System & Storage Family
Motherboard chipsets, NVMe storage, system firmware, and trusted platform security.
Device categories
Chipset
Core system drivers that communicate between CPU, memory, and peripherals.
Motherboard
System board drivers for built-in controllers and headers.
System Firmware
UEFI boot firmware, hardware initialization, ACPI tables, memory training, and platform configuration.
TPM
Trusted Platform Module interfaces, measured boot, protected keys, and TPM 2.0 platform requirements.
NVMe SSD
High-speed solid state drive controller drivers.
Card Reader
SD and MicroSD card reader drivers for laptops and desktops.
Popular System & Storage drivers
Chipset driver
A chipset driver teaches Windows how to talk to the Platform Controller Hub, its PCIe root ports, SMBus, and power-state logic so the rest of your hardware enumerates correctly.
Motherboard utility driver
A motherboard utility driver exposes the Super I/O and embedded-controller sensors, fan headers, and RGB rails so vendor tuning apps can read temperatures and drive PWM fan curves.
System firmware
System firmware is the code on the board's flash chip that trains memory, initialises hardware connections, and publishes the configuration tables Windows relies on before the operating system loads.
TPM driver
The TPM driver connects Windows to the Trusted Platform Module, letting BitLocker seal keys to Platform Configuration Registers and satisfying the Windows 11 TPM 2.0 requirement.
NVMe SSD controller driver
The NVMe driver drives PCIe solid-state storage through parallel submission and completion queues, handling the protocol, Host Memory Buffer, and power states your SSD depends on.
Card reader driver
The card reader driver runs the SD host controller that bridges SD, SDHC, SDXC, and microSD cards to the PC, negotiating UHS speed modes and presenting cards as removable volumes.