Each of the users of computer equipment or consumer electronics met with the task of finding a driver for the normal functioning of a laptop, camera or printer.
Where to find and download the driver
Modern motherboard manufacturers usually include a set of driver discs with their main product. In the event that you are faced with the fact that there are no drivers in the box with the motherboard, then use the manufacturer's official website. Each well-known manufacturer today has its own corporate website, which is also used to support users of its products. As a rule, all drivers can be downloaded from a dedicated section of this site.
Usually, the download is preceded by a simple procedure for determining the desired file in the form of a question-answer. Before downloading the driver, check which version of Windows is installed on your computer is 32-bit or 64-bit. This is a very important detail, since a driver designed for a 32-bit version will not work on a 64-bit system.
How to install the driver
The driver is loaded in the form of an executable file or in the form of an archived file in zip, rar format, or in the form of a self-extracting archive. To install, you just need to unpack the archive and run the setup.exe file. Then the program will do everything on its own. All that remains is to restart your computer after installation, but in some cases the installation wizard will do this for you as well.
It is convenient to consider the procedure for installing drivers on a specific example of replacing a motherboard with an Asus Maximus V Gene model. The operating system is reinstalled, but there is no sound. To search for a driver, go to the ASUS support site and set the parameters of the product for which the driver is being searched in the search windows. The first is the motherboard, the second is the LGA 1155 chipset, and the third is the Maximus V Gene model.
Sometimes it is difficult to determine which brands and models of components are mounted inside the computer. In such cases, it is convenient to use a special Free PC Audit program that checks, searches for information and issues a report on installed devices. After entering all the data, click "Search" and the site will display a window for selecting the operating system. Select the Windows option and run General Search. On the file library page, open the Sound tab. The site will automatically display a tabular register of sound card models, by which it is easy to determine the manufacturer of the card. In this case, it's Realtek. To download, you need to select the updated version and the download server.
It remains to find the downloaded archive, unpack it into the previously created directory and run the setup.exe installation file. After installation, you will need to restart your computer.
