Windows 10: Win 10 64, Unknown error while installing intel chipset driver + Logs

I'm on a brand new Win 10 installation and trying to update the drivers, while updating to the latest version (10.1.1.14) i get an error with the following logs. I tried updating using the driver update utility and manual download with the same result.

MB: GA-EX-58--UD3R
CPU: i7 920

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HDMI/DVI-D problem Windows 10

Hi,

I think the chipset drivers might be the problem, I downloaded the intel driver update utility tool, but after running it, it says "no driver found for Win 10, 64 bit" and if i search manually i can't find the chipset drivers for Windows 10 either.

 

Intel Update

Hello,

I have Windows 10 Pro.

I had an update for my Chipset from Intel Driver Update Utility and tried to install it, but a message - "Unknown error." - appeared

and I don't know how to fix it and finish installing this update.

 

45 views and no reply.. atleast tell me where I can find an old version since I cant find it on the intel website or any other place.

 

This driver version (10.1.1.14) supports

According to the supportpage of your mobo you have this Intel® Core™ i7 Processor (1st generation) and X58 Chipset support .
It appears both processor and chipset are not supported in this version.

 

I don't suppose asking for an alternative is too much? the only older version I could find is 6 years old.

 

You can find versions of chipset files out the ying-yang at the French Website Station Drivers. Unless you're a Francophone, click the button to translate everything into English. Looks like you need the series 9 page, so here it is: Serie 9.x.
HTH,
--Ed--

 

If misery loves company, a google search shows LOTS of people with the same problem - no Windows 10 driver for X58 chipset. Not surprising when i also found Intel dropped support for the X58 in 2012. p.s. your installation logs show the installation failed because Windows couldn't find a driver to support your hardware among the drivers it found in that v10.1.1.14 release.

 

Thanks, I already went with the old version though because that was my only option and I wasn't sure if I was gonna get a reply here, reinstalling a later version ontop of my old one doesn't work, and I don't know how to completely remove the intel driver already installed, but I'm open to ideas..

Thanks for the clarification.

 

Here is what Intel says about the "chipset drivers":

• The installation of any "Intel(R) Chipset Device Software" or their included INF files is only useful, if the Device Manager shows a yellow mark at an Intel (VEN_8086) device with a "missing driver".
• Since the newest Windows Operating systems are able to detect and to name by their own all Intel chipset devices, which were on the market at the release of the OS, there is usually no need at all and no benefit for the users to install or update the Intel chipset device INF files (often named by mistake "Intel chipset drivers").
• Only users with a brandnew Intel chipset (from 8-Series up for Windows 7, from 9-Series up for Windows 8/8.1) or a very old Windows OS should install the latest suitable *.INF files for their specific Intel Chipset Devices to get rid from the "missing driver" message within the Device Manager.
• Forcing the installation of a not required or already present Intel Chipset Device INF file (e.g. by using the " -overall" command) doesn't make any sense, but will blow up the user's registry and the Windows\inf folder with garbage (unused resp. unusable oemxx.inf files). Furthermore the forced installation of unusable drivers generally may overwrite actually in use other drivers and can cause degraded performance or a lack of features.

In short if you don't have a problem "device" in device manager there really is no need.

 

Thanks, I figured this out more or less by trial and error. I also learned that installing INF version not specific to your hardware will cause strange behavior, it marked my internal SATA drives as external. In my defense though, the latest Chipset software posted here in bold letters and the fact that intel doesn't even show old versions implied that it was a 1 package fits all, and that I just need to get the newest version. Well, the lesson is learned, the hard way.