Asus P8P67 Pro Rev 3.1 Windows 10 upgrade compatibility
bastille77
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I’ve an older Asus P8P67 Pro Rev 3.1 motherboard with an OC’ed i5-2500k and GTX 970. This rig is able to run most of the newer games without any trouble.
Recently I’ve been toying with the idea of upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10 in order to take advantage of Direct 12 support for newer games.
Before upgrading however, I’ve some reservations about the compatibility of my motherboard. I’m aware that no Windows 10 drivers for the onboard sound and usb 3.0 exist. I’ve also seen at least one person complain their mouse and keyboard stopped functioning after upgrading, possibility due to incompatible usb drivers?
Has anybody who owns said motherboard been able to get Windows 10 to work on it without any problems?
tasiorek
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Are you able to get the sound and peripherals (mouse and keyboard) to work without any issues?
I Never had any issues.
Calvin7
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Windows 10 — [MB] Which model supports Windows 10?
https://www.asus.com/us/support/FAQ/1013093/
Asus lists the Intel Series 8 Chipset as the newest Intel Chipset supporting Windows 10. Asus P8P67 Pro Rev 3.1 is Series 6 Chipset, Intel P67(B3). It is listed as supporting Windows 8.1 as the latest operating system. Some Windows 10 features may or may not work.
tasiorek
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bastille77
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Are you able to get the sound and peripherals (mouse and keyboard) to work without any issues?
tasiorek
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Are you able to get the sound and peripherals (mouse and keyboard) to work without any issues?
I Never had any issues.
bastille77
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Finally installed a clean copy of Windows 10 onto a new SSD (upgrading from my existing Windows 7 partition was fraught with errors and never worked).
The new OS was able to detect my existing mouse, keyboard, webcam and even the onboard sound and install drivers for them automatically. Even my video card, a gtx 970’s driver was also automatically downloaded and installed in the background. So far I’m glad to report there are no problems.
Anyone using the same motherboard as me can feel safe to upgrade.
rogerwilker
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What dram are you using? I have done the same thing to use it as a media server;however, am having dram problems.
Will work with one stick in the A2 slot. Will not work with the A2 and B2 slots populated.
bastille77
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What dram are you using? I have done the same thing to use it as a media server;however, am having dram problems.
Will work with one stick in the A2 slot. Will not work with the A2 and B2 slots populated.
That’s odd. Maybe try running a memtest on those ram to see if any of them is bad? Unless you’ve already tried booting the system with both sticks individually.
I’m using Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1600 ram, plugged into the A2 and B2 slots (blue) respectively.
straightawaykid
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My experience with Windows 10 on an Asus P8P67 pro B3, i5-2500k at 4.2 GHz, psu Antec EA750: upgrading was fine, all worked, sleep functioned normally. Then I installed it from scratch on a new Kingston 240GB SSD — using the MS tool to boot from USB. Everything is fine, very fast, except: it will not sleep. If you select start, power, sleep, it will shut off like it’s asleep. Then attempts to wake it (mouse or keyboard or even power switch) results in startup with red memory LED lit, automatically powers off, then starts up again. It takes several seconds longer to get to bios then it starts Windows fresh (but w/o sleep). When I contacted Asus, they said they don’t support the board with Windows 10 and to get the drivers from the chip-set manufacturer — Intel? Win 10 rejects my original m/b driver disc saying wrong version.
Update: In September 2016, the motherboard fried anyway, it being just over 5 years old. So my new solution is purchasing a new Z170 Maximus VIII Formula, with an i7-6700K and 256 MB M2 ssd. It runs Windows 10 very fast: 7-8 seconds boot and 1 second to load Firefox. Sleep works correctly now.
