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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: fishfish on September 14, 2019, 01:49:14 pm

Title: Are there Win8.1 drivers for B450M DS3H motherboard?
Post by: fishfish on September 14, 2019, 01:49:14 pm

Can't find any only Win 7 and win 10  :-\

Title: Re: Are there Win8.1 drivers for B450M DS3H motherboard?
Post by: shadowsports on September 15, 2019, 03:43:49 pm

Quote from: fishfish on September 14, 2019, 01:49:14 pm

Can't find any only Win 7 and win 10  :-\

(https://i.imgur.com/FydT1mO.png)

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B450M-DS3H-rev-10/support#support-dl-driver

Title: Re: Are there Win8.1 drivers for B450M DS3H motherboard?
Post by: fishfish on September 15, 2019, 08:02:12 pm

Thanks for the link. I had seen that page but it's odd because there still seems to be far fewer drivers for Win8.1 than either Win7 or Win 10. For example, this page https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B450M-DS3H-rev-10/support#support-dl-driver-chipset ,  the chipset drivers, there aren't any for Win8.1 (that I can see). Does Win8.1 not need chipset drivers or am I supposed to use one of the Win 7/10 drivers instead?

I suppose, to cut to the chase, is anyone who reads this using Win8.1 on this motherboard? Maybe that should have been my first question.  :-[

Title: Re: Are there Win8.1 drivers for B450M DS3H motherboard?
Post by: shadowsports on September 16, 2019, 02:53:11 pm

Greetings,
Since W8.1 can be upgraded to 10 for free, there is no reason to run 8.1.  Anything that runs on Windows 8 will run in 10.  Support for 8 will officially end January 10, 2023.  Might as well take advantage of the upgrade and lose the Metro Interface.