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Forum discussion tagged with driver.
  1. Archon of the Valley

    Question Transparent Taskbar and opaque Start Menu with the last two Nvidia driver releases ?

    Previously, I made a post here about this same issue where the Taskbar would go transparent (without the blur effect) and the Start Menu would be completely opaque. With that previous issue, I was able to whittle down the cause to a toggle in Winaero Tweaker that I accidentally enabled, which...
  2. K

    Question upgraded from rtx 3070 to a radeon 7900 gre and getting WORSE frames+stutters?

    hi all, i was just wondering if yall can help me figure out why this new card is working so poorly compared to my 3070 the system im running is: ryzen 5 5600x 16 gb ddr4 ram radeon 7900 gre 550 watt power supply (i know, a 750 watt is coming soon, but this is my main concern) i did the whole...
  3. E

    Question How do I Install dual GPUs ?

    Hi there. I have an RX 6800 XT and an RX 580 8gb and I want use both at the same time (Not crossfire X ) not in-game but for Rander. My motherboard supports Dual GPUs but when I install the RX 6800 XT latest driver it doesn't recognize the RX 580, and when I install RX 580 latest driver from...
  4. B

    Question A strange problem with the iGPU ?

    hi, i have recently assembled my pc: CORSAIR 4000D AIRLFOW MSI MAG B650 TOMAHAWK WIFI RYZEN 5 7600X MSI MPG A850G 32GB DDR5 5200MHZ CL36 (KF552C36BBEK2-32) THERMALRIGHT PHANTOM SPIRIT 120 SE I don't currently have a dGPU, but I plan to purchase one soon, the problem is. my AMD Radeon iGPU...
  5. T

    Question Trouble with finding unknown driver

    Hello I've just registered on this forum, and i have to say the "archive" here has helped me a whole lot of times, and i am really grateful for that. However there is one issue i have witch i somehow can not manage to solve, and that i have been searching around the internet for ages and only...
  6. Nitsugaaa3

    Question Ethernet Problem

    Hello, how are you? I have an issue with my Ethernet connection: it becomes unstable at high speeds. I have a fiber optic internet connection with a download speed of 1 Gbps. I’ve already updated drivers, reinstalled Windows, and changed the Ethernet cable, but the problem persists. The only way...
  7. Ruwaid123

    Question Xbox Elite 2 Controller showing as HID Keyboard Device on bluetooth

    Hi Everyone, I've purchased an Xbox Elite 2 controller and its showing as HID Keyboard Device in my device manager. Iv uninstalled all drivers and installed the xbox accessories program, ensured that the controller is up to date. Same issue Wired, seems to be appearing fine as an xbox...
  8. T

    Question Missing Drivers

    Hi everyone Im currently facing a problem within my device Manager and the problem is under the Tab "other devices" within it are 2 things called "PCI Memory Controller" and "SM Bus Controller" I have tried to update them trough the device manager but it doesnt work, I have also seen that there...
  9. jomgeorge

    Question BSOD and crashing after SSD upgrade on laptop ?

    Hi everyone, I'm experiencing a strange problem with my ASUS TUF A15 (2022) laptop, and I'm hoping someone here can help me figure it out. I really appreciate any advice or insights you can offer. Here's the situation: I originally had a PCIe Gen 3.0 500GB M.2 NVMe SSD in my laptop, but I...
  10. Milan0308

    Question Windows driver updates vs manufacturer driver

    So windows downloading a newer driver that's on the manufacturer site (Asus) such as: Intel management interface. I check it on armoury crate too. I saw that newer drivers are not always the best for my hardware. So should I disable windows drivers update? And windows not download my chipset...
  11. N

    Question DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE : Lenovo Laptop. Need help identifying faulty driver.

    Some context. Laptop seems to behave weirdly whenever I connect an external USB storage device. This ranges from extremely sluggish speeds when navigating Windows explorer to Strange UI glitches. All of this culminated in a BSOD yesterday night. I had plugged in the drive for some work. Post...
  12. D

    Question Having trouble with display output, bios, and graphics driver.

    I had recently built a new computer with a AORUS B650 Elite AX, a Ryzen 9 7900x, and a GTX 980 TI, now using the integrated graphics until I get my new graphics card. I had started facing problems in the beginning where I kept having trouble getting the BIOS to output to the dedicated GPU. The...
  13. J

    Question Huge latency spikes

    Hi all, I'm at the end of my rope here. So far I've tried all solutions and potential fixes I could find till now. I really hope someone has the permanent solution. Small recap. Beginnning of this year, January, I was getting constant latency spikes. I've been tracking them with LatencyMon and...
  14. WiSurvive98

    Question HELP! After Clean Install Windows 10 Audio Missing

    I just do clean install windows 10, everything seems normal, no problem, but i just notice that my Audio is missing, it says "No speakers or headphones are plugged in" Both Rear and Front panel not working I've tried these steps: 01. I've install Realtek Audio, it installed, but nowhere to be...
  15. Omar Omari

    Question Front and rear audio jacks on motherboard, "Board Explorer" show as "Disconnected" as opposed to other slots' "Empty", and no audio output or input ?

