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Driver issues in Windows 10 Home rebuild
Hi everyone
I just made the transition to Windows 10 on my i5 desktop, and clean installed W10 on a new Samsung EVO 250GB SSD with only a minimum of peripherals attached during the OS install. I then installed my ASUS B85M-G mobo's latest drivers for W10, starting with the chipset, then Graphics, LAN and Audio. Unlike W7, ASUS has not provided any USB3 drivers for W10.
When I checked in Device Manager, there were exclamation marks on -
1) PCI Simple Communications Controller
2) SM Bus Controller
3) Unknown Device
So I clean reinstalled the OS again, and installed Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility first, and this dealt with (1) above, followed by the other drivers. I now know I can disable (2) and (3) from advice provided on this platform
SM Bus Controller Driver
Issues I now have is -
a) Device Manager page keeps refreshing itself every two seconds.
b) Can I use W7 USB3 drivers for W10?
c) BIOS date and time stays correct after being set as long as I do not boot into Windows. Once I boot into Windows, the BIOS clock resets itself to 21/01/2020 and starts to count upwards from 02:06:00. Changing the CMOS battery and clearing RTC RAM makes no difference.
I would like to resolve these issues before connecting to the internet and installing Windows updates, to avoid cementing in the software glitches.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Windows Version 1909 Build 18363.418