device manager

On July 30th I upgraded by computer to the Windows 10 operating system. Since then, however, my CD/DVD drive is not detected and/or recognized. The icon on my desktop has a big question mark on it. If I click that, I get the following error message: The item 'E:\' that this shortcut refers...

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...

Hi all! So, today I downloaded and installed Windows 10. Everything is working fine, except that its using Microsoft basic display adapter instead of my default graphics card. In device manager it shows my graphics cards, but it still uses microsoft basic display adapter. I have tried enabling...

I have upgraded to windows 10 this week - all went fine with the upgrade except that the wifi on my laptop stopped working. I upgraded the drivers - no luck as the wifi was a little flaky anyway I upgraded the card to I have upgraded to windows 10 this week - all went fine with the upgrade...

Hey everyone, Yesterday I installed the free upgrade from Windows 10 on my Republic of Gamers laptop, previously running Windows 7. I'm having some pretty severe issues, the biggest being that audio basically only works whenever it wants. This is a big deal for me because I use my computer for...

I installed Windows 10 last night and I can not get audio through the 3.5mm jack to my speakers. Its a simple stereo setup with a subwoofer. My desktop uses VIA HD Audio and I've tried using all the playback devices options and nothing works. I also got Windows 10 on my laptop. The laptop...

Hello yet again, (Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit) Fitted a second HDD which work well, however I now have no USB devices. I took care to plug all my USB peripherals into the original slots. The keyboard and mouse are on USB and they work. Safely Remove Hardware lists only the...

Specs: Radeon HD 7870 i5 3570 8 GB Corsair Vengeance Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium My computer crashed while playing Morrowind, the screen froze upon a tessellated screen and I just turned my computer off, from that point: 1. Upon regular boot, after the 'Starting Windows' logo appears, my...

Help please. this is driving me nuts. I am running windows 8.1 (64bit) Suddenly the DVD/Blu-Ray drive is missing from Explorer I have checked in device manager and the drive says it is working fine. BUT why can I not see it in file explorer? Many thanks for anyone that can offer some support...

Hi I'm having problems with the beta Nvidia video drivers. I've found that I can't turn on Anti-Aliasing and Stereo at the same time. I first noticed this when setting up the stereo after updating to the latest drivers. It worked fine until I turned Anti-aliasing on, but as soon as I did that...

I replaced my keyboard on my HP G72 110SA. Now I cant get the wireless key to work I have reloaded the drivers. However the atheros driver does not show in the device manager. I have tried. useing CMD command and Hdwwiz.exe but for some reason it does not see the atheros driver. The driver is...

After a time in Hibernate mode, my computer "wake up" automatically. Someone know what are causing this? Microsoft said it would be outdated drivers. But it is not. My drivers are all installed and updated. I've been in the "Device Manager" to see which devices could be making the computer to...

So about a month ago my computers audio started to crackle and skip. Rebooting corrects the problem for about 30 minutes then its back to crackling. It happens while I play any sort of video game (Arma, Diablo III, Counter Strike) and it also happens when watching/listening to any sort of media...

Windows 8.1. Running standard HID complaint keyboard and driver. When OS is changed to "fast startup" mode and system is restarted (full services), followed by a shut down/ start ( faster - reduced services) the keyboard will not work. Device manager shows it is operating normally...

Hello My external disk fell on the ground. And since, it did not function. It did a bip when I plug or unplug it. The light indicator does not appear. The disk is visible when I go in computer management --> "computer-manage-device manager-disk drive" but it does not appear on "disk management"...

I was trying to access the Device Manager recently to uninstall all the unused drivers I've accumulated that have been causing me problems, I came to the conclusion that the Device Manager just won't open/run for me. There are no error messages, It just won't open. From everything I've read...

Hi All, I have a problem with my video capture software. All but virtualdub crash when I try to start video capture. This includes, ulead movie maker, arcsoft showbiz, Vegas movie studio etc. I tried a number of solutions and eventually realised that my integrated webcam is not properly...

I had this originally posted in Hardware... but thought this would be a more viable spot. Ok, so here is the breakdown. I have a Sony Vaio Model # VPCEB47GM. I know Windows 8 is not compatable with this machine, however; I thought whats the worst that could happen. A couple years ago, I...

I am trying to setup my MiFi 500 on my Windows 7 - 64 bit professional desktop. I have a cradle amplifier and a 12 inch antenna outside and use USB tethering. The MiFi 500 shows a 6 bar signal. It showed activating and updating, but the home page won’t open. Also the drivers tried to install but...