I just finished building my first PC, I've got some issues that need to get sorted out

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cloudropis

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Mobo Gigabyte Z97-HD3, GPU GTX 960, and it's probably the only things that matter.
I have some problems in the video area. Monitor goes only up to sub-laptop resolution, my GTX doesn't get recognized (on the Manage Device (Windows 8.1) screen it sees it as a generic "Windows videocard" with 256mb vram), etc etc. I'm pretty sure all of these can be solved by updating my drivers but I don't have an optical drive, so I can't use the CDs that come with the parts.
In what order should I download them? Mobo=>GPU=>other or what? Should it fix all these little problems? Because I tried googling all of them and one of the answers always contained the word "drivers".
 
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1.0 is referring to the revision of the board, not the driver version.

Install all the motherboard drivers available, its not one particular device in device manager.Run all the installers and it should pick up everything.
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If you have not installed any drivers for your motherboard, I would highly suggest doing it just to see if there are some more updated ones from when they were installed from the factory base driver. But yes, do as the above post has stated. Video drivers will solve your hardware issue as far as the GPU is concerned.
 
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cloudropis

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@starchief yeah I ran W. Upgrade and now all problems seem to be gone! Audio is working, GPU recognized (I have yet to see if games use it instead of the HD4600 on the cpu), pretty cool. But I got a nvidia notification too, which means not all driver have been downloaded. Is there any way to check my mobo's current drivers from my system? I can't tell if the updates downloaded those or not

@madmatt so no bios or anything? Ok, just the drivers. Box says it's 1.0, but as I said I currently don't know if the W. Updates updated them too or not
 
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I was talking about the mobo, nVidia drivers are easy to install.

How is the mobo called in Device Manager? Can't seem to find it. There is a yellow warning for a "system management bus controller " but have no idea what that is
 
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Thanks. That's for the smbc thing right?
Before I download the mobo drivers I'd like to know how do I check my current drivers. Box says 1.0, but the other user said they might be updated thanks to Windows Updates alone
 
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If you have no exclamation marks in device manager mate then all mb drivers are installed - most board hardware - Ethernet/sata/USB etc are fairly generic across a lot of boards types/brands.
Windows will always use the most up to date ones.
The sm bus one is board specific - the chipset drivers from gigabyte will sort that.
 
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1.0 is referring to the revision of the board, not the driver version.

Install all the motherboard drivers available, its not one particular device in device manager.Run all the installers and it should pick up everything.
 
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