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Compatibility of driver(s) for AMD E-350 Graphics
I inherited a notebook:
Acer Aspire 3 (E-350) (5250-0441) with Windows 7 64-bit installed.
I would like to update the drivers to the most recent valid versions. This is complicated by the fact ...
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Strange Ethernet adapter reproducible malfunction that impacts across dual boot Windows setup
The behavior is pretty confusing. The story is about my Ethernet adapter on my retro computing ASUS laptop (2011 model). It currently has Windows 7 and Windows XP on two HDDs respectively. The ...
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Bluetooth audio on windows 7 is horrible but on windows 10 it works properly
I have a Toshiba Protege R700 which has windows 10 installed. I decided to install windows 7 and daily drive it for fun. Everything sailed smoothly except of the bluetooth audio. I tried every driver ...
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No device drivers and windows boot loader available
None my other devices drivers are available. So I can connect to no devices: USB ports, or WiFi, or ethernet. I already tried to. And this device has no Bluetooth.
No device driver warning photo
My ...
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Windows 7 nVidia drivers either don't install, or don't have audio
I am running Windows 7 64 Bit, and currently have no audio. I do not have an audio device named "nVidia High Definition HDMI Output" in device manager, but when I installed drivers for what ...
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Using the Windows 7 installer environment to add missing USB drivers to the OOBE
I'm installing Windows 7 on my computer. It's fairly modern (2020), uses UEFI (with legacy support), and has no PS/2 ports or disk drive and uses a modern chipset. I used NTLite on a separate ...
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How can I install new mouse drivers on HP Desktop retail edition
I recently upgraded my HP rp5800 from windows 7 to windows 10 and a few weeks later, the mice drivers stopped working. I can seem to find the right drivers from the internet and I am unable to run ...
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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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What hardware type is for "Graphics Drivers"? [closed]
I am using a Windows 7 64-bit SP1 laptop, and I wanted to update my Graphics Driver
I went to this site and found a driver, but when I unzipped it, I didn't see an executable to install it.
https://...
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Can't share network printer from windows 11 to windows 7
I have a Kyocera TASKalfa 220 plugged into a Windows 11 PC and I want to share it with a Windows 7 one. I can share files but when I try to add it (the printer) to Windows 7 through the network it ...
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How to add NVMe drivers to an SSD to a cloned Windows installation to use in new computer so the system can boot?
I used a disc cloning software to clone a non-nvme drive into an NVMe drive.
The problem is that I need to add a couple drivers for Windows to boot. Namely, the NVMe drivers. This includes 2 hotfixes ...
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Can I use Windows Vista (x64) drivers on Windows 7 (x64)? [duplicate]
I have a Samsung NC110 Netbook and It has windows 7 on it.
I'm having some issues to find the OEM drivers for windows 7 (64-bit), because this laptop was ment to be used with Windows Vista (64/32). I ...
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Did NVIDIA eventually drop old BIOS screen modes?
I have a PC setup for retro gaming and development (I say retro...it's running Windows XP and Windows 7, if you can call that retro these days).
I've tested three different graphics cards in this ...
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How can I rename a USB sound device (headphone) in Windows Sound settings?
How can I rename the CORSAIR HS70 device, I want to get rid of the prefix "2-". I have searched the registry and replaced all strings alike, but the "2-" seems to come back. After ...
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How to integrate drivers from Windows 10 disc image to Windows 7 disc image
I watched this video, which shows that it's possible to run Windows Vista in modern PCs. The author used NTLite to integrate drivers from Windows 7 to Vista's /sources/boot.wim. I installed NTLite but ...
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I want to make 32bit INF driver file to 64bit INF
I am reviving MacBook Pro 2006 Late and installed Windows 7 64 bit on that. But the ATi Mobility Radeon X1600 driver only have 32 bit driver so Windows refuses installing driver. It says no required ...
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Install Windows 10 designed drivers on Windows 7?
My laptop is by default installed with Windows 10. I've tried to downgrade it to Windows 8, but the touchpad wasn't recognized and the screen brightness couldn't be changed due to Intel graphics ...
