Drivers are the middleware that allow computer programs to use resources of a specific hardware device.
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How to diagnose Blue Screens in Windows 7 (64bit)
Using programs like WhoCrashed and BlueScreenView you can see the BSOD and the errors but how do you tell exactly what's causing the BSOD?
I'm not sure if it because of bad hardware, bad driver ...
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Play audio over network with Windows 7?
I have seen software for Linux systems that allows me to send the audio from one system to another over the network, is there such a software (a driver likely) for Windows, specificly XP but Vista and ...
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Automatic driver search & update on Windows?
I have a Dell laptop issued by my employer, and I always find it a real pain to search for, download and maintain their drivers. It baffles me that there does not seem to be a nice way (product, ...
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Where should I find drivers for my laptop if it didn't come with a driver disk?
I had to reformat my machine because I had a virus. My machine did not come with a driver disk. How can I install drivers after having reinstalled windows?
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Use an unsigned driver in Windows 7 x64
I'm trying to use the RBC9 SpaceNavigator TEST x64 build drivers for my SpaceNavigator 3d joystick so that it can work as a normal joystick in games like Quake.
Unfortunately, I get the error "This ...
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Add Network Printer drivers in Windows 7/Server 2008 R2?
I'm running a 64 bit Windows 7 / Windows 2008 R2 workstation that I just installed. I need to add a printer that is shared on the network from a 32bit Windows 2000 print server.
This is an HP ...
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Bypassing “Found New Hardware Wizard” / Setting Windows to Install Drivers Automatically
My motherboard finally died after the better part of a decade, so I bought a used system. I put my old hard-drive and sound-card in the new system, and connected my old keyboard and mouse (the rest of ...
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How do I go about backing up/saving installed device drivers in Windows 2000/XP?
I want to reinstall Windows 2000 on a machine which has some very obscure drivers. I don't much fancy having to hunt round for them (that's if I'm able to locate them at all).
Is it possible to save ...
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identify components at laptops
I just reinstalled my Windows and now I don't have all the hardware components recognized. I have an laptop and website seems to have all the necessary drivers for my model. The problem is that I ...
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Which driver do I need to install in order to dim screen on Dell
I have reinstalled Win 7 on my Dell Precision M4600 and I installed the chipset (restarted) then video and network driver (in that order). However I am not able to dim the light using fn-up/down. ...
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How can I disable my laptop's built-in keyboard?
I have a HP Compaq Presario C700 laptop with Windows 7 installed on it.
My laptop's keyboard is not working properly; some keys never work and some keys will keep on pressing. I've formatted the OS ...
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What's the reason behind “Stereo Mix” becoming a missing option?
Several newer computers I've worked on (Dell, mainly) are using IDT or Realtek drivers which lack the Stereo Mix option in audio recording devices.
I've tried all kinds of methods including ...
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Best drivers backup (and maybe update) software [closed]
What are best drivers backup (and maybe update) software?
Some of this software do not seem to be good enough to trust...
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Compatibility of Linux with Samsung series 7 Chronos
I want to buy a Samsung Chronos notebook and install Ubuntu alongside Windows.
Will there be any trouble with the hardware? I'd hope all the ports should work fine, keyboard special buttons, lights ...
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Windows 7 x64 support for Intel GMA 3650 (or GMA 3600)
I recently purchased an Intel D2700 MUD motherboard and I cannot find drivers for the Win7 x64 integrated graphics (Intel GMA 3650 aka PowerVR sgs545). The accompanying CD contains Win7 x32 version ...
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How can I backup my windows XP drivers?
I've got a new (well, used) laptop. I wish to format and reinstall the windows OS on it. On the machine I've got several drivers which I would like to transport to the new machine, but I don't have ...
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Finding Ethernet/Network Controller vendor/model when driver not installed
I reinstalled windows on a new machine and the drivers are not present for the product network card. When in device manager all I get is the question mark and am unable to figure out the actual name ...
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Video drivers for VAIO on Windows 7
So, ive just installed Windows 7 on my Sony VAIO vgn-sz5xn.
Problem is that I cant find drivers for my graphics card - NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 GPU
Tried latest driver found on
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Updating Dell Vostro 3700 (Nvidia GeForce GT330M) display driver? [closed]
I've bought this laptop "Dell Vostro 3700", having inside an Intel integrated graphic card and an Nvidia GeForce GT330M.
Depending on energy saving mode it switches between the two video cards.
When ...
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Upgrading motherboard without reloading OS
This question is an offshoot of soemthing I asked earlier:
Disable "Auto Restart after BSOD" from Command Line
Is there a way to wipe out current motherboard drivers on the HD so that you ...
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How to add drivers to Windows 7 installation DVD?
How I can bundle newer or missing drivers to Windows 7 DVD?
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Apple Magic Mouse scrolling in Ubuntu 9.10
Just received new Apple Magic Mouse and tried to install it on my computer with Ubuntu 9.10.
Mouse was found as Bluetooth mouse, I entered PIN as 0000 (could not find it in user manual, so just ...
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When installing additional printer 32-bit drivers fails on Windows 7 64-bit I get the error “Selected printer driver not found”, what should I do?
I've successfully installed Windows 7 (x64) and drivers for my Canon MP510, and have no problem printing with this setup.
There is another PC in the network running XP SP3, and I want to share the ...
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Windows cannot enter very low-res video mode with modern graphics cards/drivers
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I was trying to post here yesterday, but it kept giving me an error. I have discovered that it actually is not using DirectX at all, but GDI or whatever is the non-DX graphics in Windows (not ...
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Is there any point in installing a monitor driver?
I'm guessing that most of the world's PCs are running with a default "Plug & Play Monitor" driver which seems to work well enough, and having just swapped to a 2005FPW, installed the driver and ...
