Question Old motherboard drivers not obsolete?

[KublaiKhan]

Switched from Windows 7 Home to Windows 10 Pro with a complete wipe of C: and new installation off USB.

I have not installed any of the old motherboard drivers yet, because I'm not sure how that will go. The motherboard is a venerable EVGA X58 SLI3.

Weird stuff going on, now:

1. External HDDs connected to a USB 3 PCI adapter worked yesterday, but disappeared, today. I had to switch to USB ports on the motherboard, directly.
2. Windows 10 does not recognize both of my old SATA DVD optical drives. BIOS sees them, but Windows only sees one.
3. Before the upgrade, I enjoyed sound piped through both my external speakers and headphones simultaneously. If I connect headphones, the speakers cut off. If I set the speakers as default, the headphones cut out. Online clowns describe sound settings I do not see in my Windows installation. The old Realtek drivers had the ability to pipe sound to speakers and headphones simultaneously. I'm not so sure about the Microsoft drivers installed along with Windows 10.
4. Even with a "clean" installation of the newest NVIDIA graphics drivers, with the NVIDIA High Definition Audio driver excluded, that damn thing was still in Device Manager! I swear Windows 10 reinstalls it with every boot.

The motherboard drivers were last updated in 2017. Are they viable today?

• Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit
• Intel Core i7-950
• EVGA 131-GT-E767-TR LGA 1366 SLI3 (BIOS v83 08-31-2011)
• CORSAIR Vengeance 12GB CAS 9 (triple channel DDR3)
• MSI VENTUS XS GTX 1660 Super 6GB
• Intel PRO/1000 GT Desktop Adapter
• Antec TPQ-1000 TRUEPOWER QUATTRO 1000 watt (circa 2011)
• Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200 for C:
• ASUS PB278Q 27"

 

[SkyNetRising]

Windows 10 does not recognize both of my old SATA DVD optical drives. BIOS sees them, but Windows only sees one.

Two of onboard sata ports are provided with Marvell 88SE9128 sata controller.
Those require a driver to operate.

Even with a "clean" installation of the newest NVIDIA graphics drivers, with the NVIDIA High Definition Audio driver excluded, that damn thing was still in Device Manager! I swear Windows 10 reinstalls it with every boot.

Nvidia High definition audio device is a part of your graphics card.
It's a physical component (not virtual). It requires a driver (even if you're not playing audio via HDMI/DisplayPort).

 

[stonecarver]

I agree most of the time you can use 7 drivers on 10 and like SkynetRising said get the driver installed for the sata's.

If I remember right Marvell came out with an updated driver for the 1366's that fixed some issues the original was having.

 

[KublaiKhan]

Hey, if you can share a link to said driver, that would be fantastic!

I think I'll reinstall yet another time. I remember having to jump through hoops with XP much the same way. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

 

[stonecarver]

Hey, if you can share a link to said driver, that would be fantastic!

I got mine from Motherboard manufacture I have an ASUS P6X59D-Premium

https://www.asus.com/supportonly/p6x58d_premium/helpdesk_download/
Beta Version 03-30-2011 date of driver

So also check you motherboards drivers page if it also had an update.

 

[KublaiKhan]

Thanks! EVGA doesn't show anything I've not already downloaded. I'm gonna give another installation a shot, and install the motherboard drivers afterwards, just like we used to do.

I wonder how it will work out . . . .

 

[KublaiKhan]

Yargh!

So, one of the SATA ports went down. Maybe the cable got yanked one time too many. I had one port to spare, as it was connected to the front case SATA header, which I never use. After swapping some cables around, both optical drives are recognized in Windows 10.

Those drivers were not all updated in 2017. I think that's when I installed Windows 7 and downloaded new drivers from EVGA.

The Intel chipset driver was updated 05-07-2015. Probably to ensure compatibility with the new Window 10 operating system?

The Realtek audio driver was updated in 2014. There is a new driver for Windows 10 at Realtec, but I have not installed it.

I have Marvell_SATA_V1.2.0.1047, but I don't know where it came from—it did not come from EVGA.

The others date to 2011.