Questions tagged [drivers]
Drivers are the middleware that allow computer programs to use resources of a specific hardware device.
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How could one increase the USB keyboard refresh rate from default 125Hz to, say, 1000Hz?
I have asked this question before and here what I came up with:
How could one increase the USB keyboard refresh rate? I need it for my keyboard to stop swapping quickly pressed keys. I'm running ...
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Windows 10 Professional goes blank while installing update (Intel Corporation driver update for Intel(R) HD Graphics.)
When windows 10 tries to update itself with Intel Corporation driver update for Intel(R) HD Graphics goes blank with black screen for hours and hours. Need to forcefully restart every time when it ...
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Should you install GPU drivers on HDD or SSD?
I have always been wondering the following questions:
Where should the GPU drivers be installed? HDD or SSD?
How often are they read?
Does it need to be fast?
Is there any performance gain when they ...
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Brother MFC Network Scanner Driver Installation
I am not sure on which site to ask this question, so I would be glad if you were to point me in the right direction, in case this is the entirely wrong place.
I am trying to install a Brother MFC-...
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Wifi driver crashes every 1 minute Windows 10
My mothers laptop is experiencing issues when connecting to the Internet provided by Mediacom.
After exactly 1 minute (according to her) of being connected, the wifi driver (Intel® Dual Band Wireless-...
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Windows 10 not booting: AswVmm.sys digital signature check failed
After freshly installing Avast Premier on a brand new HP ProBook 470 G2 with Windows 10 Home, I keep on getting the following message that prevents Windows from booting normally:
The operating ...
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How to see detailed log of nVidia driver crash on Windows?
While doing GPU-intensive parallel processing, nVidia driver apparently crashed. Only information in Windows Event log is the following:
The description for Event ID 1 from source NVIDIA OpenGL ...
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Setting Windows drivers for CUPS printer a.k.a Point'n'Print
I have Samba 4.2.10 and CUPS 1.7.5 running on Debian 8. The server is domain member. In CUPS I have several printers, and I shared them with Samba. Printing test page from CUPS works fine, printing ...
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Webcam not found, but device manager says 'working properly'
I've got a Dell Latitude 12 7275 with Windows 10. My webcam doesn't work, but I can't find out why.
In Windows' Device Manager, a ISP Camera Device shows up. It says 'This device is working properly',...
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How can I find Windows 7 drivers for this laptop?
I recently bought a laptop, Asus ux303ub. https://www.asus.com/Notebooks/ASUS-ZenBook-UX303UB/
I installed Windows 7 on it, however almost nothing works, including usb ports, wifi chip etc.. ...
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Windows 10 keeps uninstalling my Creative X-fi drivers
Every day, or after 2 or 3 days my sound card stops working. If I look to Device manager the sound card is listed with a yellow question mark. The drivers are gone.
I have installed the drivers a few ...
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Driver needed during windows installation
I just lately bought an Lenovo T560 and replaced the ssd with an samsung 850 pro ssd 512gb.
Now I am trying to install windows 7 on it via usb and it works until I come to the partition part. My ...
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Is there a way of scripting the "Roll Back Driver" feature of Window's Device Manager?
I need to roll back my graphic cards drivers once in a while(It's a long story.) and I have tried scripts using devmanview which worked great for disabling and enabling my drivers(and uninstalling it) ...
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Windows 10 audio headset detection Issues
I'm not sure if the title fully explains the situation.
Basically sound refused to play through my headset once I connected them
I've re-installed most of the drivers on my (new) machine about what ...
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Razer Synapse Not Recognizing Chroma Devices
I recently purchased a Razer BlackWidow Chroma RGB keyboard. It worked fine for a while using the Razer Synapse software to change the lighting effects and macros, but now whenever I launch Synapse ...
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Windows Bluescreen when disabling second wifi card
I have freshly installed windows 7 on my laptop. I have two WiFi cards inside (Intel Centrino Advanced N-6200 AGN). Originally the laptop had only one, however I had one additional card on shelf and I ...