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Force driver update on a mobility radeon graphic
This is a tricky one. It is related to users with laptop from Sony or Toshiba with an ATI Radeon card (in my case mobility radeon HD 4650) with windows 7.
Sometimes you may want newer driver for your ...
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What are some specific audio / sound card / driver setups that still allow you to “record what you hear”?
The ability to record what you hear, aka recording "Stereo Mix", is something that is fading away. I thought there was nothing to it, based on how many people make YouTube videos of themselves ...
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Driver for writing to UDF partitions from Windows XP?
I'm considering using an UDF partition to share data between Windows XP, 7, and Linux. It's more efficient than FAT32, and avoids the 4GB max file size limit. I've found it will also work with Mac OS ...
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How do I solve an unidentified network issue? It can't connect to the Internet
I basically have a problem with Windows 7 connecting to my home network.
It keeps identifying my home network as unidentified, and it continually does "identifying" until it simply say cannot connect ...
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Will Windows Update find chipset drivers?
Does Windows Update in Windows 7 find and install chipset drivers? It will automatically find newer versions of video and audio drivers, etc., but will it do the same for chipset updates?
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How do I recover drivers from other hard disk
The drivers for a Cardbus (PCMCIA) card that gives me 2 USB 2.0 ports are on the hard disk from my old laptop. I have lost the driver CD. I have a way to get files from that other hard disk. Which ...
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Downmix surround to Dolby Pro-Logic at the OS/driver level in Windows 7?
First off, I'm talking about Dolby Pro-Logic, a really old tech for encoding 4 audio channels (L/R/C/SR) into two analog outputs, and then extracting them again. It was used in surround sound systems ...
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speakers muted automatically for some reason
i have this weird problem that i'm not sure is specific to me, but more of a windows 7 or Lenovo laptop, so any help would be appreciable.
the problem is as follows:
Whenever i use skype, msn or any ...
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Where do I find a working Windows 7 driver for the Intel 82865G graphics chipset?
I have an old Dell Inspiron 3000 which came with Windows XP. It's still quite decent, 3 GHz P4, 2 GB RAM.
I've installed Windows 7 RTM (x86) and the best resolution it will do is 640x480 ...
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Automatically Find Driver Updates?
I use Windows Update and rarely, it will say there is a driver update. More often than not, I need to manually visit the website for the maker of each component and download updated drivers for each. ...
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How do I resolve BSOD: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA?
I have been trouble shooting this for a few days and cannot fix this anyhow.
Computer specifications
Mobo: ASUS Sabertooth X58 LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
CPU: ...
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How to print documents to pictures (gif, bmp etc.) on windows
What is the easiest way to capture the printout of a document in a picture (i.e. GIF, BMP etc.)? Making a screenshot does not help, since the printout is different and larger than the screen. Is there ...
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How do I find which touchpad driver I need for my Acer Aspire 5720?
I had to reinstall Windows XP on my Acer Aspire 5720 and now I'm reinstalling all the drivers. There are two touchpad drivers -- Alps and Synaptics.
I ran the program Acer provides to detect your ...
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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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Windows 7 installation - CD\DVD driver issue on laptop
I'm installing Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit from an MSDN download onto a new Dell Studio 1558 laptop.
Right after clicking "Install Now" I get the following message in a window titled Load Driver:
A ...
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Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L drivers for CentOS
Recently installed CentOS on Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L motherboard everything works well except the graphics are a bit laggy, so I'm wondering if it hasn't got the drivers in place.
Where do I locate the ...
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BootCamp drivers - lost my Mac OSX CD
I've lost my Mac OSX Snow Leopard CD.
Where can I find BootCamp drivers and the latest driver-updates?
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Getting Wireless working on Dell Inspiron 1545 in Ubuntu 10.04?
I'm trying to install my wireless drivers (which uses a broadcom card). I tried to install them using the restricted drivers offered on my Ubuntu CD (since my only internet connection is public ...
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Can't find drivers for Toshiba C850 - P5010 [closed]
Edit: I am looking for Windows 7 64bit drivers
Well, I did find two links on toshiba's website
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp?service=EU
This one is ...
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I have a Samsung laptop with Synaptics Touchpad V7.5 running the v16.1.1.0 driver. and whenever I type my touchpad becomes unresponsive. How do I fix?
Whenever I type my touchpad becomes unresponsive. Note, I can't find palmsense or an option that allows me to enable my touchpad while typing. Is there a way to fix it or does my computer just not ...
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Old CNAD800-EF USB ADSL Modem Drivers For Windows 7
I have an old USB DSL modem that I am trying to get to work with Windows 7. It is a CNet CNAD800-EF and the latest official drivers available are for Windows XP.
Is there any way I can find ...
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Generic mouse button remapping utility/driver
I'm looking for a generic utility/driver that allows me some basic mouse button remapping; especially setting the thumb button as "middle button" and maybe even the wheel button as "double click".
I ...
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USB joystick with Linux only works when I disconnected and reconnected its
HI!
I have a problem that it can easy, but I didn't find a solution yet.
When I turn on my computer using a Debian or Ubuntu and tried to use the joystick the commands of joystick doesn't pass to ...
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Windows does not install any drivers for storage devices
I have Acer Aspire 4253 laptop with windows 7 and fedora 17 installed.
Recently Windows encounters errors while installing device drivers for storage devices. It fails to install drivers for pen ...
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How can I install an Apple Magic Trackpad on a PC without Boot Camp?
I have a Apple Magic Trackpad and I'd like to use it with my PC. I have no other Apple hardware besides the Trackpad. I do not have OSX and thus no Boot Camp CD.
The Trackpad uses Bluetooth and ...
