There is one school of thought that users shouldn't update drivers on a stable system. Generic drivers will very often not work and cause your system to become unstable. Driver update programs should always be used with a great deal of caution since they will often misidentify drivers and versions due in part to manufacturer specific versions of common components (dell and hp for example). I am an electrical and computer engineer and have been involved with desktops since the early 80s. The new drivers are not designed to speed up your computer, they are there to fix some glitches and as a PR pretend stunt that the company still care for the consumer. Even the manufacturer drivers will fail if you change or upgrade your computer. If your computer is working fine, installing new driver may disrupt a sequence of order at start up and ruin your day, not because the new drivers are bad, but because the order of starting may not be compatible with your OS.Įveryone of us want fast computer, but the drivers may or may not be the vehicle to do that. I have 3 different types of hard drives that require specific order of start ups and some drivers after installed will move up the order on the start up ladder and mess up your system. You can not change the windows drivers specific to the OS and you can not just assume the new specific drivers are compatible with your hardware and therefore, sooner or later your computer will fail, not because of the new drivers, but because the combinations of set ups may not be compatible with each other.Įxample.
Now combined those two with different hardware, software, set ups and generics and you get a mush-mesh of communication requests trying to get to the CPU for processing.
This is the problem with the drivers, there are two types, generic to windows and specific from manufacturers.