driver installation

Hi, Older system, upgraded from XP to Windows 7 (32bit) a while back - has been working fine. Have been having issues with internet "dropping out" fairly regularly. ISP says problem on my end, so decided to install a new NIC. Disabled onboard NIC and pop'd in new PCI NIC. Windows 7 sees the new...

Hi, everyone, For days I have been battling to install the drivers and other software for a HP M1132 MFP printer/scanner on a laptop that runs Win 7 Home Basic 64-bit. On other laptops (running a 32-bit version of Win 7, and XP, respectively) and an XP desktop the install went flawlessly, but...

I just wanted to relate my vexing problem and the ultimate solution which I dscovered after half a day, and it's something that Microsoft will probably never admit happens. I installed Windows 7 64 bit OS on my Toshiba Satellite, and could not get my Pixma iP3000 installed. I first tried the...

i have a dell inspiron n4030 core i3 under the display adapter tab 2 devices are listed intel(r)946gz express chipset family (microsoft corporation-wddm1.0) intel hd graphics the first device (946gz) says location pci bus 0 device 22 function 0 windows has stopped this device because...

System is an Asus a8n-sli deluxe w/amd 3700, geforce 6600gt, 4mb ram, 550w pwr sply - W7 home premium 64. W7 has been installed for almost a year but this problem is recent. The pc is my wife's and is used for web surfing, photo viewing and video playback. It is not a gaming machine. The...

i know this is totally unrelated to windows 7, but i have an issue with some video drivers which refuse to install on windows 2008, i know they work on windows 2003, but i just assume that drivers for these two operating systems are similar ?? does anyone know what i need to change in an .inf...

I've been facing this problem ever since i formatted my computer,, at first it loads normally, then just after the windows starts up (right before the Welcome screen), the screen goes black, the computer lights stay on, as if the computer is running normally, but the screen stays black,, i...

I have bought a new notebook and re-installed Win7 with multiple specialized drivers. Most of these drivers have an own setup.exe and were installed successfully. There are however two drivers remaining which do NOT have such a setup.exe. When I right click on the contained *.inf file and...

Steam has released an update today and with this update steam can now update your AMD video drivers from with in the steam menu. I found this quite acceptable and easy to use.

I have a notebook that Toshiba L670-14F and it comes with preinstalled windows 7-64 bit my Video card is ATI Mobility Radeon 5650 HD. Here is my problem, I had my own 32 bit-windows 7 When I formated my 64 bit - windows and installed 32 bit one everything is pefect except video adapter I tryed...

hi not sure if this the right forum, but i will ask. I have a laptop running windows 7, the CD/DVD writer is quite slow so I pulled my writer from my old desktop and purchased a USB enclosure for it. When I plugged this in Windows 7 recognised it and installed drivers:). I thought all was good...

Well this is a weird circumstance I've found. So I purchased an open box Acer G72GX the other day and noticed when I got home that the internal network card wasn't working. No driver and it wasn't even listed in Device Manager as existing. I figured whatever, I'll try installing a clean...

Hi All, I have a 5 month old Dell Inspiron 1564 with a Dell WLAN 1397 Wireless card. I was having some trouble connecting to my wireless router, and as a last attempt to get it working, I uninstalled and reinstalled the driver for my wireless card, using a fresh download of the latest version...

How to Turn off Windows 7 Automatic Driver Installation Most of the crashes happens because of a bad drivers. Unfortunately most of the time these bad drivers are coming from Windows Update. Because it won't pick the best driver. So when we troubleshoot BSOD it's best to disable automatic...

hi, first i tried to install with my graphics card ATI ASUS EAH4350,but i couldnt install win 7. it stopped when "starting for first use" message. but i found solution to install Windows 7 in vga mode and it worked. then again i put my graphics card and started win 7. it automatically...

I've read a lot of threads on this forum already by people who've had similar problems to this, but frustratingly enough none of the solutions that helped them seem to have fixed my issue. I have a new install of Windows 7 (OEM Home Premium). The PC formally was used for Windows XP. The...

...I have an AOC V19 monitor connected to a Dell Optiplex GX270 with Windows 7 installed. I tried to update the video card driver with the latest driver download but always get the message: "The best driver for your device is already installed. Windows has determined that the driver software...

Well my problem began with a windows "critical update" which disabled my sound, I had to do a system restore everytime my computer shutdown, very annoying. Even after I told windows not to update it did. Eventually I ran out of restore points that my sound worked on. I decided to re-install the...

I have a school laptop which had windows 7 installed and my account "Cameron" is an administrator on the windows 7, however the permissions in the hard drive are set to some other admin account. I changed the owner of the files through the permissions to "Cameron" from some other random admin...

Hi folks. I'm hoping you can help. I am running Windows 7 Professional. I have two monitors. 1: Samsung 910T on the right which is numbered by Windows, monitor # 1, and... 2: Viewsonic 32inch HDTV monitor on the left which designated by Windows as monitor # 2 In the Device Manager they...