Questions tagged [drivers]
Drivers are the middleware that allow computer programs to use resources of a specific hardware device.
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After plugging in a USB device, Win7 severely slows. What causes this and how could it be fixed?
This is the second PC undergoing this condition, both running Win7. On PC1 a Logitech device was connected through USB before installing it's branded driver (allowing windows to auto-install it), and ...
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Why don't device and app sound mixers match?
My question is specified in the title, to be more exact I would like to show this particular screenshot of the sound mixer:
As you can see here, the volume of the IE reached the maximum level, but ...
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Windows 8.1 Does not Detect Bluetooth Headset
I have the Motorola S11 Flex HD wireless Bluetooth headset which I have had connected to a Windows 8.1 Pro x64 machine with an Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 + Bluetooth for Desktop card. This ...
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How can I swap the usage of the 'fn' key for my Razer Blackwidow on OSX?
I just bought the Razer Blackwidow 2013 keyboard, and after installing drivers (Synapse 2.0) I run into a strange issue:
My function keys started to work very strange. They started to use their "...
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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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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 fades out
I'm having an issue with Windows 10 audio: when listening to something/watching a movie the audio automatically fades out and drops to a lower volume. To be clear, the volume indication in Windows ...
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Alternative synaptics touchpad driver for windows 7
I have hp pavillion dv6 laptop(Windows 7) with a synaptics touchpad . The gestures like two finger scroll doesn't work automatically after I disabled a startup service or something. (I dont remember ...
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Installing two different Nvidia drivers at the same time
I have a GTX1070ti for which the latest driver is 527.37.
I bought a NVS 310 for which the latest driver is 392.68.
I would like to use both cards simultaneously for different monitors. However, when ...
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How to Remap "Home" button on a Local Multimedia Keyboard without Driver
I recently purchased a multimedia keyboard (TECHNOTECH USB KEYBOARD 658) that is actually Made in China, and that doesn't come with ny driver CD or anything.
Here I want to map Home button to ...
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Where can I get Windows XP drivers for MacBook Pro hardware without using Boot Camp?
I have an Intel-based MacBook Pro whose hard disk was formatted before I received it. It had no OS installed, and I have no Mac OS X installation disks.
I’m trying to get the machine to run some ...
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Programmatically installing a system driver on Windows 7 x64
I am experimenting with the WinDDK and trying to install a system driver on a Windows 7 (x64)virtual box. I have an .inf file:
; testdriver.inf - install information file
[Version]
Signature = "$...
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nvidia driver conflict with another display adapter
I have a laptop equipped with GT540M. Drivers are fine, games are running properly. But then, when I install my tablet driver (Yiynova DP10HD, just like a cheap replacement of Wacom Cintiq) which is ...
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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 enable unsigned driver install during Windows 10 Setup?
In Windows 7 during Installation Setup one could press F8 and Force Unsigned Driver installation.
When I try to press F8 during Windows 10 setup nothing happens.
How can I enable installation of ...
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How can I remove an *extremely* stubborn driver in windows 10?
I recently bought a pen tablet to replace an old Wacom Bamboo that wasn't working correctly anymore. I've read having multiple tablet drivers can cause issues so I tried removing the Wacom drivers but ...
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Framebuffer device /dev/fb0 missing after installing Nvidia graphics drivers
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a thin client desktop with NVIDIA ION GPU. Using the commands below, I installed NVIDIA graphic drivers while logged into the TTY1 console. After install, I rebooted.
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Problems while installing Nvidia-367 Driver on Ubuntu-16.04
I had earlier installed nvidia-340, using
sudo apt-get install nvidia-340
I was trying to install Cuda-8, but it required nvidia-367. So I removed nvidia-340 and all other nvidia products, using
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Linux Mint will not boot up on my computer
I have a Razer Blade 2016 edition computer. I downloaded a Linux Mint ISO file, and used Rufus to make it a live file system on a USB. I load my computer's boot options by clicking F12 while the ...
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Questions about KMS/DRM and linux /dev/fb* devices
Basically, what I want to do is to allow most standard framebuffer graphics apps (At least, any that support being told which /dev/fb* device to use, or can deduce that from the framebuffer the VT ...
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Make USB virtual COM device persistent through reboots
EDIT: Having rethought the issue, perhaps my question can be summarized like this: Is there an existing COM terminal type program that will automatically detect when a COM port becomes unavailable and ...
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Where to find "sleep mode" drivers for debian distro?
I have HP pavillion g6 dualbooted, running windows 7 and crunchbanng 11, 64 bit, based on debian wheezy.
My crunchbang won't wake from sleep mode, I had similar problem on windows 7, solved the issue ...
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A service installation section in this inf is invalid
When I connect a Samsung phone to my Windows XP SP3, it gives the error
A service installation section in this inf is invalid
I browsed lot of blogs, every post says to try the Microsoft_User-...
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How I can fix the "Display Driver has stopped responding and has recovered"?
I'm using a GeForce GTX 580, with Windows 7 64-bit. The driver version of the GTX is 301.42.
The problem happens after a few minutes, when I'm playing specifc games. It won't happen in all games - And ...
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Downsampling on Nvidia Optimus (with Intel HD Graphics 3000)
What this is about
The question behind the question is actually how to place four virtual machines with 800x600 resolution on a screen smaller than 1600x1200. I am trying to enable split screen ...
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Windows 10 - Cannot disable signed driver installation
I am sick of trying to disable "only signed driver" installation on Windows 10.
I tried running as admin:
bcdedit /set testsigning on
bcdedit /set nointegritychecks off
But to no avail.
