Questions tagged [drivers]
Drivers are the middleware that allow computer programs to use resources of a specific hardware device.
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Cannot seem to install virtio scsi drivers in a VM of Win server 2022
The Win server 22 VM did get the latest virtio-win ISO installed. Im passing the entire device like so:
<controller type="scsi" index="0" model="lsilogic">
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Trying to install Realtek Audio97 drivers but can't because they aren't signed
I'm trying to install the Realtek Audio97 sound driver from the Realtek driver download page for Windows 7.
Every time I try to run the installer I get the error message:
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Win7: loading USB3 driver to offline Windows image fails
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See here for the procedure to load a driver to an offline Win7 image using dism. It's pretty simple, but I can't get it ...
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How to add a playback device in Windows 10
Recently, with greatest reluctance I upgraded to Windows 10 and now I cannot see my secondary playback device when I insert audio jack.
I tried built-in audio troubleshooting and it didn't help.
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Camera is black on Acer laptop
I have an Acer laptop that uses Windows 11 and has a built-in webcam. I can turn the camera on with the camera app. The green light lights up and I get a popup on my screen that says "camera on&...
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Getting HDMI working on Inspiron 15R N5110?
I installed Windows 8.1 on my Laptop which had Windows 7 when I bought it. After installing Windows 8.1 and installing the drivers Drivers & Downloads page I still haven't got the HDMI to work. If ...
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Possible to Load/Unload DiskDrive Filter Driver On-The-Fly Without Restarting?
As the title implies, I want to know if I can load or unload a diskdrive filter driver without restarting the machine and have the change take effect immediately.
I'm doing this in a WinPE ...
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Screen brightness is not responding to brightness control
I have recently replaced my 60Hz laptop screen with a 120Hz one
And now screen brightness is not responding to brightness control (e.g. When i set the brightness value to 0%, the actual brightness ...
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I can't get the mediatek driver 7902 to work
My wifi card is supposed to work with MX23 Linux + a liquorix kernel (6.6.12) as shown here:https://linux-hardware.org/?id=pci:14c3-7902-1a3b-5520&page=7#status lines EE37E and 1B3BB.
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“aircrack-ng” not working on MacBook air early 2015 using live Kali Linux USB with presistence
I am using Kali Linux 2.0
(4.0.0-kali1-686-pae).
airmon-ng start wlan0
Found 5 processes that could cause trouble.
If airodump-ng, aireplay-ng or airtun-ng stops working after a short period of time,...
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Installing windows 11 fails, "A media driver your computer needs is missing" error
I've been trying to install win11 on my MSI Pulse laptop, but whenever I boot from USB it gives me error "A media driver your computer needs is missing". I found out so far that INTEL VMD/...
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Is it possible to use Windows 10 2015 with a 2020 laptop?
My laptop originally come with Windows 10 as of Jan 2020. Wishing to have a more beautiful destkop with a more Metro design, when I install an old version of Windows 10 (like a 2015 version (1507)) I ...
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Install chipset driver before nic driver?
When installing drivers, should I be installing the chipset drivers first, or doesn't it matter? i.e. can I jump straight to the nic driver?
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Realtek audio AC 97 5.1 on Windows 7: Terrible subwoofer quality
I have a media center PC with on-board Realtek AC97 Audio. I have been using Windows XP for a couple of years with great audio quality.
I just upgraded this PC with Windows 7 and installed the latest ...
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CSR Bluetooth Dongle can't connect to remote devices
I'm using the Sitecom CN-524 bluetooth dongle with the CSR8510A10 chipset to connect my android tablet to my desktop PC (windows 7 x64). The driver I'm using for the dongle is the Generic Bluetooth ...
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Microphones Not Detected on ThinkPad Running Windows 11 - Possible Driver Issue?
I have a ThinkPad X1 Carbon running Windows 11 Pro. I'm facing issues with the microphones built into my Sony WH-1000XM3 and Sony WF-1000XM4. Windows doesn't detect the microphones on either of these ...
