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just installed W7 on a new build and can't get the drivers installed. I was having issues during the installation - it was hanging on finalizing settings - and did a new install without the ethernet connected. Installation worked, but no drivers were installed. Now it won't read a usb drive so I can't manually install the drivers. I don't have a CD/DVD drive either. At this point, I'm guessing the only thing is to try and track down a friend with a CD/DVD drive, but I'm hoping someone here might have something I can try before I do that. Any help is appreciated! Thanks.

Specifications:

  • MB: GIGABYTE GA-H110M-A (rev. 1.0) LGA 1151;
  • CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 6M Skylake Quad-Core 2.7 GHz;
  • GPU: GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950 GV-N950WF2OC-2GD;
  • PSU: CORSAIR CXM series CX750M 750W ATX12V v2.3;
  • RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
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  • Are you plugging your thumb drive into a USB 3.0 port? Windows 7 doesn't have native support for it, so you would have to install a driver in order to get that working. If your motherboard has a USB 2.0 port, I would try plugging your thumb drive in there instead.
    – Brian
    Commented Nov 9, 2015 at 0:31
  • It would also be helpful if you can share which motherboard you are using, and while you're at it, the rest of your specs too, just in case anyone can catch a red flag with your configuration.
    – Brian
    Commented Nov 9, 2015 at 0:32
  • Unfortunately, that was the first thing I checked. USB is plugged into the 2.0 port. For added detail, when I go to the device manager, there are those yellow triangles with exclamation marks for ethernet controller, PCI Data Acquisition and Signal Processing, PCI Memory Controller, PCI Simple Communications, SM Bus Controller, and Universal Serial Bus Controller.
    – Dretherix
    Commented Nov 9, 2015 at 0:36
  • Sure. MB: GIGABYTE GA-H110M-A (rev. 1.0) LGA 1151; CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 6M Skylake Quad-Core 2.7 GHz; GPU: GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950 GV-N950WF2OC-2GD; PSU: CORSAIR CXM series CX750M 750W ATX12V v2.3; RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
    – Dretherix
    Commented Nov 9, 2015 at 0:40
  • If you have another desktop computer available with a free SATA connection (or any other modern computer with a SATA-USB bridge), the only other suggestion I have would be to take your OS drive, connect it to your other computer as slave storage, manually copy your chipset drivers (may as well copy the rest while you're at it) over, then reconnect and try installing them on your new computer. It seems strange to me that Windows wouldn't at least load a generic USB controller driver, but I suppose it's not unheard of.
    – Brian
    Commented Nov 9, 2015 at 0:43

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