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Drivers are the middleware that allow computer programs to use resources of a specific hardware device.

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Support for windows audio drivers on a chromebook

I am running windows on a Levono Ideapad 3 chromebook and I cant find an audio driver without paying for it. Does anybody know how I can find a driver? Specs: Intel(R) Celeron(R) N4020 CPU @ 1.10GHz ...
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How to determine proper driver for DELL Latitude?

I have a DELL Latitude notebook with Win10 running on it. OS and drivers have latest version and also the video driver origins from the graphic chhip vendor. The problem I have with the notebook is ...
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Display bug on UEFI, grub, Linux and plugged in Windows

The bug Hi, since a few days I have a really annoying bug: Black stripes are appearing in the top 40% of the screen and the bottom part freeze. This bug appear in Linux (Ubuntu 22.04), grub, UEFI and ...
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How do i check the thunderbolt port?

I have an acer aspire 7 A715-51G. On the spec sheet it says it has thunderbolt 4 and also on the port it has the small logo. But i can't see any drivers for thunderbolt nor can i see it in the intel ...
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Do the Realtek Audio drivers have anything to do with USB headset volume?

I have three entries in my Windows 10s Device Manager that have Realtek in their label: I'm trying to troubleshoot a long-lasting audio issue with the volume of my USB headset speakers (the USB PnP ...
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Drivers required for Mac Mini 2014 (A1347) for Windows 10 to run properly

I've decided to dedicate my complete Mac Mini A1347 to Windows 10 as it is not compatibble with the current MacOS. So I've cleaned its SSD and installed Windows 10 only from the USB installation media....
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Headset volume randomly changes to loudest setting despite Windows 10 saying it's at 2%

There are a lot of similar questions to mine, but I haven't found any describing mine exactly: The most popular question I found is Windows 10 volume randomly jumps to 100% but that answer (a RealTek ...
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NVIDIA graphics driver can't be loaded

After upgrading Debian 11 to 12 and kernel version 6.5.0-1, I found my NVIDIA driver somehow broken. Using (sudo) nvidia-settings, I got following output. caeleste@spectre:~$ nvidia-settings ERROR: ...
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Dual-boot Bluetooth with LE QC35II headphones on Windows / Linux inconsistent or not working

I've been having a terrible time connecting my Bose QC35II (LE) to Windows 11 when I also have a Linux Mint partition on a separate M.2 drive for months. It was the same story on Windows 10, Debian/...
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hard drive not visible on windows install

I have an old HP 4-1162sf laptop. When I try to install Windows 8.1, the SATA drive is not visible. I tried to install the Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver, it is detected as "Intel Mobile ...
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ASUS Motherboard drivers for windows server 2022

I have an asus z790-plus TUF Gaming Wifi D5 Intel LGA 1700 ATX MotherBoard. I know it says officially that is supports windows 10 and 11. But I need to install windows server 2022 and the drivers are ...
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Laptop Display doesn't turn on after waking up from suspend2ram on linux

My laptop screen and keyboard backlight doesn't work after waking up from sleep but the laptop wakes up (sometimes rarely it works as I open the lid) , like if I suspend it while watching a video, ...
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Can we install nvidia datacenter GPUs (e.g. A100) with Quadro GPUs (e.g. RTX A6000) in a same system?

Our group has a linux server with 4A100 PCIE 80G and 4RTX A6000 on board. The A6000s work just fine however the A100s stuck at P0 state all the time (see the GPU 2 & 3 in the nvidia-smi output ...
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Upgrading an older HP Pavilion laptop from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10

I'm updating someone's older HP Pavilion laptop from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, using Microsoft's Media Creation Tool. I've created a recovery partition and made a complete system backup, in case ...
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fixing up very old pc so it can connect to internet again

I upgraded my uncles windows 7 computer to windows 10 and it cant connect to internet now. looking around the internet i find the most common problem being the drivers. when i go to device manager>...
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Logitech mouse driver connecting TCP to a weird website

I recently downloaded Process Monitor to see what processes were running on my computer. I noticed one process, lghub_agent.exe, which apparently is my mouse driver ( i have a Logitech mouse ) , that ...
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Intel Graphics Driver and Control Panel keeps reinstalling itself

