Saturday, June 16, 2012

Checking your drivers

Sometimes you can have missing drivers, or driver errors and not even know it. here are a few steps on how to check it.


1. Click Start, then right-click Computer and select Manage

2. In the the left pane, select device Manager

Observing the drivers, you may notice some with icons(Red X, yellow circle with a black exclamation mark inside, a question mark next to "Other Devices") next to them, or none at all. Here is an image of a computer with all the appropiate drivers.

Here is an image with some missing drivers
Once you find out which drivers you need, go to your computer manufactorer webside to download the drivers, if you need a network driver (Ethernet, WLAN or both), you will need to download the network driver on another computer. Download the driver to a thumb drive, and then install it on your computer.

And remember, never download software that "Automatically updates drivers", in some cases they are viruses, and some even get you for your money. If you believe an update is avaliable for your driver, you can either go to the manufactorer's website or you can go to windows update, and select it in the optional section.


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