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Driver installation order?

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What is the correct order to install drivers after clean (windows) installation?

motherboard drivers?
chipset drivers?
Video card drivers?
windows update last?

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Wifi or Ethernet driver then just download some other program to handle the rest

 

thats how I usually do it but I’m an idiot who paid for iobit lifetime licenses, to be fair it works

 

Regardless, internet first so you can get everything else

video/graphics to get the display resolution working, then start with the easiest first like peripheral specific software, motherboard stuff, and leave known problematic drivers til last so you’re not fighting with them in 800x600 with barely functional internet 

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interesting, in the past i've downloaded the drivers to a usb drive i just want to know what order to load them in

 

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Doesn't matter.

I usually install, let Windows update get most of them, then install GPU driver and anything missing. On AMD you maybe want to install chipset as well.

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It's not the Windows 98 era anymore. Order doesn't matter and Windows 10 and 11 usually are installing drivers on their own in the background the whole time you think you're "helping" anyways.

 

Back in the 95 and 98 times you had to be careful, you could cause all sorts of conflicts if you installed your sound device before your video card drivers for instance. Now? Not a problem and it hasn't been since XP really.

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Doesn't matter. Hasn't mattered after like XP. With Win7, you could have several installers running at the same time, and waiting for Windows updates to prompt for mandatory reboot.

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