DisplayLink Forum - View Single Post - DisplayLink 8.0 M0 Corporate Install Deployment Changes?

atomicd10 · 08-08-2016, 02:57 PM

Hi Alban,

Thank you for the detailed response, I really appreciate it!

We won't be upgrading to Redstone anytime soon; we are still in the process of upgrading our firm to Windows 10 with our baseline being TH2.

Currently we have 7.9 M7 installed in our Win10 TH2 environment, and we appear to have an issue when upgrading to 8.0 M0. If 7.9 M7 is installed prior to the 8.0 M0 install, the active driver version remains at 7.9 (even after reboots) but if 8.0 M0 is installed onto a computer without any version of DisplayLink installed the driver version will be 8, so it appears that upgrading the driver in our environment doesn't seem to work. Note that the install logs in these upgrade scenarios indicate that it was installed correctly.

If there is a prior version of DisplayLink installed when upgrading to 8.0 M0 in Win10 TH2, do the prior DisplayLink drivers need to be uninstalled prior to installing 8.0 M0? We're really just looking for an upgrade path from 7.9 M7 to 8.0 M0 without requiring a reboot, if possible.

Thanks again for the information!

08-08-2016, 02:57 PM	#3
atomicd10 Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 16	Hi Alban, Thank you for the detailed response, I really appreciate it! We won't be upgrading to Redstone anytime soon; we are still in the process of upgrading our firm to Windows 10 with our baseline being TH2. Currently we have 7.9 M7 installed in our Win10 TH2 environment, and we appear to have an issue when upgrading to 8.0 M0. If 7.9 M7 is installed prior to the 8.0 M0 install, the active driver version remains at 7.9 (even after reboots) but if 8.0 M0 is installed onto a computer without any version of DisplayLink installed the driver version will be 8, so it appears that upgrading the driver in our environment doesn't seem to work. Note that the install logs in these upgrade scenarios indicate that it was installed correctly. If there is a prior version of DisplayLink installed when upgrading to 8.0 M0 in Win10 TH2, do the prior DisplayLink drivers need to be uninstalled prior to installing 8.0 M0? We're really just looking for an upgrade path from 7.9 M7 to 8.0 M0 without requiring a reboot, if possible. Thanks again for the information!