Correct installation of drivers on a laptop. Third-party utilities for installing drivers

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Let's assume that you have installed or reinstalled the operating system. This is not enough for full-fledged work, because the next one is very important step– installation of drivers. We will tell you how to install drivers on your computer in this article.

What are drivers?

A driver is a program that allows the operating system to recognize devices connected to it and gain access to them. That is, no device will work without a driver. Sound, video, webcam, keyboard, mouse, ( network drivers) etc. will not be able to be recognized, which means they will not work.

How to download and install drivers?

Drivers can be found:

On the website of your computer manufacturer.
On your computer, if you saved them in advance or downloaded new ones.
On the installation disk or on the OS disk, the assembly of which includes drivers.

There may be several options for installing drivers:

WITH installation disk, which, as a rule, comes complete with a laptop, etc.
Using the installation file.
Using the device manager.
Using driver packs (programs that automatically install drivers).

Now let's talk about everything in order.

Installing drivers from disk

The disk may contain a set of drivers (usually when purchasing a laptop) or drivers individual devices when assembling a computer or its individual devices.

To install drivers, you need to place the disk in the drive and wait for autorun, if such a function is enabled, or start it manually.
Next, when loading the program, select the device that needs driver installation and install it. There will be no difficulties with this, because installing drivers is no different from installing any other program.
During installation, a number of questions may arise, the answers to which you must choose yourself. For example, confirm digital signature or allow installation of an incompatible driver. These are also not difficult to understand when basic knowledge operating principles of the OS and hardware.
Once the installation is complete, you must restart your computer for the changes to take effect.

Installation using installation file

This installation method is similar to the one described above.

Look for an installation file on your computer with the extension .exe or, less commonly, .msi. Start the installation process by double click using the file and following the instructions, install the driver.
If the device driver is in the archive, then you need to unpack it and find setup files in the folder where it was unpacked.
After finishing, restart your computer.

Installation via Device Manager

Provided that you have drivers on your computer's hard drive or some other external media You can install using Device Manager.

So, let's start with the fact that you need to enter the dispatcher itself. Using Windows OS as an example, let's look at how to enter the manager and how to install drivers.

Path: My Computer->Control Panel->System->Hardware->Device Manager.

If your OS requires driver installation, the device that needs it will be marked with a question mark.

Click to install right click mouse on the device and select from the list - Update driver. In the next window, we refuse to install from the Internet and click – Next.
The easiest way is to automatically install drivers by selecting “Automatic installation”, and the system itself will find and install the necessary driver. After the process is completed, a request for permission to reboot will appear, with which we agree.

Installation using driver packs

IN Lately On the Internet you can find a variety of packages that contain many drivers for the vast majority of existing equipment. With the help of such programs that install almost all drivers, the installation process is very fast and does not require deep knowledge.

Typically, the program works like this:

Request to check for drivers. The program scans the system and finds drivers that are missing or require updating.
Request to download or install. Downloading is possible if you have an Internet connection, and installation takes place from existing files.
Installation. The program will install itself necessary drivers or update existing ones.

Along with widespread personal computers and laptops, predictably, a lot of problems appeared for “dummies,” especially when reinstalling the operating system. One of these problems is the critical shortage of drivers for important devices. Many novice users don’t even think that after reinstalling operating system they simply will not be able to go online to download the required driver. Therefore, in this article we will figure out how to install drivers on a laptop or computer from a flash drive.

Using a flash drive when installing drivers simplifies system setup.

The most common problem, as already mentioned, is the lack of drivers on devices that provide Internet access. If you can find drivers for other devices on the network, then there is nothing you can do here, you need to have the necessary software on a flash drive or download it to another computer and from there transfer the data to the “patient”.

To avoid such situations, a competent user always has a set of specific drivers specifically for his machine. It makes life a lot easier and initial setup computer after reinstalling the operating system. According to the law of meanness, most users do not have such a set, so we will first figure out how to do without it, and then collect it bit by bit so that next time we can complete the installation in ten minutes.

There are a great many ways to install drivers, but only the manufacturer’s website can be considered a truly correct and “honest” source of support. This is the only way.

ATTENTION. By downloading something you don’t know and where you don’t know where, you can screw up the system once or twice.

In any case, we will analyze all the methods, and then you can decide for yourself what is convenient and right for you.

