driver issue

I am running Windows 7 beta, testing to see if the product is right for a client. The client has an Epson 3800 photo printer and uses the print preview function. I have installed the latest printer driver for Windows 7, the latest NVidia driver available (ver. 8.17) and the system blacks out...

Evening, My grandfather has a Dell inspirion 530 that is hanging and then BSOD'ing when shutting down with windows 7. Here is the memory.dmp: DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE (9f) A driver is causing an inconsistent power state. Arguments: Arg1: 00000003, A device object has been blocking an Irp...

Hey everyone On Thursday, I received my copy of Windows 7 Home Premium. I skipped the Vista bandwagon, so I was moving directly from Windows XP Service Pack 3 (32-bit) to Windows 7 Home Premium. I opted to install the 64-bit version of Windows 7, as I had no issues when running the 64-bit beta...

I had the RC running since it came out and everything worked perfectly. Now that I installed the offical Professional version I can not get Windows 7 to detect my Nvidia 8600M GT graphics card. When I bring up dxdiag it says Standard VGA Graphics Adapter, it does detect that it is a NVIDIA but...

I'm having a tad trouble finding the root cause on my friends rig as to why he's getting a cpu co-processor listed in device manager as not having a driver....with build 7600, any thoughts? SO far I got him to:- 1. update mobo bios (firmware). 2. update system drivers. 3. get all updates of...

im trying to do a clean install of Windows 7 Home Premium x86 (final RTM version) on my dad's mini-ITX build but i am getting an error message that says "DVD device driver is missing" please install driver yadda yadda. but where in the world do i get a DVD driver? its booting off the DVD drive...

Hey there guys, I just did a FRESH install of vista ultimate 32-bit and everytime I try to put it to sleep, hibernate, shutdown, or restart, it simply doesn't. If I leave it for a while, with a blank screen, it blue screens and gives me the error of "Driver Power State Failure". If someone...

Hello, I am currently facing a very pesky problem. I am using the MSDN version of Windows 7 Professional downloaded from my college's IT program. I am unable to boot windows 7 without my CD inserted. If I take it out, I am greeted with an error along the lines: Windows could not find a...

Hey guys. (Running Windows 7 RC 64-bit) So after trying just about everything with crappy Linksys products (using a router as an access point (failed), connecting to a range extender via Ethernet (failed when other people connected wirelessly and also had a wierd lag issue)), I caved and...

Hello there, First of all i would like to congratulate the microsoft team on an excellent OS. I have only encountered one problem at the minute...its a very irritating problem though. Im using windows 7 64bit, and when i first installed it i could use aero peek an see all my webpages etc...

Hello, I'm new here. I recently installed Windows 7 RC 32-bit on a Seagate 300GB IDE drive. I also have XP on a separate IDE drive. I am able to dual boot successfully. My problem is that I have a Seagate 1.5TB SATA drive that I can use in XP, but W7 does not see or recognize it. I'm...

I am running a dell xps m1330, 2.0 ghz 32 bit intel core duo, and a geforce 8400M GS video card. After I installed windows 7 after a random but lengthy set of computer idle time (ie 4-6 hours). I will come back to the computer, boot it up, and it will tell me that it has suffered an unexpected...

Installing Windows 7: I found threads on this problem under other OSes Like Vista (shocker). The error message is "A required Cd/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver flopply disk, CD, DVD, or usb flash drive, please insert now. Now this is after I booted from a...

Hey guys, I've read the sticky about driver posts, but I feel like there might be a way to work around this issue without having to wait on new drivers from Belkin. Basically, the vista drivers work on windows 7... Until I restart or my computer wakes up. After this, the software will not...

When my computer goes to sleep the WiFi as well as the ethernet dies. I can see networks and can connect but cannot get 'internet access' from them. Its probably just a driver issue. My laptop is HP Dv5 1006-tx Ethernet device: Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC...

I just installed the my new ATI HD4670 and my system is running windows 7 and so far so good,driver(catalyst 9.6) worked fine until i tried playing some games(nba 2k9,devil may cry 4...)!Screen just hangs and flashed a BLUESCREEN:eek:!!When I read the description of the problem,it says the...

So this happened yesterday. I was playing GoW for around 20 minutes, and then the game just froze. No sound, and a frozen picture. So I decide to open up task manager and end the process. Following this, I re-open the game, play another ~20 minutes, and then the same nonresponsive screen shows...

Sound card problems? driver installed but no sound? SOLVED kinda i have a VIA AC'97 Enhanced audio on-board card but i have no sound coming through it. Windows 7 has found the driver but i still get no sound out of the rear jack but i do get some out of the front but you really have to wiggle...

Hi Im having problem with my windows 7...this might be a driver problem - i have no idee Seems everytime i startup my computer my themes disable(or something) - basically the transparancy dissapear, and i have a solid theme, and my gagets just dissapear Any Ideas?? I did however see that...

Hi all, I have the 64-bit RC dual booting on my PC along with XP Pro SP3. Win7 has worked great for a few weeks now, but today a big issue cropped up. I was working on a CAD file (I'm a Civil Designer), when my PC spontaneously rebooted, as though I have pressed the reset key. There was no error...