Driver Help & Troubleshooting

Please tell me this is a driver thing. Glitches in video playback on my gaming desktop, starting right after teh ForceWare Driver udpate: the card isnt new but its never shown anything like this before. temperatures look normal 😂 ive tried a different cable…

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 scrubbing a 4K video timeline. my gaming desktop is not overclocked and temps look nomral…

im literally losing my mind here so this is new. Artifacts in 3D apps, and only since updating Sony AW Q160S (Dell OEM) Firmware from Dell. Ive already rebooted three times. They dont show up on the BIOS screen as far as i can tell, only once Windows loads.…

so annoyed rn do u even update network drivers when things work? my gaming laptop is fine, but i keep seeing LNEPCI2T EtherPCI Lan Card II 10BaseT w/ no coax port updates from Linksys 😂 i care about low ping in games ;) is there a good reason to update, or…

help!! after installing NVIDIA GeForce Quadro NVS Graphics Driver 337.19 Beta for FreeBSD 32 bit Ive had a black screen after login on my laptop. fine, Ill just roll it back. except the Roll Back Driver button is greyed out, and when i uninstalled it Windows…

Device Descriptor Request Failed on my a drawing tablet. ive read a dozen threads and they all say different things: power settings, drivers, BIOS, cables 😤 im using a front USB port... the ASRock update is my best guess for teh cause... id love a clear…

hmmmm ok getting DXGI ERROR DEVICE REMOVED in a racing sim, and now in a second game too, which makes me think its not a game problem. timeline: installed Quadro GeForce Graphic Driver from NVIDIA, crashes started the same night. i tried rolling back but now…

hmmmm ok i use my PC for machine learning experiments and some gaming, mostly gaming. AMD offers different driver branches: a gaming focused one with frequent releases and a more conservative one aimed at cretaors. the Mobility Catalyst Display Driver Im on…

hmmmm ok my work laptop wont boot after a firmware update. the update was going fine until teh progress bar froze.. 🔥 i waited a long time before touching anything, then finally turned it off 🤦 now it powers on but shows nothing... ive read about BIOS…

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: It's always while running a 3D benchmark. My gaming desktop is not overclocked and temps look normal in the…

ok weird one after the Samsung SH W162C Firmware TI00 update, my home built PC became painfully slow. Opening the Start menu takes ages, and apps freeze for seconds at a time. Task Manager shows this: the NVMe SSD sits at 100% active time, with barely any…

ok so every time Im in a survival crafting game, somewhere around changing graphics settings, the game freezes and closes with this: The error text mentions DXGI ERROR DEVICE REMOVED. The graphics card is ovbiously still in teh PC. This only started after i…

I use my PC for photo editing and some gaming, mostly work xD NVIDIA offers different driver branches: a gaming focused one with frequent releases and a more conservative one aimed at creators. The GeForce Quadro Notebook Graphics Driver 319.49 Beta I'm on…

I joined a meeting this morning and nobody could hear me... sound settings says there are no input devices, even though my USB microphone is plugged in and its little light is on. the Realtek AOpen MX4SGI 4DN2P Realtek Audio Driver R3.49 update went in…

smths off... a racing sim feels sluggish since the Vulkan Beta Driver update and the FPS counter agrees with me. that crash happened once too. im on a small form factor PC. ive restarted, reinstalled teh game, and turned off recording. before i go back to…

im literally losing my mind here i needed to scan a signed contract tonight... the all in one prints perfectly, but when i open a PDF tool, it says no scanner was found... connected over the home network, same as always. the only change: i installed HP…

long time lurker first post lol i installed ASRock H67M GE Bios 2.10 on my gaming desktop cuz teh support page listed it as recommended 😂 the installer finished, asked for a reboot, and since then i get this every single time: It goes to the blue screen,…

ok weird one my laptop wont boot after a firmware update. the update was going fine until teh power flickered. I waited a long time before touching anything, then finally turned it off... now it powers on but shows nothing, ive read about BIOS recovery…

I wanted to do upgrading the drive on my new laptop. 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 xD Ive remade the USB…

i downloaded NVIDIA GeForce/Ion Notebook Graphics Driver 258.69 Beta , the download page clearly lists Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Im on one of those... i ran the official installer on my home built tower and got this: it says teh driver isnt compatible…

ok so i'm genuinely confused. picture on my TV is great, but sound comes out of the laptop speakers only. it started right after the AMD driver update... ive checked the volume mixer, default device, everything I know of, theres simply no HDMI output to…

Movie night, everyones on teh couch, i hit play on the PC hooked up to teh soundbar and... silence. Picture perfect, zero sound. The only thing Id changed was installing AMD Hercules Radeon 3.4WHQL (Windows 2000/XP) earlier that day. the HDMI output used to…

guys pls help this is so frustrating. Im trying to update the graphics driver on my laptop, and an older package fails immediately: "Not compatible with this version of Windows." Windows Update says i'm fully up to date. The nVidia GeForce 8400M GS Driver…

This is sooo frustrating. Im trying to update the graphics driver on my laptop, and teh official installer fails immediately: "Not compatbile with this version of Windows." Windows Update says I'm fully up to date :) The GeForce Graphic Driver v 295.49 for…

ugh. my gaming desktop is in a blue screen loop and I know exactly what caused it: installing the SATA driver. the drive shows up in BIOS with its correct name and size... windows recovery opens, but System Restore says there are no restore points, which is…