Method one, for the lazy

DriverPack Solution, where would we be without him? This is a collection of the most frequently encountered drivers. All drivers. How newer version- the more new drivers it contains. The collection is very heavy. At the time of writing, the complete collection weighs about ten gigabytes, although there is also a version with a loader that detects drivers that are missing and downloads only them.

This option is suitable if you still have Internet access on a fresh machine. After starting the program, all drivers that appear are evaluated and installed. necessary for the program, this is its main disadvantage. Not all drivers are always installed, and the necessary drivers are not always installed. Therefore, this method can be considered a backup when normal, up-to-date software that will definitely suit your devices is simply not at hand.

So, what do we need to do to use the program:

If we don't have internet access. Download the version with all available drivers, put it on a flash drive and run the program on the patient. The installation takes place, after which we finalize the software for the devices that the program missed.
If we have access to the network. Let's take it boot file and the program downloads only the necessary drivers, and then installs them. Better quality option.

After the program's actions, problems with installing drivers often appear; some devices are displayed as unknown, which makes it very difficult to find the necessary software.

Method two, correct

Correct installation of drivers from a flash drive. Before reinstalling the system, we determine which drivers we need to install in order to gain access to the Internet. The choice of device depends on how exactly you connect to the Internet: via Wi-Fi, PPoE, 3G modem or ADSL. After Windows reinstallation install software that will allow us to access the Internet, and then download software for each device that needs it, after which we copy this entire assembly onto a separate medium and store it until the next demolition of Windows.

So, actually, how to search for drivers? We have two options: go to the manufacturer’s website and download everything you need specifically for our car model, or download software for each specific device by its ID. If everything is clear with the first method, then many may not have heard of the second, let’s figure it out.

We need to get into Device Manager. This is done like this: right-click on “My Computer” and select “Properties”. In the window that appears, pay attention to left column, where we find the “Device Manager” item. Another window will open, showing all devices connected to the this moment to our system. Devices requiring software will be marked exclamation point, these are exactly the devices with which we will work.

Right-click on any of them and select “Properties”. Next, go to the “Details” tab and in the drop-down list we find the line “Equipment ID”. The information field will contain several lines with incomprehensible squiggles, which is what we need.

We take one of the IDs, we will use it to search for a driver. We have two options: go to a specialized website or enter a query directly into a search engine. Choose what suits you best. At the time of writing, the Devid.info website provides services for finding the required driver. Inside the site we drive into search bar our ID, we perform a search. In the results obtained, click on the “Save” button next to one of the drivers, a new window will open where we need to find a line with a direct link to download the archive. Do not click on the huge “Download” buttons, these are advertising banners.

After we have downloaded the archive, we either unpack it and run the executive file, or use the driver update in the device manager. It is performed through context menu, right-click on any device and select “Update drivers”, search on this computer, indicate the path to our archive. This method sometimes fails, then you should start the installation manually by unpacking the archive yourself.

Third method, Windows tools

A large amount of software is stored in Microsoft databases, it would be a shame not to use them. We will enable auto-update for all devices. This method especially often helps when setting up printers and other office devices.

Go to “Devices and Printers”, right-click on any of the groups and select “Device Installation Settings”. In the windows that appear, we allow Windows to automatically search for and install drivers and updates.

If Windows update is disabled, this function will not appear. Immediately after enabling auto-updates, a specific icon will most likely appear in the tray, by clicking on which you can track the success of the search and installation of the driver. In some cases, the driver will be found and installed. But it is not recommended to use this method as the main one.

Conclusion

So, we figured out how to install drivers on a computer or laptop from a flash drive. In fact, a flash drive is only a tool for storing your personal build for a specific machine. All preparation should be done before you are left without the Internet, remember this. We must download everything we need onto the media, and then use it. Alternatively, you can store the necessary drivers on a partition of the disk that you will not format. Then external storage won't be useful. Be careful to download only clean software, preferably from the manufacturer’s website.

If you have any questions, ask them in the comments!

Hello, friends! If you need to know, how to install drivers to your computer, then you have come to the right place. Over the three years of the site’s existence, we have written twenty articles for you, from which you can learn how to accurately identify what is installed in a system unit or laptop unknown device by ID equipment code and install drivers on it from the manufacturer’s website, for example, to: , video card and , , , and so on. In this same article, we want to show you how to install drivers automatically using the operating system itself. Windows systems 7, 8 and using special services: DriverPack Solution and ma-config.com. You'll also learn how to install or update drivers if you don't have internet, but to do this you'll have to take a few preliminary steps.

