Questions tagged [drivers]
Drivers are the middleware that allow computer programs to use resources of a specific hardware device.
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Can't uninstall Intel Optane software components
My PC started freezing up a few times a day. Not finding any smoking gun in Event Viewer, I looked for recent updates to rollback, and I found https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/...
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touchscreen goes to sleep after idle
Recently i bought a new lenovo flex 5 with windows 11 preinstalled. I noticed that the touchscreen goes to sleep after a few seconds of leaving it idle. When i use it continuously, it works flawlessly....
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Make WSL register GPU as the correct GPU and not a microsoft driver
I am trying to run a cuda (qubic.li - Client) program on linux using WSL. I have two main problems.
my GPU is AMD (I get around this using ZLUDA)
WSL does not register my GPU as AMD meaning that ...
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Windows Security History - Where did Windows' security holes begin? [closed]
I'm interested in learning more about Windows security, specifically vs. most closed systems like Linux, and it struck me in my research that 'Windows' has been around as the technology around it has ...
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How to automatically install removed network printers?
By default Windows installs network printers automatically with an IPP or another type of basic print driver.
I discovered that when you delete such an automatically installed printer it won't be ...
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'ifconfig' Not Showing Wireless Card
I am running MX Linux (Debian based), and my wireless card had no issues after OS install. Everything working, up until today, no software updates or changes, and all of a sudden my Wifi connection is ...
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Windows 10 on an old VAIO. Hypervisors?
A classmate asked me to try to restore an old Sony Vaio laptop to working condition.
It's a VPCEE2E1E (model PCG-61611M) which originally came with Win7 Home and a built-in licence. The HDD is ...
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How do I automatically remove keyboard driver?
My situation: I use a gaming laptop and it is inconvenient for me to play on the keyboard of the laptop itself. So I use a mechanical keyboard and put it over the laptop keyboard, which causes the ...
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Every method of installing unsigned printer driver has failed
I have tried enabling nointegritychecks, testsigning, disabling driver signature enforcement through advanced startup, using gpedit.msc to enable using unsigned drivers. Nothing I have tried works, ...
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Troubleshooting New PC Build: Successful Boot with Old SSD but Blue Screen on chkdsk and Intel Chipset Driver Installation Issue
I built a new computer and took SSD with Windows from old PC and put it into new PC (reason of doing this is I have tons of work-related apps that I would have to download & reinstall & ...
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Battery Icon in Taskbar Missing On Surface Laptop
I have a Microsoft Surface Pro 5 but this should apply to most Surface devices. After messing around with my drivers trying to update a graphics driver, the small battery icon at the bottom right of ...
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I'm trying to get a list of all Drivers on my system WITH their version details. Windows 11
I'm preparing to Clean-Install Windows 11. I want to get a list of all my Drivers I have currently installed so that I can compare it with a second list I would make after doing the re-installation, ...
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How can I make a local printer available over the network via internet printing protocol?
So I have an old Canon printer and a Chromebook I want to be able to print from, The Canon printer has network functionality but does not show up to the Chromebook due to lack of drivers and IPP ...
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Debian: how to restart iwlwifi drivers when they fail to load
I'm using Debian 12, firmware-iwlwifi installed and usually works just fine but sometimes when I boot the pc the wifi adapter is not ready and the only thing that work is reboot the whole machine.
I'...
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Sony UP-DR150 printer setup confussion on Windows 10
I'm at my wit's end after spending days trying to get my Sony UP-DR150 photo printer up and running. Despite the seller's assurances that it works flawlessly on both Windows 10 and 11 (even providing ...
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dell precision m6400 windows 7 driver issue
the windows installation stops after pressing the installation button and presents me with the error "a required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. if you have a driver floppy disk,CD,DVD, or ...
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How to configure Windows/Linux to support absolute-mouse-mode for remote operation via KVM?
I am working on a project where we want to connect different dual-screen PC systems (mostly Windows+Linux) with a dualhead KVM switch. The KVM switch uses absolute mouse mode to position the mouse on ...
