Windows 10 on a GA-970A-UD3 rev. 1.2 ?

[Plate]

*This is 3rd post of mine and I come here very rarely, so I apologise, if I submitted this topic to the wrong  "category"  *

 

Hello.

 

In a near future, when I buy myself a new SSD, I want to finally switch from Windows 7 to  Windows 10. But, I have read that my motherboard (in title) doesn't support it, and I rather want to ask more knowledgable people than to do it myself and risk problems occuring (I'm unable to install back my windows 7, since I don't have any media nor an .iso to install it from in case of issues, hence this topic). Thank you in advance for your help.

[Thirdgen89GTA]

You need Windows 7 64bit drivers.  If Windows 7 64bit works, then you can likely run Windows 10.

 

The driver architecture between the two OS is very similar.  Not everything works, but but most of it will.

 

 

 

[jaslion]

Basically any motherboard driver either has a basic one on windows 10 or the old ones work so don't worry about it.

[i_build_nanosuits]

28 minutes ago, Plate said:

*This is 3rd post of mine and I come here very rarely, so I apologise, if I submitted this topic to the wrong  "category"  *

 

Hello.

 

In a near future, when I buy myself a new SSD, I want to finally switch from Windows 7 to  Windows 10. But, I have read that my motherboard (in title) doesn't support it, and I rather want to ask more knowledgable people than to do it myself and risk problems occuring (I'm unable to install back my windows 7, since I don't have any media nor an .iso to install it from in case of issues, hence this topic). Thank you in advance for your help.

windows 10 will run perfectly fine on that hardware, all the drivers for windows 7 are still compatible with windows 10.

Newer hardware can have backward compatibility issues, the opposite is rarely the case. Proceed.

 

You have FX-8350? 6300?

[Plate]

19 minutes ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

windows 10 will run perfectly fine on that hardware, all the drivers for windows 7 are still compatible with windows 10.

Newer hardware can have backward compatibility issues, the opposite is rarely the case. Proceed.

 

You have FX-8350? 6300?

6300

[i_build_nanosuits]

3 minutes ago, Plate said:

6300

so long as you have a graphics card because the FX6300 don't have onboard graphics, and at least 6 GB of RAM you're all set.

[Plate]

Just now, i_build_nanosuits said:

so long as you have a graphics card because the FX6300 carry no onboard graphics, and at least 6 GB of RAM you're all set.

Yes and yes. So I should just easily get the windows intallation media on a thumb drive and install as normal, right? No need of extra tinkering in BIOS or such? 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

You can even just do a straight in-place upgrade.

 

Use the USB Media Creation Tool to download the ISO.

 

Mount the ISO.

 

setup.exe /auto upgrade /dynamicupdate enable /showoobe none

 

Execute that from an Admin CMD prompt and it'll upgrade without asking a single question while getting all the latest updates.

 

If you want to add extra drivers you can unzip those drivers (standard INF style drivers) to a folder say c:\Drivers.  You can have c:\drivers\gfxcard, ...\sound ...\insertrandomhardwarethinghere.

 

Then you execute it with the "/installdrivers [rootpath to drivers folder]"

 

setup.exe /auto upgrade /dynamicupdate enable /showoobe none /installdrivers c:\drivers

 

It'll recurse through "C:\Drivers" and all its sub-folders to find all the files.  This usually works best if you have an OEM like Dell where you can just download a driver CAB that has every driver for the system.