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Why am I still able to use unsigned drivers without pressing F8 disable driver signature enforcement?
I am booted into windows 7 with test signing off and without enabling 'disable driver signature enforcement'
These drivers are working fine and I'm not sure why.
Initially, when I installed windows 7 ...
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No connections are available on HP laptop after downgrade to Windows 7
There's a HP laptop that was downgraded to Windows 7 from Windows 10. I decided to do that because Windows 10 didn't work properly on such obsolete hardware. The system is much more responding after ...
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Do I need to install driver for this graphics card on latest version of Windows 7?
In 2009 Intel released a driver for
my laptop with T4500 (2.3GHz) processor with Intel graphic media accelerator 4500M with shared graphic memory. I installed the latest version of window 7 (2020 ...
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What would prevent an OEM audio device driver from installing?
I maintain a cluster of HP XW8600 servers for CAD and Mathematica users - all running Windows 7.
Additionally, all are using the onboard Realtek Audio chipset with the latest driver (6.0.1.5973) from ...
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Will updating my graphics card make it support DirectX 11? [duplicate]
I am new to this community so if I have posted this in the wrong community please tell me the correct one so that I can post it where I can get help.
My Graphics Card currently supports DirectX 10.1(...
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Printer Features Do not appear in Printer Properties in Advanced tab in windows 7
I am using windows 7 with PCL5 driver for printer. My printer model is HP LaserJet 4100. I am using PCL 5 driver and i have a problem my printing preferences do not appear Printer Features and other ...
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How I update the Google USB Driver on a Windows 7 laptop?
I am trying to update my Google USB Driver to perform adb debugging with my Google devices with a laptop running Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate.
I currently have Google USB Driver v7:
I went to https://...
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possible to manually copy printer driver from win 7 to win 10?
I have a venerable but still very serviceable HP6840 network printer, and my old 64 bit Windows 7 box has a driver for it and happily prints to it.
However, my windows 10 laptop doesn't find a driver ...
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How to install .inf file in windows 7 using cmd
Hello i had installed windows 7 on my Dell Latitude E6410. I am using Driver Easy to download missing drivers. All drivers I have downloaded but they are in .inf file. I have used device manager to ...
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Can't type keyboard but all lock keys (caps lock, screen lock, num lock are all light up)
First of all, sorry for my bad english. I have an usb keyboard. Yesterday, I unplugged it from the PC (OS: Windows 7. And the PC was off when I unplugged the keyboard) to clean the dust from my ...
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Can't Run 1024x768 in Wipro Notebook (Grapics Driver Issue)? [duplicate]
I have an wipro notebook 7f381x which is Pretty old and i can't run 1024x768 Screen Resolution , What i Have :
I have an 1024x768 Digital Flat Panel ,
Chip type :Intel GMA 950(Refered from Advanced ...
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No audio from S/PDIF optical output on Realtek ALC1200 onboard audio (MSI B550 motherboard)
I have an MSI B550M Mortar motherboard which has Realtek ALC1200 onboard audio. Currently running Windows 7 x64.
I'm trying to use the S/PDIF optical output with Logitech speakers but I'm not getting ...
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Is it possible to use Windows 7 with B550/X570 motherboards and Ryzen 9 CPUs? [duplicate]
I understand that official support of Windows 7 ended a few years ago.
However, I'm interested to know if any manufacturers (or users) have released fully-working drivers for B550/X570 motherboards or ...
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Issue with windows 10 audio driver
I am unable to find the cause/fix of the issue which is why I am asking here. Recently in Windows 10, there is a feature in audio control which allows us to control audio for different applications ...
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Troubleshooting complete disappearance of bluetooth on windows10
Earlier today, I tried to connect wireless headphones to my dell inspiron 7490 only to discover that it couldn't connect. I checked the bluetooth settings and to my surprise discovered that the '...
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CD/DVD drive not detected Windows 7 (HP Elitebook 2540p)
After multiple BSODs, I was forced to re-install Windows 7 on my HP Elitebook 2540p. After a few struggles, most hardware works again except for the CD/DVD drive which does not appear in Windows ...