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How does System files damage lead to OS-driver communication failure? [duplicate]
Is it possible for OS-driver communication to fail because of damage to System Software files? This is because two hardware and one service stopped working on my machine.
The Windows Security Service ...
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Strange Ethernet adapter reproducible malfunction that impacts across dual boot Windows setup
The behavior is pretty confusing. The story is about my Ethernet adapter on my retro computing ASUS laptop (2011 model). It currently has Windows 7 and Windows XP on two HDDs respectively. The ...
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Where is dxdiag pulling the driver date from?
I am working on a project which requires spoofing dxdiag results.
So far I have been able to spoof everything by changing the registry values, however the same can not be said for the driver date.
It'...
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Installation of Drivers Via Programming Language
I have a Driver called X that manages a hardware component A. I would like to remove that drive and replace it with one called Y that also manages the component A.
So far I have been using .NET ...
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Where to add missing Windows 10 drivers when installing from ISO?
As I'm using Linux, the suggested solution of using a Windows tool isn't terribly helpful. For this error:
No device drivers were found. Make sure that the installation media
contains the correct ...
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Audio Driver has 'Location: Unknown' and isn't working even though windows xp says it functions fine
I have a dell latitude d830 with windows XP professional. I'm using the built-in speakers. It's definitely not a hardware problem as when I switch my HDDs and boot into Windows 7 the audio works fine. ...
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Drivers failing to load during windows 10 install
I'm currently trying to install windows on my PC but I'm encountering an issue I've never seen before. When the install starts, it asks for me to select missing drivers for the install.
I can browse ...
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How do I fix the drivers not working on my HP Stream 7?
A HP Stream 7 needed reinstalling Windows 10.
After the successful install, I noticed that several drivers are missing:
Audio
Wi-Fi
Bluetooth
Touchscreen
Battery
G-Sensors (Device Orientation)
Micro-...
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Window key does not bring up start menu and middle mouse button doesn't bring up scrolling
Subsequent to a driver update from Dell's OEM SupportAssist software, my Window key no longer brings up the Windows menu and the middle mouse button doesn't bring up scrolling. The Window key is ...
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Computer using wrong driver for network printer
We have an HP plotter installed on a print server that is using a particular driver, but when we install it from the server, the client computer is using some generic Microsoft one.
I asked the server ...
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No external video from Clevo computer running Debian 12
I have a Clevo PD70SND-G, fresh from China. Installed Debian 12 Bookworm (dual boot with Windows 10 Pro). There is no video for the external monitor. Switching to Windows, I have verified it is not ...
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Uninstalling a device in Windows 10
I have the devices below, but when I right-click uninstall in Device Manager, it uninstalls correctly, reappearing when I refresh the list of devices.
Is there a way to uninstall the device from the ...
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Bluetooth audio on windows 7 is horrible but on windows 10 it works properly
I have a Toshiba Protege R700 which has windows 10 installed. I decided to install windows 7 and daily drive it for fun. Everything sailed smoothly except of the bluetooth audio. I tried every driver ...
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RealTek RTL8125 ethernet controller: IEEE-1588/PTP support in Ubuntu 22.04.3?
I have a desktop with a Gigabyte B650 AORUS ELITE AX motherboard, to which I've installed Ubuntu 22.04.3. I am trying to use this desktop as an IEEE-1588 (Precision Time Protocol) master, in a small ...
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Getting memory / driver related BSOD while memory is supposedly intact
Good day everyone,
I finally decided to search for some help on here after struggling with blue screens multiple times a day for almost half a year now. The blue screens codes I come across are:
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windows: Laptop does not detect GPU and can not install nvidia drivers after running DDU (display driver uninstaller)
I wanted to clean the prev installation of nvidia drivers which is why I used DDU. But after using DDU I can not install Nvidia drivers as my laptop refuses to recognize the d-gpu. Any help is greatly ...
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Kubuntu crashes upon sleep on Surface Laptop
I'm running Kubuntu 23.10 on my Surface Laptop 3, and when I sleep the computer, instead of going fully black, it goes black and just shows my cursor, but I can't move it. In order to get back into my ...
