Drivers for motherboard and cpu

luukbroekhof · Feb 17, 2018

Hey, I'm quite new to this website but I've ran into a problem today... So I have a pc (I will put specs down below) and today my motherboard and cpu came in and I've built it in. But whenever I turn on my computer, the monitor, mouse and keyboard wont turn on.. I realised it had to be something with drivers, because when I firstly built my pc, somebody said I needed to remove my gpu and install drivers for motherboard, and afterwards install drivers for my gpu, but I don't know if the drivers are installing and I don't know if I need to fresh install Windows again or that it is some other error. I've already downloaded my cpu drivers and motherboard drivers, but I can't seem to figure it out..

PC specs:
- CPU: Intel Core i7-8700k (new one) (old one is Intel Core i5-6500)
- CPU fan: Cooler Master Hyper 103
- Motherboard: MSI Z370-A Pro (new one) (old one is Gigabyte B150M-D3H)
- Ram: Crucial 8GB DDR4-2133
- GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING X 8G (not installed in my pc yet)
- HDD: 1TB HDD Sata III
- PSU: 550 Watt Corsair

If somebody could me help me out, would be appreciated!

DRagor · Feb 17, 2018

So you have swapped motherboard and CPU? In this case you will need to make a clean install of Windows. But it seems you have a bigger problem, as even with old Windows install your peripherals should turn on and you should have display. Recheck all the connections, maybe you forgot to connect something properly. This list will help you.

velocityg4 · Feb 17, 2018

If nothing is turning on. No POST screen. It is not a driver issue. Drivers don't come into play until the OS starts to load. From your description. The issue is occurring earlier on.

- Turn off and unplug from power
- Disconnect RAM, expansion cards, power cables, drives, etc.. You can leave the CPU and heatsink in place. Everything else should be disconnected right now.
- Plug the power cables back into your motherboard. There should be the main 24 pin connector and a 4/8 Pin EPS (CPU) connector. Perhaps others on some boards.
- Plug back in the RAM. It should snap in when fully seated. Sometimes you don't feel a snap. Just make sure it is firmly seated.
- If your motherboard does not have a built-in power switch. Plug in your front panel power switch connector only.
- Plug in your keyboard, mouse and monitor.
- Turn on the computer and see if you get a POST screen and that you can get into the BIOS.
- Now you can start adding more components.
- Each time turn off and disconnect from power.
- Just add one piece at a time and make sure it is properly connected to the motherboard and PSU (if needed).
- When you get to the video card. The monitor must be plugged into the video card not motherboard. Unless you switched integrated graphics to always on in the BIOS. If it has two power connectors. Both must be plugged in.
- Once every piece of hardware is plugged in and the computer successfully POSTs. Go into the BIOS and make any setting changes you need. Such as setting to UEFI or Legacy only, enabling AHCI/RAID/NVMe. Theses are setting you should do before installing the OS as changing them later may not be possible. At least not without a lot of unnecessary fiddling.
- Install Windows (be sure to format the boot drive). I prefer to only have the boot drive plugged in when installing an OS.

luukbroekhof · Feb 17, 2018

DRagor :

thanks you helped me out here, I didn't connect to cpu power to the motherboard ^^

luukbroekhof · Feb 17, 2018

velocityg4 :

If nothing is turning on. No POST screen. It is not a driver issue. Drivers don't come into play until the OS starts to load. From your description. The issue is occurring earlier on.

- Turn off and unplug from power
- Disconnect RAM, expansion cards, power cables, drives, etc.. You can leave the CPU and heatsink in place. Everything else should be disconnected right now.
- Plug the power cables back into your motherboard. There should be the main 24 pin connector and a 4/8 Pin EPS (CPU) connector. Perhaps others on some boards.
- Plug back in the RAM. It should snap in when fully seated. Sometimes you don't feel a snap. Just make sure it is firmly seated.
- If your motherboard does not have a built-in power switch. Plug in your front panel power switch connector only.
- Plug in your keyboard, mouse and monitor.
- Turn on the computer and see if you get a POST screen and that you can get into the BIOS.
- Now you can start adding more components.
- Each time turn off and disconnect from power.
- Just add one piece at a time and make sure it is properly connected to the motherboard and PSU (if needed).
- When you get to the video card. The monitor must be plugged into the video card not motherboard. Unless you switched integrated graphics to always on in the BIOS. If it has two power connectors. Both must be plugged in.
- Once every piece of hardware is plugged in and the computer successfully POSTs. Go into the BIOS and make any setting changes you need. Such as setting to UEFI or Legacy only, enabling AHCI/RAID/NVMe. Theses are setting you should do before installing the OS as changing them later may not be possible. At least not without a lot of unnecessary fiddling.
- Install Windows (be sure to format the boot drive). I prefer to only have the boot drive plugged in when installing an OS.

sorry I didn't see your reply but, the cpu power wasnt connected

DRagor · Feb 17, 2018

luukbroekhof :

Happens. Now, if it will boot to Windows and work fine, just install drivers. But if anything goes wrong, system is unstable or throws BSODs, you would need to reinstall Windows.

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