The non-technical term for the sudden failure of a computer is "crashed".
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Hardware.
An operating system coordinates the activities of computer hardware
The way a computer communicates with a peripheral device is through a device driver. A device driver is a low level computer program that allows higher level programs to communicate with a hardware device connected to the computer bus. Device drivers are hardware dependent and specific to an operating system.
Firmware, Operating System, and Utilities.
The kernel resides in your OS of the computer. the kernel has one main function that is to act as translator from applications to your CPU, Memory, and various other devices. In the world of Microsoft it's a go between for applications and the device drivers. In Linux, Mac OS, and, any other Unix based OS the kernel directly talks to the hardware with out the need for device drivers. For more info see the related link
Try reloading your system drivers (original Operating System disk).
Hardware.
The operating system communicates with computer hardware using small programs called drivers.
Computer Systems are the physical hardware, drivers, and operating systems which comprise the basic functionality of the computer. Examples of physical hardware include input devices (keyboard, mouse, and stylus), output devices (monitor, printer), and data storage devices (hard drive, USB stick, flash stick). Drivers are specialized bits of software that let the operating system talk to the hardware. Operating systems provide the groundwork for running computer applications by using the physical hardware through the drivers to provide a desired functionality. Examples of operating systems include Windows 7, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, BeOS, and many more. Computer applications are provide the user with desired functionality. Examples for word processing are Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, and LibreOffice. Examples for multimedia players are VLC, Windows Media Player, Winamp, MPlayer, and Xine. Examples of web browsers are Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari.
The operating system has different layers. The different layers includes the shell, the utilities, the compilers, device drivers and the applications.
If you can find drivers for that operating system for your hardware, then yes.
Drivers are part of your computer's operating system, they are not part of Minecraft at all.
Print drivers are code segments that allow the operating system to communicate with the printer attached to the computer.
A Computer Registry is a database that stores all the configuration settings and options of the Microsoft Windows operating systems. It stores settings for operating system components, applications, 3rd party applications, kernel, device drivers, sam, services, and user interface. You can go to "run" and type "Regedit" to access the windows registry. If you are not familiar with the Registry, do not make any changes otherwise you can do some serious damage.
The kernel is one of the primary nodes of an operating system for a computer. It contains operating system core functions and the device drivers.
Windows is the operating system on a Microsoft computer or an Apple computer running windows drivers. Without windows your computer would not work.
An operating system (OS) is the first layer of software installed on a computer that talks directly with the hardware. All other applications are installed on top of the OS and make use of its drivers and function calls to run. Some examples are: - Windows - Linux - Unix - MacOS