Worst Nightmare After Fresh Install Of Windows 11

[@ionamygdalon2263]

Wow, that I did not know... Thank you SO MUCH for bringing this to my/our attention!!

[@Britec09]

You're welcome

[@Sid-Cannon]

This jogged my memory to when I had an 8.5GB DVD full of nothing but drivers, and then I would search that DVD if someone turned up with a machine, usually a laptop, with missing drivers. It was nowhere near guaranteed to work but it was the best I had. I think the OS was XP or it could have been 98, it's that long ago I can't remember.

[@moitreyig]

actually it's not that long ago but now every update since 7 and 10 has been re*ar_ed

[@catmando2058]

It always used to be that any new reputable hardware manufacturer would send their drivers into Microsoft to be certified and added to the Microsoft database, I believe a cost might of been involved. Any cheap Chinese hardware manufacturer is unlikely to do this therefore you buy a cheap mini pc that has no chance of having any drivers picked up by Microsoft as these devices are not certified by anyone

[@Heppieboeddah]

Thank for this tip. Most of the time with a fresh install Windows finds the WHQL standard driver. Runnig this application found some updated drivers and even a driver for an piece of hardware that was never ever recognized.. Great Job Brian

[@AndreaBorman]

When I used to use Windows I always had to install every singe driver after a clean install of Windows XP, Windows 7 or Windows 8 and also with Windows Vista. Most of my laptops were HP and HP always provide all of the installer files for the drivers. Which are in a folder on the C drive when you buy the laptop. So what I did was just back up that file buy burning it to a DVD but you can also use a USB drive to copy those files to. Then when ever I had to reinstall Windows I always had the CD in which I would install the drivers from. My other MSI netbook I had came with a CD which had all of the software including drivers on it. Other laptops such as Aser or Asus you can just download the drivers for your laptop and copy them to a DVD or USB. That way you have always got them when you need to do a reinstall of Windows. Now that I am using Linux there is not that problem because the drivers just work out of the box so I don't have to install anything. With Linux you can always test this out buy booting into a live CD which I always do first before any new install. Then if the sound, brightness and network is working you are good to go. It seems that Linux can detect the drivers you have got so you don't have to install anything. But whenever I have had to reinstall Windows not a single driver is installed. No sound, no graphics no network, nothing. I have always had to install everything myself from the drivers I have backed up on the CD. That has always been the case.

[@Britec09]

Those were the good old days.

[@raminybhatti5740]

Best thing to do IMO is clone / image your boot disk (SSD) when you boot up your mini PC for the first time after purchase. It's in perfect working order, and if anything ever goes wrong in the future you can just restore that initial image. Of course, you've got to regularly backup files and docs as time goes by.

[@280813jb]

On my Beelink, it had a directory on the C: Drive named Beelink and all the necessary drivers were in that directory and I backed the directory up a USB drive for future use.

[@stevedeamer3351]

Where did you find this file please

[@280813jb]

@@stevedeamer3351 , the Directory was C:\Driver, it contained all the Drivers required for my Beelink MINIS Pro12. It is mention on the back page of the MINIS User Manual.

[@stevebray71]

Thanks again for the information that your post has. It's always helpful for when you are trying to even the old systems working especially when it's the only OS that would run on it for certain applications or even testing in virtual environments 👍👀👋

[@Bert4ceasar]

Thnx, SDI wasn't yet tested by me but I did now and I like it. No fuzz or ads, open source and simple to use.

[@davinp]

That is a problem. it's not like the big PC manufacturers - Dell & HP that offer drivers & software on their website. I don't thing a forum is good enough

[@Britec09]

Same, they need to offer better support for the money they are asking for these mini pc.

[@rkeyology81]

Thanks this is a game changer for me. This has always been a process I dread. Def image your system prior to updating drivers in case it bricks the system.

[@Apollopayne25]

Thank you, just what I’ve been looking for

[@Britec09]

Glad I could help

[@ryanzmuda3167]

A good company gives you drivers on a disk for backup.

