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I'm a lurker on these forums so I'd like to start out by thanking everyone for their time and contributions. This is more of a general question in regards to chipset drivers and SCCM OSD - I'm not having a specific issue but I haven't found a satisfactory explanation on chipset drivers anywhere yet. Like many others here, I've been installing Windows for a long time. It didn't matter what kind of system you had - after you finished installing Windows the FIRST thing you did was install chipset drivers and reboot. Always. Fast forward to today. I'm following the excellent sticky'd guides ( <3 u Niall) and not having a problem with drivers...but something has always bothered me. For instance if I download the Intel chipset drivers for an Ivy Bridge chipset and blindly import them all into SCCM I end up with around 72 drivers. I know you're NOT supposed to do that (and I haven't). So instead I followed the suggestion of installing Windows 7 fresh. Then I'd manually install the chipset drivers and use Device Manager to drill down into each 'unknown device' that now has a driver to determine what the underlying .sys file is for that specific chipset component. Then I'm importing just that specific chipset driver into SCCM...so I'll end up with 1-3 chipset drivers on average per chipset. Seems nice and clean but there is always this nagging doubt in the back of my head that there *might* be some components using built-in Windows drivers (hence no Unknown Device) but might run better with the official Intel drivers. Are any of my concerns real?