Updating Your TSSTCorp Drivers for Your Disk Drive

TSSTCorp stands for Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Corporation and is the single largest manufacturer of disk drives in the world, so if you’ve purchased a computer with one of their drives, chances are you’ve got a good one. TSSTCorp makes CD, DVD, DVD-RW and Blu-ray drives for your computer. Basically the things that your computer needs to install most programs and back up its data.

Drivers and Device Driver Errors

Drivers are little bits of programming that allow your hardware to talk to your Windows. Without it your hardware will not work properly. Your disks will spin, but you’ll get gibberish or the “Windows cannot load the device driver for this software” error message. In this case, you’re going to have to update the drivers for the drive. They could be corrupt from a virus or malware infection, or just out of date. Either situation, the fix is the same. Update the TSSTCorp driver.

Update TSSTCorp Drivers

The first step in updating your TSSTCorp drivers is finding out which drive you have. To do this you need to go into Device Manager and get the model of your drive.

To do that, follow these steps:

1. Go to Start
2. In the Search Bar type Device Manager
3. Press Enter
4. Go to “DVD/CD-ROM Drives” and write down your model information

Now we want to go to your computer manufacturer’s web page and download the latest TSSTCorp drivers from there for your drive. You’ll want to look for either your computer’s model or the drive model itself under “Support or “Downloads” on the website. Save the file to a location you can remember, because we will be going to it in a minute.

Was the file an exe file? Some manufacturers like to make it easy on their customers like that. If the file is an exe file, all you have to do is double click the file and it will self-install. On the other hand if the file was not an exe file, we’re quite prepared to walk you through the installation process.

To install the TSSTCorp driver follow these steps:

1. Go back to Device Manager from Start
2. Go back into “DVD/CD-ROM Drives”
3. Double click on your drive
4. On the “Driver” tab click “Update driver”
5. “Browse” to where you saved the file and “Update”
6. Your computer may want to restart

An Easier Way to Fix the Computer

There is an easier way to go about updating your TSSTCorp drivers. There is software on the market called driver update software that will search all your drivers for corrupt or out of date drivers, and then search the Web for the latest drivers for that hardware to replace those drivers.

It will update those TSSTCorp drivers all with a few clicks of the mouse! Hassle free driver update. No more going into Device Manager to get things done with this software. It’s perfectly safe and becoming widely used as more people discover the convenience of not having to update your drivers on your own.

Are you confused about where to go when you update Realtek drivers? You aren’t the only one, so we created these easy instructions to do it yourself.

How to Update Your Realtek Drivers

If you have been having problems with no sound recently, there can be several reasons for it. If it started after you installed a program or updated Windows, it is most likely a Realtek driver error. The best way to fix this problem is with a Realtek driver update.

What are Audio Drivers?

Audio drivers, which are what your Realtek drivers are, are little bits of programming that allow your sound card to talk to Windows. This allows for programs, from iTunes to games, to make sound come out of your computer. Without drivers, you would have no sound. If your drivers are corrupt due to a virus or malware infection or out of date because of Windows being updated and your sound card drivers never being updated, the solution is the same. Update your Realtek drivers.

Finding Your Hardware and Getting the Drivers

The first step in updating your drivers is going into Device Manager and figuring out which sound card you have. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Go to Start
2. In the Search bar type in “Device Manager”
3. Press Enter
4. Go to “Sound, video and game controllers”
5. Write down the entire name of your Realtek device

Now you want to go to your computer manufacturer’s web page. You should have an idea of what your system model is. If not, then there is a way to find out. Follow these steps:

1. Go to Start
2. Go to Computer
3. Right click on Computer and go to Properties
4. You should hopefully see the model under Manufacturer, write this down: you may need this on the manufacturer’s web page.

Now you are prepared to go to the manufacturer’s web page. Once there, look for “Support” or “Downloads.” First do a search for your audio drivers. Let’s start off easy. If you can’t find the Realtek drivers, we’ll do a search for your computer model’s drivers. Once you locate the drivers, you want to save them in a location you know how to get to. Make a mental note on if the file is an exe file.

Updating your Realtek Drivers

Now if the file was an exe file the next step is easy as pie. Just go to the file and double click on it. The file will self-install. If your computer manufacturer was not one of those that makes drivers in exe files, we have a few steps to go through still.

1. Go back into Device Manager from Start
2. Go to “Sound, video, and game controllers”
3. Double click on your Realtek device
4. In the “Driver” tab click “Update driver”
5. “Browse” to where you saved the file and then update the file
6. You may be asked to restart at this time, please do so for the changes to take effect

Now there is an easier way to go about this. There is software that hit the market about a year ago called driver update software that will monitor your drivers, see if any of your drivers become corrupt or out of date, and then search the Web for the latest driver. The program will update the Realtek drivers for you–all with a few clicks of the mouse. That’s what we call hassle free driver updates!

Do you have an ASUS product, but it’s not working right? The first thing to do is check which ASUS drivers to update. This is the most likely culprit.

If you have invested in ASUS products, it was money well spent. ASUS is top of the line hardware, they have spent millions on research and development over the years to guarantee a quality product hits the shelves. So whether you bought a motherboard, a video card, or a laptop, the chances of you having hardware issues are slim.

