Now every family has a home computer - a personal one or a laptop. Usually, there are no problems with how to browse the Internet, look for movies online or chat in the famous Odnoklassniki. Unless sometimes, moreover, only at the very first stage of acquaintance with the world of computer technology. But no matter how high the reliability of the computer, no matter how well-known manufacturer assembled it, sooner or later it will inevitably require reinstalling the operating system. Of course, for this you can contact the appropriate service centers, now they are on almost every corner, but this is fraught with a number of difficulties. For example, you will have to delete all confidential information from the hard drive, find the time to travel, and in the case of a full-fledged personal computer, also solve the problem of its transportation. Therefore, it is more rational to independently learn how to find the driver by the device code and reinstall the operating system. Actually, more and more users understand this. This is evidenced by the abundance of questions on the forums. Among them, one of the most popular is “how to find out which drivers are needed?”. What is it about?
Any computer is a combination of electronic components and their control programs. Without software (software), an electronic assistant is a useless piece of metal and plastic. The program that controls the component is the driver. But since there are many modifications of the first, you have to read about how to find out which drivers are needed. You can’t just download the first ones you get. This can be compared with wheels for cars - everything seems to be round and can roll, but you can’t put it on a small passenger car from a huge truck. So how do you know which drivers are needed?
First you need to determine which components the given computer consists of. To do this, you can carefully inspect the boxes. Finding out which motherboard is easy. On the box from the mainboard (main board) of the personal computer from the end there is always a sticker with the exact name. It can be “GA-H61M-S2P” (or any other abbreviation) - such an incomprehensible character set. The next step is to determine the manufacturer, usually written in capital letters. Famous - ASUS, Gigabyte, Intel, etc. Further, everything is very simple. We type in the browser search window “ASUS site”, “Intel site”, respectively, and follow the page. There are no difficulties with how to find out which drivers are needed. We find the necessary motherboard and download the proposed management programs. After that, it remains to find and download drivers to other devices, such as a printer, modem, video card, according to the same principle. That is: we are looking for the name on the boxes - we go to the site - we select our model - we download the necessary.
In the case of a laptop, everything is even simpler: we determine the name (for example, ACER-7720ZG) - we go to the manufacturer’s website - we select the model and download programs for our operating system.
A more complicated, but 100% result, method is to find the driver by the device code. In the device manager, open the properties of the desired component and on the “Details” tab, see “Equipment ID”. Knowing this line, one can precisely determine the type of device on specialized sites and find programs for it. An alternative is to use a special application that scans the computer and automatically downloads the missing drivers. The downside of such decisions is that the computer must have a working operating system.
Also, information about connected devices is provided by diagnostic programs such as Sandra or Everest, which changed its name to AIDA. Having decided on the name and type, you can quickly find and download the right driver from the global network.