To make it more interesting, we will install drivers on a laptop and two system units, which my colleagues brought to me. After installing the operating system, some drivers were not installed on them and you and I will need to install them. For example, the driver for some “Basic” did not install on the laptop system device", they couldn’t find the driver even on the Internet using the ID equipment code. So, let's go! At the beginning of the article we always publish several of your letters.

How to install drivers

Got the question! There are situations when finding drivers for specific device pretty hard. For example, take the case of our reader. Usually, drivers for all laptop devices are available on the website of that same laptop, but if the drivers are not there, what should you do? This happens, of course, quite rarely, but it does happen.
As you understand, all components for a laptop are supplied by certain manufacturers, and each such manufacturer has an official website, which probably contains drivers for Windows XP, Windows 7 or Windows 8. Another question is to search for all these sites to a simple user it’s a long and tedious task, and not all of them are in Russian. A good thing, for such a case, is to launch a special program and it will find all the drivers not installed in Windows.
There are not so many good and free programs that can detect the missing drivers in the operating system, and even install them. In my articles I often mention the DriverPack Solution program. The ma-config.com automatic driver installation service is also good and we’ll talk about it today too. But first of all, to install the missing driver, you need to use the capabilities of the Windows 7, Windows 8 operating system itself. How? Now you'll find out! Let's look at some good ways automatic driver installation.

How to install drivers automatically using Windows itself

One friend brought me a laptop that had one device without a driver; together with his friends, he searched the entire Internet and could not find this ill-fated driver. Finally, everyone decided that the device was faulty, so the driver could not be installed on it, so the laptop came to me.

Modern operating systems from Microsoft Windows 7, 8 contain a huge database of drivers for great amount various devices. Let's use this database to help us. Before starting work, I recommend creating a system restore point.
Let's use the "Device Installation Options" tool, with its help you can install the missing driver into the operating system. Some experienced users do not use it, believing that the drivers “from Microsoft” are stripped down, this may be true, but it is better than nothing and the device will work with them, and not be an eyesore with a yellow circle in the Device Manager.
Usually, the “Device Installation Options” tool is disabled for users, let’s enable it and see how it works. To do this, you just need to switch the “Device Installation Options” tool to “Automatic mode” in the “Control Panel”.
In Windows 7 Start->Devices and Printers.

In Windows 8, right-click in the left corner and also select “Control Panel”

Right-click on the name of your computer and select "Device Installation Options"

Check the box “Yes, do this automatically (recommended)” and Save.

If the operating system contains a device without drivers, then almost immediately an automatic search and installation of drivers for these devices will occur.

But sometimes the system will not be able to do this and you will see the following warning: “The driver could not be found”

Or you can simply go to Device Manager, right-click on the device without drivers and select “Update Drivers” and it will search for drivers for the device.

How to install drivers automatically using a disk or DriverPack Solution program Official site automatic search drivers DriverPack Solution is located at http://drp.su/ru/download.htm

On this site you can download four tools for searching for drivers: Lite, DVD, Full, Configurator. Let's take a brief look at all of them, then choose what you need. The Lite version will be installed on your computer. The DVD version will be downloaded to you as ISO image, which will need to be burned on DVD disc. Version Full can find almost all the drivers you need, works without installation and you can carry it on a flash drive.

The first thing that is offered is the Lite program. Let's use it to find a driver for our "Main system device"

It is written in great detail how to work with Lite version, in our article “How to install a driver for a webcam” And here I will say a little shorter. Download it

Then install

run, the program scans your operating system for all installed and not installed drivers. Immediately check the boxes for “Settings” and “Expert Mode” (it’s more convenient to work), then go to the Online tab. As we can see, our problem is solved, the program was able to select a driver for our unknown “Main system device”, to download and install our driver, click on the button with the hardware ID code of our device: PCI\VEN_1180&DEV_0592&

The file is downloaded, this is the installer of our driver, as it turns out, for a Ricoh card reader. Let's launch it.

Ready.

Our unknown device Ricoh Memory Stick Host Controller

In exactly the same way, you can install the driver on any other device!