What are the Most Common Problems Seen?

The most common problems seen are driver errors. These can be caused by corrupt or out of date drivers.

Drivers are little bits of programming that allow your hardware to talk to Windows. So in the case of your video card, your computer may act normal except when you try to play games or watch Netflix. Then your screen goes blank or you get a black box.

Drivers can get corrupted if your computer has been infected by viruses or malware, and drivers go out of date all the time. Also when you update Windows or install new programs, you can cause your drivers to go out of date. Whether your drivers are corrupt or out of date, the fix is the same. Update your ASUS drivers.

How Do You Get the Drivers to Update Your ASUS Drivers?

First off, you need to go into Device Manager and get the name of the device you need the drivers for. If you don’t know that, then there’s no use getting drivers because the wrong ones just won’t work.

To do so follow these steps:

1. Go to Start.
2. In the Search Bar type in Device Manager.
3. Press Enter.
4. In Device Manager, it depends on which device is acting up when you go where you want to go. For instance if you’re encountering problems with your video, you want to go to “Display Adapters,” but if you are having problems with no sound, you want to go to “Sound, video and game controllers.”
5. Once you’ve found the device, write down the entire name.

Now you want to go to the ASUS website and get the drivers for your device.

1. Go to http://support.asus.com.
2. Click on “Download”.
3. I suggest going to the “Model Automatic Detection” and getting ALL your drivers updated. But if you want just one, then put in the model info you wrote down in the search and do a search for it. If you have a laptop/notebook it will let you pick which driver(s) you want to install.
4. You will probably be asked which operating system (version of Windows) you have. Then it should be time to download the drivers.
5. Save the drivers to a location you will remember.

How to Update ASUS Drivers

Now that you’ve got the drivers, what do you do? Well first things first. Do you have a program that will allow you to open a .zip file on your computer? If the answer is “I don’t know,” then probably not. Depending on your version of Windows, do a search for WinRAR or WinRAR 64 bit, download it and install it onto your computer. It’s a free program that will allow you to read .zip files. WinZip charges you. Once you’ve done that, you can follow these steps:

1. Go to your Desktop.
2. Right click and go to New.
3. Go to Folder.
4. Right click the folder and choose Rename.
5. Name the folder Drivers.
6. Now go to the file you just downloaded from the ASUS web page.
7. Double click on the file. You will notice at the top an “Extract to” You want to have the file extract to the new folder you created and named “Drivers”.
8. Now we want to go back to Device Manager from Start.
9. Go back to your device, double click on it.
10. Go to the “Driver” tab.
11. Click “Update driver”.
12. “Browse” to the “Driver” folder on your Desktop and choose to update the driver.

There is an easier way to update your ASUS drivers. There’s software on the market called driver update software that will monitor your drivers for corruption or in case they become out of date, and then search the Web for the latest drivers. Finally, this software will update the drivers for you. All with just a few clicks of the mouse. Completely hassle free driver updates.

Forget about hunting down which piece of hardware needs the driver in Device Manager, then hunting down the drivers yourself, only to have to go back into Device Manager again to plug them in! Get driver update software to do it for you.

The ATI Radeon is the flagship graphics card of the ATI line and has been at the top level of performance for the gaming world for many years now. When you get this card, you buy millions of dollars in research and development, as well as a pedigree only one other company can share.

Only one other company has a reputation for graphics cards like ATI, and that’s Nvidia with their line of Geforce video cards. The two companies make video cards with the same specs, but go about it with different architecture. So you get people preferring ATI, and then you get people preferring Nvidia.

Now that you know the history of your ATI Radeon, what do you do when it starts acting up? Say you are playing a game and your screen goes black only in the game? Or maybe you are watching Netflix and get a black box instead of a movie/show?

This points to a problem with your Radeon drivers. This could have happened because of a virus or malware corrupting your drivers. It’s also possible when Windows did an update that your drivers are now speaking a different language and need to be updated to work properly. Either way a driver update is the way to fix the problem.

The First Steps

The first step in fixing your video problems is identifying which ATI Radeon card you have. To do that, we need to go into Device Manager and write down the name of your video card. Follow these steps:

1. Go to Start
2. In the Search bar type in “Device Manager”
3. Press Enter
4. Go to “Display Adapters”
5. Write down the entire name of your ATI Radeon card

Now you need to go to the AMD web page and download the drivers for your video card. I’ll walk you through finding the ATI Radeon drivers for your card.

Follow these steps:

1. Go to http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx
2. Fill in the drop boxes with your product information
3. Click on “Display Results”
4. Now you want to download the Catalyst Software Suite to a location you can remember

Update Your ATI Radeon Drivers

In most cases this would be a difficult task, but AMD has made the Radeon driver update easy. Just go to where you saved the file and double click on it. It will self-install.

Sure that’s not a whole lot to go through, but there is an easier way to update your ATI Radeon drivers. There is software on the market called driver update software that will allow you to monitor your drivers in case they become corrupt or need to be updated with a more recent version in order to work properly. Then with a couple clicks of the mouse, this software will search the Web and install the latest version of the driver for you. Hassle-free driver update.