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 These can be caused by corrupt or out of date drivers.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Drivers can get corrupted if your computer has been infected by viruses or malware, and drivers go out of date all the time. Also when you update Windows or install new programs, you can cause your drivers to go out of date. Whether your drivers are corrupt or out of date, the fix is the same.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

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