- Aug 26, 2015
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I recently built my own gaming PC after a few years of playing on a bucket. Its my first time and lessons have been learned. However now that I have my rig operational, I tried to update drivers for my motherboard, as it needed them to even connect via Ethernet. I managed to update my Ethernet driver only, figuring I can update the rest once I have connectivity, but no matter what I try they always either get stuck in installshield or at some other stage. I know I may be a bit impatient, but I've never seen a program seek driver updates for upwards of 3 hours. My motherboard (MSI Z97 Gaming 5) offers many drivers on it's site but I cannot seem to update any of them, including special features. Most notably is my audio driver. The disc packed with the mobo must not register well with Windows 10, as no options are given at all once the disc boots.
Put simply, I download the driver selected from MSI's site, extract zipped files to desktop (I select "Show Extracted Files" anyway) then click on "Setup" or the actual program. The process then locks up at some points, like uninstalling the old driver, seeking new driver, or even at the installshield. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Hopefully it's just me being new. Thanks in advance.
BTW, specs:
GPU: MSI Nvidia Geforce GTX 980ti
CPU: Intel 8-core I-7 4790k @4.00ghz
Mobo: MSI Z97 Gaming 5
RAM: 16g Ripjaw DDR3
OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit
Put simply, I download the driver selected from MSI's site, extract zipped files to desktop (I select "Show Extracted Files" anyway) then click on "Setup" or the actual program. The process then locks up at some points, like uninstalling the old driver, seeking new driver, or even at the installshield. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Hopefully it's just me being new. Thanks in advance.
BTW, specs:
GPU: MSI Nvidia Geforce GTX 980ti
CPU: Intel 8-core I-7 4790k @4.00ghz
Mobo: MSI Z97 Gaming 5
RAM: 16g Ripjaw DDR3
OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit
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