Will Windows 10 work with DG31PR motherboard?

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  1. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Ultimate
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    Will Windows 10 work with DG31PR motherboard?


    Hi, does anyone know if Win 10 will work with DG31PR? Support page - http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support...pboards/dg31pr

    Supported OS page confirms that Windows 8 is not supported. I don't know how to link to a specific part of a page but you have to click on Discontinued Boards and it shows it there.
    http://www.intel.com/support/motherb.../CS-008326.htm

    Now, since Win 8 is not supported I assumed the same applies to Win 10. But I recently read an article that said Windows 10 will work on older hardware.

    Thanks for reading!

    Don.
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  2. Posts : 438
    Win 10 pro 1803
       #2

    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-faq-system-requirements-pc

    in your case, id check that through

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  3. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Ultimate
    Thread Starter
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    batlhilz said:
    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-faq-system-requirements-pc

    in your case, id check that through

    Thanks buddy, gonna do that now. Will report back in a bit.
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  4. Posts : 3,257
    Windows 10 Pro
       #4

    If Windows 8 is not supported, then chances are Windows 10 won't be either. It's an unfortunate thing that Intel basically abandons their desktop boards not long after they stop selling that model.

    Chances are, if it's unsupported, it means that either BIOS or some driver is incompatible and Intel has not bothered to update it.
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    Windows 10 Home x64
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    Mystere said:
    If Windows 8 is not supported, then chances are Windows 10 won't be either. It's an unfortunate thing that Intel basically abandons their desktop boards not long after they stop selling that model.

    Chances are, if it's unsupported, it means that either BIOS or some driver is incompatible and Intel has not bothered to update it.
    My previous PC had an Intel motherboard and they dropped support so I could not run Win8 without a chip set upgrade and Intel never supplied that. I trust Asus, Gigabyte over Intel for motherboards.
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    Windows 10 Pro
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    A lot of people think, oh Intel makes great processors, they must make great motherboards too. Well, they don't. They're not bad quality per se... but they have ZERO features... you can't overclock them, you can't do anything out of spec from what Intel requires. And don't even think about trying to run a Server OS on a desktop motherboard.. UNSUPPORTED.

    And as soon as the wind changes direction, they drop support and you're stuck with a pile of junk.

    Sorry, yeah, been burned by Intel a few too many times with motherbards... Processors are amazing.. motherboards suck.
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    Windows 7 Ultimate
    Thread Starter
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    Mystere said:
    If Windows 8 is not supported, then chances are Windows 10 won't be either. It's an unfortunate thing that Intel basically abandons their desktop boards not long after they stop selling that model.
    I know right?

    Mystere said:
    Chances are, if it's unsupported, it means that either BIOS or some driver is incompatible and Intel has not bothered to update it.
    That's a shame. Because even though the PC is five years old, I've upgraded the RAM to 4GB, and it works perfectly fine. I would have liked to upgrade to Windows 10 though.

    BunnyJ said:
    My previous PC had an Intel motherboard and they dropped support so I could not run Win8 without a chip set upgrade and Intel never supplied that. I trust Asus, Gigabyte over Intel for motherboards.
    Unfortunately, I don't think I can upgrade just the Chip Set as it's glued to the MoBo. I did buy this off the shelve, so I shouldn't expect much. I've heard for Desktops custom built is the way to go, and this is one example why. Of course, I could always change the MoBo...

    Mystere said:
    A lot of people think, oh Intel makes great processors, they must make great motherboards too. Well, they don't. They're not bad quality per se... but they have ZERO features... you can't overclock them, you can't do anything out of spec from what Intel requires. And don't even think about trying to run a Server OS on a desktop motherboard.. UNSUPPORTED.

    And as soon as the wind changes direction, they drop support and you're stuck with a pile of junk.

    Sorry, yeah, been burned by Intel a few too many times with motherbards... Processors are amazing.. motherboards suck.
    That's good advice. I had no idea Intel MoBo had so many restrictions. I'm definitely going to keep that in mind the next time I build a PC.
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  8. Posts : 1
    Windows 8.1
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    dongoffe said:
    Windows 8 is not supported. I don't know how to link to a specific part of a page but you have to click on Discontinued Boards and it shows it there.
    I'm running Windows 8.1 on a DG31pr. It's just a matter of getting information on how to install Windows 8 without UEFI.

    Now... I think that's as far as you can go, though. I believe for Windows 10 you MUST have UEFI on.
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    Win 7
       #9

    installed win 10


    pablokenfold said:
    I'm running Windows 8.1 on a DG31pr. It's just a matter of getting information on how to install Windows 8 without UEFI.

    Now... I think that's as far as you can go, though. I believe for Windows 10 you MUST have UEFI on.

    I slammed forward and installed windows 10 for free. Interestingly it completed. At first I though I was good, but then I noticed the PC would notdetect my USB Lexmark printer. Then I noticed windows would not detect my DVD d: drive.

    Other than those 2 things everything else was transparent. Probably will roll back to Windows. Its too much of a hastle to be without a printer or dvd drive.

    I will say with everything else working fine, on the surface, seems like there wouldn't be a heck of a lot of work involved for the boys (or girls) at Intel to modify the driver to get a couple of pieces of hardware working. That's too bad the drivers stopped at win 7.
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    Win 11 Pro 22000.708
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    mscmor said:
    I slammed forward and installed windows 10 for free. Interestingly it completed. At first I though I was good, but then I noticed the PC would notdetect my USB Lexmark printer. Then I noticed windows would not detect my DVD d: drive.

    Other than those 2 things everything else was transparent. Probably will roll back to Windows. Its too much of a hastle to be without a printer or dvd drive.

    I will say with everything else working fine, on the surface, seems like there wouldn't be a heck of a lot of work involved for the boys (or girls) at Intel to modify the driver to get a couple of pieces of hardware working. That's too bad the drivers stopped at win 7.
    That may or may not have anything to do with Intel support for the board.

    I've seen a number of posts from people whose optical drives disappeared from Windows. Sometimes the drive will show up in Device Manager in "other devices". I suppose that it'd be too much to expect that removing the device and rebooting would persuade Windows to recognize it correctly, but it may be worth a try.

    As for the USB Lexmark printer, I'd unplug it, and remove it from Devices. Plug it back in, and try the "add printer" thing. If that doesn't work, I'd try re-installing the Lexmark driver package, in the hope it'd see the printer again.

    If you have done all that unsuccessfully, I'm mostly out of ideas.
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