Driver Help & Troubleshooting
Install problems, rollbacks, conflicts and driver discussions.
long time lurker first post lol im genuinely confused. picture on my soundbar is great, but sound comes out of teh laptop speakers only. it started right after teh ASUS driver update. ive checked teh volume mixer, default device, everything i know of. theres…
code 43 on my USB C Ethernet adapter. the update came from ASUS through Windows Update, since then, nothing, no networks, no cable connection, depending on which adapter i try. i can download drivers on another device and bring them over on a USB stick 😂…
guys pls help did a BIOS update on my desktop, and afterwards Windows wouldnt boot. turns out teh update reset the storage mode... windows was installed in RAID/RST mode and now it's AHCI... switching back fixed it, but now I'm curious: which mode is…
help!! 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 alt tabbing out of a fullscreen game, my gaming desktop is not overclocked and…
Flickering secondary monitor since the NVIDIA update. Details: two monitors at different refresh rates. It goes black for a moment, comes back, sometimes teh windows jump to teh main screen 🤦 Ive rebooted plenty. Id love a checklist rather than random tips,…
im genuinely confused... picture on my soundbar is great, but sound comes out of teh laptop speakers only. It started right after the AMD driver update. Ive checked the volume mixer, default device, everything i know of. Theres simlpy no HDMI output to…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts short version: Quadro Tesla Graphics Driver 295.73 Windows 7/8 64 bit won't install. Longer version: my home built tower came with a manufacturer customized graphics driver... i wanted teh newer one from NVIDIA directly.…
my receipt pritner worked perfectly until moving the PC to a new desk. now: Ive downloaded teh BenQ Acer ScanWit 2740S Scanner ISA Driver package from Acer lol Before I install it a third time, Id like to understand why Windows keeps saying teh driver is…
help!! i was adding a second SSD, and the guide told me to switch teh storage mode in the BIOS from RAID to AHCI. I did it, saved, rebooted, and got this: INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE 😅 i switched it back to RAID and Windows boots again, phew. But i still need…
ugh. i installed teh Intel 82845G Graphics Controller 14.10.3 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 screen goes green for a moment, it…
guys pls help i wanted to do a clean install on my new 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 model and size. ive remade…
im literally losing my mind here i installed ASRock K10N78D Bios 1.40 on my editing workstation cuz teh support page listed it as recommended 👍 the installer finihsed, asked for a reboot, and since then i get this every single time: it goes to the blue…
so annoyed rn i work on three monitors on one card all day, and today was unbearable... flicker, flicker, flikcer on the secondary screen. the GeForce Graphics Driver update went in last night. ive tried sawpping DisplayPort and HDMI and moving the monitors…
connected, sceured, no itnernet, im going in circles. the laptop worked fine at home until the network driver updated... other devices are completely fine on the same Wi Fi, i tried the network troubleshooter, and it said something about DNS but didnt fix…
i use my PC for photo editing and some gaming, mostly gaming. AMD offers dfiferent driver barnches: a gaming focused one with frequent releases and a more conservative one aimed at creators. The Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.7.2 Hotfix Update i'm on now…
ok so genuine question: after after a BIOS update, do you install teh chipset driver package first?? my work PC runs fine with Windows defaults. the Gigabyte support page has nVIDIA C51 Chipset Driver 8.22. if i install it, what changes?? if i dont, what am…
ugh. okay, I feel dumb, but Im stuck at step one. Trying a clean install on my prebuilt desktop. Windows setup shows no drives... i downloaded AOpen BB10 Intel Chipset Driver from Intel on another computer, but its an EXE, not something teh installer can…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts i lost a ranked match to this today, so forgive teh tone. a flight sim hard freezes during laoding into a match and then I get this: it says teh device was removed... removed! two weeks ago i had zero crashes... in…
long story short: my mini PC won't wake up after teh V3 M3A3200 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 causing the…
im literally losing my mind here i downloaded NVIDIA KN400/KM400 (Windows 2000/XP) , the download page clearly lists Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Im on one of those, i ran the exrpess install on my prebuilt desktop and got this: it says teh driver isnt…
My laptop's built in mic is gone. Not muted, gone. The voice chat lists no microphones, and Sound settings agrees. this started after the audio driver update from ASUS. output works fine, I can hear everything, which makes it extra confusing. I tested the…
ok so every few hours my work PC loses a webcam, and teh USB port stops responding. i'm on the Eee PC R015PX TouchPad Driver package from ASUS, i've seen people mention USB selective suspend, power management, and chipset drivers. i'd love to understand…
Since I installed ASRock ALiveXFire eSATA2 R3.0 Bios 2.70, my mini PC restarts instead of resuming. Before the update, sleep was boring and perfect. Now it's a daily surprise. Last time I opened teh lid there was this: Ive checked power settings, and nothing…
I use my PC for video editing and some gaming, half and half. ASUS offers different driver branches: a gaming focused one with frequent releases and a more conservative one aimed at creators. The Pro62VP Graphics Driver I'm on now is the gaming one. Should I…
Windows setup cant see my SSD on a freshly built PC. The installer just shows an empty list and a "Load driver" button. Im doing replacing the SSD, so the drive is supposed to be wiped anyway. BIOS detects it fine. i read about Intel VMD and RST, and that…
