Display adapter driver

[tonyvella]

I have this laptop for three years now. My display adapter is AMD Radeon HD-6310M and the driver is 8.792.2.4000 (1/25/11). I have been told to update my driver as that an old driver might cause BSOD which I have had a couple of times lately. Nothing terrible, nothing lost, just the inconvenience of waiting for a reboot.

In my adapter properties there is an option to update the driver but there is also a warning that "if the device fails after updating driver, roll back to previously installed driver" There is a button to "roll back to previous driver".

I am 70 years old and no great mind. My questions:

1. Should I update the driver?
2. What actually happens if "the device fails after updating driver ....."? Would I still be able to see anything on my screen, e.g. the button to "roll back to previous driver"?
NOTE: Somewhere else - I don't remember where - it says "This device is working properly"

Incidentally, when the two crashes occurred I had Thunderbird, Windows Explorer, Libroffice Calc, and two tabs of Chrome open. I don't know if that is of any importance.

Any advice to this old geezer appreciated in advance.

 

[Boozad]

Follow http://www.sevenforums.com/bsod-help-support/96879-blue-screen-death-bsod-posting-instructions.html and attach the resulting file to your next post, I'll take a look and see if the graphics driver was named in the BSODs.