Motherboards Should Store Drivers In Flash Memory
By
Staten Island, NY Posted: 12/12/2015 1:00:00 AM
Don't you hate when you can't find drivers for your computer?
One of the hardest things about setting up a computer is finding drivers for all your hardware. A typical computer not only needs a driver for the main motherboard chipset, it also needs separate drivers for just about every component such as video, sound, networking, USB, and even the hard disk controller.
Even if your computer was pre-configured, there may come a time when you need to replace your hard drive or re-install Windows from scratch. When they happens, you need to re-install a bunch of drivers to get it to work again.
Sometimes Windows may find built-in drivers for some of the components, but more often than not, there are multiple drivers that you need to find on your own.
When drivers aren't built-in, you need to find your driver CD-ROMs or look for them on the web.
One of the most frustrating problems is when Windows can't find a driver for your network components. Without that driver, you can't even search the web to find the other drivers.
It's a real catch-22. You can't search the web for networking drivers when the driver for your network is missing.
Manufacturers can avoid this by embedding a small flash drive on the motherboard specifically to hold drivers. Instead of including driver CD-ROMs, they can pre-load all the driver installation files on the flash drive. Then if you ever need to reinstall Windows, all the drivers will be at your fingertips.
Ideally, you should be able to add drivers to the flash drive whenever you add or change components or add printers, scanners or other external devices so that you don't have to look for them if you eventually re-install Windows.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
Related Media:
(Reply N/A) (Edit Topic N/A)
(Like Topic N/A) [0 ] 5499 Views
Related Posts
Computing(108)Improvements(106)Technology(90)
Top 25 Posts
* Note: The ideas on "Idea of the Day" were posted without any formal research into existing inventions.
In some cases, patents may already exist for these ideas, in other cases, there may not be any existing patents and you are free to develop and explore the viability of developing and patenting the ideas.
The authors make no claim that any of the ideas are safe, practical, or suitable for any particular purpose. You are responsible for the results of trying, developing, patenting or using any of the ideas on this site.
For some people, our ideas are just an interesting read, but our goal is to encourage you to take action. If you see an idea that you like, do something with it... Take action.
- Joe
Idea of the Day!
on...