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Chipset Drivers Needed for what?

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Perryg114

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I have finally gotten a motherboard that will install my old copy of Windows Home Server. I was able to find LAN drivers but have not found Chipset drivers that are XP compatible. It is a Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H motherboard. Do I need these drivers? What do they do? The machine seems to run fine without them.

I just erased a trial copy of Windows 2012 Server Essentials and am not sure I want something that user unfriendly and time consuming to operate. Nothing seemed to work right with it. Till I find something better I am going to use WHS and back up machines manually using Acronis since the backup feature in WHS has no redundancy.

Perry
 
A Windows OS from 2012 is not going to have native support for the Intel 9-series chipset. Device manager should tell you what works, and what doesn't, without these drivers.
 
Chipset drivers now a days are just SATA drivers. Back when the northbridge was a separate chip on the motherboard I believe some chipset drivers included drivers for the northbridge.
 
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