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Mic is only picking up vibrations
Literally vibrations, when on the recording devices pane, the only way i can get the mic to show it is picking up audio is by tapping the headphones on my desk. I have uninstalled and reinstalled ...
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How to fix ASUS notebook freezing & brightness issues after Windows 10 Upgrade?
My ASUS G73JH gaming notebook was working properly with the original Windows 7. I upgraded it to Windows 10 and started experiencing a collection of problems:
Inability to adjust screen brightness ...
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Creative sound blaster Z windows 10 5.1 volume control
So I just bought this sound card Creative Sound Blaster Z.
Connected it via optical cable to Logitech Z906. Installed latest drivers from their web page, enabled encoding to dts and it works, my ...
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Creative Recon3D Fatal1ty no longer working on Windows 7
When building my Digital Audio Workstation three years ago, I chose a Creative Recon3D Fatal1ty sound card. It's worked just fine until the past few months, during which time it has begun having ...
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VN7 792G Black Edition with windows 7
I have managed to install windows 7 on VN7 792G Black Edition.
The last thing what's left is sound.
Realtek ALC255 sound card is not recognized, but It is detected on PCI bus.
I have been trying to ...
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AMD Radeon R7 Issues
I purchased a Dell Inspiron 7548 about a year ago. I have no idea if my graphics card has yet to work, and I am very frustrated. I've spent many many hours looking for a solution and am yet to find ...
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HP Probook 450 G3 Screen Flashing on Low Brightness
I just bought a new HP Probook 450 G3 few days back. After using it for a couple of days, I started noticing screen flashing/flickering when lowering the brightness. This happened both on Windows 7 ...
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Windows 7 login screen displays CTRL+ALT+DEL then goes black, cursor visible
I have a Dell Precision 450 (Win7 Ultimate x64). We were moving house, so it spend a good bit of time in a storage unit, just set it up a few days ago (hasn't worked since I got it back).
When I ...
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Unsure of outcome of nvidia driver update
I wanted to update my graphics card driver, so I downloaded the latest version from nvidia and installed it (didn't uninstall or do anything to the driver already on my computer).
However, when I go ...
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Same Bluetooth Dongle - Different OS - Different Range
Background:
My laptop has undergone a serious upgrading and turned into a project for me - part of this upgrade was to
Take the optical drive bay out, install a second HDD and make it a hackintosh
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How to explain KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED in ntoskrnl.exe +70380?
I have very hard puzzle with blue screens on windows 7.
Few weeks ago a computer started to have some blu screens during smartcard computation. This is a POS machine with a smartcard, for every ...
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Determining driver by nothing
I have got this desktop computer with a built-in LAN port. I suspect the OS has been re-installed with a supposedly different OS.
Gigabytes's main support page provides ethernet drivers (Nvidia) only ...
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How to create a specific folder structure inside multiple subfolders
I have a folder structure that looks like this
drwxrwxr-x+ 9 root admin 306 May 3 10:19 .
drwxrwxrwx 15 root admin 510 May 5 16:14 ..
drwxr-xr-x+ 3 root ...
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Win7 PC Shutdown during Update - Driver/Chipset Issues?
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Purchased a brand new USB Wifi Adapter, installed its driver and has exact same problem error code 31. Obviously it's a Windows 7 issue. Is it possible to repair this without a complete ...
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Is it possible to write software for a keyboard?
I just got a new Cooler Master Octane keyboard+mouse combo, but it doesn't come with any software, so I can't modify the keys, or change any function...is there a way to write some simple software for ...
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Fujitsu NH532 USB 3.0 devices working at 2.0 speeds
I have a Fujitsu NH532 with 3 USB 3.0 ports running Windows 8.1.
My problem is that none of the blue USB 3.0 ports is operating at 3.0 speed. Whichever USB 3.0 device I plug in, the Devices and ...
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Devcon driverfiles * only listing a single entry
I am attempting to run the following command:
devcon driverfiles *
But I am only receiving a single entry in my output...I have seen this on multiple machines (servers as well as workstations):
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Dymo Lablewriter 450 installation keeps failing
User used to have a DYMO labelwriter SE450 that worked perfectly fine for months, no issues. Windows 7 pro, absolutely no configuration changes have been made that would stop it working.
It recently ...
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Touchpad freezing after Windows 10 update on ELAN input device
I upgraded to Windows 10 since a week, the first issue that disappointed me is this mouse freezing when I'm typing.
I googled two days, trying all solutions, nothing worked.
I have ELAN device with ...
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No sound in lenovo yoga 2 except when connected to HDMI
I recently got a Lenovo Yoga 2 with windows 8 (now upgraded to windows 10), and apparently sound doesn't work; not through speakers, not through headphones, but only through HDMI.
I have looked all ...
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Wireless drivers for Dell Inspiron 3451
I just reinstalled Windows 8.1 on a Dell Inspiron 3451, and the wireless adapter is not working.
After the install, during the setup phase, it skipped the step where you can select the wireless ...
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Dell Laptop and Generic Bluetooth Radio
I have a Cambridge Silicon Wave Link Bluetooth Adapter and need info, the driver version is 5.1 260.5512 distributed by Microsoft. How do I tell if a Bluetooth receiver will accept a signal to it from ...
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Intel Graphics HD 3000 + Clean Windows 10 Installation = Black Screen no Censor
I'm facing a really wierd situation. Let me explain what happened. I recently took an old laptop in my possession .
It has an Nvidia 520M and an Intel Graphics HD 3000 gpus.
At first i tried to ...
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export drivers before reformatting and re-installing Windows
In the past, I've always had to download the drivers for my computers, after I do a reformat and a re-install of Windows. Is there a quick and dirty way to export all of the drivers in Windows before ...
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Realtek audio, Logitec subwoofer silent
I have an Asus Windows 10 PC with onboard Realtek audio (driver version 6.0.1.7687). I recently purchased Logitech Z313 speakers. I have good audio from the 2 satellites, but the subwoofer is dead ...
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Corrupted graphics, crashes, and noisy GPU fan after updating NVIDIA GeForce drivers to 364.xx
I recently updated the drivers for my NVIDIA GeForce video card to version 364.72 (or other version in the 364.xx series), and I'm now experiencing issues such as the following:
Games or other ...
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How can I use a Xerox DocuMate 510 scanner with Windows 10
I have a Xerox DocuMate scanner that I had used on Windows 7. I've recently upgraded to Windows 10.
I see the scanner as installed in the printers part of the settings, but I can no longer find the ...
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Hp psc 1210 all-in-one printer and windows 7
I have recently upgraded my computer from windows xp to w-7. Trying to use my HP psc1210 all in one printer with w-7 but can not find driver
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Updated Drivers - Command Prompt periodic executes
Well just recently I updated my drivers a bit ago and I would rather not have to rollback my drivers, but is there anyway I can track what program or the source of this commmand prompt that keeps ...
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Display driver has stopped responding and has recovered error. Nvidia GTX 960m [duplicate]
I have a Lenovo Y50-70 with a NVIDIA GTX 960m and lately I have been experiencing this weird error "Display driver has stopped responding and has recovered error". Usually it happens when browsing ...
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Cannot unregister camera from Windows 7
TL;DR: How to unregister a camera from Windows?
Windows 7 Professional
I've (stupidly) installed some drivers that would allow my smartphone to appear as a webcam in Windows. I have since removed ...
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Crackling Audio issues on LACK of CPU load
I have been trying to track down an intermittent crackling audio issue for YEARS now to no avail. I've checked DPC, memory pagefiles, etc... back when I was running Win7 -- which also had the issue (...
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Extract and Trust certificate via command line in windows
I am trying to setup a printer via command line in windows. So far I everything is working well except I don't know of any way to extract .cer from .cat via command line.
I could extract it via ...
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USB Mouse and Keyboard functions in BIOS, but not in Windows 7
Relevant specs:
Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
ASUS M4N78 Pro
Chipset: nVidia GeForce 8300
CPU: AMD Phenom II 945
Mem: 8GB DDR2 800
Details: Replaced MB, CPU, RAM. Booting into BIOS, USB keyboard and ...