No chipset driver on Mobo website?? URGENT

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I have some urgent questions regarding mobo drivers. 1. Do I need the drivers on the motherboard cd? Everything I've read has conflicting info. ( My Mobo is 3 years old so I figured these drivers would be old and pointless. 2. Most people say I need the chipset driver to increase performance, however I can't find this "chipset" driver on my mobo website. There's only an inf driver. Are these the same thing?

Thanks for any help!
 
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Yes. you need those drivers installed. Chipset drivers normally includes CPU drivers and a few other important drivers for your mobo.

You can use the CD to install those drivers first but then I would recommend you go to manufactures website and download all the most up-to-date drivers.

If you post your make/model of mobo we can help you find it on their website.
 
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won't windows 10 have all those drivers anyway? I never need the mobo cd when installing windows and never have the wrong chipset drivers installed. those are most likely out of date anyway. I go for stability and just let windows put the best drivers on and my stuff runs fantastic. I don't fret over 1-2 fps either.

if you still need them after installing windows because of missing devices, then use the mobo drivers until you can find newer ones if they are problematic.
 
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My Mobo is an asrock h97m pro4. Sorry for leaving that out. So what should I do. Download drivers from the website, or the CD? Again I only see an inf driver, no chipset driver (CD and website)
 
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Great haha. So what ones do I install from this website. I'll just leave the CD out of this. What drivers should I install from the website since they don't bundle the chipset drivers?
 
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I'd still do the CD just incase the website is missing anything.

From the website you can do all of them but you can avoid Norton Security one if you dont have it installed.
 
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I dont think you know how drivers work buddy.

Go head and uninstall your CPU drivers and come back to me. You wont have a good time.

If the website has everything he needs then nothing wont be missed. However, if it doesnt. Then at least he has SOME version of the drivers instead of none at all. Which hopefully will get updated via Windows Updates.

So again the worst thing you could do, is not install any drivers at all.
 
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Sorry, but you're wrong, there are no "CPU" specific drivers, then I would have to reinstall them always, I swapped Q6600, E5800, celeron and P4 on a single motherboard (look up for passmark cpu thread).

You can without issue uninstall cpu drivers, restart it will install again, and if prompted you restart and job done.

And again as You said, its better to leave windows drivers than installing old versions.
Basicly you back boned yourself, its better to leave windows if the drivers are not updated quite long.

I had several motherboards which never got issues from generic windows drivers,NEVER, 7775Dual-vsta, G31M-S2L, M5A78L , h81m-dgs r2.0, even laptop.

Okay I know that some require realtek drivers, lan drivers and igpu drivers.
I partially agree with you.

But most important thing is , what new driver gives you?

Short answer to you: Why should I update if everything works fine?
 
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download them to a directory and unzip them to folders. Go into your Device manager and look for missing devices with question marks and try the drivers from the folders you unzipped one at a time to find what is missing. I would not replace anything working from standard windows install. period.

we could make suggestions if we could see your device manager a screen shot. people who constantly update drivers run into lots of stability issues has been my experience over these last 20+ years, I only update to fix problems THAT I HAVE, not for anything else unless it's security related and I am vulnerable. I don't chase after 1-2% better fps, nonsense.
 
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It takes you 5 seconds to go into device manager and see the version of CPU drivers installed... are you trolling here? Sorry but there is speific drivers. Just normally vendors can bundle most common CPU drivers together or Windows Updates can download them automatically for you...

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Take a system that was wiped/reloaded with Windows and never connected to the internet, then check device manager, you will be missing CPU drivers. Then try running a benchmark on that Yeah wont have great performance.

You can even uninstall those drivers and do a windows update and it will find them and download the driver required for your CPU...

And to further put the nail in the coffin you can download a driver manager like Snappy Driver Installer and it will most likely find you out date CPU drivers and upgrade them. https://sdi-tool.org/ (which OP can use if he isnt sure about the Asrock website. Just avoid the USB drivers as it often requires a hard PC reboot to apply them).

Sorry to burst your bubble but there are drivers for every device in your system. Plain and simple, its not even an argument.

And yes you can uninstall CPU drivers (with proper deletion, not just an uninstall or it will just reinstall from the hard drive). and reboot your PC it will not reinstall the drivers, then try running a benchmark with no drivers installed. You will 100% get piss poor performance.

The same applies for GPU. Go head and uninstall it and be suck at low res graphics and have GPU performance issues...

So again any driver is better then no driver installed. Plain and simple. This is not even an argument.

 
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Can you guys stop the argument and help answer my question. You guys have explained that on the mobo website, there is not a bundled "chipset driver" so can you please explain what drivers to install from the website.
 
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I told you twice already. Download all of them expect the Norton AV one.

Or use Snappy Driver Manager like I said in the above post it will automatically find and download the most optimal drivers for you. I try to avoid using Driver Managers in general but this one is good and works well. Plus Asrock website kinda blows.
 
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ok, i downloaded pretty much all of the drivers containing the word intel, except the smart connect driver because this wakes your computer up to do updates, which was a problem in the past. now i have zip folders sitting on the bottom of my browser. what do i do with these?
 
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