How to install drivers from using DriverPack Solution DVD

Select the DVD version and Download.

To download we need a free one utorrent program, if you don’t have it, download it from the link
http://www.utorrent.com/intl/ru/

Let's install the DVD driver for the webcam using DriverPack Solution.
This version of the program is a disk image that can be burned onto a DVD disc and carried with you everywhere. Or you can open the image in DAEMON program Tools Lite, and so work with the image. Open the image and run the DriverPack Solution.exe file.

A window that is already familiar to us opens. Go to the Drivers tab. We also check the boxes “Settings” and “Expert Mode”. As you can see, provided full information according to the situation with drivers in our operating system. One driver for our webcam is missing. Check the webcam box and select Smart installation (recommended). That's it, the driver for our webcam is installed. Please note 22 drivers can be updated to latest versions, but if your computer is stable, this is not necessary.

How to install drivers using DriverPack Solution Full

Using this package we will install an unstable driver for the Intel Management Engine Interface built into the chipset motherboard and performing important processes monitoring. In Device Manager, you will notice that opposite it there is a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark, indicating that our device is not working correctly.

Of course, this driver can be downloaded from the official Intel website, which is what we did in the article “How to install drivers on the motherboard” (link to the article above). In the same article we will install this driver using the DriverPack Solution Full program

DriverPack Solution Full Contains a huge driver package, I carry it on a flash drive just in case. For example, friends will ask you to reinstall the operating system and after reinstallation it turns out that the driver is not installed. network card it’s not installed, so you can’t go online and you can’t download the driver, so you can successfully install the driver on your network card using the DriverPack Solution Full assembly, which is located on your flash drive.
How to work with this version is described in great detail in the article “How to download and install drivers on the motherboard.” Here I will say the main thing.
Click Download

To download, you will again need a torrent program.

The program is downloaded in a .rar archive. Unzip the program into a folder. If you don't have an archiver, you can download free 7-Zip from
http://www.7-zip.org/
As soon as we unzipped the archive with the program into a folder, go to this folder and run the file in DriverPackSolution.exe.

In the program window that opens, we see that not all drivers are installed,

We tick our Intel Management Engine Interface and click “Intelligent installation (recommended). Our driver is installed.

Present 7 outdated drivers, which can be updated. Check the driver data and click Install.
You can install and update drivers selectively, check the box next to the desired device and click Smart installation (recommended). Or you can check the boxes for the required drivers and click Install.

How to install drivers using the ma-config.com service This is also a good service where you can select and install missing drivers and update outdated ones. But personally, I don’t resort to it often.
Go to the website www.ma-config.com/ru/. Click on the “Start analysis” button

"Automatic installation"

The plugin is downloaded to our computer, you can click “Launch”.

Installing the plugin.

"Fine"

"Refresh the page"

Complete information about our computer is displayed.

Now you need to click “My drivers.

If you want to download or update any driver, click Download.

Download.

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If you just recently bought a laptop or now want to install fresh drivers, then this can be done in several ways. I will tell you some of them in this lesson. We'll look at how automatic installation drivers for a laptop or manually. So, let's go!

01. DriverPack Solution program

The easiest way to install drivers on a laptop is to use free program DriverPack Solution. You can't even imagine how simple it is. Just download the latest version on the official website, run it and click the " Install automatically".

The program will download to your laptop necessary drivers and install them!

This option is suitable for those who already have a minimum set of drivers installed and the Internet is working. If the Internet is not yet configured on your laptop, then we will take a different route, and it will take us a little longer.

First of all, find a computer where the Internet works well. Then go to the same website http://drp.su/ru and scroll the page to the very bottom. There is a "DriverPack Full" version.

Download it and start downloading the full version of the drivers. They weigh quite a lot ( about 10 gigabytes), but thanks to this kit we can install drivers on laptop, where even the Internet does not work due to uninstalled drivers for the network card or WI-FI.

Download the drivers and transfer them to the flash drive. We launch it on the laptop and install them by pressing one button Install automatically.

The method described above in most cases guarantees the installation of the latest drivers on your laptop. But the DriverPack program also has its disadvantages. For example, if the Internet on a laptop does not work, you will have to look for another computer with Internet to download full version drivers for 10 gigabytes. Several programs are also installed along with the drivers, which some users may not like.

