- Oct 22, 2014
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Have you ever seen a perfect upgrade? Not many people have. If life was all about plug and play, we would have no forums, no hardware advice, and no support websites. Not even the pro manufacturers can get it perfect when it comes to all the different parts that we PC users interchange. Drivers and patches, and dot releases are the way of now. With Microsoft Compatibility requirements for the simple sticker on the case, we have begun to get better but there is still much to be desired because of improper compatibility in certain releases. Video cards that lock up, sound cards that are choppy, and erratic mouse behavior tell a story of these underlying release issues.
Thousands of issues are communicated every day around the world wide web with hardware issues like these. Most of them are not failures of the hardware at all, they simply lack the proper drivers on all the interchanging parts. To put it simply, most techs will flow chart for any issue reported and begin with the same questions. "Drivers"
The largest overlooked area of improving compatibility is the motherboard. It is so easy to simply choose next, yes, and OK when installing the operating system. Then later in life we wonder why our 275.00 Upgrade doesn't work well. Many users and techs forget to get to the basics flow chart. The first area the OS looks to is the mainboard, This is the path the OS must follow to reach the upgraded investment such as video cards, sound cards and many more "Connected" items. If windows is choosing for us, it will many times choose the wrong motherboard drivers and things will look decent until we try and use advance features.
A typical issue that causes major drivers to fail is understanding what and how the drivers work.
Language differences cause English speaking residents to stumble on instructions in the same manner.
People that speak English in Louisiana don't speak the same English as those in Boston.
Because of this we sometimes need assistance in translating instructions. This happens on motherboards as well. I commonly see the same underlying issues with hardware when we upgrade and allow windows to choose for us.
The chipset features that come with many variations of manufacturers do not get used well because windows chooses a generic driver.
If we continue to not check the device manager and assume it is fine then we have issues with cards we plug into it, or connect to it via USB.
Remember when you upgrade your system to first check to make sure the right chipset driver is loaded for each chip on the mainboard. You can do this by opening the device manager in windows and selecting view devices by type. Drill town and follow the path until you land on PCI BUS. from here take note of any "Standard PCI XXXXX" windows has assumed that it has the best language driver loaded and you may be missing half of the chipsets true potential and compatibility. Search your mainboard specs from your documentation and support sites and download the correct driver for each one. then your new investment in upgrades will be translated correctly.
Thousands of issues are communicated every day around the world wide web with hardware issues like these. Most of them are not failures of the hardware at all, they simply lack the proper drivers on all the interchanging parts. To put it simply, most techs will flow chart for any issue reported and begin with the same questions. "Drivers"
The largest overlooked area of improving compatibility is the motherboard. It is so easy to simply choose next, yes, and OK when installing the operating system. Then later in life we wonder why our 275.00 Upgrade doesn't work well. Many users and techs forget to get to the basics flow chart. The first area the OS looks to is the mainboard, This is the path the OS must follow to reach the upgraded investment such as video cards, sound cards and many more "Connected" items. If windows is choosing for us, it will many times choose the wrong motherboard drivers and things will look decent until we try and use advance features.
A typical issue that causes major drivers to fail is understanding what and how the drivers work.
Language differences cause English speaking residents to stumble on instructions in the same manner.
People that speak English in Louisiana don't speak the same English as those in Boston.
Because of this we sometimes need assistance in translating instructions. This happens on motherboards as well. I commonly see the same underlying issues with hardware when we upgrade and allow windows to choose for us.
The chipset features that come with many variations of manufacturers do not get used well because windows chooses a generic driver.
If we continue to not check the device manager and assume it is fine then we have issues with cards we plug into it, or connect to it via USB.
Remember when you upgrade your system to first check to make sure the right chipset driver is loaded for each chip on the mainboard. You can do this by opening the device manager in windows and selecting view devices by type. Drill town and follow the path until you land on PCI BUS. from here take note of any "Standard PCI XXXXX" windows has assumed that it has the best language driver loaded and you may be missing half of the chipsets true potential and compatibility. Search your mainboard specs from your documentation and support sites and download the correct driver for each one. then your new investment in upgrades will be translated correctly.
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