Drivers - Help!

jblondon · 30 Dec 2015 at 00:47

Hi guys

So I've just built my PC and decided (foolishly as it turns out) to buy a case with no slots for optical drive as I figured that I never use discs anymore. Managed to eventually get windows 7 to install from a usb pen drive, but even after adding the MSI drivers from the website to the image via DISM, no drivers have installed, leaving me with Windows with nothing to do.

It won't even recognise USB flash drives. I know the USB ports are working to some extent as my mouse and keyboard are both working well enough. None of the USB ports or the network port are working to do apparent lack of drivers.

I'm thinking I'll have to go out tomorrow and buy an internal disc drive and just run it with the case open to see if I can run the disc that came with the motherboard. My question is will that even work, or will that too require drivers?

*edit* Forgot to mention it's an MSI Z170a gaming pro motherboard

All help gratefully received, at the minute I just want to cry!

jblondon · 30 Dec 2015 at 01:31

Thanks. Nope none of the USB ports work post bios, even with legacy turned on in the bios. I just updated the bios too and no change.

So I won't need drivers to run the optical drive?

jblondon · 30 Dec 2015 at 01:37

Thanks mate

jblondon · 31 Dec 2015 at 00:22

The strange thing was that the keyboard would work in any USB port, the mouse only in certain ones (which changed on each reboot).

In the end I did use a CD-Drive to install the drivers from the motherboard disc. Long way round but it worked.

Thanks for all the advice.