Driver Help & Troubleshooting
Install problems, rollbacks, conflicts and driver discussions.
ok weird one i play a strategy game every evening on my gaming laptop and know exactly how it should feel. After installing ASUS ATI Graphics Driver 8.561.0.0, it's noticeably choppier, frame times are all over the place, and tonight it even crashed once: I…
ok weird one getting DXGI ERROR DEVICE REMOVED in a flight sim, and now in a second game too, which makes me think it's not a game problem. Timeline: installed Catalyst Driver 14.7 RC 3 from AMD, crashes started the same night. i tried rolling back but now…
I installed teh ASUS Eee PC 1001P Graphics Driver 8.14.10.2117 update last night and this morning my editing workstation looked like this in games: little colored blocks, flcikering lines, sometimes a whole strip of the screen goes green for a moment, it…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts ive built and set up a few PCs, and Ive never been sure about chipset drivers. On my home built PC after a new motherboard, Device Manager shows no uknnown devices. Is there still a reason to install Eee PC R105 Bios?…
Movie night, everyones on teh couch, I hit play on the PC hooked up to the monitor with speakers and.., silence. Picture pefrect, zero sound. The only thing Id changed was installing NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Drivers 267.91 Windows XP 64 bit earlier that day.…
i wanted to do upgrading the drive on my ultrabook. 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. I've remade the USB…
long time lurker first post lol my wireless dongle headset has stopped being recognized as an audio device. ive tried a rear USB port, then other ports, then rebooting. it lights up and charges, so its getting power, but Windows doesnt list it as speakers or…
long time lurker first post lol three black screens tonight, all while scrubbing a 4K video timeline, the third time it didnt recover and I had to hold the power button. The home built tower is about two years old. I updated to Catalyst Windows 7 Preview…
pls tell me this is a driver thing. Glitches in the browser on my editing workstation, starting right after teh Mobile Intel 945GM Express Chipset Family Graphics Driver update: The card isn't new but it's never shown anything like this before. Temperatures…
long time lurker first post lol short version: GeForce Graphics Driver wont install. longer version: my home built tower came with a manufactuerr customized graphics drvier. I wanted teh newer one from NVIDIA directly. every installer I try says it's…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts i wanted to do removing bloatware on my work laptop. Made a Windows USB stick, booted it, clicked through to teh disk selection screen and got this: no drives at all. the BIOS clearly shows the NVMe SSD with its correct…
help!! short version: Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.11.3 Hotfix Update wont install. Longer version: my laptop came with a manufacturer customized graphics driver. I wanted the newer one from AMD directly. Every installer I try says its incompatible…
so annoyed rn sleep on my laptop is broken. It drains the battery in a bag 😂 This started right after teh chipset package update from ECS. i realy rely on sleep, since i move between home and office every day. Is there a log or report that shows what woke…
i lost a ranked match to this today, so forgive the tone. a battle royale hard freezes during changing graphics settings and then i get this: It says the device was removed. Removed! Two weeks ago I had zero crashes. In between, the only change was the…
ok weird one after a messy update i ended up on the generic Microsoft High Definition Audio driver on my laptop instead of Realtek RTL8139(A/B/C/D/8130)/810X series. And honestly? For podcast recording, i cant hear a difference. The vendor package came with…
so annoyed rn i work on two monitors at different refresh rates all day, and today was unbearable. Flicker, flicker, flicker on the secondary sceren. The Catalyst Radeon Display Driver 3.10 (Windows 98/ME) update went in last night. Ive tried swapping…
im literally losing my mind here please tell me this is a driver thing lol glitches in the browser on my gaming laptop, starting right after the Eee PC S101/XP Graphics Driver update: The card isnt new but its never shown anything like this before.…
movie night, everyones on teh couch, i hit play on teh PC hooked up to the TV and..... silence, picture perfect, zero sound... the only thing Id changed was installing Intel HD Graphics Driver 14.46.6.5374 earlier that day. the HDMI output used to show up as…
this is sooo frustrating. im trying to update teh graphics driver on my laptop, and the official installer fails immediately: "Not compatible with this version of Windows." Windows Update says i'm fully up to date. the MV42N VGA Driver for page supports…
help!! since updating the graphics driver my TV gets no audio over HDMI at all. i tried another HDMI cable, another port, and restarting the TV. In Sound settings the HDMI device doesn't even appear, and in Device Manager i don't see a high definition audio…
im literally losing my mind here fun morning... a commercial VPN app won't connect after teh BCM57xx (Windows 2000/XP) update. I reinstalled the VPN clinet, no change lol The virtual adapter shows in Network Connections, but it looks disabled or missing…
Okay, this is driving me nuts. Black screen, fans ramp up, and about five seconds later Windows comes back like nothing hpapened. Then this pops up: its always while alt tabbing out of a fullscreen game. my home built tower is not overclocked and temps look…
Well, that went badly. i updated teh chipset package on my editing workstation, rebooted, and now its this: Over and over. Safe Mode also crashes. The update was the Surface Data Eraser package from Microsoft. The BIOS still sees the drive, sooo Im hoping…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts my gaming desktop is performing like it lost a generation 😭 an MMO stutters in places that used to be smooth, all after teh VIA driver update. Id like to measure this properly instead of going on feel 😭 Whats the right…
im literally losing my mind here pls tell me this is a driver thing.. 🔥 glitches in games on my editing workstation, starting right after teh CATALYST Driver update: the card isnt new but its never shown anything like this before. temperatures look normal.…
