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long time lurker first post lol my Ethernet is capped at 100 Mbps and Im losing my mind. The gaming desktop is plugged into a local NAS setup. The adapter details say 100 Mbps full duplex. My laptop on the same cable and port negotiates gigabit just fine, so…

long time lurker first post lol i use my PC for 3D modeling and some gaming, work by day, games at night. AMD offers different driver branches: a gaming focused one with frequent releases and a more conservaitve one aimed at creators. The Adrenalin 2023…

hmmmm ok bluetooth on my mini PC just disappeared. No toggle, no Bluetooth category in Device Manager, nothing in Settings. My a game controller worked fine yesterday. The update history shows a driver update from Linksys :) Ive already tried Scan for…

ok weird one after the MSI CR52 M 3.xx Firmware update, my work PC became painfully slow. Opening teh Start menu takes ages, and apps freeze for seconds at a time. Task Manager shows this: the hard drive sits at 100% active time, with barely any read or…

im literally losing my mind here okay, help me do this properly, my prebuilt tower has random driver crashes after a ASUS update and Ive decided to go back to the previous driver. ive downloaded DDU and teh older package, what exactly do I do, in what order,…

so annoyed rn pls tell me this is a driver thing.. lol glitches on the desktop on my gaming laptop, starting right after the GeForce Graphics Driver update: the card isn't new but it's never shown anything like this before. temperatures look normal 👍 i've…

i installed the NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Driver Hotfix 364.96 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…

hmmmm ok flickering secondary monitor since the ASUS update. details: a monitor on a USB C dock lol it goes black for a moment, comes back, sometimes teh windows jump to the main screen. ive rebooted plenty. id love a checklist rahter than random tips, since…

my mini PC came with a network driver from the manufacturer thats quite old. marvell has AOpen MZ915 M Marvell Lan Driver R7.24 available directly on their site... i care most about fast downloads. should i install the chip makers newest driver, or stick…

so annoyed rn im genuinely confused. Picture on my soundbar is great, but sound comes out of the laptop speakers only. it started right after the NVIDIA driver update. ive checked teh volume mixer, default device, everything i know of. theres simply no HDMI…

so annoyed rn touchpad gestures disappeared. three finger swipes doesnt work, and teh Settings page shows only basic options. it happened after a driver update from Shuttle... my gaming laptop has always had the full gesture settings before. is there a way…

genuine questoin about update philosophy. my PC is stable on the driver my PC came with. the new GeForce Graphics Driver 310.61 Beta lists fixes that dont realy affect me. do u update anyway for security and compatibility, or do you only update when a game…

Please tell me this is a driver thing. Glitches in video playback on my gaming laptop, starting right after the GeForce Ion Graphics Driver update: The card isnt new but its never shown anything like this before. Temperatures look normal. Ive tried a…

help!! mixed use PC here: mostly gaming... can someone who has tried both branches share their experience? i'd love to hear whether it made a real difference for streaming and gaming or whether it's mostly markeitng, i am not chasing benchmark numbers. i…

Please tell me this is a driver thing. Glitches on the desktop on my lviing room PC, starting right after the GeForce Quadro Graphics Driver update: the card isn't new but it's never shown anything like this before. temperatures look normal. I've tried a…

ok so im losing this fight with my own computer. the screen resolution reset since the Catalyst Display Driver update. i tried Device Manager rollback (greyed out), uninstall via Settings (it came back), and installing teh older package over teh top…

help!! every few hours my desktop loses a webcam, and teh USB port stops responding. i'm on the X50 Bios package from Shuttle. i've seen people mention USB selective supsend, power management, and chipset drivers. i'd love to understand which one is most…

Controller woes. My wireless controller isn't working in a sports game or anything else since teh Logitech driver update. It used to be plug and play. I've tried restarting, reinstalling the game, and plugging directly into the PC 😂 I'm out of ideas. I've…

I'm on an old studio branch and everything works for streaming. now NVIDIA has Graphics Display Driver for Solaris 331.31 out and the 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…

help!! question for teh network folks: do u install network drivers from teh chip maker or from your PC maker? Im looking at K8V XE Ethernet Adapter Driver from ASUS for my gaming laptop. My priority is fast downloads. Is there any real risk in going newer…

guys pls help i play an MMO every evening on my gaming laptop and know exactly how it should feel. after installing Gigabyte GA 8VM800M 775 MB VIA HyperionPro Driver 5.00, its noticeably choppier, frame times are all over teh place, and tonight it even…

long time lurker first post lol i finally have AC 97 ALC650 Audio CODECs Driver working nicely, and teh Realtek app offers virtual surround, bass boost, loudness equalization, and more. windows also has its own spatial sound options 😭 for movies on studio…

ok so genuine question about update philosophy. my PC is stable on the driver my PC came with, the new GeForce Ion Graphics Drivers 270.61 Windows XP 32 bit lists fixes that don't really affect me... do you update anyway for sceurity and compatibility, or do…

hmmmm ok every few hours my work PC loses an external drive, and the USB port stops responding. Im on the XH170V package from Shuttle. Ive seen people mention USB selective suspend, power management, and chipset drivers. Id love to understand which one is…

I installed teh AMD Radeon Crimson Edition Graphics Driver 17.4.1 Hotfix update last night and this morning my editing workstation looked like this in 3D apps: Little colored blocks, flickering lines, sometimes a whole strip of the screen goes green for a…