02. Driver disc

When purchasing a laptop, a driver disk is always included with the device. If you haven’t thrown it away anywhere, and it is safe and sound, then immediately after you can insert the disk into the drive and install all the native drivers. There is only one minus here - The drivers are most likely already outdated!

03. Manual installation

Most drivers can be installed manually by going to the manufacturers' official websites. This method, of course, takes longer, but despite this, it also has a right to exist. I described in detail how to install the driver on a laptop manually in the lesson: . There, using a video card as an example, you will understand how to find absolutely any drivers.

It's called a driver special program, necessary for every device to interact with a computer. Such devices include the chipset (control circuit) of the motherboard, sound card, network card, video card, disk controllers, etc.

Windows contains many drivers for various devices needed for initial installation and starting the operating system. But they are usually simplified and outdated, and some modern devices and are not detected and do not work at all. Therefore, after installation Windows first The first thing you need to do is install all the necessary drivers.

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2. Installing drivers from disk

The easiest way to install drivers is from the motherboard disk that came with the computer when you purchased it. Place the disc in the drive and wait until the installation menu appears. In Windows 7 and higher, startup confirmation may still be required installation program from disk.

If the menu does not appear, then right-click on the disk in Explorer and select “Install or run a program from media”, “Open Autorun...” or something similar.

You can also open the disk in Explorer and independently run the file “Autorun.exe”, “Setup.exe”, “AsusSetup.exe” or similar.

But the previous method is better, since the system itself will launch the correct file.

The setup menu may have different kind. We are interested in drivers for the chipset, sound card and a network card.

The first step is to install the drivers for the chipset and restart the computer. Then you can install the remaining drivers. If you are not in a big hurry, I recommend restarting your computer after installing each driver. If you are in a hurry, then reboot after installing the driver on the chipset, and then install everything without rebooting, in most cases everything will be fine.

There may be many more on disk various programs and utilities, but usually they are not particularly necessary and they only slow down the computer. Therefore, I recommend installing only what you really need and know how to use it. It’s better to first look for information on the Internet about why this or that program is needed. Some of them are designed for overclocking and misuse may harm your computer.

3. Download drivers from the motherboard website

If you do not have an installation disk or the computer was purchased a long time ago and the drivers on the disk may be outdated, then the best option Drivers will be downloaded from the motherboard manufacturer's website.

If your computer is connected to the Internet by cable or via Wi-Fi, then you should already have a driver for the network card or Wi-Fi adapter. Download this driver in advance, because if Windows does not have a driver for the network card, you will not be able to access the Internet.

If you connect via a USB modem, then drivers are usually installed automatically when you connect the modem to the PC or from the included disk.

Please also note that drivers can be large (up to 1 GB), so you might want to download them all in advance, especially if you have Slow internet.

So, we installed Windows and immediately go to the motherboard manufacturer’s website for drivers. On the site you need to find the “Service”, “Support” or something similar section. But so that you don’t have to search for a long time, I have compiled a list of addresses that will immediately take you to the desired section. You can download this list in the “” section.

After going to the site, enter the exact model of your motherboard in the search field.

The model is indicated on the box and on the motherboard itself. You can also find out the manufacturer and model of the motherboard using the “CPU-Z” program, which you can also download in the “” section.

After the model is found on the manufacturer’s website, you need to go to the “Downloads” or “Drivers” tab and select the version and Windows bit depth, which you install.

You will see a list containing many different files.

Everything related to your motherboard will be here. This includes BIOS and user manuals and various utilities. But we are primarily interested in drivers for the chipset, sound and network card.

There may be several driver versions, check the date and download the latest version for each device, they are usually located on top lines. IN in this case all drivers have only one version. Moreover, there is no separate driver for the network card, which means that it is included in the driver package for the chipset. There is a separate driver for the sound card and a controller driver AHCI drives. The AHCI driver only needs to be installed if Windows installation, the appropriate one was selected in the BIOS.

AHCI drivers have a positive effect on the stability and speed of the disk, but if your computer is still not fast enough, install it and your system will become much faster and more responsive!

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Then you simply download the files and if they are in a ZIP archive, then unpack and run the executable file. If the driver was already in the form of an executable EXE file, then you can run it immediately. Drivers are installed in the usual sequence. First the chipset driver and reboot the computer, then everything else.

