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    Winzip Driver Updater with Clevo P150hm

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by pepi18, May 4, 2012.

  1. pepi18

    pepi18 Notebook Consultant

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    Hi,

    I installed winzip driver updater today and ran a scan; the results said almost all my drivers, 11 in total (GPU, audio, USB, CPU, ethernet etc), were out of date.

    I recall a few months ago I had an issue to deal with which required me to run a clean install of all my drivers and at the time I went to the Clevo website to check the latest drivers. The information there told me that all the latest drivers were the same as I had on the driver installation CD that came with my P150hm (which were all from around 2010).

    Being inexperienced in the area I would really appreciate a quick answer whether I should or should not get driver upgrades through winzip driver updater (aside from my nVidia drivers which I know I need to update anyway).

    I know I could almost certainly find the answer myself but I'm hoping someone can save me time with a quick answer.

    Thanks and regards,
    Pepi
     
  2. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    In my opinion, you rarely need to update drivers other than graphics and audio drivers. Maybe USB 3.0 drivers as well since it's a new thing.
     
  3. pepi18

    pepi18 Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks. So basically it is safe to update any drivers but its not a necessity for most things?