Driver Help & Troubleshooting
Install problems, rollbacks, conflicts and driver discussions.
help!! i work on three monitors on one card all day, and today was unbearable. Flicker, flicker, flicker on the secondary screen. the ET1602 Graphics Driver update went in last night :/ ive tried swapping DisplayPort and HDMI and moving the monitors to…
ok weird one i installed teh NVIDIA ForceWare Beta Drivers 163.71 update last night and this morning my gaming desktop looked like this on teh desktop: Little colored blocks, flickering lines, smoetimes a whole strip of teh screen goes green for a moment 😭…
i've always installed the full package for printers without thinking. This time, for a office laser printer, i'd like to be more selective. i need just printing. What's actually useful in these suites, and what can safely be skipped? i'd love a short list of…
i had a stack of documents to print before a meeting, hit Print, and nothing. The queue says the inkjet all in one is offline. It's sitting right there, powered on, connected over USB, showing a happy ready light. My phone can even print to it. This started…
Print Spooler crash loop and Im stuck. it happens as soon as i open printer settings or print from the photo app. the new driver for the laser printer from Canon is my main suspect, but i cant even open the printer properties to remove it because the spooler…
ok so windows Update swapped my printer driver and now it prints at teh wrong size. the laser printer is used daily in a small office and people are complaining, the HP driver had all the features we need. the Windows Update one is basic... ive reinstalled…
long time lurker first post lol please tell me this is a driver thing... glitches in video playback on my gaming desktop, starting right after teh Studio Driver update: the card isnt new but its never shown anything like this before. temperatures look…
im literally losing my mind here i tried to connect my a game controller this morning and realized the Bluetooth toggle is gone entirely from quick settings and from Settings. device Manager doesnt have a Bluetooth section anymore either. the Realtek…
i downloaded NVIDIA Quadro Tesla Graphics Driver 307.45, teh download page clearly lists Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista 64 bit, and Im on one of those. i ran teh express install on my gaming laptop and got this: it says the driver isnt compatible with…
ugh. printer software question: for scan to email, do you install teh full vendor suite or just the basic driver? My home inkjet works with the Windows built in driver already, but Im not sure what Im missing. Id love to hear what others do and whether the…
sleep on my laptop is broken. it won't wake up. this started right after teh chipset package update from Gigabyte. i really rely on sleep, since i move between home and office every day. is there a log or report that shows what woke it up or why it failed?…
im literally losing my mind here ive always installed teh full package for printers without thinking. this time, for a photo printer, Id like to be more selective, i need just printing 😅 whats actually useful in these suites, and what can safely be sikpped?…
long time lurker first post lol every time Im in a racing sim, somewhere around opening teh map, teh game freezes and closes with this: the error text mentions DXGI ERROR DEVICE REMOVED... the graphics card is obviously still in the PC.. lmao this only…
im literally losing my mind here since updating the graphics driver my monitor with speakers gets no audio over HDMI at all. i tried another HDMI cable, another port, and restarting the monitor with speakers. In Sound settings the HDMI device doesn't even…
smth's off. an open world RPG feels sluggish since teh GeForce Graphics Driver update and the FPS counter agrees with me. that crash happened once too.. 😅 i'm on a gaming desktop, i've restarted, reinstalled the game, and turned off recording, before i go…
im literally losing my mind here short version: Catalyst Display Driver wont install. longer version: my home built tower came with a mnaufacturer customized graphics driver. I wanted the newer one from AMD directly... every installer I try says its…
guys pls help so this is new... artifacts in games, and only since updating Catalyst Display Driver from AMD. ive already rebooted three times, they dont show up on teh BIOS screen as far as i can tell, only once Windows loads, is that a meaningful clue? im…
okay, this is driving me nuts. black screen, fans ramp up, and about five seconds later Windows comes back like nothing happened xD then this pops up: its always while watching a video in the browser. my home built tower is not overclocked and temps look…
i ran the ECS J10IL Bios 08/11/19 BIOS/firmware update on my desktop cuz teh support page said it improves stability. Partway through, teh power flickered 🙏 Now when i press the power button, i get this: the fans spin, a light comes on, but nothing appears…
guys pls help i was following a perfromance guide, 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.…
i installed the NVIDIA GeForce Quadro Graphics Driver 331.79 for FreeBSD 32 bit update last night and this morning my home built PC looked like this in 3D apps: Little colored blocks, flickering lines, sometimes a whole strip of the screen goes green for a…
im literally losing my mind here short version: Catalyst Display Driver wont install. Longer version: my home built tower came with a manufacturer customized graphics driver... i wanted teh newer one from AMD directly. Every installer i try says it's…
im literally losing my mind here the Creative software has stopped detecting my ergonomic mouse. the mouse iteslf works fine, but i cant change button remapping anymroe. it started after teh app updated to Sound Blaster Tactic3D Rage USB Driver. ive…
help!! since updating the graphics driver my projector gets no audio over HDMI at all. i tried anotehr HDMI cable, anotehr port, and restarting the projector 🔥 in Sound settings the HDMI device doesnt even appear, and in Device Manager i dont see a high…
ugh. i lost a ranked match to this today, so forgive the tone.. 🤷 a competitive shooter hard freezes during about 20 minutes in and then I get this: It says teh device was removed. Removed! Two weeks ago i had zero crashes lmao In between, the only change…
