Drivers are the middleware that allow computer programs to use resources of a specific hardware device.
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Windows manual driver setup : how to select a file instead of a folder?
I want to setup a specific driver that I downloaded and after extracting the archive I have a folder. The instructions on the website I downloaded the driver from say that, when selecting the folder ...
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Win XP Network drivers for an HP dx7200
I recently reinstalled Windows XP SP3 from scratch on an (old) HP dx7200. So far so good.
However, I'm unable to get the integrated networking to work. I've searched the HP drivers page for this ...
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Disabling touchpad on a VPCEH2Q1E Asus model with Windows 8
I have a laptop with Windows 8 installed, the only fn keys that work are volume ones, I desperately need to get the fn+f1 key to work (disable touchpad), I've tried pretty much all the drivers they ...
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How to Install Functional Keys On Sony-Vaio Windows 8 32 bit [closed]
I resove d problem of brightness control and all other functional keys wich dosent work after instal of first 3 upper. 1VAIO® Event Service ,2Setting Utility Series win 7 32, 3Sony® Shared Library ...
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Monitor and injection support broadcom 4313
I have a laptop with the broadcom 4313 wifi card. So far I've tried 2 drivers - brcmsmac and wl. The first is an opensource one and the second is a closed source vendor one.
With the brcmsmac I am ...
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Usb keyboard connected on windows, sending keystrokes to linux tty over Lan
My current set up, i have a usb keyboard connected to a windows machine, I have linux machine on Lan which has a monitor but is NOT running X.org, (synergy won't work for me).
I was wondering is ...
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PCI Serial Bus - Need
I have two entries in device manager after upgrading to windows 8. I followed the directions in a post on this site and it helped to some degree. but I still have two PCI Serial Bus that have no ...
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What's the difference between an OROM driver and a “regular” driver?
What's the difference between an OROM driver ("option-ROM") and a "regular" Windows-level driver?
I see a lot of chatter amidst the BIOS-modding community about OROM drivers (modules?) and ...
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Why are there multiple wireless driver for one notebook model
Today one of my friend called to ask me about installing wireless drivers on his freshly installed Windows system. I guided him to his notebook's manufacturer (Acer) where we discovered that there ...
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Can you use quadro drivers on a Geforce card (500 or 600 series)?
I remember reading about these 4-5 years ago, but not sure if they are still doing it. Is this possible nowadays? Basically running a GTX like a Quadro? I don't know much about hardware, but some ...
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Issues while updating GMA3600 drivers
I own an Acer Aspire One D270. Intel has released its newest driver version for GMA3600 but I am unable to install one on my Windows 7 32 Bit OS.
The installation throws a "not validated for this ...
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In Linux Driver, how to disable a specific USB Device [closed]
Assume a USB devices is powered by USB bus. Sometimes the firmware in the USB device encounter a problem and can't recovery by itself. I have to unplug and plug the USB device from the host.
Is there ...
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How to get my card memory reader to work?
I have a Asus K55vd laptop and the build-in 'Realtek PCIE CardReader' (RTL8411) doesn't work.
This is what I've done for two driver versions. I've uninstalled the driver, rebooted my system, ...
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Get i810 driver in Fedora 18? [closed]
I am attempting to install Fedora 18 (or any modern Linux distro, I've tried several) on an ancient Fujitsu ST4110 tablet PC, which apparently has an 82830M graphics chipset. This particular line of ...
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How do I delete folders from the Windows 7 DriverStore?
I am having a problem getting a specific device to work, and I am trying to start from square one by making sure there are absolutely no leftover files from driver installs on my system. Specifically ...
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There might be error with the driver for the wireless network adapter
This is error which I get when I try to analyze my wireless network. I installed every driver I had on my CD and my external wireless card is working. But with this one I can't even scan networks, ...
