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Windows 11 freezes on boot screen after I install graphics drivers (multi-GPU setup on workstation motherboard)
I don't encounter this problem on Ubuntu or Fedora, but on Windows 11, after the first boot and after I install drivers for the graphics cards (2x NVIDIA RTX 3090), rebooting will result in the ...
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How do I setup another BT adapter after previous one didnt setup?
I built a new PC and to get my bluetooth devices connected to it, i initially used a cheap Bluetooth adapter, which in order to setup & install it's drivers, told me to disable memory integrity in ...
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Is this OEM section in an .inf driver file a bug?
I can't seem to find the driver name. Instead of specifying the name, this .inf seems to specify;
[Manufacturer]
%OEM%=OEM,NTx86,NTamd64
[OEM.NTx86]
%PRINTER1%=INSTALL_SECTION,USBPRINT\...
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Windows 11 system corrupted? no WU, no in-place reinstall, no SFC, no DISM, …
Trying to update the Nvidia drivers to the latest 552.44 I realized my Windows installation is royally crippled...
First.
The drivers installation failed. And then it suddenly removed the 552.22 ...
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how can i uninstall **ALL** the non-windows drivers permanently without data loss in windows 11
After experimenting with various driver installations on my laptop, I've ended up with numerous options for a single device in the device manager. How can I efficiently uninstall all the non-Windows ...
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How do I install Mice and pointing devices in device manager without using a mouse?
My mouse was working but following the use of a driver updater it stopped.
Sadly, Mice and pointing devices is not showing in device manager. I want to view hidden devices to see if it has been hidden,...
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Windows DPC latency increasing over time, despite different hardware configurations
Here's the scenario: I recently completed a new AM5 build consisting of the following components:
B650M Aorus Elite AX motherboard
Ryzen 7950X processor
Corsair Vengeance DDR5 memory (2x32GB)
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Graphics drivers keep crashing when booting up android studio device emulator after I removed wrong drivers
Here is what happend.
I have a surface laptop 4 (AMD-win11) that was running it's custom drivers from microsoft. I use android studio device emulator(virtual device manager) to make android apps. This ...
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My mouse keeps turning off, I've no idea what could be a reason
I bought this Legion M300s mouse 6 month ago, and it worked perfectly all this time with my Acer Aspire 7 laptop. Some time ago it started to randomly turn off (the device manager still sees it ...
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touchscreen goes to sleep after idle
Recently i bought a new lenovo flex 5 with windows 11 preinstalled. I noticed that the touchscreen goes to sleep after a few seconds of leaving it idle. When i use it continuously, it works flawlessly....
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Make WSL register GPU as the correct GPU and not a microsoft driver
I am trying to run a cuda (qubic.li - Client) program on linux using WSL. I have two main problems.
my GPU is AMD (I get around this using ZLUDA)
WSL does not register my GPU as AMD meaning that ...
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How to automatically install removed network printers?
By default Windows installs network printers automatically with an IPP or another type of basic print driver.
I discovered that when you delete such an automatically installed printer it won't be ...
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How to configure Windows/Linux to support absolute-mouse-mode for remote operation via KVM?
I am working on a project where we want to connect different dual-screen PC systems (mostly Windows+Linux) with a dualhead KVM switch. The KVM switch uses absolute mouse mode to position the mouse on ...
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Installation of Drivers Via Programming Language
I have a Driver called X that manages a hardware component A. I would like to remove that drive and replace it with one called Y that also manages the component A.
So far I have been using .NET ...
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Uninstalling a device in Windows 10
I have the devices below, but when I right-click uninstall in Device Manager, it uninstalls correctly, reappearing when I refresh the list of devices.
Is there a way to uninstall the device from the ...
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Getting memory / driver related BSOD while memory is supposedly intact
Good day everyone,
I finally decided to search for some help on here after struggling with blue screens multiple times a day for almost half a year now. The blue screens codes I come across are:
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windows: Laptop does not detect GPU and can not install nvidia drivers after running DDU (display driver uninstaller)
I wanted to clean the prev installation of nvidia drivers which is why I used DDU. But after using DDU I can not install Nvidia drivers as my laptop refuses to recognize the d-gpu. Any help is greatly ...
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Computer is incompatible to g driver setup
So recently my windows got corrupted and I installed a new version of windows (Windows 7 Professional) but when I am trying to install the G-Driver that I used before it is saying that your pc is ...
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How to install AMD display (graphics) drivers on Windows Server 2019 standard?
