Old PCS build P8Z68-V LX motherboard no Windows 10 drivers

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films&games

Enthusiast
Hi,

My old PCS build has the Asus P8Z68-V LX motherboard and I am intending to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10. I have looked at the Asus website at the drivers and they only go up to Windows 8.1.

What is the driver support for older motherboards like the P8Z68-V LX in Windows 10 like?

Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated, please.

Thank you.
 
BlessedSquirrel

BlessedSquirrel

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films&games said:
Hi,

My old PCS build has the Asus P8Z68-V LX motherboard and I am intending to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10. I have looked at the Asus website at the drivers and they only go up to Windows 8.1.

What is the driver support for older motherboards like the P8Z68-V LX in Windows 10 like?

Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated, please.

Thank you.
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Windows 10 is very good with legacy drivers.

with most drivers in fact, aside from graphics drivers, windows will either have them inbuilt or will automatically download them via windows update. That’s probably why they’re not listed on the manufacturer site as they’re already within windows.
 
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films&games

Enthusiast
Oussebon said:
I have a similar board, it just works with Windows 10, Windows has all the drivers you need.

NB if you're unaware, the Win 10 upgrade is still free:

www.howtogeek.com

You Can Still Get Windows 10 for Free With a Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 Key

Microsoft's free Windows 10 upgrade offer is over--or is it? There's still a way to activate Windows 10 with a Windows 7, 8, or 8.
www.howtogeek.com www.howtogeek.com
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Hi,

I am going to upgrade my current PCS build to Windows 10 Professional this weekend.

Just one question: Because I am running Windows 7 Professional, will I need to enter my Windows 7 Pro product key manually for installation/activation of Windows 10 Professional?

Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated, please.

Thank you.
 
BlessedSquirrel

BlessedSquirrel

We love you Ukraine
films&games said:
Hi,

I am going to upgrade my current PCS build to Windows 10 Professional this weekend.

Just one question: Because I am running Windows 7 Professional, will I need to enter my Windows 7 Pro product key manually for installation/activation of Windows 10 Professional?

Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated, please.

Thank you.
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No, it will automatically license from your win 7. Then the license is stored in the BIOS
 
Oussebon

Oussebon

Multiverse Poster
Probably, if it's a clean install.

Edit: If it's an in-place upgrade it will get the key from your existing installation - if you're doing a clean install of Win 10 you can activate by manually entering the product key.
 
BlessedSquirrel

BlessedSquirrel

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Oussebon said:
Probably, if it's a clean install.
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I think you have to go through the upgrade procedure first.

you can’t clean install 10 and use a 7 key, won’t work, you have to upgrade from 7, boot into windows, make sure it’s activated and then you can do a clean install.
 
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films&games

Enthusiast
Hi,

Sorry just for clarification: should I 'Create installation media for another PC' or 'Upgrade this PC now' when upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10?

Thank you.
 
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Oussebon

Oussebon

Multiverse Poster
If you "Create installation media for another PC" It makes a USB pen you can boot from, or indeed run from in Windows. So you can use it on as many different systems as you like

If you select "Upgrade this PC", it will download it to that PC and run it from there only.

I'd choose "create installation media" so if there's a problem, or you want to do a clean install anyway, you have that option.

SpyderTracks said:
Really? Never worked for me.
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It's apparently "meant" to work, or at least it's not just me that is able to do it as I got the idea from how-to-geek, but I guess it doesn't work in every case. For reasons known best to MS I suppose!
www.howtogeek.com

You Can Still Get Windows 10 for Free With a Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 Key

Microsoft's free Windows 10 upgrade offer is over--or is it? There's still a way to activate Windows 10 with a Windows 7, 8, or 8.
www.howtogeek.com www.howtogeek.com
 
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Simon Asus

New member
Hi All

I had a recent problem with this, as I upgraded my windows 7 to windows 10 with an Asus P8Z68-V LX and it all seemed to be ok, until I wanted to go on the Internet. The device manager showed my Realtec Network Adapter, and I clicked connect to the Internet, popped in the password and I got the blue screen of death and the pc restarted. I upgraded the Realtec driver to October 2018, entered the password and got blue screen and restart again. Any ideas about what the problem is?
 
ubuysa

ubuysa

The BSOD Doctor
Simon Asus said:
Hi All

I had a recent problem with this, as I upgraded my windows 7 to windows 10 with an Asus P8Z68-V LX and it all seemed to be ok, until I wanted to go on the Internet. The device manager showed my Realtec Network Adapter, and I clicked connect to the Internet, popped in the password and I got the blue screen of death and the pc restarted. I upgraded the Realtec driver to October 2018, entered the password and got blue screen and restart again. Any ideas about what the problem is?
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Is this a PCS build? If so please post the full spec from your order.
 
ubuysa

ubuysa

The BSOD Doctor
I'm afraid that since the fora belong to PC Specialist we can only advise on PCS builds. You might try a more general forum like Tom's Hardware.
 
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