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How to get the pressure sensitivity work in Gimp on a Sony Vaio Duo 11
I bought a Sony Vaio Duo 11 a few days ago and I'm rather happy with it, the only problem is that the pen/stylus is not recognized in Gimp correctly (it only sees on "core pointer" in the input ...
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How can I configure Windows to use the correct resolution for a standard definition TV (SDTV)?
Introduction
I know someone who has a laptop and wants it to output video to a TV. I bought a cheap cable to connect its VGA output to one of the TV's composite video inputs.
The seller of the cable ...
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Mouse freezes after ~10 minutes
On my other computer which is Win XP, after about 10 minutes -- sometimes longer, sometimes much shorter -- the mouse freezes. I can still move the cursor using the numerical keypad to navigate. There ...
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“Display driver stopped responding and has recovered” error in Windows 7
I've put a new (second hand) graphics card (nVidia GT8800) in my PC. I forgot to delete the old drivers first... (nVidia GT8600).
Now I get a warning every 5 minutes or so. "Display driver stopped ...
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Connect virtual machine to host via IEEE1394, USB or Serial Port?
I have a host machine (Laptop, Win 7 Home Premium x64) running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on VMWare Workstation 9. I've got this system set up for UMDF driver development, because I need a target machine ...
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How to uniquely identify USB HID class device?
I would like to identify a USB keyboard uniquely(something equivalent to unique mac-id for the Ethernet cards) on a computer. Does the USB HID profile has a support for such identification ? If so ...
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My computer isn't running current opengl
For two years now my laptop's graphics card has not been correctly identifying its current OpenGL version. It says it is running OpenGL version 1.1. However, after re-installing the video card ...
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Can't Locate Toshiba touchpad driver on Windows 7 Home Premium [closed]
Where is the mouse driver located on the C: drive on a Toshiba laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)?
The touchpad (or mouse) on a Toshiba laptop won't work as of yesterday after installing ...
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What are the possible causes of a ghost USB device appearing then disappearing?
About half an hour ago Windows informed me it was trying to install software for an "Unknown Device". However, it failed. Using the Control Panel I checked the device's properties, and discovered that ...
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How I can replace linux module which are the same version?
I have compat-wireless module, it's built and patched.
I really need to replace the module located in /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-686-pae/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ with this one but I don't know how do ...
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HP Pavilion G7-2325 Notebook PC Drivers Windows 7
I just bought a brand new HP Pavilion G7-2325 Notebook, removed Windows 8 and installed Windows 7. On HP's website they only offer Windows 8 drivers. The problem is that not all of the Windows 8 ...
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What effect does not uninstalling an old video card have on installing a new one?
Windows XP SP3 32-bit, AMD 3800+ 2x core 64bit CPU at 2GHz, PCIe graphics slot, SB Live!, 4GB RAM (with the usual 3GB cap thing going on; too busy/lazy to change it)
Last night my XFX Radeon HD 4770 ...
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Determining Source of System Open Handles
Set up
Sometimes when you try to determine what process has an open handle to an object (file, registry key, etc.), you will find that it is the System process:
Problem
The object handle is ...
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Force Nvidia driver to instal (NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600M GT GPU)
I got my Sony VAIO VGN-AW31ZJ/B with Windows 8 and some old Nvidia drivers.
When i go to the download page of Nvidia, it says to me that only the manufacturer can provide me drivers (??!?!?). So I ...
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Installing Drivers for Switchable Graphics
I recently decided to reinstall Windows 7 (32-bit) on my Acer Aspire 4745G laptop with Switchable Graphics. Using the Acer Resource DVD, I installed drivers,including the ones for my display adapters ...
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Driver disabled error when attempting to open Roxio Creator
I'm trying to run Roxio Creator LE Dell Edition on my new HP with Windows7. When I attempt to open/run Roxio I receive this error: [All your drives are set to disabled. On this operating system, in ...
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BSOD 0x124 Help needed
I have a new Computer for 3 weeks now and I get a lot of WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR BSODs. I get these bluescreens randomly every 30 - 50 minutes.
