Computer installation operating system driver installation: Third, driver download (a)

Second, the way to get the driver

Since the driver has such an important role, how to get the driver of the relevant hardware device? There are several ways to do this:

1. Use the driver provided by the operating system

The operating system (such as Windows XP) can be equipped with a large number of generic drivers that are compatible. Many devices, after installing the system, often many hardware devices do not need to be installed separately to run the driver.

The operating system is lagging behind hardware. Hardware vendors are constantly releasing new versions of drivers to support new hardware or further improve their hardware capabilities. Therefore, the driver that comes with the operating system is not able to fully support the hardware device, which means that the hardware cannot be fully utilized. At the same time, the driver attached to the operating system is limited. In many cases, the operating system does not have some hardware. The driver is either not working. The most common thing about this is the graphics driver. At this point, you have to manually install the driver.

2, use the driver provided in the included driver disk

So, manufacturers of various hardware devices will design special drivers for the characteristics of personal hardware devices. And in the form of a floppy disk or a CD, the hardware devices are sold at the same time as free to the netizens. These drivers, designed directly by device vendors, are highly targeted and have a much higher capability than the drivers included with Windows.

3. Download via the Internet

Through the introduction, netizens can identify the manufacturer and model of the hardware or the chip model, so the netizens can download the driver by visiting the hardware manufacturer's website. Or download the public version driver by visiting the chipset vendor's website; of course, you can also download it by visiting the professional driver provider site.

Hardware manufacturer website

After testing with Cpu-Z software, the author knows that the personal motherboard is produced by Asus, the model is "K8N-VM".

(1) Log in to the official website of ASUS http://www.asus.com.cn/
, then click on the “Download Area” in the menu bar to enter;

(2), as shown in Figure 1, select the corresponding option in the drop-down menu, then click "Search";

Figure 1 Select to download the product

(3), as shown in Figure 2 enter the page to the list of drivers, click on the project will be able to enter the download page;

2 in the list of drivers

(4), Figure 2, sound card And the graphics card driver is in the list. Because the author's sound card, graphics card and network card are integrated on the motherboard, so through this step, find all the drivers, and other such as network card drivers are in other drivers.

Chip manufacturer's website

According to the Cpu-Z detection, the motherboard's chipset "Nvidia GeForce 6100" was identified, and its north bridge chip was "Nvidia GeForce 6100", South Bridge. The chip is "nForce 410/430", so netizens can also download and install the public version driver provided by the chipset manufacturer to support the operation of the motherboard.

(1), log in to NVidia's official website http://cn.nvidia.com/page/home.html
;

(2), click on the menu bar "Drive download", go to the driver download page. As shown in Figure 3, according to the author's motherboard model (in the product library, the author knows that the motherboard south bridge chip is "nForce 410"), select the appropriate driver, then click "Go!";

Figure 3 select Drive

(3), as shown in Figure 4, select a download address.

Figure 4 Select the download address

(4), enter the page of Figure 5, at this time the address of the address bar can be followed by the address (Figure 6), netizens can use it to copy, pick up Download it with the download software, and download it directly faster than using the IE browser browser.

5 client licenses

professional drivers website

POST by identifying information which describes the hardware, graphics models get Confirmation, "Nvidia Geforce4 MX 440", when I am here to introduce us how to get drivers by accessing the professional driver website.

1. Access the NVidia driver page of the download center http://dlc2.pconline.com.cn/list.jsp?chnid=299
, (see Figure 7) in the search box Enter the main word "GeForce4".

Figure 7 Type the main word for the search

2. As shown in Figure 8, the search results page shows a lot of drivers that can support this kind of hardware.

Figure 8 Partial Search Results
3, netizens choose to download according to the operating system version supported by the graphics card driver (such as Win98, Win2000, WinXP, WinXP-64). For example, the operating system I use is WinXP, when I have to choose a driver that supports WinXP to download. At present, netizens who use 64-bit CPUs are not a minority, but they must distinguish between "64-bit Cpu" and "WinXP-64". Although both have the word "64", the two are not the same concept. According to the author, the netizens who use "WinXP-64" are still very few. So I can't choose the fourth "For WinXP-64" driver in the picture.

Third, the scientific order of installing drivers

Installing the driver Some people think that all the hardware drivers can be installed, or else, the installation order of the driver is also scientific. Only when the driver is installed in a scientific order can the hardware have the capabilities it deserves. Different driver installation sequences may cause different computer capabilities, different degrees of stability, and different failure rates. I have experienced it a long time ago. After installing the driver of the graphics card, I installed the motherboard driver, but it made the author stupid. The motherboard driver could not be installed successfully anyway. At that time, the author was also puzzling about the next problem, and it was only after an occasional chance that the installation driver was still in the order of learning.

So, the driver installation should follow the following installation sequence:

1, system patch

After installing the system, the first step is to do Put on the system patch. After the system patch is applied, Step 1 can improve the overall compatibility of the system; next, it also paves the way for the driver and the system to be stitched together to avoid compatibility or stability issues.

2. Motherboard Drivers

Motherboard drivers are generally used to enable the driver function of the chipset. This driver installation is especially important.

3, DirectX 9.0c

For many game enthusiasts, this can be a habit, because the installation of the latest DirectX can provide better support for the graphics card, so that the graphics device Get the best running condition and get all the features. But for beginners if there is no hobby to play large games, this step, the author believes that can be omitted.

4, various board drivers

Board drivers mainly include network cards, sound cards, graphics cards, and so on.

5, a variety of peripherals

General computers will have other external connected devices, the most common can be printers, scanners, keyboards, mice and so on. For the keyboard and mouse, it is not necessary to install the driver, but for keyboards and mice with special functions, it may be necessary to install the corresponding driver to obtain these functions.