Update Your Drivers

This isn't a paid endorsement, nor do I have any affiliation or friendship with this company.  It's just something I found helpful and wanted to pass along.

So I've been having some ongoing issues with my video card.  My friend at the computer repair shop told me there is probably nothing wrong with the video card itself, that I should try to install new drivers.  Well, I tried and caused a horrible problem.  Every time I would try to adjust settings I would get a totally black screen, and also when I tried to reboot I got the black screen.  It was a real problem and I wsa reseting and rebooting and making the computer go to sleep and come out of it just to try to see what what going on.  This went on and on until I finally decided pretty much to buy a new video card anyway.

So over the weekend one of my neighbors asked me for some help installing his printer drivers on his new computer.  I went over and had a lot of difficulty finding the right drivers because the printer is quite old.  I came home defeated.

So I did some searching on the internet and found a place called driveragent.com.  Pretty neat.  The service can scan your computer and find the correct drivers for you.  The scanner is virus and spyware free, completely safe.  I did it and found 45% of my drivers were out of date.  Even the RECENT video card driver I downloaded.  So I joined and did some updating.  I'm happy to report my black sceen problem is resolved and I will be installing my neighbor's printer drivers shortly.  I love it.