No chipset driver on Mobo website?? URGENT

[Evan_6]

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!

 

[androbourne]

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.

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.

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?

Go to your downloads folder then click on each zip file and hit "extract". Then open the extracted folder and look for something like a setup.exe and run it. It should put you through a setup wizard. Do this for each one.

Once everything is installed. You can delete those zipped and extracted folders.

 

[Evan_6]

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.

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.

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?

Go to your downloads folder then click on each zip file and hit "extract". Then open the extracted folder and look for something like a setup.exe and run it. It should put you through a setup wizard. Do this for each one.

Once everything is installed. You can delete those zipped and extracted folders.

ok last question, can i delete both the downloaded zip files, and the file folder in the download folder? heres a pic: https://imgur.com/a/e6EeEpE

 

[androbourne]

Yeah exactly. You are safe to go ahead and delete both zipped and the file folder!

 

[Evan_6]

Yeah exactly. You are safe to go ahead and delete both zipped and the file folder!

just posted a pic of what im talking about on my recent reply. seems kind of sketchy deleting these

 

[androbourne]

If its in your downloads folder. Its safe to delete. Once you install the driver from .exe it makes a new folder in windows directory for that driver. So you dont need to worry about the original downloaded folders.

Yes just looked at the image. It is safe to delete everything in there.