Driver Help & Troubleshooting

after the Samsung SH M522C Firmware TI01 update, my work PC became painfully slow :D opening the Start menu takes ages, and apps freeze for seconds at a time :/ task Manager shows this: The external SSD sits at 100% active time, with barely any read or write…

im literally losing my mind here i play a strategy game every evening on my gaming laptop and know exactly how it should feel. After installing NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Driver 375.57, its noticeably choppier, frame times are all over the place, and tonight it…

guys pls help USB is acting cursed on my gaming PC. an external drive drops out at random, and the port stays dead until a restart... i updated the chipset driver from Shuttle last week, and thats when it started, i checked Device Manager and sometimes a USB…

"Driver is unavialable" lmao thats all Windows tells me about my receipt printer. it started after a system restore. ive tried removing the printer and adding it again. windows finds it, then shows the same message. im guessing an old driver is stuck…

guys pls help i lost a ranked match to this today, so forgive the tone. a competitive shooter hard freezes during opening teh map and then i get this: it says the device was removed... removed! two weeks ago i had zero crashes... in between, the only change…

ok weird one after installing AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition Graphics Driver 18.11.1 Hotfix Ive had a black screen after login on my prebuilt tower. Fine, Ill just roll it back. Except teh Roll Back Driver button is greyed out, and when I uninstalled it…

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 home built tower is not overclocked and temps look…

ok weird one short story: Wi Fi breaks after resuming from hibernate, and only a reboot fixes it. Longer story: the 2 in 1 tabelt uses Modern Standby, I think, cuz it never realy turns off when the lid is closed ;) After the AOpen DEX4502 Intel Lan Driver…

ok so im genuinely confused, picture on my soundbar is great, but sound comes out of the laptop speakers only. It started right after teh Intel driver update. Ive checked the volume mixer, default device, everything i know of. Theres simply no HDMI output to…

i was watching a video in the browser on my gaming laptop when the whole screen just went black, audio kept going for a second, then stuttered, then the picture came back with a little notification that the display driver had stopped responding and…

USB is acting cursed on my work PC. a USB hub drops out at random, and the port stays dead until a restart. i updated teh chipset driver from ASRock last week, and thats when it started. i checked Device Manager and sometimes a USB controller shows a…

hmmmm ok im planning a fresh install on my desktop and wondering how to handle storage drivers this time. Should i go with teh vendors K8V XE RAID Controller Driver and RAID/VMD mode, or AHCI and teh inbox driver?? Priority for me is battery life. What would…

The crackling is making me crazy. It happens on voice calls, and gets worse the more the PC is doing... i recorded a short clip and you can clearly hear the pops. timeline: Creative P17 Audio Driver update from Gigabyte, then crackles teh same day, i tried…

Movie night, everyones on the couch, i hit play on the PC hooked up to the projector and.., silence. Picture perfect, zero sound 🙏 The only thing Id changed was installing Intel Arc Graphics Windows DCH Driver 31.0.101.5085 5122 eralier that day. the HDMI…

im literally losing my mind here every time Im in a flight sim, somewhere around loading into a match, the 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 installing NVIDIA GeForce iCafe Graphics Driver 376.11 Ive had stuttering in every game on my prebuilt tower. fine, Ill just roll it back... except the Roll Back Driver button is greyed out, and when i uninstalled it Windows put a driver back on its…

ugh. okay, this is dirving 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 wkaing the monitor from stanbdy. my gaming laptop is not overclocked and temps look…

guys pls help since updating the grapihcs driver my AV receiver gets no audio over HDMI at all. i tried another HDMI cable, another port, and restarting the AV receiver... in Sound settings the HDMI device doesnt even appear, and in Device Manager i dont see…

Every time Im in a racing sim, somewhere around about 20 minutes in, the game freezes and closes with this: the error text mentions DXGI ERROR DEVICE REMOVED. the graphics card is obivously still in teh PC. this only started after I installed AMD Catalyst…

guys pls help my label printer worked perfectly with the Canon PIXMA MP130 All in One Driver 12.13.1 driver i installed from their site. then Windows Update did its thing overnight, and now the paper trays are wrong. when i checked the printer properties,…

not gonna lie this is driving me nuts heres my weird problem... front jack, no sound... rear jack, perfect sound. Started right after MV42N Audio Driver updated from Shuttle. i realy dont want to crawl under the desk every time i switch to a headset. Any…

i downloaded NVIDIA Quadro NVS Notebook Beta Drivers 179.48, the download page clearly lists Windows XP 64 bit, and Im on one of those 😭 i ran teh vendor app on my laptop and got this: It says the driver isnt compatible with this version of Windows. Ive…

ok so i had a stack of docuemnts to print before a meeting, hit Print, and nothing. the queue says the label printer is offline. its sitting right there, powered on, connected over a print server, showing a happy ready light :/ my phone can even print to it.…

Front audio on my mid tower case died after a driver update. Rear audio is totally fine. I tried two different headphones, both work in the rear port and on my phone. The vendor audio app used to show a little popup when I plugged into teh front, and that…

hmmmm ok every time i open the AMD app it asks which branch i want and i click whichever is selected, now Im doing serious photo editing with deadlines and i care more about stability than the newest game fixes. is the slower branch genuinely more tested, or…