Driver Help & Troubleshooting
Install problems, rollbacks, conflicts and driver discussions.
ok so ive built and set up a few PCs, and Ive never been sure about chipset drivers. on my prebuilt desktop after after a BIOS update, Device Manager shows no unknown devices. is there still a reason to install B75 Pro3 Bios?? are there specific features…
ok so every time Im in a flight sim, somewhere around opening the map, the game freezes and closes with this: The error text mentions DXGI ERROR DEVICE REMOVED. The graphics card is obviously still in teh PC. This only started after i installed Intel JetWay…
i use my PC for machine learning experiments and some gaming, work by day, games at night. NVIDIA offers different driver branches: a gaming focused one with frequent releases and a more conservative one aimed at creators. the Graphics Driver 310.19 for…
I just finished after a BIOS update on my gaming rig. Windows Update grabbed a bunch of drievrs, and everything seems to work. Now I'm wondering whether I still need to install ASRock H55M Bios. Some people say it's essential for power management and…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts movie night, everyones on the couch, I hit play on teh PC hooked up to the monitor with speakers and..... silence. Picture perfect, zero sound. The only thing Id changed was installing EVGA UV+ UV12 / UV16 Driver 5.3…
guys pls help okay, help me do this properly :D my streaming PC has teh control panel wont open after a Shuttle update and Ive deicded to go back to teh previous driver. Ive downloaded DDU and teh older package. What exactly do i do, in what order, and how…
So this is new. Artifacts in video playback, and only since updating GA G31M ES2L (rev. 2.x) VGA Driver from Gigabyte. ive already rebooted three times. they dont show up on the BIOS screen as far as I can tell, only once Windows loads. is that a meaningful…
i was waking the monitor from standby on my gaming desktop when the whole screen just went black. Audio kept going for a second, then sttutered, then the picture came back with a little notification that the display driver had stopped responding and…
help!! i installed teh AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition Graphics Driver 18.2.2 Hotfix update last night and this morning my gaming laptop looked like this in 3D apps: little colored blocks, flickering lines, sometimes a whole strip of the screen goes green for a…
ok so short version: Catalyst Display Driver wont install. Longer version: my latpop came with a manufacturer customized graphics drvier. i wanetd teh newer one from AMD directly. Every installer i try says it's incompatible with my Windows. Is teh laptop…
My inkjet all in one keeps going offline in Windows. it connects over USB. other devices print to it without problems. only this PC thinks its offline, and it started after the driver update from Canon :D ive removed and re added the printer once, and that…
Every time I try to print from the word processor, teh print dialog freezes and then the printers list goes empty. Windows says teh Print Spooler service isnt running. I start it again, try to print, and it crashes again. This started after I installed Acer…
every time Im in a battle royale, somewhere around changing graphics settings, teh game freezes and closes with this: The error text mentions DXGI ERROR DEVICE REMOVED. The graphics card is obviously still in the PC. This only started after i installed Dell…
okay, this is driving me nuts, black sceren, fans ramp up, and about five seconds later Windows comes back like nothing happened... then this pops up: its always while wtaching a video in the browser... my gaming laptop is not overclocked and temps look…
so annoyed rn i wanted to do upgrading the drive on my new laptop. Made a Windows USB stick, booted it, clicked through to the disk selection screen and got this: no drives at all. the BIOS clearly shows the NVMe SSD with its correct model and size. ive…
okay, I feel dumb, but I'm stuck at step one. trying removing bloatware on my freshly built PC 🙏 windows setup shows no drives. I downloaded M3N78D Bios from ASRock on another computer, but its an EXE, not something teh installer can use. how do I get the…
Maybe a hot take, but i disabled every enhancement in Sound settings and the Realtek app, and late night TV sounds cleaner on studio headphones. Am i missing out on something by not using spatial audio, or is plain stereo just fine for most people? i'm…
guys pls help i pay for gigabit fiber and my home server is wired, but speed tests top out at roughly 95 Mbps 👍 Windows says the link speed is 100/100 Mbps. Thats suspicious, cuz before the Gigabyte P2542G WLAN Driver 15.1.1.1 update it showed 1000 and i…
hmmmm ok im losnig this fight with my own computer.. :D the screen resolution reset since the Quadro Graphics Driver update. i tried Device Manager rollback (greyed out), uninstall via Settings (it came back), and installing the older package over the top…
I wanted to do replacing teh SSD on my ultrabook. Made a Windows USB stick, booted it, clicked throguh to teh disk selection screen and got this: no drives at all. the BIOS clearly shows the NVMe SSD with its correct model and size. ive remade teh USB stick…
I play an open world RPG every evening on my small form factor PC and know exactly how it should feel. After installing Intel i830/i845/i852/i855/i865 (Windows NT) , it's noticeably choppier, frame times are all over the place, and tonight it even crashed…
code 10 on teh audio device and Im stuck. it started after a BIOS update 😤 my laptop used to have perfectly normal sound. now there's a red X on teh speaker icon and Sound settings says no output devices found. I've reinstalled HD ALC 880 Audio CODECs from…
hmmmm ok i installed teh Intel HD NUC Graphics Driver 15.33.42.4358 update last night and this morning my gaming desktop looked like this in video playback: little colored blocks, flickering lines, sometimes a whole strip of the sceren goes green for a…
im losing this fight with my own computer. stuttering in every game since the Nvidia Graphics Driver update. i tried Device Manager rollback (greyed out), uninstall via Settings (it came back), and installing the older package over teh top (installer said a…
help!! after installing Intel Arc Graphics Windows DCH Driver 31.0.101.5074 Ive had random driver crashes on my streaming PC... fine, Ill just roll it back... except the Roll Back Driver button is greyed out, and when I uninstalled it Windows put a driver…