4. If there are no drivers for the required version of Windows

If the motherboard is old and it so happens that you have the right drivers Windows version no, there are several ways:

search for drivers on the chipset developer's website
installing drivers using Windows Update
driver installation previous version Windows
installing drivers using special utilities
searching and installing drivers manually

5. Search for drivers on the chipset developer’s website

You can try to find a driver for the chipset on the websites of their developers Intel, AMD, nVidia. What chipset you have can be found on the motherboard manufacturer’s website or using the “CPU-Z” program, which we have already discussed.

On the chipset developer's website, the driver is searched in the same way as on the motherboard website. Links in required sections chipset developer sites are in the “” section.

5.1. Finding drivers for the Intel chipset

Select everything in the search form as indicated below and click “Search”.

In the search results window, select "Drivers" and the version of Windows you are installing.

Download and install the latest version of "Intel Chipset Driver Update".

Select your chipset series and click “DISPLAY RESULTS”.

In the search results window, make sure that these are drivers for your chipset and click “DOWNLOAD”.

5.3. Finding drivers for the nForce chipset

The nVidia company produced chipsets under the nForce brand and there are still quite a lot of computers with such chipsets. If this is your case, then go to the nVidia website, fill out the form and click “SEARCH”.

Let me remind you that you can determine which chipset you have using the “CPU-Z” program (see point 5). If for some reason you find it difficult to do this, then automatic detection your chipset, use the “MOTHERBOARD DRIVERS” button in the form shown in the screenshot above.

Make sure you have the correct drivers, download and install them.

6. Installing the video card driver

After installing the drivers for the chipset, I advise you to first download and install the driver on the video card. Thanks to this, a screen resolution that is convenient for further adjustment will be established and the system will start working faster. Links to sites where you can download drivers for video cards are in the “” section.

If you have GeForce video card, then go to the driver download section on the nVidia website, indicate your video card model, Windows version and click the “SEARCH” button.

Once the driver is found, click the "DOWNLOAD NOW" button.

Wait until the file is downloaded and run it. The installation is quite simple, you only need to click the “Next” button a few times.

If you have Radeon video card, then go to the driver download section on the AMD website, select the series to which your video card belongs, and download the driver for the required version Windows.

If you have more old video card and it is not in the list, then use the search on the AMD website. After downloading the file, run it. The installation is quite simple, you only need to click the “Next” button a few times.

7. Installing drivers using Windows Update

It happens that the motherboard manufacturer’s website does not have drivers for the sound and network card for the required version of Windows. But don’t rush, if the sound and Internet work fine, it means Windows has installed its own drivers for them, and in this case it’s better not to touch anything.

If something still doesn’t work, you can try installing the missing drivers using the center Windows updates. To do this, click on the START button and go to the “Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Devices and Printers” section. Right-click on the icon with the name of your computer or laptop and select “Device installation options.”

Set the radio button to “Install drivers from Windows Update if they are not found on your computer” and click the “Save” button.

After this, the operating system will begin searching missing drivers on the Internet and if detected, it will automatically install.

8. Installing drivers from a previous version of Windows

If you were unable to find drivers for the required operating system, then for the Windows 8 operating system you can try installing the driver from Windows 7, and for Windows 7 you can install the driver from Windows Vista. In most cases they are compatible, it is only important to maintain the bit depth (x64 to x64, x32 to x32). These drivers need to be downloaded from the motherboard manufacturer’s website, which we have already discussed.

9. Installing drivers using the DPS utility

If you were unable to find and install drivers for some device or your computer is too old, then you can try to do this using special utility Driver Pack Solution Online"(DPS). You can download it in the "" section.

This utility determines what devices you have, the version of the operating system, downloads the necessary drivers via the Internet and installs them. Launch the utility and click “Install manually.”

I think this option is better, since it will allow you to abandon drivers that have already been downloaded from manufacturers’ websites and installed on the system. You can also disable the installation of unnecessary additional programs.

Check the boxes only for those drivers that you were unable to install using other methods. For example, I selected a driver for a sound card.

Go to the "Software" section and you can select additional programs that you want to install. This is, in principle, convenient if you have just reinstalled the system and do not yet have the most necessary programs. I have ticked the programs that I consider useful and recommend for installation.

After that, click the “Install All” button and the utility will install all the drivers and programs you selected.

