Windows 10 Drivers...

[aciddemon123]

Hello , i have an old laptop and i'm going to install windows 10 in it , but in my motherboard's website i cannot find drivers for windows 10 ? What do i do ? It only has for windows XP and windows vista , oh and i have 2GB RAM , do i go for 32 or 64bit windows 10 ?


Thanks.

 

[mcnumpty23]

if its that old you might not get all the drivers

if you cant get the driver you need for internet access then you will be stuck

and 32bit

 

[little_me]

As far as I know, only reason to go 32bit is if processor doesn't support 64 bit.

Yes, most of the benefits only appear after you have 4GB or more of ram but as far as I know, there are no disadvantages. (besides slightly larger disk space usage which is most often not an issue.)

Updating old laptop to windows 10 without official driver support is pretty much touch and go, it could work or it could not.
Probably best course of action is to have working OS on the bottom and upgrade from that, allowing windows to use old drivers if new drivers don't exist.
my old HP4515s updated fine on its own, no extra drivers needed and all works.
Yes, it's from.. 2009 (used to have vista, I had upgraded it to 8.1 though since at 8's release, it cost only $5)
Yes, single core (64 bit sempron, 2.1Ghz)
Yes, 2GB of ram

 

[mcnumpty23]

its quite common for some older hardware not to have 64bit drivers so 32bit is a safer choice in this

case

and best course of action would be find out what wireless/ethernet chipset it has then look for a driver for the actual chipset rather than on the manufacturer of the laptops website

if its a common chipset then the chipset maker is far more likely to have done more drivers than the laptop manufacturer is to have put those newer drivers on their site