Driver software question

[shankly1985]

guys is they any well trusted driver software out there? I having issue picking up some drivers for my Sata and USB, for windows 8.1 my motherboard is windows 8 only Asus P8z77 ws and its drivers are bit out of date.

Also what is with Intel Chipset? I download the auto checker and it shows they is a latest version to install but it always fails.. So on my fresh install I try and run it again this time it runs but only installs onto two devices on my system.

Leaving everything else with out dated Microsoft drivers from 2006.

 

[Stoner81]

Try Snappy Driver Installer it uses the driver packs from DriverPacks.net which it auto downloads when you first run the application though you can pick which ones to use. It is totally free to use too!

Stoner81.

 

[Stoner81]

One I forgot about is Slimdrivers which can be used for free though it takes a while but it might help you out

Stoner81.

 

[chaosophy]

Also what is with Intel Chipset? ... only installs onto two devices on my system.

Leaving everything else with out dated Microsoft drivers from 2006.

The Intel drivers have always been a bit odd but there are cmd line switches that will force it to install more Intel drivers over the MS ones.

Run the package once with -? at the end and it should bring up a window with the various switches. Been a while since I've done mine but look for switches like -overall -overwrite, or anything that points to it force installing more drivers.

It's debatable how much difference they make over the standard MS ones, as if they where that much different you'd think it'd use them. But for for completions sake I always tend to do mine this way.

edit: You can try running this in PowerShell before/after trying the above to see if you get much difference.

gwmi Win32_PnPSignedDriver | where {$_.DeviceName -like "*Intel*"} | select DeviceName,DriverVersion,DriverDate,DriverProviderName | sort DeviceName | ft -a