It is on an old Lenovo laptop. Win 10 64 bit. It always had problems with random BSOD with error in dxgmm2.sys, as millions of cases around the world. Following suggestions, I tried to uninstall ...
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How to uninstall nonexistent HID devices that persist accross windows installs

When I reinstalled windows, my trackpad was not working. as part of one of the trouble shooting steps, I added some human interface devices manually, which are non-existent. (step was to manually add ...
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Ubuntu can't connect usb Wifi

My motherboard has only wired network adapter. I am trying to connect through wifi usb. System detects the networks, tries to connect, but authentication always fail (wrong password is no option, I am ...
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Security issue with chinese macro keyboard and their drivers?

We got new macro rgb keyboards and knobs and I, as well as a bunch of users, keep getting popups to allow odd things, especially .msi executions and firewall exceptions. I thought this is only ...
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Dell Venue 8 pro's bios freezes when inserted flashdrive

My dell venue 8 pro windows tablet was not booting so i wanted to clean install windows 10 (tablet has only 1 port that is micro usb and no other port). When i inserted bootable flash drive whole bios ...
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Can't find a way to make my usb pen Realtek 8811CU work on kali linux

I've been trying the whole afternoon to make it work . I followed many guides but nothing seems to work . I'm kinda new to kali linux. I'm using it on virtualbox and first thing i've done was to set ...
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mother board have usb 3 but it is shown and use as a usb 2 device

I have a motherboard zebh61m2. This one do not have usb3 and only usb2 port is present. But I found a 19pin header with label "f_usb_3.0" on the motherboard, so in hope of it support usb3 I ...
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Laptop sometimes boots with an black screen

So the problem i identified is my AMD Ryzen 7 6800H with integrated radeon graphics i think the BIOS or something uses the integrated graphics to boot thats why i dont see any boot information and ...
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NAT virtio-net network adapter not working on VirtualBox windows guest

We are following this post, to make the guest machine use the VPN of the host. However, on a Windows 10 host of VirtualBox 7.0.10, a Windows 2016 guest failed to recognize a network device of NAT Para-...
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Laptop goes a Sleep state randomly

I have a Dell Inspiron 15 5567 laptop with intel i3-6006u almost 5 years old laptop. Within this 5 year span the only repair that was done was 2 battery replacement. Recently the laptop goes into a ...
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i2c driver linux, where is .ko file, recompile single driver and enable

I have SBC: mango pi mq-pro Processor: Allwinner D1 Distribution: Linux Ubuntu 5.17.0-1003-allwinner riscv64 Link at distro: https://wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/lichee/RV/ubuntu.html I need to enable ...
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Onboard audio not detected Asrock windows 11

Foremost, I do not use headphones that much aside from gaming (and I didn't game in the last months) so the one thing I do not know is when, precisely, this problem started. I'm sure that until I had ...
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Xbox One Controller not identifiable in Windows 11

A friend's Xbox One controller suddenly stopped working on Windows 11 so I've been helping to troubleshoot. Connecting the controller to the Windows 11 PC results in a USB Device could not be ...
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USB-Ports do not work completely on a DELL Latitude D620 with Windows 10 (SSD)

I have equipped my old DELL Latitue D620 notebook with an SSD and installed Win 10 Pro on it. The overall performance is surprisingly good. Now I also have a port replicator, which has a total of 4 x ...
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Any video or audio misses the few first couple of seconds; I must scroll back to the beginning to see/hear the first few seconds

When I play any media (audio or video) in any software, the first two or three seconds are skipped. The media starts at 00:02 or 00:03 or so. The only way to access the first few seconds is to ...
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New display, blurry text/desktop

I bought a TCL C835 (Mini LED 4K TV to use as PC monitor replacing my old Samsung Q80R (4K UHD TV - 2019), but my text/desktop is very blurry and texts almost blend in their backgrounds depending on ...
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How am I supposed to reinstall gpu drivers when there is no integrated graphics?