10. Installing drivers using the DPS driver pack

A driver pack is a collection of drivers for large quantity devices. If you often encounter installing drivers on various computers or you have a slow Internet, then you can download the full version of “Driver Pack Solution” on a computer with a fast Internet, and then use it to install drivers on any computer.

The disadvantage of this solution is the large size of the driver pack (about 10 GB). Thus, to use it on various PCs you will need an external HDD or a flash drive with a capacity of 16 GB or more.
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11. How to check if all drivers are installed

In order to check whether all the necessary drivers are installed, you need to go to the “Device Manager”. This can be done in several ways.

1. Right-click the Computer icon on your desktop or START menu and select Manage.

Then go to the "Device Manager" section.

2. Click the START button and go to Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Device Manager.

The first method is simpler and faster.

If there are icons with an exclamation point in the Other Devices section, it means that the driver for this device is not installed.

If icons with an exclamation point are in other sections, this means that the driver is installed, but it probably did not fit and the device does not work.

In such cases, you will need to find and install the driver for these devices manually, which we will discuss next.

Go to device manager, right click on problematic device and select Properties.

Go to the “Details” tab, select “Equipment ID” in the “Property” field, find in any line the device identifier in the format “VEN_xxxx&DEV_xxxx” or “VID_xxxx&PID_xxxx” (instead of “xxxx” there will be 4 characters).

Write down this data or right-click on any line and click “Copy”. Go to the “DevID.info” website and enter the device identifier in the search bar and click “Search”.

Select your version of Windows and click on the name of the found device driver or the floppy disk icon.

Two driver formats are often offered - a repackaged "devid.info" file and " Original file».

If you have fast internet and you are not in a hurry, it is better to download the “Original file”, since there are fewer problems with its installation. If the Internet is slow or time is running out, then try downloading the repackaged “devid.info” file.

If you downloaded the driver in a ZIP archive, extract all files from it before installation. If the driver is downloaded as an executable EXE file, you can immediately run it for installation. The installation is quite simple, you just need to run the executable file (such as “Setup.exe”) and click the “Next” or similar button several times.

If the driver does not have executable file, you will have to install it manually. To do this, in Device Manager, right-click on the device for which you downloaded the driver and select “Update drivers...”.

Then “Search for driver software on this computer.”

Click the "Browse" button, specify the folder where you unpacked the downloaded driver file and click "Next".

If a suitable driver is found in specified folder, then it will be installed and the device should disappear from the list of unidentified devices in the device manager.

13. Rollback or uninstall the driver

Sometimes it may happen that the driver you installed does not work or works worse. For example, there appeared background noise or clicks after installing the driver on the sound card. In this case, you can roll back the driver to a previous version or remove the current driver from the system.

In order to roll back a driver to a previous version, go to Device Manager, right-click on desired device and select Properties.

In the window that appears, go to the “Driver” tab and click the “Roll Back” button.

If the “Roll Back” button is not active or rolling back the driver did not help, then you can try to remove the malfunctioning driver. To do this, in the same window you need to click the “Delete” button and confirm the removal of the driver.

After this, restart your computer and the system will again try to find and install the most suitable driver for the device. If the device does not work, try finding and installing another driver using one of the methods we discussed.

14. Do I need to update drivers?

Manufacturers periodically release updated versions drivers that eliminate found errors and improve compatibility with other devices and software.

Some enthusiasts like to constantly update their drivers to the latest versions. But, if you are not a sufficiently experienced user and your computer is working fine, then I do not advise you to do this. Since some problems may appear with updating drivers, and you may not have enough experience to fix them yourself.

The only driver that is recommended to be kept in current state, this is a driver for a video card, as it adds support for new games and improves performance in old ones. However, also don't rush to update it if all your games are working well. Because games during development are always tested on older drivers, and their new versions can cause a drop in performance. Update the driver for your video card if you have problems with some games.

15. Other drivers and installation methods

Drivers for other devices can be found on their manufacturers' websites. If you know other good ways or programs to install drivers, please share them in the comments!

16. Links

Below you can download all the files that were mentioned in the article.

After installing all the drivers, I recommend doing it again external drive. This will help you quickly restore the system with all drivers in case of a failure.

Transcend JetFlash 790 8Gb
Hard drive A-Data Ultimate SU650 240GB
Hard drive Transcend StoreJet 25M TS500GSJ25M 500 GB