System and method for automated display driver management
AssigneeEvga Corporation
InventorsKeith Garrett Rochford, II, Taisheng Han
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Abstract
A method and system of an automated computer video display driver management system in setting up a video driver for a corresponding video display controller adapter is disclosed. The process including the steps of verifying motherboard chipset, removing pre-existing driver files, and installing appropriate driver files for the video display controller adapter installed in the computer system.
Claims12
A process for installing a video display software driver in a computer system, comprising:
- providing a Automatic Driver Management program for automatically identifying motherboard chipset in the computer system,
- removing all previously installed display driver files in the computer system including any display driver files not listed in the add/remove programs dialog box of an operating system, and
- installing new display driver files into the computer system;
- loading said Automatic Driver Management program in said computer system;
- and
- running said Automatic Driver Management program.
A system for installing a video display software driver in a computer system, comprising:
- means for automatically identifying motherboard chipset in the computer system;
- means for automatically removing all previously installed display driver files in the computer system including any display driver files not listed in the add/remove programs dialog box of an operating system;
- and
- means for automatically installing new display driver files into the computer system.
A computer program product embodying a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform method steps for installing a video display software driver in a computer system, said product being operative to execute a method comprising:
- automatically identifying motherboard chipset in the computer system;
- automatically removing all previously installed display driver files in the computer system including any display driver files not listed in the add/remove programs dialog box of an operating system;
- and
- automatically installing new display driver files into the computer system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.