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Hp Laserjet M1132 MFP recognized but no printing
I've been facing troubles with my printer for 3 weeks, I cannot find a solution. These are the symptoms: When I run
hp-testpage error: Unable to communicate with printer ...
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Laptop touchscreen acting like a mouse after eGalaxTouch driver installation on Windows 10
I have been using windows 10 for a week now without any problems. Today windows 10 installed "eGalaxTouch - Other hardware - USB Touchscreen Controller(A103)" through windows update. It has turned my ...
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Corrupted Lenovo Ideapad 3 15IIL05 Touchpad Driver
A few months ago, I used Driver Booster 10 to update my drivers on my Lenovo Ideapad 3 15IIL05 running Windows 11. I didn't make a backup because I did not have the pro version. After I updated my ...
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System thread exception not handled (ndis.sys) 0xc1900101 0x40017 upgrading to Win 10
I want to upgrade a PC from Win7 to Win10 keeping file and apps because there is some software that I cannot reconfigure so I have to avoid the clean install.
I installed it with a pendrive made with ...
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How to locate and remove drivers for a USB serial device that is no longer recognized by windows?
I have a USB serial device that is no longer recognized by Windows. I have checked that the device itself still works on another PC, so I suspect a corrupted driver.
The documentation for the device ...
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Bluestacks App Player graphics driver error on Intel desktop board D945GCLF
I am trying to install Bluestacks App Player on a machine running Windows 8 Pro 32bit. But whenever I do install the application it shows this error that Please install Graphics driver.
Below are ...
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"HDA audio bus driver is required and not found" on Dell Optiplex
I have Dell Optiplex 745 with Windows 7 installed on it. I'm trying to use the Windows XP audio driver as Windows 7 drivers aren't available for Optiplex 745 and Windows Vista driver is displaying ...
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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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No Signal from ASUS GeForce GT 1030
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I recently updated my PC from Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro using the Windows Medial Creation Tool, retaining my existing programs & files.
Following this update, I found that when ...
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issue with lenovo audio - windows 10
I am having an issue with my lenovo thinkpad since I bought it.
No sound devices are installed
, so the laptop speaker and microphone are not working (however I am able to use bluetotth speaker and ...
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AMD Graphics card drivers are not installing
I did a clean reinstall of windows 11 pro after I added SSD to my laptop. Now it is not working and showing confusing error messages I have attached pictures I also did a clean install for my drivers ...
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Windows 10: Cannot activate driver update in Windows update
In Windows Update's settings, driver update has been excluded from Windows Update by a group policy.
But the respective policy was not configured. I deactivated it and now the respective entry is ...
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How do I sign kernel modules in Linux to successfully install NVIDIA drivers using dkms?
I use Kubuntu 18.04 and I'm trying to install NVIDIA driver using the run file provided by NVIDIA itself instead of using package managers.
I first Installed the following packages:
$ sudo nano /etc/...
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win 7 installation issue "No device drivers were found..."
Just bought a new PC and I'm trying to install win 7 from USB. I had my ISO file on my other laptop, and I used windows usb tool to copy the ISO to the USB after formatting it to exFAT (tried NTFS but ...
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Built-in webcam on Asus laptop missing under imaging devices in Windows 7
My built-in webcam for U43JC Asus laptop (Windows 7 32 bit) did not work, saying
The camera is being used by another program.
I searched on the net to solve the problem and the solution that ...
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How to disable bluetooth collaboration
I have a Bluetooth device and I've discovered that my wireless card has a configuration called "Bluetooth collaboration" which slows down the WiFi connection. I have also discovered that if I disable ...
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How do I back up my drivers so I can clean install Windows 10 onto an SSD?
I have a computer I bought in 2013, and I'm thinking of putting an SSD in there. My computer, Samsung NP700Z5C-S02UB, came with Windows 8, and ran 8.1 and currently runs Windows 10.
I have already ...
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Duplicate devices in device manager
When choosing the option "show hidden devices" in device manager, I can see many duplicate hidden devices:
Is that normal? Can I delete the disconnected ones safely?
Also, I have noticed ...
