Windows 10: Win 10 recognised all new hardware. Very impressed.

Having sold the guts of my old PC to help pay to create a new one, I must say I'm pretty impressed at how Windows 10 handles new hardware.

I just went from a Core i5 2300 on a Gigabyte Z68 MB with 8GB 1333 DDR3 to a Core i5 6500 on an Asrock Z170 mATX MB and 8 GB 2133 DDR4. Retained the 'old' Adata 120 Gb SSD, a WD 1TB HDD, an OEM GT640 1 GB DDR5 graphic card and OCZ 600W PSU. All in a nice compact Jonsbo C3 case.

I was expecting to have to perform a full windows reinstall. However, all Windows needed were the current MB drivers and it was up and running. I did notice W10 was not activated. One nice touch I thus discovered was the ability to activate with the product key of the pervious version of Windows you upgraded from.

I remember performing a CPU and MB upgrade before with Windows XP not liking the changes one bit.

Anyone else have successes or problems with W10 not recognising major hardware changes

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DELL AXIM X51V PDA WINDOWS 10 COMPATABILLITY

Hi Bobbi,

That is very interesting. When I plug the cradle and external power into my Windows 10 machine it will charge the Axim but sync centre cannot see anything at all. I certainly cannot upload new charts or program updates as although it appears to recognise
that something new is connected by USB it cannot find the drivers so gives up. I have 2 Axim x51v and neither are recognised. I had to dig out my ancient Win Xp laptop and that recognised it immediately. Had no issues using Vista or Win 7 when I was using
that.

Hoping somebody can can throw a light on it. Thank you for posting your response.

 

Windows 10 doesn't recognise my phone as a usb device

I installed windows 10 yesterday and was very impressed. I have one problem, I connected my Samsung Galaxy 3 to a usb cable to transfer a picture to my laptop and Windows 10 doesn't recognise my phone as a usb device.