Install and configure computer systems

3.2 Install peripherals/ devices in accordance with manufacturer’s instructions and/ or OS installation procedures

3.3 Configure peripherals/ devices in accordance with manufacturer’s instructions and/ or OS installation procedures

Activity 2.1

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Now that you successfully installed the operating system, you’ll need to configure the devices such as Video Cards, Network Interface Cards, Sound Cards, etc. by installing the device drivers of each. In many cases, if Windows recognizes the device, drivers will be installed automatically. In some cases, generic drivers are installed so that the devices will work properly.

A device is disabled without a driver.

A driver is a software component that lets the operating system and a device communicate with each other.  For example, suppose an application needs to read some data from a device. The application calls a function implemented by the operating system, and the operating system calls a function implemented by the driver. The driver, which was written by the same company that designed and manufactured the device, knows how to communicate with the device hardware to get the data. After the driver gets the data from the device, it returns the data to the operating system, which returns it to the application.