Windows 10: I believe drivers will halt my upgrade - Thoughts?

That option is not checked, btw. Indeed, my motherboard is in the last generation of the BIOS. So, yeah, still have the gold ol' BIOS.

 

Looking at Intel's "Latest Chipset Driver" page, it doesn't even support X58 (Core i-family 1st Gen) chipset. So, I'm back to square one.

 

Just out of curiosity, I checked Gigabyte's web site. If you have Rev. 1.0 of the GA-X58A-UD3R, BIOS F7L adds support for 3GB hard drives. I wonder whether that one, or the latest (F8A), provide some sort of EFI/GPT support. (GPT is normally required to support drives larger than 3GB, although work-arounds exist.)

As regards your X58 Express chipset, it's likely that the list Intel provides for their newest drivers isn't comprehensive. If you believe:

Intel Chipset Software Installation 10.1.1.8 WHQL Download

your chipset is supported.

Maybe you are over-thinking this. Why not just image your current OS, and install a preview version of Win10? (Preferably 10240.) Between the drivers included with the OS install, those available from Windows Update (NOT written by MS, just distributed through them), and Win 8.1 drivers from the device makers (if no explicit Win10 drivers are available), you may get all that you need, at the cost of some time. You system was high-end a few years ago, and I hope that it wouldn't be orphaned now.

 

Holy cow, that sucks and Intel sucks for not caring to provide support for older hardware on Windows 10 (these people are potentially future Intel consumers).

Should be fairly easy for them to update and include ICH10 chipset drivers in the latest chipset drivers package, I thought this was the case.

Hopefully they get a working driver for Windows 10 on their update soon, I hate having to wait for drivers and even then they can still turn out to be buggy (just some recent memories of Windows 8.1 and Intel's 2nd gen IGP drivers).

 

@bobkn Well, look at that. Buuuuut... that's not an official Intel webpage which I would avoid downloading drivers from. No, I won't install a preview. I'll do it by the upgrade so my licence has the added rights for Win10. I just don't want to install the gazillion software you see above. Oh and, my board is the regular old BIOS. That just added a BIOS update for drives over 3TB for boot and that's it. Since my boot drive is 90GB, I don't need it. Intel Core i7 2nd-gen onward introduced UEFI/EFI. I got the last generation of BIOS...


@Nemix Yes, it sucks of them not even acknowledging that chipset. Those Core i7 is pretty infamous in the Overclocking community as overclocking monsters too. Mine is not even overclocked but some people would OC it to 4.5-5GHz easily. But I digress.

Still looking for official drivers for my chipset where Intel officially states support for X58.

EDIT

On the Guru3D page's comments, there was somebody that said "Crashed for me on X58". Yep.

 

I looked again. The BIOS updates for the board are all smaller than 1MB. They must not be UEFI.

I'm not stubborn enough to resurrect my old Asus P6T Deluxe based system and see how well it likes Build 10240.

Did you reserve the Win 10 update online? If memory serves, you are only approved for that if your hardware passes a compatibility check. If you are sufficiently compulsive that may not be good enough for you, but at least you'd probably get no yellow exclamation marks in Device Manager if you passed that check.

 

I did not reserve it yet. I want to see feedback from people doing the upgrade. Also, my dad's laptop's signed up. So, I can see for myself when he spots the update being ready. (He'll probably call me about it...)

Here's a screenshot (in French) of the check the GWX does...:




As you can see, there's no problems. My problem is "Can I secure drivers for everything separately?". The only stubborn thing seems to be Intel's Chipset driver.

 

C'est bon.

I know of no standalone compatibility checker for Win 10, but the one that is part of the upgrade reservations apparently can be used to generate a detailed report:

Will your PC run Windows 10? Use the official compatibility checker to find out | ZDNet

Reserving the update does not commit you to ever installing it.

I'd place a small wager ($0.05US) that an X58 motherboard will be adequately supported by drivers that are included with 10.

 

All that it shows is what I've screenshot above. There's no other links.

Also, maybe, yes, there'll be drivers along Win10 for X58 but the thing is, is that it's not as feature rich as Intel's drivers.

 

My hope is that they would be Intel drivers, rather than generic Microsoft ones.

I checked the Microsoft Update archive, but failed to turn up anything specific for X58.

 

Point and fact.

I still don't have drivers for my X58 chipset.

 

SO, I found something interesting. The latest INFupdate from Intel contains a file called "mup.xml". So, I checked it and I discovered that it's a device detector.

So, I went into my Device Manager and checked for Chipset ID: 3A30. I did a quick search in the xml file for that and I found a result!

Here's a screenshot:




What do you guys think? It's definitely a sign, right?

EDIT

Yeah, I highlighted the result for Windows 2000. But I found Windows 8.1 down there.

 

Looks good, if there's no Windows 10 certified chipset driver for your motherboard the Windows 8.1 ones should work at the very least without any problems.

Edit:

Logitech SetPoint for Windows 10: Latest Logitech SetPoint Software - Windows 10 Forums

Not sure if your mouse/keyboard is on the list of supported devices for the updated software.