New PC no optical drive

shaggy1119 · 13 Aug 2014 at 01:29

finally built my new desktop pc but i have no optical drive for it and cant access the internet, i have the driver disks, is it possible to copy the files to a usb to download the drivers onto my new pc? what can i do?
thanks

Stoner81 · 13 Aug 2014 at 01:49

You could just buy an external optical drive for like £20 or something.

Stoner81.

asim18 · 13 Aug 2014 at 02:21

Yes USB will work. USB Mass Storage drivers are a part of Windows.

Throw the driver disks away (or just store them in the motherboard box).
Using old PC, download latest drivers from manufacturer's website.
Copy & paste onto any USB flash drive.
Plug USB drive into new PC and install.

kfouwels · 13 Aug 2014 at 02:39

shaggy1119 said:
fcant access the internet

Have you tried over ethernet? I can't remember the last time I found an ethernet chipset that wasn't natively supported to some extent

Lethagized · 13 Aug 2014 at 14:09

I'm not sure about vista, never used it, but win7 onwards natively has driver support for most ethernet adaptors. If it still doesn't work, use another computer, download drivers from website, copy to usb pen, stick usb pen in the other machine, you know the score

bledd · 14 Aug 2014 at 17:33

Throw the CD in the bin, it will have old drivers on it.

Go on another pc and download the ethernet driver from whoever makes the chipset for it.

IE..

Intel
Marvell
Realtek

Which motherboard is it?