[@jrose-xp6tf]

My mobo came with driver-USB.

[@davidadiwego4608]

discs are going bye-bye

[@Ratchet_effect]

@@davidadiwego4608 True! they have been going N-Sync for a long time, even the supplied USB(s) are out of date drivers too! So you still en up looking online.

[@vadnegru]

At least qr code

[@brolydictcumberbatchmontou401]

wow so I only needed SDi in of itself, Thanks Brian. I have been mounting 40+GB IS0 file for drivers. But basically on a few external HDD's I keep a copy SamDrivers. Putting SDi on a USB stick is more convenient. Awesome tip. The ISO is still useful for the no network driver issue in my usage experience.

[@Britec09]

No need to download driver pack, use index only

[@jeffsmith6659]

Great info.... something definitely to be aware of. Thank you!

[@-----pepsi-----]

Drivers backup before install, or reinstall a new OS!😊

[@Britec09]

Most people don't even backup there pc let alone there drivers.

[@slacker1]

Rule Of Thumb: If PC is running perfect for a month...Set a restore point.

[@andy.3407]

If you don’t have the network driver, a nice dodge is to use a usb network dongle. Windows seems to cope with many different ones. (Good for Linux too)😊 Then you can find the computer network driver for your computer

[@CedroCron]

Fantastic Utility... Thank you!

[@Britec09]

You're welcome!

[@Skyetender]

Thanks Brian, that worked great on my Minisforum pc

[@LeadFarmer813]

1 tip... always have a live USB os like linux or Win PE to boot and dload network driver on the only pc. Beelink is also bad about offering Bios for ALL models (they offer a few) for reflash when bios goes corrupt.

[@Britec09]

WinPE or Linux live cd is a must

[@matrix54190]

Hi Brian, well done, I've encountered the same problem with my Mini PC👍🏼👍🏼. 👋from🧀🍷🥖🇫🇷

[@Britec09]

Glad I could help.

[@jawnTem]

Great production, Britec! I'm still on Win 10, mainly because of MS's shenanigans on Win 11. Regardless, I'm especially interested in drivers for older versions of windows. Sadly, they only offer from XP, which is great, but I have some builds still working from win3.1 and up, along with a few Win 98 units. I use them mostly for playing old games and programs that the newer OS's no longer support. My biggest concern, is if I try to download drivers on these specific machines, I'll need to connect to the Int, and I'm afraid of security. So far, I've been using them without connecting.

[@esecallum]

i am running xp with no antivirus

[@jawnTem]

@@esecallum I intend to run Win 10 without MS support, but it's scary. I can reinstall the OS if it gets hacked, but windows 98 or older, not so easy to reinsitall.

[@bkThund3r]

I just installed Tiny11 on an older laptop. And i partitioned the drive so i can have my user folders on thr separate partition. I had to look up how to do it. Could you do a video showing this? It wasn't as straightforward as linux makes it but I managed.

[@Pahrump]

The two beelink pcs i have are great. Haven't had this problem.

[@johngoard8272]

Hmm Brian mate having to install a driver for any form of hardware has always been a real gripe of mine simply because if a GPU is installed on a motherboard albeit a dedicated card or onboard graphics then it should work. To make an analogy tale your car for example and it comes with say Dunlop tyres on it the car should run- but the computer system of setting up indicates that the car's computer must have Dunlop tyres added to the car's computer system details before it will even let the car be driven, - sorry but It simply does not make any sense to me at least for drivers to have to be downloaded and installed before any computer will work properly.

[@eugenepohjola258]

Howdy. Another lesson learned. Always have a Ethernet to USB adapter available with its drivers on a flash stick or on an optical disk if the computer has an optical drive. Alternatively always have a WLAN to USB adapter available. Regards.

[@cohenjr2023]

*Muchas Gracias Por Compartir Tus Conocimientos...👍👍👍*

[@Britec09]

De nada y gracias por ver

[@jameswubbolt7787]

Great to know.Thanks.