    Front and back sound jacks on motherboard "Board Explorer" show as "Disconnected" as opposed to other slots' "Empty", and no audio output or input I have encountered this problem after buying this computer on facebook marketplace, and I didnt think to check the audio. PC specs. MBD: MSI...
  16. aymen11512

    Question suddenly im getting a black screen and my gpu fans going full speed

    hello, 2 days ago i started having an issue with my PC, when im playing (mainly rainbow six siege because thats all i play) i get a black screen, sometimes the gpu fans go on full speed, sometimes the rgb on the gpu starts flickering, so i have to shut the pc down from the power button on the...
  17. kelerman23

    Question Strange annoying issue with nvidia gpu - sudden jump in gpu usage and drop frames without any reason!!

    Hey i have a strange issue with my rtx 4060 on my dell xps laptop the issue is on all games after a while of playing the usage of gpu jump to 100% and the frames drops to the half without changing sitting in the same scene in the game without changing anything like for example fifa 23 or...
  18. Dasa

    Question MX500 current health 84% current driver M3CR023, need action?

    So I have MX500 500GB for several years and it is my youngest drive (rest is not SSD but much older) and decided to check health and driver after reading some post and I have no clue if I need to take action or not? it is very difficult to transfer files and re-download everything, so want to...
  19. S

    Question Seeking advice on AMD CPU software/driver re-installation

    Hi, these are my installed software/drivers already installed but dated. Image link: https://ibb.co/k1dpcW3 I want to download the latest CPU/Motherboard chipset related software/driver for my system. For this, how do I proceed? Can I use Revo uninstaller to remove them individually? If so...
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    Question Windows 10 not recognizing any audio besides hdmi after installing new gpu (please read, I have tried everything for 2 days now)

    So I recently upgraded from a gtx 1660s to an rtx 3060. No issues at all at first, everything seemed to go as smoothly as possible. I go to start a game to test the new card after installing the newest drivers, and notice there is no sound. "Okay, obviously I need to change my default output...
  21. lyingfire

    Question Microphone has "noise gate" sound ONLY in certain apps

    As said, whenever I'm talking through discord, game chat or even OBS my Blue Yeti microphone has this noise gate filter added on to it and severely lowers the sound quality. HOWEVER, only on Fl Studio does my mic sound perfectly crystal clear. I've updated my drivers for both Realtek and Blue...
  22. V

    Question Driver or MoBo hardware issue - - - - no audio, and Bluetooth PCIe card not detected ?

    Issues that were both working prior to this: No sound coming from 3.5mm MoBo and Front Panel. (only got sound if I use the monitor speaker via HDMI to GPU) Bluetooth PCIe card not being detected by MoBo MoBo : Gigabyte B450 AORUS M Bluetooth PCIe card : Asus PCE-AX3000 I have reset the PC...
  23. D

    Question AMD Drivers cause apps to no longer open

    Hello! I am building a PC for my little brothers friend and he is running into an issue. Installing AMD drivers on his brand new computer causes apps to not open upon restarting. He has a 6650xt with a 5600G for a processor. The PC, upon rebooting, only opens apps sometimes, and other times the...
  24. Zii

    Question Windows 10 update bricked my system ?

    I usually like to supervise my PC while it does an update, but I only update a few times a year. My system is also a server and needs to be online pretty much 24/7. This latest update happened while I was away for a D&D game (Thursday night, Feb 1st) . Had tons of stuff open that clearly didn't...
  25. X

    Question Monitor shows as "generic-non-pnp" after updating graphics driver ?

    I've just updated the graphics driver and suddnly my monitor turned to "genrinc-non-pnp". I can't update it's driver as long as i use the nivida driver. I can only change the monitor driver when Windows basic display on. I tried to roll back the nivida driver but that didn't fix it, my monitor...
  26. C

    Question PC (Windows 11 Pro) stopped recognizing ANY external HD (Show up in BIOS and device manager as other device)

    [Situation] My Windows 11 PC stopped recognizing all sorts of external HD. Whenever I plug an external drive into a USB port, I immediately hear the "ding" USB sound it usually makes which means Windows knows something is plugged in. But it always shows up under "Other device" in the device...
  27. S

    Question Your Windows needs driver to install Xeon e52650 v4 ?

