Hp pavilion DV6-3100 notebook laptop - Windows 10 drivers/chipset missing!

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So I asked Microsoft support, they gave me an irrelevant answer, then they ditched.

I'll copy and paste what I said, hopefully one of you experts can help.

So I decided to upgrade from windows 7 to 10 because I wanted my laptop to have a nice upgrade and also because I liked the UI and style of win10.
Sadly, after it upgraded to windows 10, It's been having a lot of problems recently. I checked on device manager and this might be the reason why. I have 2 unknown devices.
PCI bus (chipset)

MAP SMS/MMS Location (on Microsoft Bluetooth enumerator)
My wifi doesn't turn on via FN + f12 (light changes to blue/orange but doesn't actually toggle the wifi)
I installed the wifi driver and I was able to connect to wifi. After like 5 reboots, it just says "cannot connect to network" no matter what I try.
I'm in need of your guys expertise, is there a possible way to get these drivers or no?

I do not want to revert back to 7 ( It's a pain)
Any help would be appreciated
Regards,
lol0
 
Download and install all the Windows 10 drivers for your machine from the HP website. If you can't connect the computer via ethernet, download on another computer and transfer using a USB stick or something.

If HP doesn't have Windows 10 drivers, take it up with them, it's not microsoft's fault your OEM doesn't provide the drivers it needs.

Most likely, the only solution you have is to just revert to 7.




As for the wifi thing, just open action center and turn wifi on and off through the button there. It's much easier.
 
That sucks. I had a look, I tried to install windows 7 chipset on windows 10 (it failed) and I might have to revert back. Windows 7 was just not as smooth as windows 10 is right now. Sadly I can't do much about this, last time I was given the drivers manually on my other laptop for the same problem, it may be possible someone will have a solution.

You solved the WiFi problem.

One question, What do Chipsets really do? Is it necessary?

Thanks for replying though.
 


A chipset is the device that translates things like USB and your hard disk information into something the CPU can use. It's best to have the right "driver" for it, but if it works without that then it should be fine for now.
 
It does work ok. I guess I'd have to downgrade because I just don't like having missing drivers because at anytime who knows maybe the pc might die all because of it. Thanks for telling me that, no wonder some of my usb ports weren't working.
 


I never said that. I said the chipset controls SATA and USB (and sometimes other things). If your USB ports are working, then you have nothing really to worry about. If the laptop has Windows 8.1 drivers available, those might work in place of the Win 10 ones.
 
Yes and I said that's probably why. If it controls sata and USB ports. Then since the drivers not there, it doesn't know where the ports are and hence not controlling it? Idk aye.

Thanks for your help, I just decided to downgrade because it's a pain in the ass trying to find a solution for an "unsupported" laptop.