo said:
Todays windows update, Security Update for Windows (KB3189866) failed. Tried to download and stopped at 95% on both pcs. Others reporting fail at 45%.

Manual updates are here:

KB3189866 x64 (431MB)

http://download.windowsupdate.com/d..._2c3e91a8162269579c8bf26a502c620d41efef0d.msu

KB3189866 x86 (255MB)

http://download.windowsupdate.com/d..._48cc54806747877357a732fee03118eb38e92947.msu

Download and run.
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Wondered what that lot was that just installed.

Thought it was chunky!

Installed automatically fine though.
 
Regarding my general dislike for Win10 posted a few days ago, I guess I have no choice but to keep it for DX12 gaming.

Maybe someone could tell me this however, can two versions of Windows be installed on a partitioned hard drive? Any possible conflicts? I'll be using 10 for gaming and 7 for general day to day use.
 
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