The Wrong Driver Can Kill Your Computer
If you think that drivers are small details needed by computers, you’re gravely mistaken. The job of drivers is so immense that a computer can’t work without it. In fact, loading the wrong drivers can kill your computer. If you don’t want this to happen, you might as well make sure that you have the precise driver that your computer needs.
All the devices inside your computer need drivers. Your video adapter, for instance, needs to process the drivers even before the boot-up process in order to display the desktop properly. If you load the wrong drivers, for example, an ATI driver for an NVDIA card, you will end up with big icons on the desktop and a very low screen resolution. You can only solve this problem by loading the right files. In worse cases, you won’t get to the desktop at all. Right after the Windows splash screen, you’ll have a blank monitor and a blinking cursor. If you don’t know any better, you’ll say that the wrong drivers had just killed your PC.
The solution for this problem is to go to safe mode, load the Windows generic video drivers. Uninstall and reinstall of drivers from there. Once the right drivers and the proper video settings are configured, you will be able to view your desktop again and use your computer normally.
This is just one thing that can happen to you if you upload the wrong drivers to your system. The sound and modem drivers may not create as big an error. But they can cause IRQ errors during startup too. IRQ errors, for those who don’t know it yet, are usually shown in a blue screen during boot up, which is more popularly called the blue screen of death. While it is possible to repair these errors, the usual solution is to reinstall the operating system.
Wrong network drivers may cause your computer not to boot up if you’re on a network boot mode. Chipset driver errors are more intense. It could cause your PC to work sluggishly to the extent that you can’t use it for any application at all.
So unless you remove the wrong drivers and replace it with the right one, you won’t be able to solve the problems you’re encountering in your computer. This is how important keeping the right drivers is. If you’re in doubt of any driver file, don’t install it unless you have checked, double checked, and validated it as the one you really need.