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Getting a New Driver from the Manufacturer’s Website
Second, examine the manufacturer’s
website for a new driver and run that program instead. Be sure to
save all your downloaded driver files or updates to a CD. Also,
I think it helps to create a text file on your backup CD that describes
the file and its purpose. For example, we downloaded the file vs-winXP.exe.
We might add some text such as:
“vs-winXP.exe. Downloaded from
viewsonic.com. This file installs the monitor information for the ViewSonic
A70f+ monitor in Windows XP. Just double click on the file vs-winXP.exe
and it will install the monitor information. After doing that under
Device Manager... Monitor, we’ll see the A70f+ is recognized.”
You’ll appreciate
these notes to yourself if you need to repeat the same procedure several
years later.
Third, find the device in Device
Manager and use the Hardware Update Wizard by selecting “Update
Driver” to add the driver for the device. If it won’t automatically
find the driver, and you have a CD or know the location where you’ve
saved the downloaded driver files, select “Install from a list
or specific location” and try running “Update Driver”
again.
Fourth, sometimes running Windows
Update will find a better driver for the device.
Windows offers a neat feature that
allows new drivers to be “rolled back” which essentially uninstalls
them and goes back to using the previous driver the device was using.
That could be handy, if you find a new driver doesn’t work properly
with your system.
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