You’ve been having problems with your video card and were told to update your motherboard drivers. However, you have no idea how to go about doing that. This led you to search the Internet in hopes of finding an answer, which brought you here. Before you begin, you need to find some information.

 

What is the Make and Model of Your Computer?

 

Most people know the make of their computer. It is usually a Dell, Hewlett Packard, Asus, Toshiba or something like that. This is easy enough to tell because it is usually printed on the computer in a visible fashion.

 

When you find the make of your computer, you need to go to that website to update your drivers. However, you will still need to know the model number of your computer before you can continue.

 

To find the model number:

 

 

You can look around your computer for some small print. Somewhere it should list the model.

Or you can hold down the Windows button and press the Pause Break button. This will bring up a window, which could tell you the model of your computer.

If those two methods do not work and you have a laptop, remove the battery. Sometimes the model is listed there.

 

Now that you have the make and model, you can proceed to download the appropriate drivers.

 

Finding the Chipset for Your Computer

 

On some occasions, you will need to know the chipset for your computer as well. This information is located in the device manager.

 

Opening Device Manager

 

 

Click Start

Right Click My Computer

Select Properties

Click the Hardware tab

Click Device Manager

 

In the device manager, you will need to expand the system devices my clicking on the little plus sign. Here you will find the type of chipset your computer uses, which could include:

 

 

Intel

VIA

Ali Magik

 

Updating Your Motherboard Automatically

 

If you are anything like many people, this is just too many steps and too much to remember. Not to mention, downloading the wrong driver will just cause more problems. Therefore, driver update software was created.

 

You do not need to know anything about your computer for driver update software to work. All you need to do is run the program and it will do the rest for you. It scans your computer and locates all the drivers that need updating. Then, it displays the drivers for you to choose which, if any, drivers will be updated. At that point, you click download and then install. You can download and install all the drivers your computer needs in a matter of minutes.

 

This is especially helpful if you built your own computer and cannot quite remember what motherboard or chipset you bought. Instead of opening up the computer and physically looking at the motherboard or going into the BIOS to find and decode the number, it is all done for you.

 

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