Will i need a new motherboard to upgrade to windows 10?

[Veynox]

i have a fairly old hp pavilion and its time to change the hard drive, i was thinking about upgrading to windows 10 from 7 but i think there might be a problem with my motherboard, i have a 64 bit pegatron 2acf and there are no drivers for 10, will it just fail to upgrade to 10 if i try or it will be unstable, do i need a new motherboard or this one is fine (note im pretty paranoid and if i upgrade to 10 i dont want any type of error affecting performance etc. as im on a very crappy pc and i like everything to work as smooth as possible for the best performance possible)

thanks alot for your time

 

[clutchc]

Win10 should find the necessary generic drivers from its database when it upgrades. You can download the Win 10 OS directly from MS for free, if you want to try it out. It will save your old Win7 OS so you can go back if you are having problems with the new OS. But you only have 30 days to decide, and then it will wipe the OldWin folder.

If all goes well, you will get a free upgrade to Win10 since MS seems to be still honoring the free upgrade. I've done a few upgrades from Win7 since they discontinued the "free upgrade" and they have all been activated automatically.

 

[Veynox]

Win10 should find the necessary generic drivers from its database when it upgrades. You can download the Win 10 OS directly from MS for free, if you want to try it out. It will save your old Win7 OS so you can go back if you are having problems with the new OS. But you only have 30 days to decide, and then it will wipe the OldWin folder.

If all goes well, you will get a free upgrade to Win10 since MS seems to be still honoring the free upgrade. I've done a few upgrades from Win7 since they discontinued the "free upgrade" and they have all been activated automatically.

thanks alot for your answer but i believe there would be a problem with windows finding the necessary database for drivers as im pretty sure pegatron as a corporation has closed so there is no official site for drivers, would that be a problem?

 

[ko888]

Win10 should find the necessary generic drivers from its database when it upgrades. You can download the Win 10 OS directly from MS for free, if you want to try it out. It will save your old Win7 OS so you can go back if you are having problems with the new OS. But you only have 30 days to decide, and then it will wipe the OldWin folder.

If all goes well, you will get a free upgrade to Win10 since MS seems to be still honoring the free upgrade. I've done a few upgrades from Win7 since they discontinued the "free upgrade" and they have all been activated automatically.

thanks alot for your answer but i believe there would be a problem with windows finding the necessary database for drivers as im pretty sure pegatron as a corporation has closed so there is no official site for drivers, would that be a problem?

Pegatron still exists. They own ASRock.

Pegatron wouldn't be the company that would provide the device drivers because they don't deal directly with the public. They are just the OEM. The device drivers would be the responsibility of HP.

 

[clutchc]

@ ko888
Hey, I learned something today. I didn't know Pegatron owned Asrock. I always knew they built boards and stuff for Asus, but I see where Asus dumped them recently. They own Asrock too? Bummer.

 

[ko888]

Both Pegatron and ASRock were subsidiaries of ASUSTek.

ASRock was created by ASUSTek in 2002 to compete with Foxconn in the commodity OEM sector of the motherboard market.

ASUSTek split off Pegatron in 2007.

Pegatron acquired ASRock in 2010.

ASUS was suppose to be the up-market brand and ASRock was the mainstream brand.

 

[Veynox]

Win10 should find the necessary generic drivers from its database when it upgrades. You can download the Win 10 OS directly from MS for free, if you want to try it out. It will save your old Win7 OS so you can go back if you are having problems with the new OS. But you only have 30 days to decide, and then it will wipe the OldWin folder.

If all goes well, you will get a free upgrade to Win10 since MS seems to be still honoring the free upgrade. I've done a few upgrades from Win7 since they discontinued the "free upgrade" and they have all been activated automatically.

thanks alot for your answer but i believe there would be a problem with windows finding the necessary database for drivers as im pretty sure pegatron as a corporation has closed so there is no official site for drivers, would that be a problem?

Pegatron still exists. They own ASRock.

Pegatron wouldn't be the company that would provide the device drivers because they don't deal directly with the public. They are just the OEM. The device drivers would be the responsibility of HP.

thanks once again to everyone for the answers, though i still believe i will have a problem as im getting a new hard drive and gonna install a new clean windows so there wont be any type of hp updates,tools etc. in the machine, would that be an issue or the drivers will be provided some other way?

thank you once again for your time

 

[ko888]

Microsoft's default device drivers will be used during the install.

What device drivers are you worried about specifically?

 

[clutchc]

I've got an old Asus P6T 1366 socket board that has no drivers available for W10 either. I never bothered to install any drivers for the board. Just let MS find them during installation of the OS. All's good. Did you have a device in mind you were worried about?

 

[Veynox]

Microsoft's default device drivers will be used during the install.

What device drivers are you worried about specifically?

well i can install the audio and graphics drivers myself i was just concerned about the motherboard but i guess windows will find the right ones for me, thanks in advance