[@Britec09]

You're welcome

[@FrancisFjordCupola]

Sounds like a great way to smuggle in malware to willing victims, "just call us and we will give you that one special link, trust us." I must say Snappy sounds great. Does remind me of Windows 95/98/SE somewhat.

[@Britec09]

Snappy Driver is clean

[@fido139]

I have had this same problem on every version of Windows ever, I have done thousands of installs since 1996. There is a free update utility app that does quite well though. Usually I have to add an external USB WIFI with drivers included on a disk or jump drives. Then I have a fighting chance. 😊

[@MikeBob2023]

Thanks, Brian! 👍🏼

[@Britec09]

You're welcome!

[@akyhne]

If you are having problems recording videos on small computers, try recording to the DNxHR or DNxHD format. They are intra frame post-production formats and does little compression. Only downside, is large files. But they are way more easy to record and also to edit, as each frame is saved in full, instead of e.g. H.264 and H.265. DNxHR LQ is well good enough and will outperform any H.264 and H.265 videos in quality - another benefit. The bandwidth is around 80Mbit/s, if I remember correctly. But don't let that scare you. As already mentioned, they are easy file formats to record and edit. Your editing PC will thank you.

[@rvlyssup]

Did a fresh install on a Acemagic ck11 (same result on both w10 or w11) and same thing happened...exact same devices too. Had to scour the interweebs for the drivers. Although I did finally found them, IMHO it did not make me feel like I could trust using this PC. Drivers were mostly Intel and one or two from Realtek. Again not trusting this mini PC, once I got it running, I boxed it back up and put it away. I'll be sticking to my Lenovo mini PCs. Edit: Acemagic's website did not list drivers for the ck11 and I haven't checked recenly.

[@asahinayanase3364]

Fresh windows 10 install broke my windows explorer. I can't install anything, can't click on anything inside file explorer. On top of that windows update was broken as well. Almost 4 hours of following multiple step finally fix that.

[@kariahola463]

Probably a quicker way: Now, 99% of new pc's come with a preinstallation image for win10/11 (mostly compatible as for drivers). - Run preinstallation - Find and copy hardware drivers - Install fresh no bloat windows (as Brian has taught us 👍 ) - Update drivers from your copy Worked fine to me quite many times.

[@romanb.6905]

Thank you very much! How do you come across such infos/websites?

[@videofeed99]

Thank you for video. I actually have a Beelink myself. Aside backing up/cloning the computer, do you think Exporting the drivers using the command Export -windowsdriver and importing the drivers would work fine on Beelink? Maybe that could be another video from you?

[@shlomoaziz411]

That was a Great Video, You are the windows Angel Thank you very much m8

[@Britec09]

You're welcome!

[@robcarley7506]

Hey Brian may be worth trying iobit driver booster, i use it when i do a fresh install of windows on my dell machines, old compaq computer i got laying around. Might be worth looking in to, i get rid of it after otherwise it nags you to install other software. Good for a one time use though and may be worth a try on one of those mini pc's

[@normmcinnis4102]

Yep. Installing Windows 10 and Windows 11 knocked out my bluetooth. I had a re hard time getting it back but finally found a driver updater that brought it back

[@markcoetzer7576]

I have an Asus TUF F15 that has the exact same issue, not a cheap computer either and it's disgracefull that I have to jump around and try and fix an issue I shouldn't have for a $1000+ laptop.

[@ralphtaylor5328]

Perhaps I should have watched closer but presumably you need to run the program using a wired connection as drivers are usually needed for WiFi. If you do not have a wired port you are stuck unless you have something like USB to ethernet adaptor

[@manti1923]

Personally I wouldn't buy their stuff if it's that much hassle, when I got my HP laptop it has it's own app to download all the required drivers and other software for your unit.

