Motherboard Drivers Question

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I have an ASUS P67 Sabertooth motherboard on my machine, with Windows 7 installed. I'm going to install an additional drive to run Windows 10 Pro, I want to keep a 7 setup if the need ever arises. I'm attempting to get any necessary drivers before I start the process, and on the ASUS website, they only have the audio driver for Windows 10, all other drivers are for Windows 8,7,XP. Do I install these drivers on the Win10 drive, find an alternative motherboard driver that was made for 10 that will work with this motherboard, or am I screwed?

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Windows 10 upgrade will install the bios and all drivers required for that automaticaly via the Media Creation tool.. The Media Creation Tool will scan your windows and inform you .
See Video below.

I have had it now for 4 months or so kept all my settings desktop wallpaper music video Steam and all my games intact pictures etc is the same nothing lost.
But I always backup everything incase my windows drive dies.

You can run Windows Update Assistant on your machine and check if it meets the system requirements of Windows 10. After launching this tool, you need to accept the license terms, and then this tool will check device compatibility. After a few seconds, a result will be shown to you.
https://www.minitool.com/backup-tips/windows-10-compatibility-check.html

I used this guide as I encountered a couple fo errors and the fix is included here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJZ5UDEcCmk

Good Luck and dont be worried its very easy.
Follow the video and install from Media Creation Tool on your desktop.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You get the drivers from Intel and Realtek; not ASUS

And when you do install another OS, power off the PC and unhook all other drives such as Win7 drive before installing Win10 or other OS to its own drive. To select which OS to boot from after everything is all done, simply use the F# key at BIOS POST to select Boot Options and select the drive of choice to then select which OS you'll boot into

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Opprinnelig skrevet av Bad 💀 Motha:

You get the drivers from Intel and Realtek; not ASUS

And when you do install another OS, power off the PC and unhook all other drives such as Win7 drive before installing Win10 or other OS to its own drive. To select which OS to boot from after everything is all done, simply use the F# key at BIOS POST to select Boot Options and select the drive of choice to then select which OS you'll boot into

I attempted to get the drivers from Intel Driver and Support Assistant. I would get the "No configuration data" message. Looked at previous people who had this issue, what was marked as the solution was people had too old of hardware, and intel no longer supported it, and to go to the manufacturers website for drivers. I also attempted to look up p67 drivers on the intel website, couldn't find it.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You shouldn't really need anything for Motherboard that old that Win10/11 doesn't already have provided for you. Plus you can get them via Windows Updates.

All you might need is driver from chipset maker for LAN, AUDIO and dedicated GPU

[SlowClick]

I've installed Win 10 (and 11) on older hardware a few times - it always says something like -'please wait - fetching updates' if it's connected to the internet. Like others have written - there's no need to get the drivers first. At worst it will install a generic driver that will work, and try to fetch a newer version when it's up and running.

[MonkehMaster]

you dont need win 10 drivers, depending on if you have been keeping them up to date, the current drivers will function on win 10 without needing them updated, but if you really want to be sure, just grab a program like driver booster and use that to update all your drivers at once, with the exclusion of your gpu driver, that should be installed by you.

anywho, i cloned my win 7 OS (didnt remove any of my other drives and did back up everything) and "upgraded" from 7 to 10 (disabled "auto driver update" immediately), then 11 (kept my disabled setting of auto driver update) and all my drivers worked without issues, then i used driver booster to check my drivers and maybe like 5 or so needed updates.

drivers worked, key activated, all my programs installed on 7 worked fine on 10 and 11 (no need to remove them and replace with a "10" version), the only actual issues i noticed were 1 program not starting, but fixed with a reinstall and the "power plan" options were messed up and needed to be reset to default.

beyond that, just make sure you have all runtimes from 2005 to 2013 and the combined runtime 2015-2022, along with .net framework 4.8, .net 5 and maybe .net 6 (some games require them) and for those who have games made in this, you might want to grab xna framework 4.0 refresh.

also to mention, win 7 drivers and programs run fine under win 10 and 11, as does win 10 drivers working under win 11, or at least did in my case, i did download and save all the installers, drivers, ect.. that i needed and i ended up not needing any of it, except the gpu driver.

that all being said, win 10 doesnt have restrictions on hardware like win 11 does, but also to remind you, win 10 support will be dropping soon and sooner or later steam will as well.

[emoticorpse]

The windows XP/7 drivers no, I'm pretty certain the setup wouldn't go through and even if it did, it probably wouldn't be a good idea.

If all other drivers are for Windows 8 then chances are that hardware is recent enough to have updated support from Windows 10 OS built in so that the hardware manufacturers don't even to waste their time going through that and offering them.

So doesn't mean you're screwed. Chances are they don't offer the drivers to you and you don't need them manually. Windows 10 probably has them built in already and will perfectly work with your hardware after the regular setup and fetching updates. If the hardware doesn't work there probably isn't any other place to get drivers so in that case you might be screwed or dig through the internet for advice on other people who got that hardware working. That's most likely the case because sounds kind of odd they would provide one driver for Windows 10 and not provide the rest if they needed to. They probably just opted out of doing that because it wasn't necessary. This is my guess though.

But regardless, as far as getting whatever drives you can I'd get Windows 8 drivers and any other ones for Windows 10 and have that. Then in worst case scenario if anything isn't working try the Win 8 drivers and see if they do anything out of desperation but I do assume everything would go smoothly.

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Thought it would have to be pretty easy, thanks for all the answers! If I go the cloned drive route, can you do the upgrade path from Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 10 Pro? From what I can tell, you can't buy the Win 10 keys from Microsoft anymore, so I'm assuming you can't upgrade from a home premium to pro even with a fee to MS. And I'd rather not use 10 Home. So I'd have to either use the free version of 10 Pro with the watermark, or buy a key from a third party, if the upgrade path isn't available.