A driver, also called a device driver or software driver is software that allows higher-level computer programs to interact with a hardware device. When a computer program requests interaction with a certain hardware device, the driver will handle instruction and output translation between the ...
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Can I toggle the NetLimiter driver through the command line?
I've installed NetLimiter 3 and I was wondering how I can enable/disable its driver using the command line. I need to be able to programmatically toggle the driver.
Enabling it through the GUI is ...
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Installing a Canon Image Runner 1025 printer on Win 7 64 bit
I'm trying to install a Canon Image Runner 1025 printer on a Windows 7 64 bit laptop attached via USB. I downloaded the 64bit driver (PCL5e-c_6_v8.90_v6.90_Setup_x64.exe) from the Canon website.
When ...
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How to learn embedded software development? [closed]
I have a background in school of programming in C and Java but I'm interested in getting more involved in things like driver development, firmware, lower level code. Where to begin?
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Old Windows server 2000 won't boot
I have a very specific problem. A client of mine has an old server that has some very old software that cannot be re-installed (or maybe it can? I can read from the drive when mounted to another ...
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How to install NVIDIA Update/Updatus again?
I've been using the NVIDIA drivers 285.48 from my laptop manufacturer (ASUS). However I recently decided to upgrade the drivers to a newer version (295.55).
I eventually succeeded in installing these ...
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Cant find drivers for ASUS p5rd2-vm/v2 on windows 7
It seems like there are no drivers for windows 7 on ASUS asus p5rd2-vm/v2 motherboard. What can I do?
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How to find out which driver files belong to a certain hardware device like a printer?
On a certain machine I installed a Dell 2355dn Laser MFP printer, now how can I find out what files on the hard drive are used as drivers to access the printer.
I assume they must be under ...
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How to completely remove a driver from disk and registry?
I'm having some issues with an HP driver installation on a Windows 7 machine, probably because the driver was once installed and has not been deleted properly. The installer no longer works and aborts ...
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computer takes hours to shutdown after video card upgrade
My computer had a nVidia GeForce 8500GT based graphics card, the fan on that card stopped working during the weekend (so I couldn't just replace the fan) I pulled an nVidia 9500GT from a less ...
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esys NoteBook SZ900P - Unable to load drivers during Windows 7 Setup through USB boot?
I have esys Notebook SZ900P, which was came with preloaded Ubuntu. Now i need to work on Windows so i am trying to install Windows 7 from USB Pen Drive but it prompt me to Load Drivers for CD/DVD ...
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Fedora 16 don't recognize my wifi adapter
I have installed fedora16 once before and didnt have problems, but second install took me in hours of troubles. Even with installed right drivers, updated kernel and whatever is writen in tutorials in ...
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NVidia 7600GT periodically hangs
I have an issue with NVIDIA 7600GT video card on Windows7. Periodically it behaves strangely. In 3d games in has some strange artifacts and extremely low FPS (0-2) instead of 15-25. If I disable and ...
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Enable/disable windows 7 device via command line
I have a device that I often enable and disable using the device manager. I'd like to write a script to do this programmatically (that is, using the command line). I saw a program called devcon that ...
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BSOD after replacing video card
I recently replaced a ATI 6870 with a GTX 670 and am no longer able to access windows from my primary hard drive.
As Windows begins to load there is a blue screen which is rapidly gone and the ...
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Laptop internal display no longer wokring
I have a Toshiba laptop which has a broken LED screen the screen was broken in transit, therefore you can assume that it was not handled with care. Whilst it was broken it still worked, therefore i ...
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Firefox is extremely slow and sometimes crashes with new video card(s)
Windows 7 x64, Dell Optiplex 990, 3 Dell monitors, everything else stock.
Two monitors are running off of the built in VGA and Display Port. I originally installed a Geforce 6200 to get the third ...
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Where do I get a generic driver for a USB flash drive for Windows XP? [closed]
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Where do I get a generic driver for a USB flash drive for Windows 7?
