Aug 7, 2013 - 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI. Subsystem: Dell XPS 8300. Kernel driver in use: pcieport. May 16, 2015 - He has a Dell XPS 8300 i-Core 5 Tower. I have MS Windows. LAN Adapter - Broadcom BCM57788 Ethernet Controller Driver (R282233.exe).
Before I start, I know there is a Windows 10 thread. However, since no-one has posted in that thread for a couple of days I'm not very confident my issue will be picked up in there. (if this is in the wrong place I apologise). So, here is my issue: I own an aging Dell XPS 8300 that I purchased back in July 2011. It has known hardware issues with Windows 10, or so I have been told. It has been upgraded since then though, the last upgrade was in October 2015. My current spec is - motherboard (original) Intel H67.
Processor (original) Intel i7 [email protected] Ghz. GPU (upgraded from an AMD 6770 1gb) EVGA GTX 970 SSC 4gb. Ram (upgraded from 1333 Mhz 6gb DDR3) Corsair DDR3 Gaming Ram 16gb. Hard drive (upgraded from 7200 1Tb internal) Intel 535 SSD 260Gb and 2Tb Verbatim HDD.
Currently I'm on Windows 7, is it worth upgrading for me? Are the NIVIDIA drivers working properly on Windows 10 now or is there still a performance decrease? Well that thread was supposed to be more for Win10 News, Updates and General How-To/Tips; as well as any more official details that come in from Microsoft, such as changes regarding Win10 being free and such. In any case, for more in-depth issues, your own thread like you have here is best bet anyways. NVIDIA Drivers are not of any 'bad' issues or concerns any longer. Is it worth it? That is something only you can really decide, upgrade and try it out, if you do not like it, revert back to your old OS, as it was just prior to the OS upgrade took place.
However they only give you approx 30 days to revert back to previous OS if doing in-place-uprgade. Best bet is backup your data, download Win10 via media creation tool rather than Windows Updates; thus allowing you to create physical bootable media (DVD or USB Flash Drive) and this will better ensure you have the latest build version of Win10 OS; and allow a clean install. Overall, Win10 will be the only supported WinOS moving forward, and required for DX12/Vulkan API Your overall specs are fine, given your upgrades and where the system stands now spec-wise.
In-Place-OS-Upgrade always brings on it's share of issues; so I would just advise against that. Clean install plus grabbing the latest Win10 drivers for all your hardware is really the best way, and overall better way to avoid issues that can carry over from one OS to the next, due to in-place-upgrade. For Intel configs, Win10 has been very good. AMD not really an issue either, as long as no NVIDIA NForce stuff was involved. I've installed Win10 on systems as old as AMD AthlonX2 (939) and Intel Core2Duo (775) and even the older Mobile Centrino; ran better overall and had all the Drivers on-hand; or via Windows Updates.
Which for a non-gaming machine, getting what was needed, or more updated via Windows Updates proved to be just fine. As long as the system at-hand is designed around / new enough to support Vista 64bit and beyond; then Win10 64bit shouldn't be an issue. It's those older systems from the days of WinXP 32bit in mind that usually prove to be an issue; as that means either the hardware is simply too slow, or you have to resort to using 32bit OS and tracking down appropriate drivers. Before switching OS or trying out new one via Upgrade, always go download all your Drivers for the new OS, based on your hardware, first.
To ensure you have them on-hand. As the new OS might not have everything, even though it is newer. As is sometimes the case when comes to LAN or WIFI drivers. So at the very least you want those drivers downloads ahead of time, so you can at least get online in the new OS and then go get the rest of your drivers. Do you have the GWX (Get Windows 10) icon on your Win 7 taskbar (right-side)? If so, click it's menu options (three dots if I remember) and under that it has check compatibility. When upgrading, I would actually suggest upgrading from Win 7 to Win 10, rather than a clean install.
The reason why, it will keep the previous Operating System under a folder 'Windows.old' for a while, giving you the option to go to Start Settings Recovery Go back to Windows 7. Clean install could be better, yeah, but won't give you the option to go back (without a complete format and starting from stratch again). However, doing it this way, you might also want to: 1) Go look up your offical motherboard website and under support drivers, download Win 10 drivers and re-install the latest/stable ones (starting with Chipset, Bus Controller, then the rest). 2) Go to your offical graphics card website and manually download/install the Win 10 drivers for that too.
Since your motherboard probably won't have Win 10 drivers, check up on fixes: Download the drivers before the upgrade, so you have a collection on your PC to try, just incase the network doesn't work for example. Broadcom BCM57788 Ethernet Controller Driver (said to work with Win 10). All the OP's hardware is already ready for Win10; that is a non-issue.
There are not really any needed Motherboard Drivers; all OP needs is Win10 drivers for LAN and AUDIO; which for this just identify those chipset via the Motherboard specs page, then go to the chipset maker's site for those drivers; such as Realtek if that is what your LAN and/or Audio chipset is, very simple really. As for the Intel Chipset, there are no drivers to install for Win10, this OS already has that. And then NVIDIA GPU, well you get the drivers from them.
Hi there, maybe one of you guys can help me figuring out this problem: I just did a fresh install of Windows 7 (64bit, Home premium) on my XPS 8300, since I have just put in a SSD and wanted to start from scratch with it. Everything went fine, except for one thing: in device manager the ethernet controller does complain it doesn't have a driver installed. The chipset utility and all the other drivers from Dell for the XPS are installed, though. My system does not have WLAN, so I'm stuck without network on that machine. Does anyone have an idea to fix this? I have the XPS 8300 also, but with Windows 8.1. The network card disappeared all together after a power surge.
When I click on the link above, there is nothing there. And according to the Service Tag page, there is no Windows 8.1 support.
So am I screwed? Can this be fixed? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
If you were able to use the onboard NIC with Win 8.1 before the power surge, there must be a Win 8.1 driver available for it. First look in BIOS setup (reboot and press F2) to make sure the onboard NIC hasn't been disabled.
Be sure to save any change before exiting setup. Alternatively, copy all the current BIOS settings and then reset BIOS to factory defaults which might fix the problem. After resetting BIOS to the defaults, go into BIOS setup again and confirm the new settings match what you wrote down or change to match. If that doesn't help, look in Device Manager for details about the NIC and then go to the Broadcom(?) site to find a suitable driver. But if you had a power surge, the NIC may have gotten fried.
And in that case, you either need to replace the motherboard or -and less expensive- install an add-in PCI-e NIC card that's compatible with Win 8.1. Check slot availability before purchasing a NIC card. And if you install an add-in NIC, be sure to disable the onboard NIC in BIOS setup. I have the Dell XPS 8300 with windows 10 (I upgraded) and my Ethernet just disconnects randomly. When this happens the only way i can fix it is by restarting my PC. Is there any drivers i can get for windows 10? I have run windows update and that has not fixed it.
Open Device Manager and double-click the entry for your NIC. Click the Power Management tab and uncheck the box 'Allow PC to turn off.' Exit Device Manager and open your Power Options screen and go to Advanced Options. Look for an option to turn off the NIC and disable it there too. Reboot and see if that fixes it. You may need to adjust Sleep settings on the Power Options screen, if the above doesn't help.