In a method and apparatus for controlling power factor correction (PFC) in mixed operation modes, a frequency of the input voltage is obtained by detecting the zero crossing points of the input voltage. A peak of the input voltage is obtained by detecting input voltage with 90 degree phase. Thus, the present invention predicts the input voltage by its frequency and peak and the characteristic of the sine wave. A digital signal processor computes the duty and frequency of a boost switch, switching the operation mode of the boost converter among continuous mode, critical mode and discontinuous mode according to input voltage or the load. According to another aspect, the operation is switched to critical mode from the average current mode when a zero current is detected before the charging and recharging cycle of the boost switch is finished. Overcurrent protection may be achieved by controlling current in response to detected voltage to provide a substantially constant power level. The overcurrent protection may be adaptive in nature. In this aspect, an adaptive driver for a PFC controller reduces the slew rate of signals over the boost switch of the PFC controller. The adaptive driver may have a group of transistors which may be divided into a plurality of branches. The charging current through the boost switch may be increased by turning on an increasing number of branches until the voltage over the switch exceeds a reference voltage, and this may determine the number of branches to drive the boost switch during normal operation.