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This may take time and work, but the only sure-fire way to ensure you get correct drivers is to go to the manufacture’s website for each device (or if you have a manufacture system, a-la Dell, go to their site) and look up the drivers there.
The program grabs the general driver, but thats not what it needs, and ends up borking the system.
Part of the issue comes down to devices that use the same chip but are from different manufactures with a large enough differentiation from the standards that the standard driver doesn’t work. If you ever thought that that windows updates had issues with grabbing the correct drivers, programs like this are even worse when it comes to 3rd party programs. You have typically a 75% success rate, but there are countless number of times that I’ve seen these programs grab the wrong driver or a broken driver that then borks the whole system into an issue that the typical computer user could never figure out. The manufacturer's website confirmed that updates were available.Īs a PC technician that has worked on lots of computers, and regularly deal with drivers issues, a “driver update” program is always a horrible idea. The software did find updates for several devices like the Realtek network adapter or the Creative Soundblaster X-Fi audio card.
Device Doctor mixes update notifications of devices like video cards, sound cards or network cards with internal device driver updates like those for standard dual channel PCI controllers or a plug and play monitor. The free program scans Windows for driver updates and displays information and download links in a report at the end of the scan. A few third party tools have been released in the past that have tried to address the problem Most of them with mediocre success thanks to the amount of devices and drivers available.ĭevice Doctor promises to do better. There is usually no way of knowing that a new driver has been released unless the user visits the developer's website to check for new drivers, signs up for some notification service (if offered) or visits third party hardware sites that list driver updates on their websites.Ī software that would handle all of these would be more than welcome. These drivers are not automatically updated when new versions are released.
Many users therefor install drivers that are supplied by the manufacturer of the device to take advantage of these features. Generic drivers on the other hand have the problem that they do not provide access to specialized features. Microsoft is providing generic drivers for the most important components that ensure that the computer system is working properly. Most hardware and devices work just fine on a computer system that is running a Microsoft Windows operating system.