Right now, I’m guessing you are frustrated after aimlessly tapping in “audio driver” etc into search engines with no luck. You need to find out the name of your drivers and may have even opened up ‘the box’ to see what it says on the parts.

This happened to my partners computer recently and I have found a fairly universal solution.

Firstly, you need to find out what you need. There is a great free program called Everest, which can in most cases give you the detailed information you need to idenfy your drivers. I downloaded it from here (Theres a few links… to download Everest click one of the ‘Softpedia Mirror’ links.

After the download finishes, open the zip file and run Everest. The program basically looks at all of the hardware on your computer and will search a broad database of information. There are many things you can check, but a fast way may be to just check the manufacturer of your Motherboard. You need to Company’s name and the model number of your Motherboard. When you have that, do a search for the company’s website and it is very likely there you will be able to find the drivers/ chipset for your Motherboard’s model. If you find the chipset (and anything else that goes with it), download it and install. Then restart and your computer should be back to normal.

A good way of checking is to go to Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager. If you see yellow question marks, it means there are still missing drivers. Whether they are important or not is up to you.

Say you cannot get any luck from finding the Motherboard Manufacturer or Model Number….. Then you need to go back to Everest and check for things individually. Look in your device manager and you will be able to check Everest for unidentified Hardware. Do the same thing, find out the company who made it, then search for their website and download the drivers.

This worked for me and a lot of other people. Another very useful resource is DriverZone . A website database of companies and drivers.

When you find all the drivers you need, do yourself a favour and back it up to a disk. Oh and…. DON’T LOSE IT AGAIN!!!

Good Luck!