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Hi,
As its name suggests the Z370 chipset is part of the 300 series of chipsets.My mainboard is Z370 Gaming 7 but in Device Manager I saw a lot of Intel 200 series. Is it because I installed wrong chipset driver?
https://ark.intel.com/products/serie...eries-Chipsets
Cheers,
The Z370 INF tables are correct from what I have gathered.
The Intel data sheets for the 200 and 370 series are one and the same: Datasheet, Vol. 2: Intel® 200 and Z370 Series Chipset Families PCH
The 200 and 370 CPUs both use 1151 socket, and have the same connection pins to the motherboard, meaning to chipset(PCH) to communicate with your hardware. The only difference is the CPUs pins for power delivery and the addition of setting up RAID 0,1,5 for PCIe(M.2 drives), and USB 3.1 (10x).
So if your Device Manager looks like this, it's perfectly normal, as only the changes specific for the 300 series will be different:
Have you ever noticed, that Xeon chips show up there too?
Because the PCIe controller is the exact same:)
Hi Brink a while back i inadvertently ran a chip set installer here i ran the wrong one i meant to run the Intel detection tool, i have MSI Z77A-G45 mainboard can you point me to the good ones for my board so i can get this cleared up things seems to be ok, but i think it identifies my chip set wrong in the device manager area.
Hey Tony, :)
MSI's support website below doesn't really show many drivers available for your motherboard for Windows 10.
Support For Z77A-G45 | MSI USA
You could see what the Intel Driver & Support Assistant gives you from below, but it may be best to just use what Windows 10 installed for you by default.
Intel Driver & Support Assistant