[@vadnegru]

I used phone as a wifi adapter. Recently set up a laptop (Acer to be specific) and despite not having any OS, even FreeDOS, it had 4gb partition with drivers. Windows had driver for network, but i used local drivers first, then unassigned letter from that partition. Overall i like to work with laptops because they have all drivers in one place, some of them allow to bulk download.

[@capblack7367]

I use iobit driver boost, find and installs all drivers needed, only problem is latest free version only let's you install one driver every 24hrs, BUT, if you install old version of program, after scan scree goes to desktop, then opens webpage, close webpage, an it all of a sudden opens the latest version, and that will let you install ALL the drivers one at a time, for upto 30 days 😜🤪😜

[@DobiTech]

I personally don't use this much anymore because one of the drivers [Haven't found out which one it is yet] from SDI caused freezing issues

[@ocsrc]

I have always had to get the HWID and search the database and find who owned that ID and go to the manufacturer website and download the drivers for that chipset It is a normal thing for us people who worked on computers did

[@moitreyig]

I've been struggling with installing audio drivers for some two three days. thanks i hope this comes to help. i pray this works thaannkks

[@moitreyig]

didn't help even after 64 drivers updated : (

[@preston176]

In my pc no sound will work unless you know where you get Realtek driver

[@moitreyig]

same

[@tahsinrahman8671]

Did you fix it? I'm suffering from the same problem for months

[@preston176]

@@tahsinrahman8671 you gotta use snappy driver installer

[@jme36053]

I’ve dealt with this problem on an MSI board with the newest chipset. Not even network drivers. Eventually worked it out.

[@williamjones4483]

I DO NOT like drivers supplied by Windows Update. Seems that on my computers Windows Update will install older drivers. I finally had to resort editing the group policy to stop this from happening.

[@hughluttrell6350]

You must be able to read my mind,i had fired up a box from four years ago.I was not having much luck with MSI i thought that i was going to buy a new license and reload a new copy of windows 10.this will let me copy programs i want to keep that are on my drive till i can change processors.

[@barrykirkby9626]

Got a few mini pc's of verying types like Ace, trigkey etc. As soon as I get em I wipe windows and install linux. Problem sorted.

[@writerpatrick]

I think the worst nightmare would be finding your data erased. But that's inclined to happen after an upgrade. I can recall when you use to have to install drivers after installing Windows.

[@cam_934]

Why there was 4.58GB download to install the drivers is because many of them are in separate driver packs and some of these packs can be quite large.

[@Earthdr0id]

Hey dude you could you make a video about an issue with windows 11? There a bug it seems when resting the pc it seems not to download windows security, and when you open it it’s just blank and gives an IT has limited access for anything you do in the app

[@MrRiggyG]

Would you have got a similar result using the Intel Driver and Support Assistant ? (Intel chipsets only - obv)

[@Christophers-Assorted-Stuff]

I don't need to re-install my windows 10 or 11 but in order to make it as easy as possible, how would I save all my drivers to an external drive or other USB device so that they are ready for use when I do need them. I have a Beelink GTR7. Will the 10 drivers work if I install 11?

[@winstonb990]

I have geekom mini pc but I think if I reinstall windows 11 some software will not be detected. For example, my wireless wifi and sound software may not run on the new windows 11 iso. It can't detect geekom mini's wifi on its own computer then I searched for my wireless name in google and nothing so maybe what you suggested might work. If I reinstall the new windows 11.

[@bazstar69ar]

cant you use command prompt - win_get to update everything?

[@moitreyig]

how

[@toonnut1]

If you know your going to do a clean install back up your divers 1st

[@ryanzmuda3167]

Having internet at least helps.

[@sp1ke0kill3r]

Why not use unknown device identifier?

[@gregalss]

use driver booster much easier

[@claycassin8437]

Word to the wise- Don't install Windows 11. At least wait until Windows 10 EOL. W10 is a fully fleshed out, mature operating system. W11 is not even close. Maybe by then, 11 will be worth installing(IE: All AI components can be stripped out along with the telemetry...AND the taskbar and right click menu is FIXED, among many things). If not, I'll have an entirely new operating system I'll have to learn.

