Drivers Are Causing Crashes?

Bozzz

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Hello, I just recently built a computer and everything ran fine until I installed the drivers. Here are links to the mobo and gpu drivers: http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Fatal1ty%20Z87%20Killer/?cat=Download&os=Win764
http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/73780

For the mobo I downloaded and installed the Realtek high definition audio driver ver:6.0.1.7004, INF driver ver:9.4.0.1026, Atheros Lan driver ver:1.0.30.1259, and Intel USB 3.0 driver ver:2.0.0.102.

After installing all of these drivers windows will occasionally crash (BSOD) and occasionally it just freezes. Does anybody have any ideas?
 
Solution
Go to Device Manager and let Windows locate driver updates. You will be sure to have all the correct and most current drivers that way. Just click the Windows Start button and enter Device Manager in the search. It will show up under Control Panel. You will have to click on each device individually to update the drivers. This link may be worth looking at as well.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwindows.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fwindows7%2Fautomatically-get-recommended-drivers-and-updates-for-your-hardware&ei=u-QkU-SFI4fa0QG8hIGIAg&usg=AFQjCNG-b9gASk9jfsatwm456RHyG2ES2A&sig2=OMSpXRqBDUcgaf4qC1emtQ&bvm=bv.62922401,d.dmQ
Go to Device Manager and let Windows locate driver updates. You will be sure to have all the correct and most current drivers that way. Just click the Windows Start button and enter Device Manager in the search. It will show up under Control Panel. You will have to click on each device individually to update the drivers. This link may be worth looking at as well.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwindows.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fwindows7%2Fautomatically-get-recommended-drivers-and-updates-for-your-hardware&ei=u-QkU-SFI4fa0QG8hIGIAg&usg=AFQjCNG-b9gASk9jfsatwm456RHyG2ES2A&sig2=OMSpXRqBDUcgaf4qC1emtQ&bvm=bv.62922401,d.dmQ
 
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Bozzz

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Okay I will try that out an report back.
 

Bozzz

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How do I let Windows locate drivers from the Device Manager?
 



This is straight from the "Help" section in Windows on updating drivers using Device Manager:

Update or Change a Device Driver
This topic provides a procedure that you can use to update or change the device driver used for a device.

Membership in the local Administrators group, or equivalent, is the minimum required to complete this procedure. Review the details in "Additional considerations" in this topic.

To update or change the driver used for a device

Open Device Manager.

Double-click the type of device you want to update or change.

Right-click the device you want, and then click Update Driver.

Follow the instructions in the Update Driver Software wizard.

Additional considerations
When you are upgrading a driver or installing new hardware, your computer will automatically attempt to check folders specified in the DevicePath registry entry and the Windows Update Web site for an appropriate device driver. For more information, see Configure Windows to Search Windows Update for Device Drivers and Configure Windows to Search Additional Folders for Device Drivers.


By default, Administrators is the minimum group membership required to install a device whose driver package is not already in the driver store. A standard user can successfully install a driver package only if the following conditions are met:


The driver package is signed with a certificate that is present in the Trusted Publishers certificate store on the computer. For more information, see the documentation about signing device drivers found on the Microsoft Web site (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=62923).


The device setup class for the driver is in the policy Allow limited users to install drivers for these device classes. For more information, see Configure Computer Policy to Allow Non-Administrators to Install Specific Devices.


Additional references
View Information About a Device Driver

Roll Back a Device Driver to a Previous Version

Start or Stop a Non-Plug and Play Device Driver

Configure the Startup Type for a Non-Plug and Play Device Driver

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That will go more in depth and give understanding, but the easy way to do it is just left click on say "Keyboards". Then all keyboards connected to your system will show up. Just right click on a particular keyboard, and you will see the option to Update Driver. Just repeat this procedure for all items you want to update.