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No keyboard and mouse on the Windows 7 installation menu
Alright. I've been working on this for a week now, and I need to solve this.
So, here's my problem:
I have a Windows 7 USB I just formatted, GPT partition scheme, Fat32 format.
I then boot into the ...
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My HP laserjet printer keeps having problems
I have an HP Laserjet P1102 printer. Recently whenever I connect it to my laptop although it gets connected, but it won't print. I came up with a solution for this which works, but it rather hides the ...
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Delete printer HP M401A completely to upgrade
In my machine there is an old version for HP M401A.
I have downloaded latest version to upgrade.
While running new driver version or even same version, there is a process for removing old version and ...
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Why can’t I install a new sound card onto my motherboard?
I have bought a ASUS XONAR SE 5.1 sound card (PCIe) and tried installing it into multiple slots in my computer which has an ASUS Z97-C motherboard and running Windows 7 Pro.
I've tried inserting the ...
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How can I install Window 7 if if there is not a single driver to install?
When installing Windows 7, the following dialog appears:
However, the list of available drivers is empty.
What can I do to populate this list with available drivers for my hardware?
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Code 39 for all LSP & COM ports in device manager
Under Windows 7 x64 enterprise, using an HP Z600 workstation, with two different COM port adapters, one USB and one PCI-E. I had the following issue.
The devices had been reliable working for a year ...
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Is there a correlation between windows versions and driver version numbers, and could that help in identifying old drivers?
what is the meaning behind the numbering of driver version numbers - I see a correlation e.g. many starting with the number 10?
for example running this command to list drivers Get-WmiObject ...
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Laptop plugged in not charging, Windows 7
At least once every week, laptop shows this problem of plugged in and not charging.
It starts working again only after reinstalling drivers (Microsoft acpi control battery driver) and removing battery ...
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How to install com ports in windows 7?
I'm having a big problem on how to install programs since the ports are not functioning after I just downgraded my laptop's OS to windows 7.
I check my device manager, and I can't find Universal ...
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Why is my 32bit Win 7 installation limited to less than 1GB of ram (out of 16GB)? [duplicate]
I recently installed win 7 32bit as dual boot (to Win 10 64bit) on my Alienware 17 R3. I forgot what a pain manual driver installation used to be and probably got something wrong.
32bit is usually ...
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Can I install drivers that needs requires Windows 7 with Windows 10?
I've recently "revived" my old Acer Aspire 7751, and since I'm broke, I couldn't install Windows 7, so I've installed a Windows 10 setup in my flashdrive. Anyways, I want to install new ...
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USB ports not working on new Motherboard with Windows 7 [closed]
Today I bought new Asus H410M-K motherboard. BIOS and Ubuntu works normally with USB, but as soon as Windows 7 loads I loose all power to USB ports - none of them are working.
There are no such ...
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Bluetooth Dongle doesn't show up in Windows 7
I recently bought a Siyoteam Model HK-968 Bluetooth dongle. My desktop pc is running Windows 7 Proffesinal 64bit. The windows couldn't find the driver or even indentfy the device, it showed up as a &...
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Printer list for Windows Vista
I am trying to install an old printer into Windows 7. The original driver, which worked in XP, won't install in 7; I understand that there were internal changes starting with Vista. Windows 7 does ...
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Headphones not detecting in Windows 7 64 Bit HP laptop
I have recently installed windows 7 64 bit on my HP laptop. I have download from this link. The issue I am facing is I am not able to configure the laptop to detect headphone.
I tied to go to device ...
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What is an SID and what happens if I remove it through sysprep?
Let me start from the beginning:
So, this morning, I started my computer and my keyboard and mouse wouldn't respond. No big deal right? I'll just unplug and replug them in. No dice. I have since ...
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Mouse not detected in windows 7 virtual machine
I have a gaming mouse with programmable buttons and led-lights. I want to customize the mouse with some software which came with the mouse. I got it in cd-form, but I downloaded it from the store's ...
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