Question Intel MEI - Simple PCI Communications Controller Driver

Jul 20, 2024
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Hello everyone. I'm having this problem that's been causing a lot of issues for me and it's already driving me a bit insane. After resetting and formatting my PC, my device manager tells me that my "Simple PCI Communications Controller Driver" doesn't exist, or isn't installed or whatever. I looked everything up but my PC is a bit old already and everything I found didn't work for me. Like the existing MEIs don't work, because I have an i7-2600. I genuinely don't know what to do anymore, I've tried everything.
This issue only started ocurring after formatting the PC, and now when I try to play video games or play a video it'll ocasionally audio chop and micro-stutter, and this PCI driver thingy might be the issue, because if it isn't, I don't know what is. My GPU has the record of being a bit faulty at times, but honestly I was used to it because I have no money to upgrade. But never did it stutter like this or audio chop like it is now.
My GPU is a GTX 1060 3GB, my CPU an i7-2600, I'm running Windows 10 22H2.
My computer model is an Asus CG Series - the CG8250.
Any help is appreciated, thank you guys very much.