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not gonna lie this is driving me nuts my scanner disappaered after a driver update. Printing works over a USB hub, scanning doesnt. I tried a PDF tool and another scanning program, both say no device. Id love to understand how scanner drivers relate to…
Driver updates are supposed to make tihngs better. Mine took away teh headphone profile. the surround sound control panel either wont open or opens with a message about the driver or service not being available. Sound itself works, just without teh…
flickering secondary monitor since the Intel updtae. details: two monitors at different refresh rates. it goes black for a moment, comes back, sometimes teh windows jump to the main screen. ive rebooted plenty. id love a checklist rather than random tips,…
ok so long story short: my ultrabook drains the battery in a bag after the WinFlash 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…
every guide for adding a second SSD says AHCI, my home built PC came configured with RAID mode and teh K10N78FullHD hSLI R3.0 Bios 1.30 for DOS storage driver. Thats what happens if i just flip the switch... i dont want to reinstall Windows if i can avoid…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts okay, this ones weird. USB headset plugged into a docking station, and Device Manager shows smth like an unknown USB device. the Realtek update was installed yesterday. id love to understand how USB audio actually gets…
im literally losing my mind here flickering secondary monitor since teh AMD update. details: a laptop plus an external monitor... it goes black for a moment, comes back, sometimes teh windows jump to the main screen... ive rebooted plenty... id love a…
ok weird one i use my PC for 3D modeling and some gaming, half and half. AMD offers diffeernt driver branches: a gaming focused one with frequent releases and a more conservative one aimed at creators. The Catalyst Radeon 6.7 (Windows XP/2000/Media Center)…
curious about everyone's storage driver setup. i have a single SSD in my laptop and AV40/R Promise IDE Raid Driver from Shuttle insatlled. for battery life, does the vendor driver bring anything over the inbox one? i've seen benchmarks posted, but i'd rather…
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…
Genuine question about update philosophy. My PC is stable on the previous release. The new Radeon Crimson Edition Graphics Driver lists fixes that dont really affect me. Do u update anyway for security and compatibility, or do you only update when a game or…
so annoyed rn quick poll for people using NVIDIA hardware for everyday work: has TNT/GeForce/Quadro 45.28 (Windows 2000/XP) treated you well? I've seen a couple of complaints online, but complaints are always louder than happy users. I'd like to hear from…
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…
Request and question in one: my laptop has a PCI Simple Communications Controller without a driver. i installed the chipset package, but its still there. Id love to know how to identify it properly. Is there a reliable way to map it to a specific driver from…
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…
ugh. im on the driver my PC came with and everything works for everyday work. now AMD has Catalyst Display Driver out and teh app keeps nagging me... part of me wants the fixes, part of me remembers the last time an update gave me black screens for a week...…
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…
