How do you know which drivers are needed?

Now every family has a home computer - a personal computer or a laptop. Usually, with the way to browse the Internet, search for movies online or correspond with famous "Odnoklassniki", there are no problems. Unless sometimes, besides 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 what eminent manufacturer it is assembled - sooner or later it will inevitably be necessary to reinstall the operating system. Of course, for this you can contact the relevant service centers, now they are almost at every corner, but this involves a number of difficulties. For example, you will have to remove all confidential information from the hard disk, find time for the road, and in case of a full-fledged personal computer, you will also have to solve the transport problem. Therefore, it is more rational to 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 popular ones is "how to find out what drivers are needed?". What are we talking about?

Any computer is a collection of electronic components and the programs that control them. Without software (software), the electronic assistant is a useless piece of metal and plastic. The component 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 what drivers are needed. You can not just download the first ones. This can be compared with the wheels for cars - it seems to be all round and can roll, but a small car can not be put from a huge truck. So, how do you know which drivers are needed?

First you need to determine which components the computer is made of. To do this, you can carefully inspect the boxes. Find out which motherboard is very simple. 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 set of symbols. The next step is to determine the manufacturer, usually written in large letters. Known - ASUS, Gigabyte, Intel, etc. Next, everything is quite simple. We type in the search window of the browser "ASUS site", "Intel site" respectively and follow the page. There are no difficulties with how to find out what drivers are needed, does not arise. We find the necessary motherboard and download the proposed control programs. After that, it will remain on the same principle to find and download drivers for other devices - printer, modem, video card. That is: we search for boxes on the name - go to the site - choose your model - download the right one.

In the case of a laptop it's still easier: we define the name (for example, ACER-7720ZG) - go to the manufacturer's website - select the model and download the programs for your operating system.

More complicated, but giving a 100% result is to find the driver by the device code. In the device manager, open the properties of the desired component and on the "Information" tab, we look at the "Equipment ID". Knowing this line, it is possible to specify the type of the device on specialized sites and find programs for it. Alternatively, you can use a special application that scans the computer and automatically downloads the missing drivers. Minus such solutions - on the computer should be a working operating system.

Also information about the connected devices is given by diagnostic programs, such as Sandra or Everest, which changed its name to AIDA. Having defined the name and type, you can quickly find and download from the global network the right driver.