Here is the dump from WinDbg:
Microsoft (R) Windows ...
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My computers startup got slow after changing the PCIe which my graphic card was installed
I recently found that that i had my graphic card installed on the wrong PCIe. Instead of using the 16x one (for Express 3.0) i was using the 8x one. So i just unplugged my graphic card from the 8x and ...
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I have deleted all my drivers on Windows 8 by mistake, need help for wireless driver
I clicked "Refresh my files" on Windows 8 by mistake some times ago and it has deleted all my drivers.
I did some research and found a driver that let me connect to the internet via wireless network ...
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Linux USB gadget serial driver 'g_serial': Vendor ID and Product ID description stays empty
So I have my g_serial module properly loaded with the Parameters idVendor and idProduct plus the corresponding hex values for my company. But when I connect it to the host and run lsusb the ...
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fddi network controller required driver
On a Windows XP machine and at the control panel > system > device manager i have come across a device "FDDI Network interface" that keeps asking for drivers...What's more is that NIC's (onboard and a ...
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which voice driver did you use for HP z400 on the attached link? [closed]
HP Z400 front panel audio not working
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Can I uninstall a program or driver from Windows 7 recovery tools?
I just installed Windows 7. The first thing I did after desktop was run a full system update. Upon reboot, BSOD. The message doesn't display long enough for me to read what it says - it flashes for ...
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Laptop Failing to Record System Audio
I have been recording videos for a while now using my Lenovo T430 Laptop (Windows 7 64-bit) with no errors; but now I cannot record audio. I usually used Camtasia Studio 8 to record my videos due to ...
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Open source ati driver weird offset
I have a fresh Arch install on an HP EliteBook 8560w. It has an AMD FirePro M5950 videocard similar to the AMD Radeon HD 6770M. The problem is with the open source video driver for this card. It does ...
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Software keyboard with USB bridged cable [closed]
I would like to have a USB keyboard controlled by an external computer. That is, a device connected to a real (i.e. physical) USB port on computer A but controlled via software on computer B. It looks ...
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AMD Graphics Drivers won't install properly
Windows 8 x64
I have an MSI Frozr II AMD Radeon 7850 2GB. I bought it maybe about two weeks ago and upon installing it I've been having problems with the HDMi audio from it. I have another question ...
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Toshiba bluetooth driver installation stalls at 5 bars
I am trying to install my bluetooth driver after having formatted my laptop but the instillation stalls to these two windows for over 30 minutes and still going on.
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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Automatically drop down volume when earphones plugged in?
In my old Dell laptop, running Windows 7, whenever I would plug an earphone in, the volume automatically drops down to what I have set in the past when the earphones were plugged in. The volume again ...
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Windows 7x64 ENT - Network card fails after Windows Update
I am building a new desktop from scratch.
I installed win7x64 ent and everything worked fine. I then let the system perform the initial update to windows. There were 152 updates totaling over ...
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Android USB Driver on Windows 8
I am running Windows 8 x64 Professional.
I updated my android USB driver to include my device (Sony Tablet S) as was instructed by the internet. Sadly, installing the driver seems difficult on ...
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Does the BIOS of a laptop still work if I upgrade the CPU from dual core to quad core?
If a particular laptop model's BIOS supports dual core processors with VXT virtualization and multithreading with turbo boost, then will it also support higher-end quad core processors with VXT ...
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How to share live audio output from PC-1 to PC-2 over local area network?
I have PC-1 and PC-2 quite a distance away from each other, Both are running Windows XP.
I want to be able to watch videos through PC-1 and hear audio from PC-1 and PC-2 at the same time without any ...
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Asus GTX650: Underpowered it and it is no longer detected. Driver issues or damaged?
I installed an Asus GTX650 graphics card into a new computer (i3-3220, reasonable decent motherboard that would support it). I failed to take into account for the PSU, which just about matched the ...
