Manufacturers Lack Windows 10 Drivers

[Aceina]

I just did a fresh install of Windows 10 on my system, and I'm trying to install drivers. however, most of the manufacturers haven't released windows 10 drivers. my components are both older and new. I have a Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z motherboard (Z68) and a MSI 980Ti video card. both of these companies lack a windows 10 option to download there drivers and utilities.

With the motherboard, i tried using the CD it came with and it wont even run, it says its an invalid OS or something. even the software that came with my brand new Samsung SSD doesn't recognize the OS. Are the windows 8.1 versions close enough? Why can't windows 10 run things made for windows 7?

 

[Suztera]

Win 8.1 drivers may work but it may have issues or not. Yes ASUS is taking some time to put out Win 10 drivers for older chipsets.
The GTX 980Ti does have Win 10 drivers. You just download it from Nvidia driver website:
http://www.nvidia.co.uk/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-uk

 

[getochkn]

For the GPU, use the NVidia drivers from NVidia's website. That's always the best thing to do with any GPU regardless of OS. They always put out the latest. Manufacturers don't usually keep their GPU drivers updated as AMD and NVidia put out new ones every week.

Software of SSD? Shouldn't need any.

If you have no unknown devices, then windows installed all the drivers it needs for your motherboard and you should be good.

Really you just need the Nvidia drivers for your GPU and you'd be good.

 

[Aceina]

The main thing I'm worried about is the Motherboard. it's had many updates to it's drivers since it was released, and since I'm doing a fresh install, it loses all those updates right?
there's a page to download all the updates, but the highest OS they have is Windows 8.1

 

[getochkn]

Those updates could be part of the base Windows 10 OS install. It's also almost a 5 year old board. It may be far down on the list of Asus board to receive a new driver set or not any at all.

In reality, a motherboard is just a collection of chips by other companies and put together. MSI doesn't really make anything on there. Audio is realtek, network is probably realtek too. Southbridge chipset is intel. SATA is probably intel and maybe another 3rd party company for more ports, etc.

If device manager shows everything installed, your probably good.