Drivers - Help!

jblondon

jblondon

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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!
 
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You will be able to run a loose drive out the side of your case without issues.

I am a little surprised its installed but doesn't have drivers to any of the USB drives. Most motherboards usually have some legacy usb 2.0 ports which should never require any drivers. Might be worth checking your bios as there might be some options in there which might help too, having the bios do more of the initialization might help but that's a long shot.
 
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?
 
I find it very odd that you managed to install form USB but windows wont install any drivers for them, never heard of something like this before.

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Have you tried unplugging your keyboard and inserting your USB into that one.
 
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Windows 7 won't have native support for USB 3 and 3.1 which is why if the keyboard and mouse are connected into the black marked ports then no drives will be recognised until you've installed the drivers for the remaining ports and if the case has no USB2 supporting ports, the only way you can get drivers installed is to get (if you don't have one already) an adapter to plug either the keyboard or mouse into the PS/2 port so that both can be used and the other USB2 port can be used to plug the flash drive with the other drivers into so you can install them and gain access to the remaining ports.
 
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.
 
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