On Sat, 14 Sep 2019 19:44:03 +0100, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, Dan wrote:
My main desktop is a Asus Sabertooth p67 with 16GB ram, 960GB SSD and
RX 460 1GB graphics card.
It currently runs Win 7 64 ultimate, but in Jan 2020, no more Win 7
updates. So can the motherboard run Win 10 pro?

I have the ASUS P7P55D-E LX with a Core i5 760 (1st gen!) running Win 10
Pro 1903 just fine. I think that predates your board. There is a hitch,
though.

Long story short, on that board, the issued VIA sound drivers are broken.
You may have the same old VIA sound chipset on that board. You will still
have sound, though. It doesn't totally break sound playback.

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Longer story, bug description, and workaround follows in case you have
the VIA problem:

The driver issue, if you run into it, is speakers not automatically
shutting down when the headphone jack is plugged in. You have to go into
the sound panel and disable the speakers manually. This is really
annoying to do every time you plug in headphones. If you don't use
headphones, it is no problem at all.

It is a known issue that came with the Win 10 1024 release drivers for
the VIA chipset. IOW, from day one. The bug is never getting fixed,
because the year 2006 VIA drivers are still the latest from Microsoft.
Everything was going fine on my machine until 1803 insisted on replacing
my working Win 8.1 drivers with the buggy set on a feature update. Then I
couldn't find the old drivers to roll back. Oops.

You can get around it on current Win 10 installs by installing the
generic "High Definition Audio Device" drivers instead of the faulty VIA
driver. You can do this by opening Device Manager, clicking "update
driver" in its Device Manager properties page, telling it you want to
select the driver, and then to select the driver from what's already on
the machine, not "have disk."

The driver is right there, and it works, and Microsoft is still serving
up garbage.

Every time there's a feature update, you will need to change back the
drivers. The installer, since 1803, will insist on the broken VIA driver.
In fact, I just went in and fixed the problem machine (problem software
really) while typing this, since I saw it had updated to 1903. Sure
enough, the headphone jack properly silencing the speakers was broke
again until I replaced the driver with the generic High Definition Audio.

So there's that. I hope you have the newer Realtek chipset, because VIA's
drivers are a sad joke on Windows 10.

--
Zag

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had
spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten