Drivers are the middleware that allow computer programs to use resources of a specific hardware device.
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Limited volume when using Bluetooth headset with computer
So I've got this pretty cool Bluetooth headset that sounds amazing on both my Phone and Computer.
I'm using the Broadcom Driver to allow me to stream the audio in high quality (not in standard phone ...
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How to attempt driver update for ALL hardware using Windows Update, after Windows 7 installed with no Internet Connection
When you install Windows 7, your install source may not have drivers for your networking hardware.
This means that the install process skips the step where it goes online and looks for all the "best" ...
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My lenovo laptop USB hub giving me problems
I have a lenovo laptop and I bought a usb to serial converter. Well it wouldn't work so I took it back to office depot. I removed the converter drivers but now when I plugged up my vinyl plotter with ...
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Debian doesn't find Bluetooth device on Lenovo x200
I can't make my Debian work with Lenovo x200's Bluetooth. According to specification, there is Bluetooth adapter, but I cant find it with lspci, lsusb and dmesg
root@altera-laptop:~# lspci
00:00.0 ...
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Hardware device not detecting on Windows 7 - detects only on reboot
I am trying to connect a data connector (USB like hardware device to connect internet), but it not detecting the device, I have installed the device driver software came with the device.
Issues is ...
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How to diable Optimus and Intergrated graphics card and use only the Discrete graphics?
OS: linux 3.8.3
CPU: Intel Core i7 3630QM with Integrated Graphics Card
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX660M 2G DDR5
Chipset: Intel HM77
Storage: 8G DDR3 RAM 128G SSD/1T HD
Display: 1920x1080
So, I want to ...
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How to add a RAID driver to a BSOD Windows 2008 R2 install?
I've replaced a failed RAID card in a Win 2008 R2 server, but it was a slightly newer model which doesn't use the same driver as before so booting the OS results in a BSOD. It appears the controller ...
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Printing PDF causes printer to go Offline (A data transmission error occurred.)
We have a fleet of new Canon LBP 6680 printers which are running fine except for one person.
In fact, I'm not convinced it's a Canon printer issue as the problem she is having also occurs on the new ...
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synaptics touchpad edge swipes issue
mine issue is a little bit different from previously discussed. i have got the latest drivers for my touchpad and when I enable edge swipe gestures in windows 8 it's behaving strangely - gestures work ...
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debian+D425KT wont reboot after power loss
i have a little debian server with motherboard D425KT.
I set bios to reboot after a power failure ( ive tried last state (on) and always boot ).
Ive tried also quite any options combinations in bios.
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Asus driver - fn-key + arrow keys doest work - Media keys
I have an Asus laptop and the arrow keys are media shortcuts, that doesn't work. It should be working like this:
fn + arrow-key-down --> play/pause media.
fn + arrow-key-up --> stop media.
fn + ...
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Two Display adapters, no heavy game working
I have an hp Pavilion dm4-1350en. I recently installed a 64-bit Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1, because the last one (installed by a friend) was 32-bit and made a dual boot for two options: Windows ...
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PDP wireless headset won't work with Youtube or Twitch
I just started using this wireless headset and I'm having a stange problem with it. So far it's worked for everything. It works fine for Netflix and League of Legends and Windows Media Player, but ...
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ATI hd4000 Drivers underscan CCC 13.1
One of my laptops is running Microsoft Windows 7 Pro 64bit with an ATI HD4250 graphics plus an installed version 13.1 of CCC.
I have always used HDMI over/underscan with this setup but today it has ...
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External Blu-Ray player suddenly can't read on one Win 7 system, fine on another Win 7 system
Based on the number of search hits for this, across all makes and models of burners, I'm hoping someone has a real fix. Most of the responses I see are people saying the drive is faulty, but that's ...
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Unable to install NVidia drivers - BSOD - nvlddmkm.sys
My objective is to run 3 monitors...
My motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131646
Primary video card: GeForce GTX 460
Secondary video card: GeForce 8400 GS
I ...
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Windows 7 Crashes using nVidia Driver, works fine in Safe Mode or without video driver
Until this morning, and for over a year, my computer worked fine. I have an nVidia GTX 465 card running Windows 7 SP-1. Today, after running about thirty seconds, the screen freezes and I have to ...
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Windows 2000 mrxsmb.sys issue while using network shares
At my job, we use some old FTR (ForTheRecord) Recording devices. These devices are actually Windows 2000 computers with audio recording hardware attached. These devices encountered a few issues with ...
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High Interrupt DCP processor take
I have a quad core laptop with win7. Around 3 months ago the laptop occasionally slowed down.
Resource Monitor and Process Explorer show that processor 0 was 100% busy with DCP and Interrupts. A ...
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Touch Pad Not Working after Power Loss during Windows Update
During a Windows Update, power to the laptop (Gateway NE56R10u) was lost. When turned on again, it restarted in some flavor of Safe Mode. After a System Restore everything seems to be working ...
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Why does my touchpad driver randomly becomes unresponsive?
I am using a Toshiba S855-S5378 running windows 8 with Synaptics touchpad driver. When this happens, the touchpad driver did not start up when it's supposed to. I also can't open the mouse settings in ...
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Driver win32k.sys marked pagable instead of nonpagable
A friend has the following BSOD on Vista, about each 45 minutes:
A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent
damage to your computer.
win32k.sys
The ...
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How do I disable the “SECURITY FREEZE LOCK” on my SATA hard disk?
I am sending ATA commands to SATA HDD using IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH in windows. IDENTIFY DEVICE (ECh) ATA commands returns 256 words of data.
Word 128, Bit 3 is set in the returned data, and according ...
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Can't successfully pair MM 550 bluetooth headphones with Lenovo Y480
So, I can pair the Sennheiser MM 550 headphones with my laptop but during the process I get an error that it couldn't load the drivers. Then, they won't work properly. I can't find any drivers or ...
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How to uninstall driver using pnputil?
In the device manager - I can successfully uninstall a driver I have, but using PnpUtil doesn't work:
pnputil -f -d oem11.inf
Why is that ?
Some more info:
The driver was initially installed ...
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Synaptics TouchPad left click does not work
I read solutions regarding the micro switch not being triggered or being faulty.
I'm not sure if this is my case because I configured the right click to be the primary click and it did not work.
I ...
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How to set main graphics card on AMD8 Radeon?
I've looked around a lot of previous posts about having switchable graphics cards and its benefits.. But I also read a snippet saying that AMD doesnt support it and that there are only a few ways (if ...
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Driver for stamina speed switch
I have a Sony Vaio vpcsc41fm s-series and with its original system installed (Windows 7 Home Premium) the "stamina-speed" switch was working fine to switch between the two cards I have on my laptop ...
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When I try to run audio through my sound card, it doesn't work
I recently built a pretty decent window 7 dekstop, and have run into a problem with the sound drivers. they have been working fine up until a few days ago, when all of a sudden, the "Xonar DX Audio ...
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No cursor with Nvidia drivers when gdm or gnome-shell loaded
In a fresh Arch install if I install gnome and GDM with the official Nvidia drivers:
pacman -S gnome gnome-extra nvidia
systemctl enable gdm.service
nvidia-xconfig
I don't have a cursor when GDM or ...
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Acer Aspire 4820 wireless led blink on network activity
Recently I reinstalled OS(Windows 7 home premium) on Acer Aspire 4820 and after installing the driver for the wifi (broadcom) from acer website the led keeps blikning when there is network trafic, ...
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Printer struggling to properly print documents
The situation is as follows:
There are several printers configured the same way. They are all HP LaserJet 2430N printers configured to use the PostScript driver supplied by HP.
They all get fed the ...
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Relationship between drivers and displays
For other hardware devices, i.e. usb drives, you can have one driver per device. So the driver for your usb flash drive is different than your usb mouse for instance.
Does that work the same way for ...
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audio and video playback is glitchy and choppy
I have an inspiron 1420 which I had reverted from vista back to good old xp pro. I have literally been searching for an answer to this problem for the past (at least) 2 weeks. I can't play any audio ...
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Windows 7 installation needs device drivers
I'm doing a clean install of Windows 7 on a friend's computer (an ASUS A53SV). I am installing Home Premium 64-bit with integrated SP1 from a USB flash drive. The installation gets to a screen that ...
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How to Install Broadcom Wireless Drivers Without Internet Connection?
I have to install a Broadcom wireless driver in Fedora 16. I downloaded a file "broadcom-wl-5.100.82.38-5.fc16.i686.rpm" and tried to install it but the following error is shown:
Loaded plugins: ...
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I have seen some tutorials that lead you to add a device ID into the valid IDs in the drivers of another device. How does this work?
Let's say I have a generic bluetooth adapter, and the default drivers don't support A2DP. So I download some drivers for another bluetooth adapter that do support A2DP.
First, when I try to install ...
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Intel HD Graphics 4000 and Vista
I have purchased a Toshiba R930 that requires Windows Vista to be installed. Currently, Intel does not offer Vista drivers on its Intel HD Graphics 4000 platform. It’s the first time I have come ...
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HP M1212nf MFP Unknown 0x00000002 Error
I've successfully installed official full suite driver from HP for this printer. The printer is connected to computer via LAN. Computer uses RDP to work on server. If I want to print something on RDP ...
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How to install Wireless Driver from Windows Update with error 80070002?
I am experiencing problems with installing simple WLAN driver for System: Windows 8 64bit. Wireless card is: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285. I tried to install driver manualy even from Windows Update but it ...
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bluetooth device driver prevents machine from entering standby
I frequently see the warning dialog:
System Standby Failed
The device driver for the 'Dell Wireless 365 Bluetooth Module' device is preventing the machine from entering standby. Please close all ...
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Finding the driver that controls the volume controls
I have a Lenovo Z370 which has touch enabled buttons for mute and volume. The mute button randomly acts as if being pressed turning the sound on and off rapidly.
I've discovered that if I reboot the ...
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Lenovo W530 - NVIDIA Quatro K1000M - Windows has stopped this device
I'm not sure why, but Windows has now decided to mark my video card with:
Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43)
I've tried uninstalling the driver and ...
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3G USB Modem driver installation failure on Windows 7 - for various devices
I am unable to install and use a bunch of 3G USB Modems on my Dell Studio laptop running Windows 7 64-bit.
I have tried USB modems from these service providers (all Indian service providers) :
...
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Radeon HD 5450 graphics issue with wakeing up after sleep
I am having a problem with my Radeon HD 5450 graphics card. I am running two monitors off of it, one off of the DVI, and the main monitor off of the Displayport. My machine is a Win7-32bit OptiPlex ...
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BSOD from atikmpag.sys at boot
I have a HP ENVY 17 (17t-3200), Win 7 x64 that BSODs at boot. The video driver for my Radeon HD 7850M is at fault.
The usual pattern is:
Boot and login.
Wait ~30 seconds.
BSOD.
Reboot and repeat ...
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In addition to process explorer is there another program that show which file is using a specific driver?
in Windows when I launch tdsskiller it founds a suspicious file, sptd.sys, that's usually used by deamon tools, or alchool 120%, or other virtual driver softwares.
I've disinstalled every program of ...
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Acer Aspire 5720 network driver
I have an acer aspire 5720 freshly formatted to win7 x64
I tried installing the drivers found on the drivers page on the acer website however they either install and end up doing nothing or fail to ...
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Camera suddenly needs drivers
My girlfriend takes alot of pictures and up until the other day has imported them to her computer without trouble. Plug in camera, window pops up, click Import. Now that doesn't work anymore. ...
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samsung notebook - not all fn keys working - windows7
All the fn keys (except volume: f6, f7, f8) not working. All drivers installed from Samsung Drivers. Notebook model name: samsung NP300E5X-A07RU
