Hardware Driver
Hardware drivers are required for all the hardware that is installed along with the operating system. Hardware Drivers are small software that act as ago between the device and the operating system. They help the device and the operating system to talk and communicate with each other and pass the commands so that the user can access the system for their computing needs. Many of the drivers such as those for the keyboards come along with the operating system itself. While others such as cameras and printers might require their own drivers for installation.
Audio drivers
There are various audio hardware drivers available from various manufacturers that increase the voice quality and clarity and allow the users to see DVD movies, listen to radio broadcasts and pod casts, download and play music and have great listening pleasure. The nForce audio hardware drivers from NVIDIA for Windows XP/2000 are the latest. This audio driver is WHQL certified and includes the driver, the NV mixer and the installer.
Monitor drivers
It’s very easy to get or download the monitor hardware drivers. Almost all monitors including the flat screen LCD panels are PnP devices. The drivers have already been included in the operating systems. In some really unusual cases where you are trying to install the old monitors to a new system, you may need the monitor drivers. But in that case you can easily download the monitor drivers that came in a disk or download from the website of the manufacturer.
Display drivers
Display hardware drivers for the graphics hardware are created and maintained by the manufacturers of the graphics hardware. They have a vested interest in making them work; else their hardware won’t be used to its full potential. Display drivers also have kernel level access to system resources. The display drivers are being reliable and bug free. Else the whole system can be rendered quite useless. When you can’t see something, you can’t work on it right?
Printer drivers
Each printer whether its laser, inkjet or dot matrix requires its own printer hardware driver to print efficiently. Usually all manufacturers ship the printer driver along with the printer. Now most of the printers that are been manufactured operate on plug and play system. This is very convenient as printer drivers aren’t required. Windows XP and Windows XP have inbuilt drivers and printer drivers.
CDROM drivers
There are plenty of CDROM hardware drivers that are available from the manufacturer. However you need to check from the manufacturer or from the third party vendors. Windows platform normally have built in CDROM drivers especially for the ATAPI compliant ones. These are generic CDROM drivers. Anyways if the user does have ATAPI driver then it doesn’t need a CDROM driver for Windows.
If you have a SCSI CD-ROM drive, then you need a driver for the SCSI interface and not the drive. If you only have a CD recorder, then you can’t write on the CD. For that you would need CD burning software such as Nero to write. In this case CDROM drivers aren’t required.
