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Chipset drivers are important. My initial install was Ryzen 5 1600 on Gigabyte motherboard at a time when the BIOS only had four revisions and there was just one chipset driver. Now four years later Gigabyte's website lists three chipset driver downloads while AMD's website lists just one for the CPU.
I am puzzled by the chipset driver implementation. Is the chipset more of a motherboard component or a CPU-related component? which chipset driver should be installed when you have two available to choose. I would have thought the motherboard manufacturer because they need to support their product. AMD knows this but they release their own chipset driver for a reason. Please clarify.
Besides actual BIOS updates, using anything from the motherboard manufacturer's site is a last resort for me. Theoretically, they might fine tune things to better suit their hardware. But, my experience has been universally bad with that. Usually, they just stick unwanted stuff in there. I have no experience with laptops or highly proprietary pre-built machines, though (I build all my machines). In those cases, it might be better to go with the manufacturer's drivers. Also, sometimes there's no other source but the motherboard manufacturer (for instance, those BIOS updates for the board that I mentioned at the start and the Thunderbolt drivers for my Gigabyte motherboard are only available from Gigabyte).
The AMD CPU drivers aren't really drivers. It's just their Ryzen Master package (which is optional, but cool). Theoretically, those are available through the CPU driver downloads. But, I've found that the download is usually better updated at their Ryzen Master page:
In my case, with three prebuilt Dell machines, the OEM drivers are ancient as Dell does terribly in pushing updates for Chipset drivers and indeed BIOS so I have decided to use the AMD Chipset drivers. However, they are not necessarily optimised for those systems. Dell are still on Win 10 driver sets for my systems and I am running Win 11 22H2 so I can't wait for Dell to do something useful
Your post is what I did (before you posted) so it is good confirmation on my approach. With my situation, Gigabytes BIOS updates also had a prerequisite to be at a certain chipset version or greater so that their sequential BIOS updates would work. So where you did BIOS then chipset, I had do implement chipset then BIOS - I had 4 BIOS updates to apply since my 2019/March build.
Is this a prebuilt system by someone like Dell or HP? If not I would use chipset drivers from AMD. Typically chipset drivers from the motherboard product page are there just to give you some functionality and aren't catered specifically to your motherboard.
If for some reason there is incompatibility between chipset drivers and your specific setup I would then go back to the drivers on the motherboard support page, but I would only do this if I was certain the chipset drivers were at fault.
My PC is self built which eliminates one variable from the calculus. I would feel compelled to reconcile HP downloads with motherboard downloads with AMD downloads. I would agree with above posts that after the initial install (or product purchase) the manufacturers have very little incentive to keep current with updates. They would risk breaking something then supporting it. thank you for your input.
It's interesting that Gigabyte would specify a chipset version requirement for their BIOS updates. AFAIK, chipset drivers are OS specific. So, motherboard-level BIOS updates should never even be aware of those until the OS is booted. I'd assume that once the OS was booted up, if older chipset drivers saw stuff in a new BIOS they didn't understand, they'd just ignore it. Then, when those chipset drivers got updated in the OS, everything would be fine again. Maybe they're assuming updating from within the OS instead of from the BIOS, itself.
I have rebooted and disabled driver signature enforcement just incase but no change. I have also downloaded and installed the " Intel Management Engine Interface" from the link above which installed without issues. Rebooted and the same issue with the LAN drivers!
Lastly I see the motherboard only supports Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10. Based on the nature of Server 2012 R2 I would say you can run it but as they state on their page they do not have any support for other OS others than the ones they have listed.
I too faced the same issue for Windows 2008 R2, installer will not work. But through update driver on Device Manager for Network, it updated correctly for Windows 2008 R2 Ent, but failed for Windows 2008 R2 Std. Same driver works for Windows 2008 R2 and not for Windows 2008 R2 Std. Strange.
Encountered the same problem on Asus PRIME H270-Plus trying to install network driver on WS2012R2. Everything pointed that MB has Realtek LAN adapter but drivers never installed. Solution was here: -Ethernet-Connections-CD - in folder PRO1000\Winx64\NDIS64 I found a driver named something like Intel I210 Gigabit Ethernet Controller and it successbully installed.
GIGABYTE is one of the leading motherboard vendors in the world. However, it not only produces motherboards but also manufactures custom graphics cards and laptop computers. Its laptop products include the AORUS series, the AERO series, and the GIGABYTE Gaming series.
GIGABYTE App Center is the official software that helps you download the latest GIGABYTE drivers. This software supports Windows 10 and 11 64-bit and requires Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5. Here is the guide:
Step 1: Go to the GIGABYTE support utility page and download the GIGABYTE App Center and @BIOS tools. Then, @BIOS requires you to install APP Center first, so please install APP Center and @BIOS in order.
Step 2: Shut down your PC. Then, restart your PC and enter firmware. You should make sure the Intel Hyper-Threading technology is disabled in BIOS. After booting into Windows, you should close all applications and TSR (such as anti-virus programs) to avoid unexpected errors during the BIOS update process.
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