Drivers

[Madluri]

Hi! i didn't know where exactly to put this, but I built a new computer, and i was wondering what parts need drivers?

[AMD Lover]

All of them. You can get most of them off the motherboards site ie. ASUS, MSI on their download site. You can get GPU drivers off Nvidias

[GoodBytes]

All hardware except: CPU, HDD/SSD, optical drive, USB 2.0, USB 3.0 (depends on your motherboard, and OS), your computer case, keyboard and mouse (optional), monitor, speakers, microphone, headset, XBox 360 controller and most game controllers.

 

In other words, you need drivers for:

-> Motherboard chipset (usually includes the Intel SATA controller for Intel chipset boards. If not you need that.)

-> Additional SATA controller enabled in the BIOS/UEFI

-> Webcam

-> Sound card or onboard sound chip

-> Keyboard and mouse (optional)

-> Graphics card

-> Wireless card (if any)

-> Ethernet card (if any)

-> Any extra internal cards such as TV-Tuner and Input Card.

-> Printers

-> and, special peripherals, such as finger print scanner, MP3 player (depends on the device).

 

Windows has already a wide variety of drivers built-in into itself. If it does not, and it can recognize the hardware or peripheral, it will use Windows Update to get them, or update the built-in drivers to the latest approved version.

However, Windows also can use, if it doesn't have the driver or unable to really properly identify the hardware or the manufacture isn't providing the drivers to Microsoft, will use generic drivers. Generic drivers are drivers that will follow the base line standard of the hardware. So, what it means is that the device will not have all its features working and/or performance won't be the best possible.