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Windows 7 very slow installing new usb devices
I'm find an issue on some machines I administer where, upon plugging in a USB device, Windows takes forever 'searching preconfigured driver folders' for the device driver. This includes USB disks, ...
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How to check the battery level of devices connected via Bluetooth in OS X
I have a set of Bluetooth headphones that I use with my iPhone and Macbook (OS X Yosemite).
On my iPhone, a little battery meter pops up next to the Bluetooth logo each time I'm connect the ...
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headphones showing up as recording device instead of playback device
When I plug my headphones into my laptop, for some reason they have started showing up under recording devices instead of playback devices, and no sound comes out of them. When I plug my headphones in ...
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Mouse and keybord stutter when connecting though a USB hub
I have a stutter issue when connecting USB peripherals (USB-connected mouse, keyboard) through a USB hub. I have attempted to troubleshoot to the best of my abilities, but haven't managed to solve the ...
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Which driver is resuming my USB device?
I have a USB device that correctly enters in Suspend state, but it gets Resumed after a couple of seconds, then goes back to Suspend state and the loop continues.
This happens on my notebook (Windows ...
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USB-C port only works if devices plugged during boot, and won't be recognized if Windows is running
My Dell XPS 9560 has an USB-C port, and it doesn't work correctly. If I plug in a device during boot (I mean before pressing power button), Windows can recognize it and things work normally. However, ...
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NVIDIA: “RuntimeError: No CUDA GPUs are available”
I am implementing a simple algorithm with PyTorch on Ubuntu. Two times already my NVIDIA drivers got somehow corrupted, such that running an algorithm produces this traceback:
Traceback (most recent ...
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Can I use my own driver on Windows without having to ask MS for permission while keeping Secure Boot on?
As per the subject :
I want to write my own kernel mode driver
I want to be able to use it with Secure Boot on
I don't want to ask for permission to use it (no WHQL testing or attestation signing)
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PotPlayer Crashes when changing Audio Stream
I am trying to change the audio stream when watching a video in Daum PotPlayer. Only, as soon as I change the audio stream from the default to the alternative audio, the entire application becomes ...
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USB port peripherals behaving strangely (Drivers)
Update: I fully believe this to be a driver issue at this point. I'm open to any suggestions as I've already wiped my driver and reinstalled windows so no risk of loosinf anything.
I recently ...
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Update OpenGL version to 4.6 in Ubuntu 18.04
I have problem related my nvidia driver in Ubuntu 18.04. Actually the problem occurred in computer server and I remote the computer server by using X2Go.
My Computer Server using Ubuntu 18.04
And ...
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Generic Scanner Driver for windows 10
I have a scanner UMAX astar 5600. The scanner stopped working after I upgraded to windows 10 from windows 7.
I managed to make the scanner work again by making use of Samsung scanner drivers(As ...
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Reusing old laptop webcam as USB camera
I took the webcam from an old Compaq 620 laptop and after a few wire connections I can connect it to the USB port
For a few seconds it is detected as HP Webcam 2.0 in device manager under Cameras (...
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Mongodb PHP Driver MacOS Unsigned package error
I installed MongoDB driver for PHP with the following command
sudo pecl install mongdodb
I had to disable "csrutil" at reboot to be able to run the above command. After installing the package I ...
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System interrupts causing high CPU usage
I purchased a Lenovo ThinkPad Helix 2 2-in-1 laptop/tablet second-hand around a month ago, it came with Windows 10 Pro and was working OK for a few weeks but recently I have had a problem with ...
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Windows 10: Force-Disable Palm Rejection
I recently purchased an Asus VivoBook S14 which uses their own AsusPTP precision touchpad driver. I've reinstalled the driver countless times, tweaked the touchpad sensitivity, and disabled every ...
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Windows 10: will drivers installed using testmode still work then testmode is disabled?
I have a general understanding problem with Windows Testmode and how to install unsigned drivers: I understand that if I have drivers (in my case for an USB to RS232 serial adapter) that are not ...
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How can I find out the USB Bandwidth usage of device in Windows 10
I want to view the USB bandwidth usage of different devices on my Windows 10 laptop (1607).
I found this article from Microsoft which advises to check in Device Manager, however the Advanced tab ...
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Webcam only detected through usb hub but not directly
I posted this question first on StackOverflow. I got the hint to post it here with additional information. So here is the updated question.
Original question:
I tried to connect a usb webcam directly ...
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Scripting a batch file for installing network printers
I would like to write a batch file to install multiple network printers in our office to a PC. I attempted a file with one printer using the Generic/Text driver and IP address of 192.168.11.70. When I ...
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Bypassing user account setup in windows 7
Edit: Solved! I made a fresh drive clone, ran sysprep /audit /generalize /shutdown, swapped to the target system, booting into windows 10 and used regedit to load the win7 software hive, set registry ...
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Touchpad Smooth Scrolling Obliterated In Windows 10 Creators Update
I love the Creators Update to an extent-- it has a good amount of features that are applicable for me on my Surface Pro 4. However, trackpad scrolling has just been completely obliterated. It's really ...
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Windows 7 not picking up 8th GPU
Adding on to a previous question I asked.
How many GPUs Does Windows 7 Support?
I have managed to stick 8 Nvidia GTX 980Tis into a Tyan Supermicro Box.
It's running Windows 7 Professional 64bit
It ...
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DVD-RW doesn't read or write, SAMSUNG NP700Z5C-S03SA notebook
I upgraded my windows from Win 8 to Win 8.1 and I had never used DVD driver, Now when i insert CD or DVD it took some second and then it push it out, but if the DVD was free to write on it just keep ...
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