Driver Help & Troubleshooting
Install problems, rollbacks, conflicts and driver discussions.
ok weird one im a bit embarrassed how long i tolerated this. audio crackles during games, and it gets worse when the system is busy lol device Manager shows: ive updated Windows and reinstalled the audio driver. no change... someone mentioned DPC latency,…
my USB DAC crackle and pop during moving the mouse. its not constant, more like random little bursts every few seconds. the driver page shows this warning: Ive tried a different cable. My phone through teh same USB DAC sounds perfect. So something on the PC…
this is so annoying.. 🤦 my mini PC was fine yesterday... today, after a VPN install: It says connected but nothing loads :) The troubleshooter says something about the default gateway not being available. idk what that means. Id prefer to fix it properly…
Urgent ish: i need this external GPU for work tomorrow and its showing Code 43: it was fine yesterday.. xD it started after moving teh PC. i tried a different port and a reboot... i cant tell if i should be shopping for a replacement or digging deeper into…
long time lurker first post lol so this is new... artifacts in teh browser, and only since updating Radeon Adrenalin Graphics Driver from AMD. ive already rebooted three times, they dont show up on the BIOS screen as far as I can tell, only once Windows…
ok weird one after a BIOS driver update caused me a day of headaches last month, Im rethinking my whole approach :/ Now Im wondering if i should just stop updating anything that works. How do u decide when an update is worth it? 😂 Id like a simple rule i…
hmmmm ok i installed teh NVIDIA RTX Spark Developer Preview 616.00 update last night and this morning my home built PC looked like this in teh browser: Little coloerd blocks, flickering lines, sometimes a whole strip of the screen goes green for a moment 😤…
im literally losing my mind here flickernig secondary monitor since teh NVIDIA update. details: a laptop plus an external monitor... it goes black for a moment, comes back, sometimes the windows jump to the main screen, ive rebooted plenty. id love a…
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 Radeon Adrenalin Graphics Driver from AMD, crashes started the same night. i tried rolling back but now Windows…
guys pls help ive always just let Windows handle drivers, but a friend insists i should get everything from teh manufacturers website. Ive never had major issues, but maybe thats luck. Whats your approach? Do you update regularly, only when smth breaks, or…
i'm a bit embarrassed how long i tolerated this. Audio crackles during music playback, and it gets worse when teh system is busy. Device Manager shows: ive updated Windows and reinstalled teh audio driver. no change. someone mentioned DPC latency, but I have…
After a graphics card driver update caused me a day of headaches last month, I'm rethinking my whole approach. Now I'm wondering if I sholud just stop updating anything that works. How do you decide when an update is worth it? I'd like a simple rule I can…
Urgent ish: i need this Wi Fi adapter for work tomorrow and it's showing Code 43: it was fine yseterday, it started after a driver update, i tried a different port and a reboot... i cant tell if i should be shopping for a replacement or digging deeper into…
please tell me this is a driver thing. glitches on teh desktop on my gaming desktop, starting right after the GeForce Graphics Driver update: the card isnt new but its never shown anything like this before. temperatures look normal. ive tried a different…
so annoyed rn after a audio driver update caused me a day of headaches last month, Im rethinking my whole approach. Now Im wondering if i should just stop updating anything that works. How do you decide when an update is worth it? Id like a simple rule i can…
help!! curious about everyones storage dirver setup. i have a sinlge SSD in my home server and RAID Driver (SATA, NVMe RAID) from AMD installed. For easy reinstalls, does the vendor driver bring anything over the inbox one? 😂 Ive seen benchmarks posted, but…
help!! after a router reboot, my work laptop connects to Wi Fi but shows this: no internet, secured, my phone and TV on teh same network are fine... i restarted the router and teh work laptop... nothing. im writing this on my phone... any ideas? ive already…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts short version: GeForce Graphics Driver wont install. longer version: my prebuilt desktop came with a manufacturer customzied graphics driver. i wanted the newer one from NVIDIA directly. every installer i try says its…
ok so ive always just let Windows handle drivers, but a frined insists i should get everything from teh manufacturers website. ive never had major issues, but maybe thats luck, whats your approach? do u update regularly, only when somehting breaks, or only…
help!! 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 teh NVIDIA driver update. Id like to measure this properly instead of going on feel. Whats the right way to…
i'm out of ideas. thats my USB to serial adapter in Device Manager... code 43 appeared after moving the PC... i tried rolling back the driver, but the button is greyed out :) the same device works perfeclty on my laptop, so the hardware should be fine... if…
Okay, help me do this properly. My perbuilt tower has ranodm dirver crashes after a Intel update and Ive decided to go back to the previous driver. ive downloaded DDU and the older package... what exactly do i do, in what order, and how do i stop Windows…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts urgent ish: i need this webcam for work tomorrow and it's showing Code 43: it was fine yesterday. it started after a driver update. i tried a different port and a reboot. i can't tell if i should be shopping for a…
ok so i lost a ranked match to this today, so forgive the tone. an open world RPG hard freezes during opening the map and then i get this: it says teh device was removed, removed! 🙏 two weeks ago i had zero crashes. in between, the only change was the…
im genuinely confused. picture on my projector is great, but sound comes out of the laptop speakers only. it started right after the NVIDIA driver update. ive checked the vloume mixer, default device, everything i know of. theres simply no HDMI output to…