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Computer is incompatible to g driver setup
So recently my windows got corrupted and I installed a new version of windows (Windows 7 Professional) but when I am trying to install the G-Driver that I used before it is saying that your pc is ...
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How to remove an empty, unselectable printer in Windows 11 that shows "Driver is unavailable"
I've the odd situation that my printer prints somewhat normally, but it appears twice in the new Windows 11 printer's list, one time unselectable and undeletable, and one time normally.
The screenshot ...
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How can I install WiFi dongle drivers on Linux without Internet access?
My PC has Windows and no Ethernet connection. I connect to the Internet via a USB WiFi dongle. In Windows the dongle drivers were automatically installed when I connected it to my PC.
I recently ...
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System wont boot..."rmi4_f34: probe of rmi4-00.fn34 failed with error -22" How can I go about fixing this?
I recently did a sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y, and have been unable to boot into my machine since. The boot screen hangs on this message:
) 16 (>)71739] rmi4_f34 rmi4-00.fn34: ...
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How to install AMD display (graphics) drivers on Windows Server 2019 standard?
We've got the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (with integrated graphics) on the ASROCK X670E Steel Legend motherboard. The problem is that either ASROCK's or AMD official drivers do NOT work - they refuse to ...
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Increase display resolution using Microsoft Basic Display Adapter on Windows Server 2019 due to lack of AMD drivers
Please, any way to increase the display resolution while using Microsoft Basic Display Adapter on Windows Server 2019? It runs on 800x600 only, I need to get onto 1024x768 at least.
We've got the AMD ...
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Black laptop screen on a running laptop
Warm greetings!
I am experiencing black laptop screen while it is still on (ASUS X510UA, Windows 10- home, graphic driver, Intel (R) HD Graphics 620: version 27.20.100.8477).
It means a world to me ...
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Bluetooth audio device lags after a minute of playback
When I play any media on any earbuds using my HP Pavilion laptop, it starts out perfectly fine, but after a minute or so, there is a one second audio loss and then it starts to lag.
I've tried
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gnome-shell or xorg not visible under nvidia-smi processes
I installed Ubuntu 23.10. I have NVIDIA GT 730, which is a legacy card now. While installation, the GDM would not appear, I was only greeted with a black screen. I installed using Safe Graphics Mode. ...
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Still unable to install Windows 11 from boot USB flash drive. A media driver is missing
I have a new build (specs below) which is currently running Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS.
motherboard: GIGABYTE B760M AORUS ELITE AX (manual)
GPU: ASRock Radeon RX 6700 XT Challenger D
CPU: Intel Core i7-...
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Media Tek WiFi 6 MT7921 Wireless LAN Card disconnects randomly
OS: Win10
Laptop Model: AUS TUF Gaming F15
BIOS: BIOS version 310
Issue: Media Tek WiFi 6 MT7921 disconnect randomly.
I updated Windows 10 on my ASUS TUF Gaming F15, and after that, the driver Media ...
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Error installing oracle drivers using dbeaver in ubuntu
I have installed DBeaver in Ubuntu version 22.04.3 through the ubuntu software store and also via apt install. When I create a oracle connection I have this error:
I have java installed in the system....
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ttyUSB serial device not being created in Ubuntu18.04
I'm trying to get a USB serial device ( a GlobalSat BU-353N5 USB GPS ) up and working on an Ubuntu 18.04 PC running as a VMWare VM. I have USB pass thru enabled and I can see the device appear and ...
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Character rendering Issues (characters aren't readable)
A few weeks ago, I sent my laptop for repairs because it experienced a black screen with interesting-looking stripes at the bottom:
After receiving my laptop back, I was informed that the mainboard ...
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Why does the Linux SCSI subsystem drive hardware not obviously related to SCSI?
Without knowledge, I would normally expect SATA, SCSI and USB Mass Storage to be driven by different drivers. In Linux however, the SCSI subsystem drives all of them.
Why does Linux use the SCSI ...
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Display drivers down [duplicate]
I have a blurry screen when I install Ubuntu on my windows 11. I found out that my display drivers shows some error. I have removed it with DDU and reinstall another one but still the problem persists....