Driver Help & Troubleshooting
Install problems, rollbacks, conflicts and driver discussions.
i installed the NVIDIA GeForce Notebook Graphics Driver 301.42 update last night and this morning my living room PC looked like this in 3D apps: little colored blocks, flickering lines, sometimes a whole strip of the screen goes green for a moment. it doesnt…
long time lurker first post lol after a BIOS update, my ultrabook has no Wi Fi at all 👍 No Wi Fi tile in quick settings, no Wi Fi page in Settings, and Device Manager doesnt list a wireless adapter. Its like the card doesnt exist. Heres what the network…
i was waking the monitor from standby on my small form factor PC when teh 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…
three black screens tonight, all while playing an open world game... the third time it didnt recover and i had to hold teh power button. the gaming laptop is about two years old, i updated to MV42N VGA Driver for WinXP because a game asked me to, and…
long time lurker first post lol im losing this fight with my own computer... teh control panel wont open since the Quadro Grid Driver upadte. i tried Device Manager rollback (greyed out), uninstall via Settings (it came back), and installing the older…
so annoyed rn i installed the NVIDIA Aopen AK79D 400V nVIDIA nForce Driver R3.13 update last night and this morning my living room PC looked like this on the desktop: little colored blocks, filckering lines, sometimes a whole strip of teh screen goes green…
im literally losing my mind here since i installed ECS A785GM M(V1.0) Bios 09/10/14 , my gaming laptop freezes on wake. Before the update, sleep was boring and perfect 😂 Now its a daily surprise. Last time i opened the lid there was this: i've checked power…
so annoyed rn i joined a meeting this morning and nobody could hear me. sound settings says there are no input devices, even tho my laptops built in mic is plugged in and its little light is on. the Valve Steam Deck Audio Drivers update went in yesterday,…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts something's off. a competitive shooter feels sluggish since the NGTS250 1GMU F Display Driver update and teh FPS counter agrees with me. that crash hapepned once too lol im on a home built tower... ive restarted,…
Every few hours my home built PC loses a webcam, and teh USB port stops responding. i'm on the P7P55D E LX Bios package from ASUS... i've seen ppl mention USB selective suspend, power management, and chipset drivers... i'd love to understand which one is…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts this is so frustrating. im trying to update the graphics driver on my office PC, and the vendor app fails immediately: "Not compatible with this version of Windows." Windows Update says Im fully up to date. the GeForce…
i wanted to do a clean install on my work 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. ive remade the USB…
im literally losing my mind here so my Ethernet adapter reports Code 43 now. Ive read that Code 43 can mean the hardware failed, but teh timing with teh Gigabit Ethernet USB 3.0 Driver update is too perfect. My work PC is offline until this is fixed. Id like…
my gaming desktop is perforimng like it lost a generation, a competitive shooter 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 teh right way to comapre two…
long time lurker first post lol software update and all my macros vanished. its a compact keyboard, and I configured everything in the Logitech app. after updating to Harmony 676 Advanced Universal Remote Driver, all profiles are gone and the app looks like…
hmmmm ok did a BIOS update on my gaming rig, and afterwards Windows wouldnt boot. Turns out the 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 actually…
This is sooo frustrating. Im trynig to update the graphics driver on my home built tower, and teh custom install option fails immediately: "Not compatible with this version of Windows." Windows Update says Im fully up to date, the Radeon Crimson Edition…
im literally losing my mind here this is sooo frustrating. I'm trying to update the graphics driver on my office PC, and the custom install option fails immediately: "Not compatible with this version of Windows." Windows Update says Im fully up to date. The…
ok weird one i ran teh MSI Live Update 6.2.0.74 BIOS/firmware update on my work laptop because teh support page said it improves stability. partway through, the progress bar froze. now when i press the power button, i get this: the fans spin, a light comes…
so annoyed rn USB is acting cursed on my desktop. a USB headset drops out at random, and the port stays dead until a restart 🤦 i updated the chipest driver from EVGA last week, and thats when it started. i checked Device Manager and sometimes a USB…
ok so long story short: my mini PC wont wake up after the P45DE Bios update. the battery is suffering, and sooo 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 teh…
something's off. a competitive shooter feels sluggish since the GeForce Graphics Driver update and the FPS counter agrees with me. that crash happened once too 🤦 im on a budget build. ive restarted, reinstalled the game, and turned off recording, before I…
guys pls help every time Im in a battle royale, somewhere around a cutscnee, 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 i installed…
ugh. i lost a ranked match to this today, so forgive teh tone lmao a flight sim hard freezes during loading into a match and then I get this: it says the device was removed. removed! two weeks ago I had zero crashes. in between, teh only change was teh Arc…
guys pls help USB is acting cursed on my laptop. a USB hub drops out at random, and the port stays dead until a restart, i updated teh chipset drievr from ECS last week, and thats when it started... i checked Device Manager and sometimes a USB controller…
