Windows drivers,updates and install
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A computer consists of an assembly of devices. In order to control each of its devices, the operating system needs a software interface between it and the material, called driver for each program to the operating system to manage hardware.
The driver’s role is to play the intermediary between the system and expansion cards or external devices, …
Drivers are developed by manufacturers of equipment to which they correspond. However, although your equipment (hardware) does not change (no mutant), it is possible that the hardware manufacturer provides few months later a new version of the driver and its easy to get windows driver updates.
Indeed, software has constantly bugs (software errors), or they can sometimes only be detected after a test with a large number of people and manufacturers rarely have time to pursue this type of testing . In addition to the evolution of materials sometimes a material that is compatible with “all” existing devices become incompatible with a type of equipment after its appearance or its evolution.
Thus, a simple driver update can improve performance of a material with a gain of up to 10% more performance. However, it must know how to get these updates and how to install them. Different types of hardware we are using and the driver software are different such as Gyration. No matter it is to manage the update driver gyration drivers are also available and easy download and install as well. If you believe that your device is working properly, it is best not to try to update the driver:
How does a driver?
Basically, any device, including hardware “core” needs drivers to function. However, you have never had to install driver for your hard drive , why?
To load the operating system you need to access the hard drive, or how to access the hard disk if your OS is not loaded yet?
This is the BIOS that the computer starts, acts as an operating system by allowing vital components ( video card , hard disk, floppy, keyboard ) to start with the standard drivers. Indeed, the BIOS allows to boot the graphics card itself has functions that will allow graphics to display the first information. It is the same for the disk drive that will boot the system with standard drivers. Once the operating system booted, it will take to himself the control of certain devices using drivers from the manufacturer / equipment or with drivers proprietary standards (developed by the manufacturer of the system operation).
Plug and Play (PnP or plug ‘n play for short) means literally “plug and play”. It is a standard that was developed to simplify hardware detection and installation. It is based on the following fact: the plug and play cards contain a BIOS that will provide a unique number (indicating the hardware) to boot the computer and tell it the resources it needs to assign. Loading the operating system, BIOS will provide this information to the OS (operating system which should be the standard plug and play, too) that will determine which driver to use …
At every startup of the computer’s BIOS, it scans all devices on its bus system, identifying and analyzing the resource requirements of each, it is best to allocate available resources (IRQ, DMA, …) Plug’n'play peripherals, then the configuration manager tries to raise the fire in case of conflict (two devices that have been allocated the same resources).
In the case of a hardware SCSI have established a communication between the SCSI adapter (intermediate between the motherboard and SCSI devices) and devices (with BIOS) attached thereto. So if you have configured the BIOS setup to make a start sequence beginning with the SCSI adapter, it will be able to boot directly to the device with this functionality. If your devices (or your motherboard) do not support this feature it may be possible to update their BIOS . This however has its risks …
Plug & play seems to be a revolution in the sense that we no longer need to install anything. However the reality is not so simple. Only a few items such as keyboard or hard drive is really plug & play. Mostly plug and play you will only detect a new device, you must still install the drivers …
Install driver under Windows
The updated drivers can enable improved performance of your system but that does not mean that your devices will turn “faster”, they turn somewhat less evil. That is to say that if your system is working perfectly, it is unrealistic (but we’ve all done it) to believe it will take a new lease with new drivers, because installing new drivers if it may be beneficial on an unstable system may also raise new issues on a system that was already stable …
So do update it malfunctions … generally read the text file that accompanies the driver to see the improvements that installing this new driver can bring!
The reasons prompting you to update your drivers are:
- replace a standard driver with a driver created by the constructor
- pass a 16-bit driver to 32-bit driver (communication with the equipment will be faster)
- replace a driver for Windows 95 driver for Windows 98 (if you have this system)