Auto update of sound card driver

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It is not a good idea to use Windows Update for updating any drivers. I
would recommend downloading a new driver from your sound card site as that
driver will be for your paticular sound card.

"radio_earbug" wrote:

> A few days ago Windows automatic update prompted me to update the sound card
> drivers on my computer. It originally had an NVidia sound driver, after
> prompting to update, I now have a Realtek sound driver. It did list the
> reasons for the update, but it is it normal for sound and video drivers to be
> prompted for updating by Windows rather than HP who manufactured the
> computer? Wondering if this was safe.