Soyo WIN10 Drivers?

bought this a couple of months ago from this deal..
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/879240

came with win11, but I did a clean install of win10, but some drivers are still missing.
Any idea where to download drivers?
can't find drivers on soyo site either.
windows update cannot find these few drivers either…

thanks

Comments

  • +1

    What are the missing drivers for?

    Manufacturers support web sites are usually the place to start looking.

    • Look at you and your logic

    • Yeah nothing there as per my post above.
      Was unknown "PCI devices"

      But snappy as per suggestion below solved the problem!

      • I have no doubt that there are some legit driver installer sites and products around. But how do you know the one you are using is when so many of them are free because they've sold out to people who want to install their crap, which you probably don't want, on your PC. That's the problem with free stuff, it means someone else is paying the cost to get what they want. And saying yes to that sort of software is bad enough, but when its drivers you're letting it install its doubly crazy because you are giving it permission to install stuff at a secure operating system level that's below what anti-malware software can see and deal with.

  • You might want to contact SOYO themselves and see if they can email you a download link for drivers. Many of these chinese MiniPC brands don't bother putting up windows system images or drivers for download online, so often the only way to obtain them is by emailling their support.

  • Are there actually Win10 drivers available?

  • You could also run DriverBooster, I used to use it, its still a somewhat quality service, but during the initial program install it will try to give you extra things which you want to opt out of, its a bit of a bloatware application after that, so I usually uninstall it once its done the drivers, if I really can't find the drivers elsewhere.

    Something else you can do after that, is use command prompt to make a copy of all of the drivers in that machines instance and put them in a folder somewhere, then back those up. You can also use DISM commands to pack the drivers into any windows installer, so in effect you can make a unique oem like install image for that machine. Its always handy to do, especially on laptops or tablets, as sometimes things like the touchscreen, keyboard or trackpad, wifi adapter etc, won't work in windows boot or recovery natively and you can't navigate the install menus. You can pack into the install.wim, boot.wim and winre.wim which is inside the install.wim on your windows installer image once its unpacked with dism.

    Its always prudent to backup your drivers from an oem machine before doing a fresh install, as occasionally even Driver Booster or the other driver programs won't find them, often the driver export from command prompt will come out with weird names and be hard to identify, but you can run the folder list through something like chat gpt and it will usually get it right about what ones you want to keep or not, you don't need to add things to your install image like drivers for every printer you've ever plugged into etc.

  • +1
    • +1

      Awesome.. that's done the trick!.

      Thank you!

  • An alternative for others who don't want to download questionable driver software you can get the Hardware ID from the properties of the hardware in device manager. Then enter it into Google and it'll tell you what it is and potentially where to download..

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