Driver Help & Troubleshooting
Install problems, rollbacks, conflicts and driver discussions.
so annoyed rn i start work by connecting teh companys remote access client. Since yesterdays Realtek RTL8029 AS Driver 5.08 update, it either fails to connect or connects and then nothing loads. Internet without teh VPN is fine. The client shows something…
this is sooo frustrating. im trying to update the graphics driver on my office PC, and the custom install option fails immediately: "Not compatible with this version of Windows." Windows Update says i'm fully up to date 🙏 the Hercules Radeon 3.4WHQL…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts i installed the Gigabyte Intel 915G VGA Driver 14.8.0.3929 update last night and this morning my living room PC looked like this in the browser: little colored blocks, flickering lines, sometimes a whole strip of the…
"Driver is unavailable". Thats all Windows tells me about my inkjet printer. It started after upgrading to a new Windows version. Ive tried removing the printer and adding it again. Windows finds it, then shows the same message. Im guessing an old driver is…
ok weird one i use my PC for video editing and some gaming, half and half. NVIDIA offers different driver branches: a gaming focuesd one with frequent releases and a more conservative one aimed at creators :) the GeForce Quadro Graphics Driver 304.64 for…
hmmmm ok movie night, everyones on the couch, i hit play on the PC hooked up to the monitor with speakers and... silence xD Picture perfect, zero sound. The only thing Id changed was installing NVIDIA Linux Display Driver 370.23 Beta earleir that day. the…
guys pls help my laptop is crawling. task Manager shows teh SATA SSD at 100% with almost no data moving... it started after a storage driver update from Samsung. ive disabled search indexing and some startup apps, but no cahnge... how can i tell whether its…
im literally losing my mind here after installing NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Driver 546.33 Ive had random driver crashes on my home built PC. Fine, Ill just roll it back. Except teh Roll Back Driver button is greyed out, and when i uninstalled it Windows put a…
guys pls help after installing NVIDIA Quadro Graphics Driver 265.90 Ive had random driver crashes on my prebuilt tower... fine, Ill just roll it back.. :D execpt teh Roll Back Driver button is greyed out, and when i uninstalled it Windows put a driver back…
i needed to scan a signed contract tonight. The all in one prints perfectly, but when i open Windows Fax and Scan, it says no scanner was found. Connected over Wi Fi, same as always. The only change: i installed Canon iP4200 Driver 1.80 last week. Heres the…
okay, this is driving me nuts... black screen, fans ramp up, and about five seconds later Windows comes back like nothing happened... then this pops up: its always while watching a video in the browser. my gaming laptop is not overclocked and temps look…
ok weird one i use my PC for 3D modeling and some gaming, work by day, games at night. intel offers different driver branhces: a gaming focused one with frequent releases and a more conservative one aimed at creators xD the IGP Graphics Driver Im on now is…
Okay, i feel dumb, but Im stuck at step one. trying upgraidng the drive on my new lpatop. windows setup shows no drives. i downloaded Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver V8.9.0.1014 Beta from ASUS on another computer, but its an EXE, not something the…
long time lurker first post lol this is so frustrating. Im trying to update teh graphics driver on my home built tower, and teh official installer fails immediately: "Not compatible with this version of Windows." Windows Update says Im fully up to date. the…
ok so i installed ASRock Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3 Bios 2.20 on my editing workstation because the support page lisetd it as recommended :D The installer finished, asked for a reboot, and since then I get this every single time: it goes to teh blue…
help!! my home built tower is performing like it lost a generation. an open world RPG stutters in places that used to be smooth, all after the NVIDIA driver update. id like to measure this properly instead of going on feel... whats the right way to compare…
help!! i was waking teh monitor from standby on my home built tower when teh whole screen just went black. audio kept going for a second, then stuttered, then teh picture came back with a little notification that the display driver had stopped responding and…
my small form factor PC is performing like it lost a generation. an open world RPG stutters in places that used to be smooth, all after the NVIDIA dirver upadte. Id like to measure this properly instead of going on feel. Whats the right way to compare two…
okay, this is driving me nuts... black screen, fans ramp up, and about five seconds later Windows comes back like nothing happened, then this pops up: its always while running a 3D benchmark... my small form factor PC is not overclocked and temps look normal…
every time Im in a competitive shooter, somewhere around opening the map, 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 AMD…
my Ethernet is capped at 100 Mbps and Im losing my mind. the home built tower is plugged into a gigabit switch setup. the adapter details say 100 Mbps full duplex :D my laptop on teh same cable and port negotiates gigabit just fine, sooo teh switch port…
well, that went badly. I updated the RAID driver on my work laptop, rebooted, and now its this: Over and over. Safe Mode also crashes. The update was the P43R1600Twins 110dB Bios 1.40 for DOS package from ASRock. The BIOS still sees the drive, so Im hoping…
ok weird one okay, i feel dumb, but Im stuck at step one. trying dual booting on my freshly built PC... windows setup shows no drives, i downloaded 970DE3/U3S3 Bios from ASRock on another computer, but its an EXE, not smth the installer can use... how do i…
Long story short: my ultrabook wakes up by itself at night after the N51Vn Bios update. the battery is suffering, and so am I. I tried disabling hibernation and re enabling it, but that changed nothing. what tools can tell me which device or driver is…
this is sooo frustrating... im trying to update the graphics driver on my home built tower, and the official installer fails immediately: "Not compatible with this version of Windows." Windows Update says Im fully up to date, the Catalyst Radeon Display…
