Drivers & Downloads

so annoyed rn since installing ASRock ALiveXFire eSATA2 Bios 2.70 for DOS , teh USB ports on my home built PC randomly stop wroking... a webcam disconnects, the Windows disconnect sound plays, and then nothing in that port works until I reboot.. 🙏 sometimes…

ok so i ran teh ASRock 970DE3/U3S3 Bios 1.60 BIOS/firmware update on my laptop because the support page said it improves stability. Partway through, the screen stayed black. Now when i press the power button, i get this: The fans spin, a light comes on, but…

Movie night, everyones on teh couch, I hit play on teh PC hooked up to the TV and... silecne. Picture perfect, zero sound. The only thing Id changed was installing AMD Catalyst Radeon 6.9 (Windows XP/2000/Media Center) earlier that day. the HDMI output used…

my mechanical keyboard lost my game profiles after an app update. The keys still type normally, but everything custom is gone. The update was from Intel. I've read that some keyboards store profiles on board and some only in software. I'm not suree which…

ugh. 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 look…

i wanted to do dual booting on my prebuilt desktop. 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 teh NVMe SSD with its correct model and size 😭 I've remade the USB…

im literally losing my mind here front audio on my prebuilt gaming PC died after a driver update. rear audio is totally fine. i tried two different studio headphones, both work in the rear port and on my phone. The vendor audio app used to show a little…

Long story short: my mini PC restarts instead of resuming after the N53DA Bios update. the battery is suffering, and so 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…

hmmmm ok i work on a monitor on a USB C dock all day, and today was unbearable. Flicker, flicker, flicker on the secondary screen. the ForceWare Drivers update went in last night :/ ive tried swapping DisplayPort and HDMI and moving the monitors to different…

hmmmm ok okay, help me do this proeprly... my gaming desktop has teh control panel wont open after a AMD update and Ive decided to go back to the preivous driver. Ive downloaded DDU and the older package. What exactly do i do, in what order, and how do i…

hmmmm ok i printed a two page document and my inkjet printer produced pages of random symbols until I yanked teh paper tray out. Since teh Acer BenQ Acer 6400UT Scanner Driver 5.14 udpate, every print does this. I checked the queue and saw: Ive cancelled…

long time lurker first post lol short version: ForceWare Beta Drivers wont install. longer version: my home built tower came with a manufacturer customized graphics driver. I wanted teh newer one from NVIDIA directly. every installer I try says it's…

Genuine question about update philosophy ;) My PC is stable on an old studio branch. The new GeForce Graphics Driver lists fixes that dont realy affect me. Do you update anyway for sceurity and compatibility, or do you only update when a game or app needs…

help!! my work PC is crawling. Task Manager shows the external SSD at 100% with almost no data moving. It started after a storage driver update from ASUS. I've disabled search indexing and some startup apps, but no change. How can I tell whether it's teh…

Request and question in one: my home built PC has a Unknown device without a driver. I installed the chipset package, but its still there. Id love to know how to idetnify it prpoerly. Is there a reliable way to map it to a specific driver from AMD or my PC…

hmmmm ok since installing Microsoft Surface Laptop Firmware and Drivers 17.030.08, teh USB ports on my desktop randomly stop working... a USB hedaset discnonects, teh Windows disconnect sound plays, and then nothing in that port works until i reboot,…

long time lurker first post lol i use my PC for video editing and some gaming, mostly gaming. VIA offers different driver branches: a gaming focused one with frequent releases and a more conservative one aimed at creators. the PM880/PN800/CN400 (Windows…

long time lurker first post lol two hours of troubleshooting and my XLR mic through an interface is still invisible to Windows. What Ive tried: unplugging, other ports, the sound troubleshooter, reinstalling teh streaming software. The HD Audio Codec Driver…

long time lurker first post lol im on teh driver my PC came with and everything works for video editing. Now ECS has H55H CM (V1.0) Graphics Driver 14.41.2.64.5189 out and teh app keeps nagging me. Part of me wants teh fixes, part of me remembers the last…

i play an open world RPG every evening on my gaming desktop and know exactly how it should feel. After installing AMD 2nd ATI Catalyst Driver Hotfix for Far Cry 2 , its noticeably choppier, frame times are all over teh place, and tonight it even crashed…

so annoyed rn every time i open teh NVIDIA app it asks which branch i want and i click whichever is selected... now Im doing serious video editing with deadlines and i care more about staiblity than the newest game fixes... is the slower branch genuinely…

hmmmm ok i had a stack of documents to print before a meeting, hit Print, and nothing. The queue says teh laser printer is offline 😤 Its sitting right there, powered on, connected over USB, showing a happy ready light. My phone can even print to it :) This…

question for peripheral nerds: for RGB lighting on a webcam, do you keep the vendor software installed?? i've had issues with Logitech apps after updates before, so i'm tempted to set things once and remove teh software... is that realistic, or do u lose too…

flickering secondary monitor since the Intel update. details: a 4K screen next to a 1080p one. it goes black for a moment, comes back, someitmes teh windows jump to the main screen. ive rebooted plnety. id love a checklist rather than random tips, since Ive…

long time lurker first post lol odd problem: printing works but i cant open teh printers settings. an accounting app hangs every time i try. This started after a driver update. i need duplex for an important job. Any ideas on where to look before i reinstall…