[@NotEvenDeathCanSaveU]

ghost spectre = no nightmare, no spyware, no bloatware

[@ehsnils]

You can't get the drivers because you don't have drivers for the network card and the USB ports.

[@bolovanvalentin1937]

Brian Windows 11 its garbage !!!! Thank You for Video !!!!

[@gbncondor88]

do you use Snappy Driver onle once?

[@Dailyrider94]

once a month to update drivers

[@ThaerRazeq]

or basically throw that mini pc away. or install light linux distro and install adguard home server to block ads for the whole network.

[@ryanzmuda3167]

Motherboard might be better than manufacturer

[@Can_You_Hear_Me]

even windows turn off offline installation option

[@CoMmAnDrX]

I wouldn't trust their drivers!

[@89volvowithlazers]

Na win 11 is not a good os in the market for a new os. And stop buying mini anything. Build it yourself and problem avoided. Either that or get a steam deck just for your mini pc needs

[@jimstirling7223]

Is the issue specific to mini PC's , I have installed windows many times and never had an issue with drivers . Much as I am inclined to take a default stance that Microsoft is the devil and usually responsible for any woes that befall us 😀. Surely if the makers are using non standard motherboards they should provide a driver back up on a disc etc or a direct link on their website with no need to sign up and get the drivers sent to them .

[@johnfinn1570]

Before reinstallation, i copy the system32 folder to another drive. After the reinstallation, i point device manager to this folder which has all the drivers on it. Bobs your uncle

[@anjkovo2138]

👍👍

[@lilSmurf69]

i already have the app anyway for those who dont i recommend it too

[@LalitSharma-xz5jy]

In my case it solved by updating bios

[@abc_cba]

Today's Cumulative update for H24H2 fixed the overheating bug.

[@LEXIXON]

Very ugly Windows! My Windows 7, forever!

[@bolovanvalentin1937]

Windows 11 = Windows Vista ! Beautiful and Stupid !!!!!

[@mark-sk3do]

Beelink's poor customer service

[@JagdSeelen]

Alternatively you can make a Chris Titus MicroWin with drivers iso from the computer you want to re install windows on.

[@garyjones5792]

use driver max ??????

[@syn80]

They want to harvest your information

[@Dailyrider94]

who

[@syn80]

@@Dailyrider94 CCP 🇨🇳

[@thomasmelanson9739]

The problem is not Windows. It's the crap you're installing on.

[@StrawberryKitten]

Windows 10 and 11 don't have on-board drivers for the NIC on my 500€ motherboard. Linux does.

[@samshort365]

Agreed, it is Windows. I keep Linux on external ssds and it boots up on any hardware I throw at it. Wore case scenario is when it installs open source drivers for nVidia cards when it finds one.

[@slaydog5102]

@@samshort365for some reason linux fanboys cant stay away from windows, interesting

[@arismazimmer9275]

​@@samshort365linux with kernel 5.xx is more a nightmare than Windows. Windows 11 has drivers for fairly old devices and hardware, as well as for the newest hardware. But Linux kernel 5.xx can't even see my USB Wi-Fi dongle,! Don't be a blind fanboy. Linux is still far away to be a perfect desktop operating system for everyday use at home, offices and productions. Linux is indeed grate, but only for some specific use cases. And in Windows, we always installed drivers since Windows 98, XP, Vista, 7... And the drivers could be found very easily, installation is easy... UNLIKE LINUX... where finding and installing a driver is another pain

[@genossinwaabooz4373]

​@@slaydog5102 Living the dream...

[@gtech66]

The problem is not Windows 11, Beelink is a Chinese crap company. Support is horrible. Another reason to avoid these Chinese mini pcs.

[@eddieoconnor4466]

The BEST Windows install?...is the one where you install LINUX instead!.....LOL!