corrupted driver

For many Windows 11 users, Patch Tuesday updates are part and parcel of keeping their systems secure and feature-rich. Yet, beneath the surface of these automatic upgrades, intricate technical challenges can occasionally unfold—undermining both user confidence and, in some cases, critical system...

Hi This is my first post on the forums as i'm unable to find the solution online. I've searched all over Google for a similar case to mine and i'm yet to find any. I recently ran in to a BSOD during gaming on Windows 10 64-bit. It occurred when I was playing Black Ops 4. I managed to get two...

Hi everyone, I keep hearing a tone sound from somewhere in the background of my Windows-7 that makes me think something suspicious or even harmful may be working. I have disabled all of the sound tones associates with any Windows event except "Close Program" and "Open Program". The only tone...

Hi Okay so if my heading isn't clear, what my DVD drive is doing is it's managing to read the disk but is really noisy and slow. It sounds like the laser is moving back and forth constantly (as if two or more programs were trying to access different parts of the disk at the same time but it...

Hello everyone. I have a PC that I built a few years back, which is a decent PC. As of lately, I've been getting BSOD. I bought a copy of SimCity and it started then, but now even when not playing SimCity I get them! I'm getting the following BSOD: PFN_LIST_CORRUPT DRIVER_CORRUPTED_EXPOOL...

SYSTEM: Core-i5 3470 - 8Gb Crucial 1333Mhz - XFX Pro Core PSU - Gigabyte H77 board - Samsung 840 SSD Hi Ive recently been having problems on my PC which started when I ran a program called DSL Stats alongside Avast Internet Security that had replaced Norton Internet Security (uninstalled, then...

hello, ,,,, i have dell inspiron 17R with win7 ,, i used to work with my ipod nano and my friend iphone perfectly ........... but now when i plug it into an usb drive ,,, i got connected on the ipod but nothing appear on computer neither on itunes ........ when i go to device manager and then...

I find myself in a real pickle and would appreciate any help. I've lost all my usb drivers and windows will not connect or recognize any usb device when I install it. Here's the message I get from device manager: Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be...

It drove me crazy for a week but the problem is caused by a defective driver in either a printer or other auxilliary device. To test this bring your machine up in safe mode and see if IE will stay on and not crash. If it does then the culprit is a recently installed driver. Mine was the Lexmark...

Hello all! I have experienced crashes with the BSOD that made me believe it had something to do with a driver that was corrupt, malfunctioning, etc. I would receive the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and/or DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. I notice this was happening around the beginning of last...

I failed to upgrade from home to ultimate because some driver error and now when i try to upgrade it says i don'y have enough space when i have over 400gb of free space. Also on a side note, i installed a wireless card that was corrupt and then bought a newer one and got ride of the corrupt...

Fresh install off a brand new home premium 64 bit OEM DVD. Computer was running perfect on XP beforehand, and everything passed the windows 7 compatibility program. I'm attempting to install on a new Intel SSD, but I can't even get to the screen where you chose partition,drive,etc. About 20...

Hello I bought a brand new MICROSOFT NATURAL KEYBOARD 4000 to replace the exact same keyboard that's a few years old. Something went horribly wrong. The keyboard and the mouse no longer work, together, individually, or combined with other keyboards and mouse. The computer no longer...

Just installed Windows 7 Ultimate from XP using the instructions provided in upgrade packet. Now my optiarc DVD RW AD-7910S won't work (have a Lenovo ThinkPad T400) - I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling, running checkdisk, driver says that it is updated when I try to update it, etc. When I go...

I'm about to lose it....so I'll make this quick as I can...Sound card drivers, no matter if they're for onboard or PCI will not install properly. This is the only thing I can't get to work on Win7. I upgraded from XP. Also, my keyboard won't work during bootup so I can't get into BIOS to disable...

ok over the past month or so I have been trying to solve a problem with my win7 installation (build 7232.0.1md64fre.winmain.0980610-1900) after a fresh install I had to find the smu drivers for my biostar MB and windows installed it's own video driver 8.15.11.8585 dated april 09. the gfx card...

OK, I doubt this will have a solution that isn't really traumatic. But oh well. I was having a problem with some devices that were supposed to be 100% fully compatible with Vista Home Premium on My Dell Inspiron Desktop. Namely a SONY Camcorder that was being incorrectly identified and hence...

Hello, I've installed Windows 7 on my desktop with dual boot to Vista. Everything's been working fine but I haven't been able to properly setup my sound-card to function properly. As of now, I currently have no sound and I've been through many different drivers from the Creative website...