Intel chipset driver issues.

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  1. dmxdex

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    I have just got a new pc.

    its a haswell system an i5 the mother board is a msi z97 g55 sli.

    When i update the drivers, the drivers still state they are from 2006.

    It seems my intel drivers are not updating properly.

    I got the latest drivers from the intel site instead of the ones from the disk or msi website.
     
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    I tried setting overall to the end of the target but the date of the drivers is still 2006
     
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    Try -Overwrite.

    Seems to have worked for me, you could try updating them manually from device manager.
     

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    I dont know how to update them manually.
     
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    You will need to open device manager and IIRC you need to find anything listed as INTEL(R) under system devices. Then open each individually and click on the Driver tab at the top and click on Update Driver - you can either use Windows Update or point it to the INF file for the driver (you will want to download the Zipped version of the driver / or extract the drivers).
     
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    If i download the zip version is just has the setup file inside.

    So i extracted it to desktop, then tried manually updating like you said and still the date reads 2006 for the drivers in the manager

    Do i have to extract the files from the setup somehow?

    I also tried overwrite but it says one or more command line wasnt recognised
     
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    Anyone?
     
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    I've noticed the same ever since they changed to version 10, none of the commands seem to work. But I just right click, run as administrator and it probably doesn't do jack sh*t but I have no issues with either stability or performance.
     

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    V10 is not for Z97, mainly for 'Enthusiast' platforms
     
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    Who told you this? Check any motherboard website and you will see 10.xx listed as the chipset driver. Plus v9 was discontinued before the z97 was even out
     
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    My own findings, running V10 on Z97 and Z77 platforms i have had, and nothing ever updated running it. 9.4x worked fine.
    Latest 9.4.x came out around april may of 2014, about same time as z97.

    Might have been a Z87 platform i tried, was months ago
     
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    It didnt update any except for one i think.

    Still in the same position.
     
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    Is there even any purpose to updating these INF files?
     
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    I'd say all but a few will have blank INFs, that say "needs no driver"
     
  18. thatguy91

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    No! Absolutely not. The INF files aren't drivers, they're just device descriptors so that the system correctly identifies devices. The reason why they aren't 'updated' with the chipset drivers normally is that there is no need to and absolutely no benefit in doing so.

    The only devices that do benefit from driver updates are the AHCI driver and Management Engine Interface drivers.

    Now, for the AHCI driver there is a very important thing to consider. If you use the INF driver version, it will show as updated (by the date etc), and show that it is Intel, but the driver will still be using the Microsoft AHCI driver. The actual proper Intel driver is part of the RST package, however unless you are using RAID you shouldn't install the whole RST package. Ideally, you just install the AHCI driver which you need to do manually.

    On Windows 7, there us a USB 3.0 driver that you should install if you have Intel based USB 3.0, but this driver it NOT required on Windows 8/8.1/10 as the universal USB drivers provided by Microsoft are used instead. The only reason why they are required on Windows 7 is Windows 7 does not have USB 3.0 support built in (USB 3.0 will work, just not to its full potential without it).
     
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    I dislike the Intel AHCI driver on Windows 8.1. It seems to offer more inconsistent performance than the Microsoft one. I did a bench a while ago, and while the 4k random write was better, the sequential write was a lot worse.
     
  20. thatguy91

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    What version was that? For the latest AHCI drivers you have to force install, even though they are 100 percent compatible with Z77. I'm talking about the 13.5.x drivers. Intel just doesn't want to encourage people not to upgrade, and what better way than to prematurely drop support for a product. If in RAID mode though it is officially supported still, which is proof that the actual AHCI driver is still 100 percent compatible since it is utilised as part of the RAID driver.
     
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