Nope, my Windows 7's "c:[OS folder]\system32\drivers" folder doesn't have it. The technical guys ...
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How to enable AHCI in Windows XP without reinstalling
This question is part of a larger list of things I'll need to do before installing a new SSD drive, but I think it deserves its own question.
Current setup: A dual-boot machine with Windows XP ...
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Where do I get a generic driver for a USB flash drive for MS Windows XP?
Nope, my Windows XP's "c:[OS folder]\system32\drivers" folder doesn't have it. The technical guys removed it. And nope, automatic driver search doesn't work. Also, the machine doesn't have CD/DVD ...
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Kernel panic on boot
Last week I installed SL6.2 on my tower using the LiveCD iso and unetbootin without issue. I was taking my time configuring it since it was my first real jump into linux. I ran into problems when I ...
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Dell 1525 - Win 7 64bit - 2 x Data Interface Missing?
I have just installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1. I currently have 2 Data Interface with a yellow exclamation which means it's unrecognized and the drivers for it are missing.
I ...
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Installing USB to ATA/Atapi bridge driver
I am using Windows XP 64 bit version on Lenovo W520. I am trying to install my devices, I plugged a USB cable that is linked to a SATA interface (to copy from old sata HDD) and when I plug the USB ...
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How to check if all drivers are up-to-date
Is there a way to check if all installed drivers are the correct/best ones and if they are up-to-date? Background of my question: I have installed Windows 7 on a Notebook (2006). The manufacturer of ...
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Device driver software was not successfully installed
I have a USB stick that was formatted with FAT32. It worked fine but all of a sudden I receive only the error "Device driver software was not successfully installed" whenever I plug it in a USB port.
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Studio XPS 16 Fn key does not work
I had Vista on my laptop. After a Windows 7 clean install Fn key does not work. For example Fn+1 should be equal to Numpad1 but it does nothing. I have installed several drivers from Dell website but ...
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How can I start Windows system drivers on the fly?
A list of windows' system drivers are listed in msinfo32 under Software Environment. Like the Windows services list (run services.msc), it shows which drivers are started and their start mode (boot, ...
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Cannot install SUPERAL 9600 USB Ethernet Card KY-RS9600 on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Summary
I cannot use a SUPERAL 9600 USB Ethernet Card KY-RS9600 on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, although there are drivers for it on Internet and in its driver CD.
Beginning
I bought a JP108 USB ...
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Installing usb3 card on asus m2v motherboard
I have an Asus M2V motherboard:
http://uk.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM2/M2V/
I purchased the following card and plugged it into the PCIe x1 port that is available:
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Install NVIDIA Developer Drivers for GTX 630M on Fedora 16
I'm trying to install the developer drivers on my laptop, which has the Core i7-2670QM Sandy Bridge Processor and a GT 630M. Here's the one I bought: ...
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HDCP failure on input change
I am attempting to setup a mythtv frontend box, connecting to my LCD TV via HDMI. The linux box is an oldish laptop with an Intel display adapter (lsmod is showing the "i915" driver running).
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Installed Vmware tools. Now any USB external storage on any usb port is not recognized. I receive this message “unknown device”
I installed the Vmware tools within within mac. Since then any USB external storage drive that was once recognized is now not recognized. In Driver Manager I receive this message "unknown device"
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How do I get a Print Driver to load to my computer that will not load?
I have a Kodak ESP C310 printer that I just purchased. I have tried to use the CD, I have used the Kodak and I have tried to use a independent web site for loading my print driver but is fails.
It ...
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How load AMD graphics driver on USB RAM mode?
How load AMD graphics driver on USB RAM mode?
I installed driver AMD/ATI downloaded from AMD site but when restart the slax the driver disappear.
I tryed use atma.lzm module but don´t copy the system ...
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Why do partition managers need their own drivers?
