Hello my forum friends!
I just formatted an old 80gb Hard Disk Drive and installed windows xp on an old Hp Pavilion 541c. I found all the necessary motherboard drivers, the video card drivers, the moniter drivers too.
Heres my question: Is it necessary to find the correct drivers for my HDD? How about my mouse and keyboard? I know that my cd/dvd player requires the drivers to watch dvds, and I know that default drivers probably don't perform as well.
My main concern is the harddrive and my cd player: Will it hurt them if they are running on generic drivers?
I ask this because so far everything seems to be running just fine, although I did have a small stutter when i was typing (I typed but some of letters didn't carry through), but as of now there is absolutely no stutter.
I'm being lazy and because of it, I'm reluctant to open my case (AGAIN) just to look at my hard-disk for the brandname...
I just formatted an old 80gb Hard Disk Drive and installed windows xp on an old Hp Pavilion 541c. I found all the necessary motherboard drivers, the video card drivers, the moniter drivers too.
Heres my question: Is it necessary to find the correct drivers for my HDD? How about my mouse and keyboard? I know that my cd/dvd player requires the drivers to watch dvds, and I know that default drivers probably don't perform as well.
My main concern is the harddrive and my cd player: Will it hurt them if they are running on generic drivers?
I ask this because so far everything seems to be running just fine, although I did have a small stutter when i was typing (I typed but some of letters didn't carry through), but as of now there is absolutely no stutter.
I'm being lazy and because of it, I'm reluctant to open my case (AGAIN) just to look at my hard-disk for the brandname...