device drivers

I bought a new Dell Inspiron with Windows 7 pre-installed two years ago. Recently, my computer has acquired a computer virus which slows down my computer, redirects select google entries and on my C Drive there are folders with names like "df4f0569299e83f51098af913b749bc2" I have decided to...

When i plugin my USB headset its like the computer doesn't notice - if I reboot the machine with the headset plugged in then everything works fine. I'd like to be able to plug it in without rebooting first. Any tips?

Hi! I have tried to fix my blue screen problem for a couple of months now by surfing the net, gathering information in fine forums like this one. At one time i thought I had solved the problem when I found and replaced a bad RAM device. It worked for a while and life was great. But then the...

Hi , I use Dell studio 1558 WIN7 x64 .And this problem showed up a couple of weeks ago. The problem is ,When I open any media file be it any video or mp3 on my laptop..the media player or any other player lets say realplayer crashes or gives and error saying "encountered some problem ".And at...

Last post I Made one of our members looked through my minidumps and told me that I had a problem with my graphics driver and realtek PCI card reader as well as a outdated Logitech driver. To my knowledge I've updated all of the above drivers and then today while on battery power I got another...

I'm new to this forum,i've searched for solutions and no luck so i came here. I don't know much about computers,laptops,technology etc... so if anyone has solution to my problem please explain it slowly and understandably. My problem: First time appeared while running steam (Valve product) I...

A few months ago the sleep mode on my computer became dysfunctional. Before, I used to put it into sleep mode (it is a desktop) and then move the mouse, and it would power up to exactly how I left it. Now if I put it in sleep mode, it appears to power up but nothing is shown on the screen. All...

Hi, I am getting Windows 7 crashes (BSOD) with alarmingly increasing frequency. A bit of googling and I reached this software called WhoCrashed. THe output of the last few crashes is below. Can someone suggest what could be the problem System Information (local) computer name: RUBAL-PC...

Have a customer who has a XPS system that will no loger read some of his DVD games and all DVD movies. The DVD's in question work before on the system and still works on other computers. After discussing with him if anything change on his system around the time this started he did mention a...

I recently purchased a new desktop and every time it attempts to shut down it hangs at the shuting down screen for about five minutes then goes to the BSOD. The message is a 0x0000009 DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE. This computer is less than a week old, nevertheless I went through and updated...

Greetings all, I have attached my minidump file Link Removed. I have been having problems over several months. You will see in the minidump file, there is 1 dump file from January and then nothing until August. That is because my minidump files were overwriting for a while, so that is why there...

Hi I've been trying all day to post on the Windows 8 forum. I can log in to the forum OK, but when I try and post I get the you have to activate message. When I tell it to send my an Activation Message I don't receive one. I've tried a number of times and waited but no message. My log in and...

Hi, My laptop is about a year old and suddenly BSOD's. Since then I've tried to do a complete system recovery twice, and each time I get a BSOD near the end, just after "Setup will continue after restarting your computer". I cannot get into windows even in safe mode, so I'll list all the...

My system installed he W7 SP1 a week or so ago - immediately had a problem: my ATI 9600 graphics card stopped working with the upgraded driver giving the error message: Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing (code 39). The legacy drivers...

Hey all! I've been having issues with my PC detecting my USB Keyboard and Mouse for some time now. Sometimes it would detect them and go to install them but then tell me "The device is unplugged" (whih wasn't true, I checked all of the cables everytime. Usually I have to uninstall the USB tree...

I had to send my Dell Inspiron 1420 off to get the Nvidia Chip replace. They pulled the mother board and fixed it and reinstalled it. When I got it back I had to reload the HD with W7-64 due to wiping it thinking that was the problem instead of the chip. It had XP before if that matters. Now my...

If you are performing a clean install or have run into the problem of an unidentified device in the Windows device manager, an unlikely assistant may be at your aid: the open source community as hosted by Google. UnknownDevices is a utility hosted on Google Code by Michael A. Bosse. Accordingly...

System Info: OS - Windows 7 64bit Version 6.1 (Build 7600 CPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ RAM - 8GB Dual Channel DDR2 @ 333MHz MB - ASUSTek M4N78 PRO AntiVirus - Microsoft Securities Essentials I just installed another 4 Gigs of RAM and now my Windows Update is not working. I don't know if they...

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but I'm having an unusual slow login problem that is very difficult to diagnose. I just purchased a new Toshiba laptop and I have been getting it set up and removing some of the bloatware that Toshiba installs. Over the last few days I...

My computer wakes from hibernation. I’m using windows 7 x64. My BIOS doesn’t support any configuration settings about wake, and the LAN device driver states that it doesn’t support wake on LAN. It’s a Dell Lattitude laptop, about 2 years old. No events are relevant. This started...