No Windows 10 drivers

weyland yutani

weyland yutani

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I plan to install Windows 10 onto a new ssd but there aren't any Win10 drivers listed on the manufacturer website for my mobo: MSI P67A-GD65

There are Win8 drivers listed though. Would these work, or can Windows itself find all the drivers I need via update? I did recieve the "get Windows 10" update in Windows 7 ages ago so I assume my hardware is compatible.

Thanks.
 
weyland yutani said:
I plan to install Windows 10 onto a new ssd but there aren't any Win10 drivers listed on the manufacturer website for my mobo: MSI P67A-GD65

There are Win8 drivers listed though. Would these work, or can Windows itself find all the drivers I need via update? I did recieve the "get Windows 10" update in Windows 7 ages ago so I assume my hardware is compatible.

Thanks.
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Windows 10 will have drivers for you motherboard built in.
 
Windows 10 will probably support most of it out of the box but you may end up with a few unrecognised devices in device manager.

If you want to find up to date drivers, go to intel for chipset, check who does your onboard lan (intel/realtek etc), check sound (realtek/etc). You may have 3rd party USB/sata controllers as well??
 
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Thanks for the input guys. Based on my current Win7 install:

Sound and Ethernet are Realtek

USB is Renesas Electronics

Sata are both Intel and Marvel

I've never been clear on what the chipset stuff actually is but my cpu is a i5 2500K , motherboard is LGA 1155 socket, P67 chipset if that make any sense. Hopefully Windows 10 will find what I need but I'l have a look on Intel's site too.

These are the available Win8 drivers on the MSI website for my mobo

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/P67AGD65_B3.html#down-driver&Win8 64
 
As others have said, Win10 will probably pick up most things for you, but just in case...

Last week I did a fresh Windows 10 install on an old Sony Vail laptop that only had Windows 7 drivers for download. Windows 10 got most drivers fine, but Device Manager ended up with half a dozen Unknown Devices, and no clue what each was. I downloaded the Windows 7 drivers, and unzipped them all to one folder. I then updated each Unknown Device in the Device Manager and pointed each one to update from the top level folder. Each installed happily and I ended up with all devices working perfectly.

Sure you'll be fine, but the above should work using Win 8.1/8/7 drivers if something doesn't get picked up automatically.
 
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