Windows 10 Doesn't Work on Older Motherboards?

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I was going to try W10 but it looks like it doesn't work on my motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V. No motherboard/chipset drivers for it on ASUS site and it's not on the Asus list of W10 boards:
http://www.asus.com/microsite/mb/Windows_10/

Wow, I honestly never thought that would be the problem with W10! So is that it then? Windows 10 doesn't work on older mobos? Why not?
 
yes a quick google shows articles like this and just need to load the win7 chip set driver like I needed to do for an older Dell MB
[prepare the drivers on a usb, clean install of win 10, do not let it access internet, install your drivers, disable driver update then turn internet access on for win 10 auth etc]
 
Considering I'm using a Z68 board as well I can tell you it's just Asus being lazy. Windows 10 found the chipset drivers automatically anyway, and looking at your board 10 will automatically find and install everything else (sound, USB, network, etc) for you.
 
Orcvader said:
Considering I'm using a Z68 board as well I can tell you it's just Asus being lazy. Windows 10 found the chipset drivers automatically anyway, and looking at your board 10 will automatically find and install everything else (sound, USB, network, etc) for you.
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Same here, I have this board and it works fine without any effort from me.
 
Asus P8Z68-V
I have this very board and W10 works no problem. The only thing found to be incompatible was the Asus W7 Bluetooth Suite which W10 subsequently removed.
 
I have the P8Z68-PRO and it works OK with drivers installed automatically.

I do have intermittent issues though, may be something misconfigured my end but I'm fairly certain it's related to Windows 10s power saving / fast start-up modes. Never had these issues in 7 or 8. USB ports intermittently don't work on boot, requiring you to disable and then re-enable the port through Device Manager... bit of a pain if its the keyboard or mouse that's decided not to work! Also sometimes it just fails to start-up, it sits on a black screen for a few minutes before rebooting and then starting OK. The event logs show an unspecified failure of fast start-up when this happens.
 
malachi said:
Yes, usually means the drivers are built into Windows 10 already.
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Or that the manufacturer just hasn't bothered to package a specific Driver for that version of Windows and the previous versions work just fine.

Everything from Vista onwards is broadly built on the same underpinnings, so drivers from previous versions are fine, if needed at all.
 
I'm yet to find anything from the Core2Duo era (circa 2007) forwards which hasn't had all of the drivers picked up automatically.

Should any drivers be missing I just use Snappy Driver Installer and all is well. Bottom line is if it works with Windows 7 or 8 then it'll run Windows 10.
 
andshrew said:
I have the P8Z68-PRO and it works OK with drivers installed automatically.

I do have intermittent issues though, may be something misconfigured my end but I'm fairly certain it's related to Windows 10s power saving / fast start-up modes. Never had these issues in 7 or 8. USB ports intermittently don't work on boot, requiring you to disable and then re-enable the port through Device Manager... bit of a pain if its the keyboard or mouse that's decided not to work! Also sometimes it just fails to start-up, it sits on a black screen for a few minutes before rebooting and then starting OK. The event logs show an unspecified failure of fast start-up when this happens.
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Are there still all these bugs with W10? I thought it would be pretty much fixed by now, that's why I left it til now to up?grade.
 
Rezident said:
Are there still all these bugs with W10? I thought it would be pretty much fixed by now, that's why I left it til now to up?grade.
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Depends if it was an upgrade with everything from 7/8/8.1 carried over or it was a fresh 10 install. Some PCs I noticed that were upgrades had some bugs but a clean install solved them.
 
andshrew said:
I have the P8Z68-PRO and it works OK with drivers installed automatically.

I do have intermittent issues though, may be something misconfigured my end but I'm fairly certain it's related to Windows 10s power saving / fast start-up modes. Never had these issues in 7 or 8. USB ports intermittently don't work on boot, requiring you to disable and then re-enable the port through Device Manager... bit of a pain if its the keyboard or mouse that's decided not to work! Also sometimes it just fails to start-up, it sits on a black screen for a few minutes before rebooting and then starting OK. The event logs show an unspecified failure of fast start-up when this happens.
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Disable the hybrid shutdown and you'll probably find it'll work fine. These type of issues are usually driver related but could be bios related.

Open CMD as admin, the command is powercfg -h off

Reboot twice and see how you get on.
 
I have tested Win10 on all my PCs and it has gone on every one of them.

The only thing I can fault with 10 is the Audio issues with a couple of cards, and some issues with some sofware, but other than that, its fine.
 
I installed it on my p8z68-v, and my usb keyboard didnt work, I have to changed where it looked for the driver in the system menu, i had problems with the update not installling and kept trying on every startup, so I got fed up with it and rolled back to Windows 7. Then I had to re setup my keyboard and also had to re install my network driver.I don't know why it messed them up.
10 also kept installing parts of the Nvidia drivers I didnt want, I uninstalled them and it just re downloaded them on next boot, even though I disabled that feature.
Otherwise it ran quite well and started quite quickly and after getting rid of all the bloatware and disabling feature, I might go back to it next year when I get my new build, they might have disabled the stupid compulsory automatic update on startup, but I doubt it.
 
Rezident said:
I was going to try W10 but it looks like it doesn't work on my motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V. No motherboard/chipset drivers for it on ASUS site and it's not on the Asus list of W10 boards:
http://www.asus.com/microsite/mb/Windows_10/

Wow, I honestly never thought that would be the problem with W10! So is that it then? Windows 10 doesn't work on older mobos? Why not?
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You are way wrong!!!!!..I'm using an Asus Z68-V with Win10 Pro x64(with OC 2500K [email protected]) as I type this post, as for drivers, Windows should take care of most of them however rest you can get from Intel ie LAN driver, chipset etc since they are newer then Asus ones.

Btw been using Win10 on my Asus Z68-V since day one and right up to now through all the updates including Anniversary version.

As to my Win10 Pro x64 and Asus Z68-V , no issues at all, everything works fine, very stable which is what I need for my gaming :).
 
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