Why do I have so many missing motherboard drivers?

ennogs · 2 Apr 2021 at 00:05

A friend of mine built my PC for me today. These are the specs

PC Case – Fractal Design Meshify 2

Memory - Crucial Ballistix MAX 32GB 4000Mhz.

CPU - i9-11900KF

Heatsink - be quiet! dark rock pro 4

Graphics card - RTX 3080

Motherboard ASUS ROG STRIX Z590-E GAMING

SSD - WD Black SN850 2TB M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe

Power supply Corsair HX 1000w

I have installed windows 10 home (October 2020 edition), windows updates, installed the graphics card drivers, and also installed all the drivers from the Asus website for my motherboard.

Depsite installing all the drivers when I go to device manager I am seeing lots of things not installed.

When I tell Windows to look for drivers it doesn't find any.

Does anybody have any ideas as to why I have so many devices missing drivers?

Rannoch · 2 Apr 2021 at 00:10

Looks like intel chipset drivers?

bremen1874 · 2 Apr 2021 at 00:10

I'd guess that the chipset drivers aren't installed.

Damn, too slow.

Why isn't this friend supporting what he assembled?

chroniclard · 2 Apr 2021 at 00:14

Go to Asus site, find the board page, download them.

ennogs · 2 Apr 2021 at 02:54

chroniclard said:
Go to Asus site, find the board page, download them.

I have downloaded every driver on offer on the Asus website for my motherobard.

ennogs · 2 Apr 2021 at 02:55

Rannoch said:
Looks like intel chipset drivers?

I did download all the motherboard drivers from the Asus website.

bremen1874 · 2 Apr 2021 at 03:14

PEBKAC

Look at the properties of the devices with missing drivers. Find the device IDs and Google them to get some idea of what you've missed.

Still most likely the chipset drivers. Did you expand the Chipset section on the Asus site to display all five downloads? The chipset driver is there and only slightly out of date compared to what Intel is offering for download at the moment.

ennogs · 2 Apr 2021 at 03:39

Sorry all it was PEBKAC.

I didn't notice Asus was hading some of the drivers.

bimbleuk · 2 Apr 2021 at 06:17

My method is install Win10 run updates. If there are any devices left run the intel driver util or AMD system drivers. If there are still any devices left do the above by copying the device ID string into Google and work from there. Only older hardware should really need that.

OEM drivers are quite often out of date or not relevant if the again the hardware is older. I always try to avoid OEM utils especially.