    Hello I bought a chineese motherboard from here: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006034265361.html?gps-id=platformRecommendH5&scm=1007.40000.326746.0&scm_id=1007.40000.326746.0&scm-url=1007.40000.326746.0&pvid=02439dfc-7fcf-4227-bd40-9c The motherboard socket is 2011-3 and I installed a...
  28. GekYume

    Question Driver Timeout Crash

    I got a Radeon RX 6600 XT paired with R5 5600 it's been wit me for about 6 months now in a new rig Got an issue where sometimes I get driver timeouts for an unknown reason? like for example when i Alt-Tab from a game the driver dies or share my screen on discord (dies) sometimes it even...
  29. johnx125

    Question Radeon Software installer says installation was not completed but it actually was?!

    Hello everyone, today I went to update my graphics drivers the same way I've done it many times.. went to radeon software downloaded and started installing the new driver (version 23.12.1) However this time I got the error 1603 when the install was at 99%. It said the installation could not be...
  30. M

    Question Does Windows 11 come with inbox Touchscreen driver?

    Hi, Soon I am going to buy Dell 3140 touchscreen laptop. While looking for Windows 11 drivers for this model on Dell Support site, I notice that there are no touchscreen drivers mentioned. There's only something called Intel HID Event Filter Driver RECOMMENDED Mouse, Keyboard & Input...
  31. Corvii

    Question BSOD - - - -> "Driver Power State Failure" ?

    Hello. I have been getting weird driver and PC crashes on startup and if it doesn't crash on startup, everything is fine afterwards. I would appreciate any help. Thank you! Computer Type: Desktop GPU: RX 7900 XT CPU: RYZEN 5 7600X Motherboard: B650 AORUS Elite AX BIOS Version: F8 RAM: 32GB...
  32. jetevois

    Question "DPC and ISR routines that belong to a driver running in your system appear to be executing for too long" ?

    so i installed new nvidia driver for my GTX 1070 as usual with nvcleanstall and ddu to remove the old driver. but this time when i finish updating the driver when i play music it will stutter/lag while opening another program. I tried updating another driver too but it didn't work. I rolled...
  33. hicar128

    Question System crashing when gaming, black/artifact screen

    I built my PC a little over 8 years ago and have been running into an issue for the past year or so. Almost every time when I play games my monitors will go black (sometimes a solid color), then have a glitched screen for a few seconds (I'll attach a video), then come back to normal. It's always...
  34. S

    Question Windows won't update FocalTech USB fingerprint reader driver. Can you help?

    Today I used the FocalTech USB fingerprint reader, and the windows automatically installed driver version 1.0.3.58 dated 11/29/2019. However, there is a newer driver version 3.5.7911.3546 dated 8/31/2023 as per this Microsoft catalog Microsoft Update Catalog. I download the driver as .cab and...
  35. richiestang_78

    storahci.sys causing blue screen

    Didnt mean to double post but thought I should add some more details and a new post seemed easier, I keep getting sporadic bluescreen crashes, seems to be mostly when I leave my computer and it goes to sleep, I know because it will be on the login screen when I come back. I then checked the...
  36. T

    Question Windows 11 not recognizing NVME M.2 drive

    Hi, after I installed raid drivers from the MSI support page, my NVME drive disappeared and cannot be used. I tried restarting my PC, reinstalling Windows, resetting CMOS, and updating BIOS. At first, it showed up as hidden in the device manager, and I don't see it on disk management. I then...
  37. sinshock555

    Question Graphics driver doesn't load or work properly, but I suspect it's not the GPU's fault, details in the description. Help!

    So I've been having this problem for years without ever figuring out the answer. Sometimes when I boot up the PC, it feels like the graphic driver for my GPU didn't even load, GPU fans don't spin at all, and I get like 10 FPS, and I need to restart the machine for it to work properly again...
  38. D

    Question Graphics device error code 43 in device manager

    Hello everyone. This will be a long message just to make you understand what the problem is. Thanks for your patience. I have Lenovo Ideapad Z575 laptop with AMD A8-3500M APU with AMD Radeon HD 6620G as integrated graphics and AMD Radeon HD 6650M as discrete one. My operating system is...
  39. azar.barzin

    Question Nvidia Quadro K2100M can not find any driver update on the Nvidia website.

    Hi I have a Lenovo laptop for my video editing. It has an Nvidia Quadro K2100M graphic card. The graphic card driver is outdated, and the Adobe Premiere Pro 2023 is incompatible with the driver installed on my PC. It says compatibility issues update your Nvidia Quadro K2100M driver. But when I...
  40. W

    Question Both screens go off while gaming, need to reinstall drivers afterwards

    So whenever I start up a game both screens will lose connection while my pc keeps running. When restarted only 1 screen is on and when trying to start up AMD adreline i get the following message "The version of AMD software you have launched is not compatible with your current installed AMD...