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  • 29-01-2017 1:02am
    #1
    extra-ordinary_
    Registered Users Posts: 1,331 ✭✭✭


    Just bought an Asrock H110m-ITX board and Pentium 4560 CPU for a cheap upgrade and I have no video output. It's dawned on me that the board more than likely doesn't have the latest BIOS for the latest CPUs...so am I right in thinking I'm f*cked until I find someone with a skylake CPU??

    I'm trying to output via HDMI to the TV - the board should autodetect the connected HDMI shouldn't it?






    EDIT:

    I got it going after I pulled it back out of the case.


    ANOTHER EDIT:

    Never had such a pain in my b*llocks with a new board and trying to install W7. Is M$ deliberately making it so hard or is just the new chipsets?


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    #2
    Solitaire
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 18,377 Mod ✭✭✭✭Solitaire


    Fun fact: Win7 is not compatible with Skylake/Kaby. You might have the system running to some degree after that nightmare of an install procedure but it might act funny. Very funny. Destructively funny. I speak from painful experience... and am now typing from a Win10 PC as a result :/


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    #3
    extra-ordinary_
    Registered Users Posts: 1,331 ✭✭✭extra-ordinary_


    Solitaire wrote: »
    Fun fact: Win7 is not compatible with Skylake/Kaby. You might have the system running to some degree after that nightmare of an install procedure but it might act funny. Very funny. Destructively funny. I speak from painful experience... and am now typing from a Win10 PC as a result :/

    Yeh...I thought it was still possible on a skylake chipset, but when I woke this morning thinking what would be my next move I thought maybe I'll stick on windows 10 and all my problems will be solved so I'll try it later and see how I get on. Main reason I wanted to keep W7 was I didn't want to have to reinstall and thought I'd hopefully swap board. CPU, and RAM and get going with just installing new drivers.
    I may yet still try and resist!!...lol


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    Solitaire
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 18,377 Mod ✭✭✭✭Solitaire


    Its concerns for the future and the return to Old Microsh!t that are the issues... the upgrade from win7 is relatively painless, though some stuff does get moved around a bit. Format-and-reinstall misery it was not :)


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    Serephucus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,179 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    Vulkan cannot be adopted fast enough.


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    Tony
    Registered Users Posts: 11,325 ✭✭✭✭Tony


    Thanks for pointing this out as I'm planning an upgrade this will save me lots of grief . is an upgrade from Win 7 to 10 ok or would you recommend a clean win 10 install ?

    Solitaire wrote: »
    Fun fact: Win7 is not compatible with Skylake/Kaby. You might have the system running to some degree after that nightmare of an install procedure but it might act funny. Very funny. Destructively funny. I speak from painful experience... and am now typing from a Win10 PC as a result :/

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    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users Posts: 14,309 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    Tony wrote: »
    Thanks for pointing this out as I'm planning an upgrade this will save me lots of grief . is an upgrade from Win 7 to 10 ok or would you recommend a clean win 10 install ?

    I would recommend a clean Win 10 install.


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    Thicas15
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭Thicas15


    Yep. Just do it


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