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    Sleeps despite settings, can't wake it up

    I'm running Windows 11 22h2 on a Dell XPS 8950 desktop. My power settings specify Never sleep and never turn off screen. I run a screen saver app. I shut down my computer every night and power up (so boot) the next day. Many days I'm at my computer most of the day, or at least on-and-off. Some...
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    Black screen - how to reenable graphic adapter in device manager?

    Hi I accidentally disabled graphic adapter in device manager and got black screen. I've tried to reactivate graphic adapter through: windows key + ctr + shift + B boot with windows installation disc boot with windows recovery usb boot with F8 to enter BIOS settings All methods failed. How...
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    Windows 10 Windows 10 update, audio from PC is gone

    Did Windows 10 update today and my PC audio stopped working, only have sound from monitors. I went to the sound settings area and looked at the output devices and there is only my monitors. I believe there used to be a Realtek thing there (or something else, I can't remember exactly). I also...
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    Windows 10 Driver Issues as "flagged" by "Device Manager". Would like to resolve prior to RESET or Hard Drive Change and MS10 Reload

    NET: 1)I have an older Thinkpad T500 which came with Windows 7 and I later upgraded to Windows 10. 2)I had given it to my sister; she no longer uses it, and I am planning on: A) Doing a Reset and reloading Windows 10 B) Possibly change the hard Drive and reload Windows 10, etc, via USB Tool...
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    Windows 10 Intel(R) 1211 gigabit network connection

    I can't connect to the internet. In device manager there is a exclamation on intel gigabit network connection & Under device status it says windows cannot initialize the device driver for this hardware (code 37). I tried disable device, Uninstall then restart pc, the sfc scannow and changing...
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    Windows 7 Sound doesn't work - "No Audio Output device is installed" - W7 Ultimate (32Bit)

    On my Medion MD 41300 the sound doesn't work ("No Audio Output device is installed" on W7 Ultimate (32Bit). Is there any other way besides the manufacturer's website - MEDION Service - (drivers there doesn't do anything, if I do the right way to try installing them?!?) to solve such a problem...
  7. Windows 11 Bluetooth Keeps Disappearing From Device Manager/System

    I have an EP-9636GS EDUB LOVE Wi-Fi 6 / Bluetooth 5.1 3K Mbps Broadcom Adapter with AX-200 tech, really broadband, fast transmission rates, but I am continually experiencing a significant problem in that the network card keeps becoming invisible to the system, like it's not even there, not...
  8. Windows 10 Display resolution, Intel Graphics 3000 on Dell laptop

    Hello y'all. I have an unusual problem with my display resolution. As many others, I have an older Dell laptop with an Intel Graphics 3000 adapter. Like many others, Windows 10 suddenly won't let me change the resolution to 1920. But in my unique case this happens only ONCE IN A WHILE. A...
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    Windows 7 Sandisk SSD

    I have a Sandisk SSD that has Ubuntu loaded on it. I built a pc and loaded Windows 7 and both hard drives work. The SSD drive shows up in device manager and bios setup. Clicking on my computer the SSD drive does not show up. I look at the ssd using device manager and it gives me the option to...
  10. External WD 1TB USB Drive not useable

    I used it (not recently), a WD-10EAVS 1TB External, on Windows before, I tested the USB port with different non WD disks, all fine, I tested the disk itself on the same USB port with Seatools for Windows and it passes all and every test, It shows up in Disk Management, status OK, 1 Primary...
  11. Windows 10 Cant see device manager in gpedit.msc

    I got a brand new keyboard and decided to disable the keyboard on my laptop. I saw a tutorial telling me to go to gpedit.msc then go to administrative templates-->system-->device manger and disable smth from there then go to the actual decvice manager and uninstall standard ps2 keyboard. It...
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    Windows 11 win 11 SM bus controller and PCI device say no driver

    At device and printers in control panel it reports the win 11 SM bus controller and PCI device say no driver. I went to device manager but it could not update driver. I did not install the Asus utility which has drivers with bad things like Norton when installing Win 11.
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    Windows 10 Disabled Intel GPU

    Hi I disabled the Integrated Intel GPU from "Device Manager" and so now my monitor (TV) doesn't show anything How can I turn it back on? (since my TV (which I use as the monitor) doesn't show anything I have Windows 10 Dell computer. And I've tried spamming F4 and F8 while turning on computer...
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    Windows 11 Device manager

    Other devices -PCI -SM Bus These are needing drivers. I did not install my mother boards Asus utility as I thought it might be malware and included bloat like Norton which can be unchecked. All worked well except this one item I wet to ASUS and saw utilities but there are 9 drivers listed and I...
  15. Windows 10 [Solved] Win 10 doesn't correctly detect 2nd monitor on dual-GPU system?

    I have a system with dual Nvidia GTX 780 Ti GPUs that is set up for dual boot (ubuntu 20.04 & Win10 v21H1 build 19043.1288).When I boot into ubuntu, both monitors are immediately recognized and the desktop extends across both monitors. ... so no hardware or cabling problems. But when I boot into...
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    Windows 10 USB Device Not Recognized/Plus Camera

    So one day I was playing a game, hoi4, and I paused it shut my computer off, and left for a few hours. I come back my computer shut but it's still running, I open it and my screen and computer is frozen, so I hard shut down. When the computer is on next thing I know none of my USBs will work...
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    Windows 10 Install 2nd instance of Win 10 temporarily

    I have Windows 10 Pro (just shy of licensed) installed on a 970 Plus M.2 drive (see all specs in signature). The PC is not running at the speed I would have expected (for instance my Random Read/Write values are pitiful (see attachment). I either have my BIOS incorrectly set up, too much junk...
  18. Windows 7 Get exact graphic card name (Mobility Radeon 3400 series)

    I want to update my graphic card, so I need to know which version it is / what its name is. When I open the device manager and look under `graphic card`, there's just `ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series`, but according to the [AMD support site][1], there are just 3410 and 3200. So how can I...
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    Windows 10 HP AMD driver reverts every restart

    Hello fellow technicians. I installed a fresh Windows 10 64-bit, and everything works except the video driver. There are 3 video drivers to choose from, the Windows Generic video driver, the AMD driver 1, and the AMD driver 2 that I manually downloaded from the HP site. The generic driver works...
  20. Windows 10 no audio from line out

    Dear forum users. Since a couple of day's I lost the ability to output sound from the line output of my desktop.The only sound I get is trough the display port of my gpu. I updated all the sound drivers and still no avail. But there are 2 high definition audio controllers visible in the device...