Why do so many partition management tools, like EASEUS Partition Master, Acronis Disk Director, etc. require their own drivers in order to run?
In other words, what do they need to do that cannot be ...
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I am receiving a message stating “unknown device” when i plug a usb or external hard-drive in my computer.
Having an issue with USB drives and windows. I cannot figure out how to solve it. What happens is when any external media I attach to the computer "IN device manager i receive this message "unknown ...
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how can i get a motherboard driver on my new computer without an optical drive?
I just built a new computer and I cannot get it to boot. it gets to the point where I can run a windows repair but then it tells me it is likely a driver issue. However I have no optical drive on this ...
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Linux support for Intel GMA 3650
I recently purchased an Intel D2700DC motherboard and I quickly realised there are no Linux drivers for the integrated graphics (Intel GMA 3650).
Does anyone know if there will be any driver in the ...
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Choose the output audio peripheral on Windows 7
I have a laptop running Windows 7 to which I connect a TV with a HDMI cable.
When the TV is connected, it also takes the control of the audio output as it's expected to. But I can't find a way to ...
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Find out what driver is causing resource usage
I have a problem with one of the device drivers - it constantly uses resources in a very strange way - one second nothing, the other one full 100%. It creates a saw-tooth pattern in the resource ...
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How can I see which version of the AMD Catalyst driver is currently installed?
This is using xubuntu. Command line, if possible.
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Mouse hotspot off by a few pixels, on only one screen
Occasionally, I have an issue where the mouse hotspot will be about 10-20px off. For example, mouseovers and clicks will be detected to one side of where the cursor appears to be pointing.
I have a ...
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How do I install drivers for AR9271 on Centos 6? [migrated]
I'm trying to get a USB wireless card that runs off of the AR9271 chipset to work with Centos 6.2.
I read this description for compat-wireless and wanted to use a package manager (i.e. yum) because I ...
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System hangs after installing driver for NVIDIA Quadro 2000
I have a Dell Precision T5500 with Windows 7. The machine has 12 GB RAM and an NVIDIA Quadro 2000 graphics card.
Whenever I install the driver for the graphics card and reboot, the system hangs. When ...
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Routing USB devices to VirtualBox virtual machine when host OS does not have device drivers
I'm considering changing my host OS from Windows to Ubuntu and virtualizing Windows in VirtualBox, instead. But I'm worried that there will be issues with some of my devices, such as my USB devices ...
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how to find out name of my webcam to update driver
I just bought Sony VAIO VPCF23N1E and webcam colours are quite black&white like (all very brownish)
I reinstalled windows because with all the factory pre-installed stuff it was way too much blue ...
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Newly installed AMD Catalyst Drivers don't show in Catalyst Center
I downloaded AMD 12.2 Catalyst for my HP DV6 7690M XT graphics card and installed it over the HP one, so that I can switch graphics cards.
After installation, I found out that the Catalyst center is ...
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Acer 5742z caps lock on/off screen warning
I have an acer 5742z. I installed Win7 Pro 32-bit. But my caps lock warning does not work. I couldn't find driver or application related to this problem.
How can i fix it? Thanks for your help.
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Keyboard driver corrupted, cannot login. How do I fix without a reinstall?
Okay. So I have Windows XP Professional SP3.
Sometime ago the keyboard randomly stopped working all by itself. The num lock light is switched on at boot up - indicating it works but then it switches ...
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Asus X51RLSeries Audio Drivers [closed]
I have a Asus X51RLSeries laptop , I couldn't find Windows XP Audio drivers for that, anyone can help me to find drivers for this, I have driver CD but it mentioned that suitable for Windows Vista , ...
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Linux syslog says “ata11: link is slow to respond” for my new HDD
I built a new machine with the following hardware (at least the relevant parts):
Asus P8P67 Deluxe
Western Digital Caviar Green 2 TB Desktop Hard Drive WD20EARX
750W Power Supply (so there's plenty ...
