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Why the driver and utility have to be installed before plug in the PCI card?

April 26, 2017card driver installed PCI PLUG utility

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Why the driver and utility have to be installed before plug in the PCI card?

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Because the driver released is not a WHQL driver (Microsoft certificate), if you plug the card before install the driver. Windows will detect a new hardware and try to find a suitable driver for this new device and of course Windows is not able to find a driver for this device. The problem is here, if user cancel windows search then install device driver, this device can works fine. But if user let windows to search a driver for this device, windows will see this device as a problem device and user cannot install it automatically.We understand it is not convenient for end user and we are preparing a new driver to pass WHQL test, new WHQL driver will ready to release and this problem will disappear.