We've got the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (with integrated graphics) on the ASROCK X670E Steel Legend motherboard. The problem is that either ASROCK's or AMD official drivers do NOT work - they refuse to ...
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Wifi card suddenly non-functioning on Windows 10, unable to install drivers (MediaTek MT7921, Asus TUF Gaming B650-PLUS WIFI)
What the title says. All of a sudden, my Wifi card (MediaTek Wi-Fi 6 MT7921 Wireless LAN Card in device manager on an ASUS TUF Gaming B650-PLUS WIFI board) stopped working on my Windows 10 install.
It ...
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NVIDIA Control Panel files missing (nvcplui.exe)
I wanted to remove Geforce Experience and the Nvidia control panel because I thought that it would fix an issue with my computer where it would 70% of the time freeze after a few minutes of using it ...
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BSODs related to ntoskrnl after fresh install of Windows 11
Yesterday I did a fresh install of Windows 11 and began to get bluescreens in the form of IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED, and KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED, they're all ...
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Windows XP "Base System Device"
I've got an old Acer Aspire One 531h laptop my friend gave me. I'm trying to make some use out of it, so I did a fresh install of Windows XP. All my devices and hardware (as far as I know) work. Yet ...
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Bluetooth Button on Windows 11 Keeps Disappearing
Every now and then, my computer's bluetooth functionality turns off. Usually this fixes itself with a restart of the device, but the issue is persistent enough that it is troublesome.
When the issue ...
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What user-mode and kernel mode driver does Windows using WDDM drivers load for DirectDraw HAL?
I started using Process Explorer to look at the DLLs referred by the programs.
Surprisingly, applications utilising only DirectDraw HAL don't seem to call any graphics related library/driver. It is ...
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How to return to original USB driver?
I am struggeling to get some communication via USB using PyUSB (help there is also very much appreciated). For me, the documentation of PyUSB does not cover the full picture (including such traps and ...
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Weird intermittent keymapping issue on Windows
I've got the strangest issue lately. Multiple times a day, one key is duplicating another i.e. a short while ago pressing L was producing E (as well as E still producing E).
I get the same behaviour ...
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Nvidia Driver install - this computer is not compatible
I'm trying to install an older version of Nvidia Driver(451.67) dated to 2020.7.9 on my computer. It's 64 bit driver and my system is also 64 bit. When trying to install, it prompts 'The system is not ...
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NVMe/SSD Driver for Razer Blade 15 Advanced 2021 (Razer CH570 motherboard)
I have the Razer Blade 15 Advanced 2021 (RZ09-0409), and I'm trying to reinstall Windows. When I boot into the installation media, I can't select my SSD as the target device for installation. This ...
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How to re-enable drivers on not bootable Windows 10?
I have used Sysinternals Autoruns and disabled some intel drivers from autorun (similar to msconfig), after which my Windows 10 instance won't boot (blue screen) and Win 10 Install USB can't autofix ...
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Mouse wheel scrolling is jumpy only on some boot ups
Sometimes I boot a windows 10, the mouse wheel is scrolling stably, not a single jump, but in some boots of windows it's all jumpy that I can't even scroll and have to use another method. It doesn't ...
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Cannot uninstall hp hotkey support windows 11
Hi this morning i received this popup from windows It says: HP hotkey notification display has stopped working and then in the other pop up it says something along the lines of this: "Unable to ...
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Change default driver for USB-device
I'm working on a small project which uses PlayStation Buzz!-controllers. The newer controller get automatically detected has HID-devices, but the older versions are unfortunately detected as a ...
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etwr/etwd Extremely High Memory Usage
Posted this on stackoverflow and was advised to post here for better help.
I have been using a program that I made that is built on .NET 6 and does some TCP and SQL related operations to put it simply....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Can't uninstall firewall driver from network adapter
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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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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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Bluetooth chip showing as Unknown USB Device - can't get Windows to recognise it
I'm on Windows 10. I was using the default Windows Bluetooth drivers, but tried installing the manufacturer ones. They were worse, so I uninstalled them again.
After the uninstall, the Bluetooth ...
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What is the difference between Software Components and Software Devices in Window's Device Manager?
What is the difference between Software Components and Software Devices in Window's Device Manager?
The answers that I could find online weren't satisfactory. For Software Devices, I understand that ...
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BSODs caused only by opening Rainbow Six Siege
Started a week or so ago - Consistent BSOD when I attempt to boot R6 siege. I can get it to work just fine if I power drain the PC and no apparent issues when I can get in game but by the next time I ...
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