What are drivers?

Drivers tell your operating system how to communicate with the hardware in your computer. A large variety of drivers come bundled with most operating systems. All operating systems will need drivers to interact with the hardware in your computer.

The problem with the drivers that come bundled with the operating system, is that they are old and do not alway's take full advantage of the hardware, perhaps compromising efficiency and reliability. New hardware will also lack drivers on the operating system CD, and drivers shipped with new hardware are often old as well.

Manufacturers tend to ship drivers they know to be reliable, therefore perhaps less chance of a bad first impression for the customer. Newer drivers will have bug fixes, perhap's more efficient coding, and will make better use of hardware features.

In many cases, you will be well advised to upgrade your drivers to newer versions. The internet is ideal for this, and we have listed a variety of links to various hardware manufacturer web sites.

Within this section you will find links to a variety of drivers for your system. If you do not find what you are looking for here, please let us know in the forum and we will help find the information for you.

Currently there are links for Printers, Modems, Sound Cards, Graphics Cards (also known as Video Cards or Display Adapters) and Networking. We are reviewing this list to determine what else needs to be added, so again if you can't find anything please contact us.

If you find any of the links broken or not working, please let us know so we can repair the link.