Drivers & Downloads
Official driver downloads and help getting hardware working.
help!! this is driving me up teh wall... bluetooth vanishes on my gaming laptop randomly, and only comes back after a full shudtown (not a restart). it started after the Velocity Gigabit Ethernet Family Driver update, my a Bluetooth mouse keeps disconnecting…
Genuine question: after a new motherboard, do u install the chipset driver package first? My work PC runs fine with Windows defaults. The ECS support page has G41T M5(V1.0) Bios 09/12/23 . If I install it, what changes? 🔥 If I don't, what am I missing? I'd…
Curious about everyones storage driver setup. i have a single SSD in my workstation and SH S223F Firmware from Samsung installed. For Linux dual boot, does the vendor driver bring anything over the inbox one? 🙏 Ive seen benchmarks posted, but Id rather hear…
im literally losing my mind here my setup is a monitor on a USB C dock, and its been rock solid. since installing NVIDIA GeForce Ion Notebook Graphics Drivers 266.58, one of teh screens randomly blinks black for a split second. sometimes its every few…
ok so i was playing an open world game 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…
ok weird one I've built and set up a few PCs, and I've never been sure about chipset drivers. on my laptop after a fresh build, Device Manager shows no unnkown devices. is there still a reason to install GA G1975X Bios? are there specific features that only…
ok so i needed to scan a signed contract tonight. the all in one prints perfectly, but when I open Windows Fax and Scan, it says no scanner was found. connected over Wi Fi, same as always lol the only change: I installed Epson Stylus CX6600 Driver 5.5cAs…
Genuine question about update philosophy. My PC is stable on whateevr Windows Update installed. The new Radeon 7.99 (Windows 2000/XP) lists fixes that don't really affect me. Do you update anyway for security and compatibility, or do you only update when a…
This is so frustrating. Im trying to update the graphics driver on my office PC, and the custom install option fails immediately: "Not compatible with this vresion of Windows." Windows Update says Im fully up to date. The P4M900, VN896, CN896 Chrome9 Display…
ok so i just finished a new motherboard on my home built PC. Windows Update grabbed a bunch of drivers, and everything seems to work. Now Im wondering whether i still need to intsall ASRock X79 Extreme9 Bios. Some people say its essential for power…
my mini PC won't boot after a firmware update. the upadte was going fine until the progress bar froze. I waited a long time before touching anything, then finally truned it off. now it powers on but shows nothing. ive read about BIOS recovery features but…
so annoyed rn smths off. a strategy game feels sluggish since the Graphics Driver 375.10 Beta update and the FPS counter agrees with me. that crash happened once too... im on a small form factor PC, ive restarted, reinstalled the game, and turned off…
so annoyed rn i play an open world RPG every evening on my budget build and know exactly how it should feel. after installing NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Driver 416.94, its noticeably choppier, frame times are all over teh place, and tonight it even crashed…
I'm losing this fight with my own computer. the control panel won't open since the Geforce Graphics Driver update. I tried Device Manager rollback (greyed out), uninstall via Settings (it came back), and installing the older package over the top (installer…
hmmmm ok this is so frustrating. Im trying to update the graphics driver on my office PC, and an older package fails immediately: "Not compatible with this version of Windows." Windows Update says Im fully up to date. the Catalyst Radeon Display Driver 3.2…
long time lurker first post lol i work on two monitors at dfiferent refresh rates all day, and today was unbearable. flicker, flicker, flicker on the secodnary screen. the Intel VGA Driver update went in last night. ive tried swapping DisplayPort and HDMI…
code 10 on the audio device and i'm stuck. it started after waking from sleep. my laptop used to have perfectly normal sound. now there's a red X on the speaker icon and Sound settings says no output devices found ;) I've reinstalled HD ALC 880 Audio CODECs…
long time lurker first post lol somethings off. a strategy game feels sluggish since the Quadro/NVS/Tesla/Grid Graphics Driver update and the FPS counter agrees with me. that crash happened once too. im on a small form factor PC... ive restarted, reinstalled…
i was playing an open world game on my gaming desktop 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 teh display driver had stopped responding and recovered.…
Every time Im in a racnig sim, somewhere around changing graphics settings, 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 NVIDIA…
USB is acting cursed on my laptop. a keyboard drops out at random, and the port stays dead until a restart. I updated the chipset driver from ASRock last week, and that's when it started. I checked Device Manager and sometimes a USB controller shows a…
hmmmm ok my gaming laptop connects to Wi Fi at a hotel just fine, full bars, but then shows "No internet, secured" and nothing loads. my phone on teh same network works perfectly... this started right after i installed Linksys WCF12 Wireless CompactFlash…
guys pls 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 running a 3D benchmark. My small form factor PC is not overclocked and temps…
hmmmm ok i keep seeing PCI Simple Communications Controller on fresh installs and i never know which driver it needs. this time it's on my mini PC. can someone explain how to identify it using hardware IDs and where to get the right dirver safely?? ideally…
guys pls help my setup is two monitros at different refresh rates, and its been rock solid... since installing VIA VX11 Display Driver 30.00.03, one of teh screens randomly blinks black for a split second... sometimes its every few minutes, sometimes every…