Ok, So I just got my first desktop pc, And I'm Loving it. There's an major ptoblem tho. After I installed the new gpu drivers almost every game crashes and some games just crash my whole pc. It is an ...
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How do you Reset the Windows Updates Software List When There is a Superius Update Which Has Been Already Installed

I am using Windows 11 and my update list shows: When I type: Install-Module -Name PSWindowsUpdate Import-Module -Name PSWindowsUpdate Get-WindowsUpdate Download-WindowsUpdate Install-WindowsUpdate I ...
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Intermittant Touchpad Driver

I'm having trouble with touchpad drivers that are intermittently failing, and would appreciate further steps for troubleshooting. I've searched for help on Acer forums, but they've failed to provide a ...
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Why does Windows need to "get devices ready"?

When moving a disk containing Windows to another computer, it always takes a long time on first boot with a screen like this: On Linux there is no such thing. The drivers are part of Linux kernel, ...
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Black screen when using RX 470, but works fine with integrated graphics?

I have been facing a persistent issue with my Dell Optiplex 9020 system equipped with an RX 470 graphics card. The problem started a month ago, where the monitor displays a black screen when connected ...
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Drivers, arm, gpio, pinctrl

I have some problems with gpio at banana pi m5. I use Armbian_23.05.0-trunk_Bananapim5_jammy_current_6.1.15.img distribution from official site of Banana Pi. I need add more UART interfaces at 40 ...
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Laptop never suspends after closing the lid; `journalctl` is surprisingly empty about it

Here is the begining of the "go-to-sleep-because-lid-closed" procedure: Aug 01 21:43:29 wonderland systemd-logind[655]: Suspending... Aug 01 21:43:29 wonderland kernel: NVRM ...
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Can't uninstall firewall driver from network adapter

Summary: I go to Network Connections, right-click my adapter and choose Properties. On the Networking tab, I select Agnitum Firewall Driver, then click the Uninstall button. This fails with the ...
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Network driver keeps malfunctioning

I'm using an ASUS TUF F15 laptop with Windows 11 installed. Sometimes, the network stops working out of the blue, no networks are shown when I try to look for the available networks. Here's an image ...
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Windows driver installation fails without explanation - where do I view the logs?

I'm attempting to install a kernel driver that I have built using Visual Studio Code in Windows 10. Driver signature enforcement is disabled. I've tried two methods to install it: Right click the ....
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What would happen if you "forgot to click Finish" after installing drivers successfully?

Im curious as to what happens when you dont click "Finish" after a driver install and just restart pc ofc you installed the drivers successfully but what's gonna happen when you just reboot ...
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Thrustmaster Steering wheel on Ubuntu

I’m using Ubuntu. I have issue with my steering wheel. My steering wheel Thrustmaster F458 is detected as xbox gamepad in f.e. F1 22. All inputs are working and that wouldn’t be a problem, but because ...
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Rolio Wi-Fi Adapter 1800Mbps drivers for Ubuntu

I recently bought a Rolio Wi-Fi Dongle 1800Mbps: https://rolio.nl/new-wifi-adapter.html I don't see any instructions about running it on Linux and can't seem to find the chipset its using to install ...
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Drivers are not installed on D-Link DWA-137 ver1.03

When i install any driver on my adapter i get this error get this error: Failed to load the driver for this device. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39) Cannot verify the digital ...
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How to install Mercusys wifi adapter?

I am running Kali Linux as a virtual machine in VirtualBox. I have a wifi adapter from Mercusys which I would like to install, but I don't really know how to go about this. The model of wifi adapter I ...
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All USB connected devices seem to turn off and restart after a few seconds - happens every few hours

I've seen this error happen to a few others so thought I'd see if anyone has solved this type of issue. I recently built a PC a few days ago, with an i9-13900k and a 4090. motgherboard GIGABYTE Z790 ...
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Sk6812 addressable rgbw strip with mobo argb header

I was wondering if I could add an rgbw strip to my pc. I rouled out the 4pin connector for obvious reasons (no channel for w). Then, I saw a 3 pin addressable led strip with rgbw. Is there a way to ...
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Where can I find a Windows 10 PCL5 driver for an unsupported LaserJet printer?

I have an HP LaserJet 1300 printer connected to my network via a JetDirect 250m LIO Internal Print Server. The printer works from any Windows 8.1 computer on my network, but I have been unable to find ...
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