New Build, No Driver Disc

[jestorton]

I’m building a computer (first time). I bought a refurbished motherboard
(Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H rev.1.1).

It did not come with a driver disc.

No problem. I went to the Gigabyte website and downloaded the drivers I need, went to Microsoft and downloaded Microsoft .Net Framework, and put them on a USB thumb drive to transfer to the new system (once I get it built).

… Uhm… Maybe there IS a problem. The Framework is a setup.exe file and the drivers are zip files. I can't just plug the thumb drive into the new system and download them to the motherboard, can I?

Well, how ‘bout if I run the setup, unzip the zipped, and put THOSE on the thumb drive?
Is that what I need to do?


Thanks.
gene

 

[Suztera]

It's normal for the motherboard manufacturer to compress the setup files into a zipped file. You don't have to unzip on the USB. You can simply move every driver you downloaded onto your new system and then unzip and install.
Window should have some functions to unzip these compressed files on your new system. If not you can easily get a third party application like 7-Zip installer onto the uSB and install it on your new system.

 

[jestorton]

Thank you very much!