Windows 10

[JefferyD90]

Why are you so passionate about not using a CD for drivers? 

 

I've never had issues of that nature, guess I'm lucky - I swap hardware a LOT!!

I believe I just explained it.  So you don't have to troubleshoot problems down the line.  There is ABSOLUTLY nothing worse than getting on your computer, wanting to play a game, get a school report done, or check your email; but instead having to fight with "Why wont my computer connect to the internet" or "Why does my computer blue screen when I wake from sleep" or "Why does flash content perform like shit (because Flash is Satan's spawn)"...  This is why I hate using out of date stuff, it causes compatibility issues, worse performance, and potential errors either now or later.

[cragger89]

I believe I just explained it.  So you don't have to troubleshoot problems down the line.  There is ABSOLUTLY nothing worse than getting on your computer, wanting to play a game, get a school report done, or check your email; but instead having to fight with "Why wont my computer connect to the internet" or "Why does my computer blue screen when I wake from sleep" or "Why does flash content perform like shit (because Flash is Satan's spawn)"...  This is why I hate using out of date stuff, it causes compatibility issues, worse performance, and potential errors either now or later.

 

Sounds very tin foil hat to me.

[Enderman]

I believe I just explained it.  So you don't have to troubleshoot problems down the line.  There is ABSOLUTLY nothing worse than getting on your computer, wanting to play a game, get a school report done, or check your email; but instead having to fight with "Why wont my computer connect to the internet" or "Why does my computer blue screen when I wake from sleep" or "Why does flash content perform like shit (because Flash is Satan's spawn)"...  This is why I hate using out of date stuff, it causes compatibility issues, worse performance, and potential errors either now or later.

The drivers that come on the CD are already stable releases, and very rarely will the website have anything newer than that

 

older drivers will not cause any of those problems you've listed unless theres been some major update to an OS and the drivers become incompatible

 

You will never get BSODs or internet nor working by using the drivers on the CD

 

I think you are overreacting about lan drivers because you don't understand how they work...

You simply install the disk, and they work. Having them out of date does not make any difference unless you change your OS or something like that.

Having older LAN drivers doesn not affect performance at all.

 

Having older BIOS can cause issues like you describes, having older GPU drivers can cause performance issues, but not the drivers that come on a motherboard CD

[cragger89]

Mirrored above, I just couldn't be bothered to write something longer.

[Firet2000]

I really don't understand this.  You could have went to the local library, ask someone at work, use the work computer, you said you had a previous computer, could have used the preinstalled OS to prepare the OS install, and probably at least 2-3 more options that I cant come up with right now.

 

If you do it because you just don't want to, once again, that's fine.  You're more than welcome to.  But I think we can all agree that it NOT the best way to do it and often causes more headaches down the road.

Why would you need to ask someone to download drivers when it's as easy as putting a disc in and installing the drivers. There is a reason motherboard manufacturers include the driver disc.

[Kevguy]

I have an ASUS Z-87 motherboard. 

 

When I upgraded to Win10, the default wifi driver worked for the board, but the ethernet did not until I downloaded the win10 drivers from the ASUS web page.

[JefferyD90]

Why would you need to ask someone to download drivers when it's as easy as putting a disc in and installing the drivers. There is a reason motherboard manufacturers include the driver disc.

They include it because they always have included.  Back in the 90's it was how you got your drivers, there was no website.  If you wanted a updated driver you would call the manufacture and have them mail you a floppy or CD for (usually) $4.99.

 

As a matter of fact, some manufactures have stopped including disk at all and direct you to their website.  My Crossblade Ranger did not come with a driver disk, it came with a brochure that gave me the url, a bitly, and a QR code to download the drivers from the website.

 

The CD is a antiquated formality at this point.  Like I said, if you choose to use it because you want to then that is fine.  But if you are choosing to use it because you feel like they are as up to date as the drivers on the website you're wrong.  If you choose to use it because you feel like it will yield better performance, you'd be wrong (in almost all cases, less than .01% would this not apply).  But if you do it because you just don't care and want to use the disk, that is perfectly fine and I get that.  But you guys are defending it like "If you don't use the CD provided you're sending your computer to hell right under Satan's armpit!"