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Toshiba Win10 Upgrade: No Function Keys (Brightness or Volume keys etc) after upgrade
I just upgraded from Win 8.1 to Win 10, on my Toshiba L50D-B notebook.
Win 10 System crashed - black screen, locked-up desktop function, no touchpad function etc.
None of the troubleshooting worked, ...
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Screen blurriness: driver color misalignment?
My new OLED screen (Philips Evnia 42M2N8900) causes a lot of eye strain when working with text and it appears to be related to blurriness. In particular, the following examplary close up photos seem ...
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Why am I having GPU related issues on Lenovo Thinkpad P51 when connected to an external monitor?
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad P51. Below are my specs:
Intel Core i7 7820HQ
16GB RAM
Nvidia Quadro M1200
Intel HD 630
Windows 11
I updated Nvidia driver from 535 to 550 drivers. The issue is when I ...
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Audio driver for HP chromebook 14a-na0216ng on Windows 10
I wanted to ask where i can find an audio driver for HP Chromebook 14a-na0216ng which is currently reinstalled on Windows.
I found all the other drivers but i can not find an audio one.. The sound ...
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SEMC HSUSB Driver - Windows 7. How do I get to install this thing?
I'm trying to connect my Android phone to my PC.
I know, I know. That's not an SU question, but hear me out.
The whole problem seems to be one single .inf / driver file which I just cannot manage ...
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Canon printer error 2, 140, 21
I have a canon Pixma MG2500 series 2570 printer that is 3 years old, and I wanted to test if it would work before scrapping it.
To day I installed the drivers from this Canon official website
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Intel USB3 driver install fails
I've been trying to install the Intel USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller Driver (version 3.0.0.16 as supplied by the Asus web site) but it balks when it gets to the PCI bus. At this point the entire ...
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FFmpeg decoding h265 yuv422p10 returns Failed setup for format Vulkan: hwaccel initialisation errorer
I try to test h265 10-bit yuv422p10le decoding according to test command at
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/HWAccelIntro#Vulkan
ffmpeg -init_hw_device "vulkan=vk:0" -hwaccel vulkan -...
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Understanding the Windows 11 "second stage" boot process, i.e.: where to inject a missing driver?
I'm suffering from an unbootable Windows 11 after converting the installation to IRST (Intel® Rapid Storage Technology) / VMD (Intel® Volume Management Device) RAID1 via backup/restore (Using the test ...
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Setting PWM Backlight brightness on boot
I am working with Linux version 3.10.17, using device tree to boot the kernel.
In the device tree, I define a "pwm-backlight" compatible driver. The driver defines a variable, default-brightness-...
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Device Manager: Update Driver Hangs
I have administrator access to my windows 10 Pro laptop. I've opened the Device Manager and discovered that I cannot update any device driver of any kind. No matter what device I pick (Display ...
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Ubuntu VNC failing to connect after Nvidia driver update
I am using Real VNC to connect to an Ubuntu 18.04 desktop. Yesterday, I updated the Nvidia drivers to version 535 and ran sudo reboot. Since then, however, I am unable to connect to the desktop, with ...
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I can't install headset drivers
I bought new headset (Razer kraken 7.1) and I have some issues with them. When I plug the headset into my PC, it tries to install 2 same drivers (kraken 7.1 drivers) but both fail. When I plug the ...
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HP Pavilion dv6748us: Dummy Output on Linux Mint 20.3
I recently installed Linux Mint on this HP Pavilion dv6748us laptop to use as my main "portable" device aside my phone.
Up until now, it was a nightmare to set all up. Given that it has an ...
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Updated driver for (playstation 1/2 to usb driver) now input is no longer read
I have a cheap USB to playstation 1 / 2 adapter that I was trying to get working using some drivers.
They initially appeared as a HID Compliant Game Controller, and using the windows 10 setup usb ...
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Why is a Intel AX210 Wi-Fi 6E card not recognized by Linux?
I just bought an AX210NGW and installed it in my laptop motherboard, however I am having some issues with it: Linux simply does not recognize it. I attach the description of my machine below.
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