The steps of driver installation

The steps of driver installation

Installing driver is an essential step after installing a new OS for a new machine. Though Microsoft’s operating system, higher than Windows XP , already comes with drivers for most hardware, it is very necessary to install the latest drivers for getting the best performance. The reasonable steps of driver installation as follows:

1. You should patch Service Pack (SP) to your OS after having been installed a new OS.

We know that the driver directly confronts the operating system and hardware, so we should first solve the operating system with SP patch compatibility issues . After that, we can ensure a seamless operating system and driver combination. Windows system can download the latest patch from Microsoft’s official website. Of course, you can download it through third-party tools.

2. Install motherboard chipset

Motherboard-driven mainly used to turn on the motherboard chipset built-in features and characteristics. That is,Motherboard chipset drivers refer only to the driver(Motherboard chipset driver can identify the corresponding chip board, and automatically install the appropriate Inf file to reflect the functional characteristics of the chipset, such as PCI and ISAPNP services in support of the AGP,SATA,USB,IDE/ATA33/ATA66/ATA100 support for PCIe support, etc.), but the motherboard with integrated sound card, and other equipment will also need to install the corresponding driver. A description of the present, most motherboards with NVIDIA chipsets, the driver package built a sound card, network card and other integrated device drivers, do not need to install the user.

3. Install DirectX drivers

Here is recommended to install the latest version, Vista and higher than the current system, built-in DirectX 10 version, but gamers need to install the appropriate version of DirectX 9.

4. Install video card driver

The graphics on issues such as sound cards, network cards and other equipment in front of, because after installing graphics card drivers, drivers not only provide a more comfortable user interface, but also reduce the chance of a black screen crash.Note that the installation of video drivers and then reboot the system after the recommendation to conduct other operations.

5. Install other device drivers such as network cards, sound card plugged into motherboard.

6. Install printers, scanners and other peripheral drivers

The last topic is the keyboard, mouse, monitor and other equipment that also has a dedicated driver, especially some big brands.While these devices can be correctly identified and use the system,the corresponding driver is installed, not only can improve the stability and performance, but also get some special effects, to facilitate different users.

Such as the Microsoft mouse driver IntelliPoint, not only to redefine their own mouse buttons for each function, but also adjust the mouse speed.Especially gamers is recommended to install the corresponding mouse drive

So if you have drivers for these products, then do not waste, installed them on it.