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So im building a new pc and im using an asrock h97m anniversary and i would like to know if i need to update my bios before installing windows 10.

The pc is not built yet and i would probably have to flash the bios witha usb but im wondering if the asrock h97m is windows 10 ready right out of the box. Please help.
 
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Pretty much any computer that will run Windows 7 / 8 is Windows 10 ready. In fact I'm sitting beside a system with a Core 2 Quad which is running Windows 10.

That said, BIOS updates usually bring with them compatibility fixes (not just for the OS), stability fixes, etc. At the beginning of the build is the perfect time to update the BIOS to the latest version. If this is a new computer, what I often do is tool around the the BIOS changing all the settings I need changing prior to installing the OS, I check temps and voltages and such. Just enough wasted time to make sure the system is stable and not going to reset on me before I attempt doing a BIOS update.
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Pretty much any computer that will run Windows 7 / 8 is Windows 10 ready. In fact I'm sitting beside a system with a Core 2 Quad which is running Windows 10.

That said, BIOS updates usually bring with them compatibility fixes (not just for the OS), stability fixes, etc. At the beginning of the build is the perfect time to update the BIOS to the latest version. If this is a new computer, what I often do is tool around the the BIOS changing all the settings I need changing prior to installing the OS, I check temps and voltages and such. Just enough wasted time to make sure the system is stable and not going to reset on me before I attempt doing a BIOS update.
 
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Really? I was looking on asrocks website and it said the h97m was windows 10 compatible, but then on another asrock website i saw that there were bios updates for windows 10 so im confused.
 
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Those are not updates for windows specifically. It's just a bad practice by many Mb manufacturers to classify all software downloads under windows versions, even if they are unrelated, and that's how BIOS updates end up in such a category.
 
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I never use the drivers on the CD / DVD that's provided. In most cases there are newer versions available for download from the motherboards support page.
 
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Actually, it's even better to go for the drivers from the chip manufacturers directly.
That being said, W10 does an excellent job of gettign it's own drivers, provided you can connect to the internet(may need teh LAN driver from Asrock). Apart from that, in most cases, just getting the latest version of teh GPU driver from AMD/NV is sufficient.

 
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Yup. This is the best procedure so you get fast boot times and everything. It's assuming you're on an SSD(you shoudl be!), but works just fine with an HDD aswell.

Download the Media Creation Tool from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/ and make a bootable USB wiht it.

Get the latest drivers from here: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25165/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-RAID-Driver?product=55005
File: f6flpy-x64.zip. Unzip it to a folder on a USB drive(it can be the one with windows on it).

Disconnect all other drives except the one you are installing to.

Go into the BIOS and disable "CSM" and enable "Secure boot" in the Boot section.



Start the install and when it asks where to install hit "have disk" and point it to the folder you put the above files in.


**WARNING: THE FOLLOWING WILL WIPE AND ENTIRE DISK, NOT JUST A PARTITION**

Then hit SHIFT+F10 and:
diskpart
list disk
select disk x(where x is the drive in case)
clean
convert gpt
exit
exit

Hit refresh, select the clean drive, and the "new". Windows will create several partition and auto-select the correct one to install to(you can also set the size of the partition after hitting "new", but you don't need to if you are using the whole drive).
 
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Yes im installing on a kingston 120gb ssd. Im confident in being able to install mobo drivers but i just dont want to mess around too much in bios as this is my first build
 
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Don't sweat it. It's simple. As a added step, after you first build, when you first boot, it will detect the hardware and restart. Go into teh BIOS after that, do a "load optimized dafaults" save and restart, go there again, enter advanced mode then perfrom the steps mentioned above.(load.. is under the last section and the steps above are under "boot").
 
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