device manager

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 Microsoft said it would be outdated drivers.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...

My first problem is that, apparently, you cannot make the screen brighter on some lenovo laptops with windows 8. The Brightness- button is working, but once you make the screen dimmer, you cannot make it bright again using the brightness settings. I found out however that you can revert by...

I have recently had Windows 7 re-installed (paid for). Got my desktop back on Saturday. All seems fine - then windows installs loads of updates and things don't seem to be as expected. 1. I notice there are some drivers not installed - not sure how important this is. Drivers appear to be CDC...

Hi Windows updated my sound drivers again, I saw that is was doing it but couldn't stop it. And once more my sound quit working. I need to get Windows to run the drivers that work for my card. I seems that, if you have drivers that work it should let you chose to use them. Anyone have any...

Hi Just when I thought I had everything fixed Windows forced me to update my sound drivers again. I couldn't find any way to stop it, it showed that what it was updating was my Sound Blaster drivers. In the previous build I could tell it not to update those drivers but I don't see that option...