When I try to enter sleep mode the screen goes blank, the power light stays on solid for several minutes, then the welcome/sign on screen comes back on. If I sign on and then hit sleep again it works correctly - screen goes blank and power light flashing.
Similar thing happens with shutdown -...
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I had a serious BSOD crash two days ago while settling in a new flat. Got into a BSOD loop until I figured that the TP-Link usb wireless adaptor (TL-WN725N) was the problem. When removed all works fine now (except firefox that doesn't turn on anymore). Every time I plug it back, BSOD...
Guys,
I'm trying to install Windows 7 on a Dell Inspiron 17-7778 that currently has Windows 10 installed.
This laptop does not have a CD-ROM drive and it only has (2) USB ports.
I'm having trouble getting Windows 7 intalled, here are the things I have done to boot to CD or USB
1. Disabled...
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Hello, I decided to reinstall Windows because after almost 10 years using it I thought it was a good time to enjoy a fresh installation. But it went all wrong, as using internet is just impossible.
I have the original windows 7 home sp1 disc and latest bootcamp drivers for my machine, which is...
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I followed lots of instructions, none work, I saved the image files to a external hard drive, I see no way to choose that anywhere in the restore settings, ive tried all of them. One suggests a driver then gives a massive list of folders of which none seem to have a driver.
I don't seem to have...
One of my computers did the creators update and now refuses to print. It is a Dell Optiplex 3040 and the printer is an HP Color Laserjet CP2045.
I worked great until the update. I have removed the printer and reinstalled it several times but I get no response from the printer at all.
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Recently while i was playing a game my laptop crashed with a blue screen with the message " your pc ran into a problem and needs to restart...
with the stop code DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION. I then factory reset my laptop back to windows 8.1 as that was the only recovery back up I had...
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I bout a used laptop and am doing a refresh on it to wipe the files, seemed as though the refresh went smoothly. I gets to the point I'm doing the first set up stuff, cortona comes on and asking you to set up the time and your user name. It keeps freezing when trying to finish the set up...
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I have an MFC 8680DN. The network card "died"; it is connected to an Apple Airport Extreme and this works find for my Apple laptop.
Although I can see the printer in Bonjour, that software cannot find drivers for it. I have installed the Brother Driver/Software package from their website, and...
My Toshiba notebook has a yellow triangle on the "Trusted Execution Engine interface" driver, in Device manager. The error message says it has not started, I have tried to update but it just says driver installed is the one, so, firstly what is this driver for? and will it hurt to uninstall the...
Hello,
I'm having trouble with random system crashes. I get loads of different varieties:
Thread stuck in device driver (BSOD) with dumps files.
Red screen of death.
Screen going black, but with motherboard CPU and DRAM lights blinking on Gigabyte AB-350-Gaming 3 mobo.
The dump files when I...
Hello,
I just recently bought a custom computer, and just did a clean install of Windows 7 64-bit. Now I'm just looking for the correct drivers to install. Checking under the Device Manager, these are the Hardware Ids I found for the missing drivers:
Ethernet Controller...
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Hello all,
I have Samsung Laptop w/win7.
Though my USB ports seem working well when I verify "COM and LPT's sub line (communication port (COM4)) in Device Manager I see it is labelled by yellow exclamation mark.
In order to resolve it first, I tried to update its drivers and I received the...
I have an old Windows XP computer that has been getting updates regularly, so I am not worried about it being hacked. But after reinstalling XP, it can only access the Internet via a wireless adapter, not via an ethernet connection. And when I plug the ethernet cable into the computer, there is...
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Hello there, I have an HP Pavilion DV6-6C35DX. I did a clean install of Windows 7 (64-bit), then tried downloaded the drivers from HP's site. All the drivers worked except for the WiFi driver. I tried upgrading to Windows 10 to see if it would auto update but WiFi still wasn't working.
I was...
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Hello, I have a windows 10 64 bit 8 gb GTX 1050 Desktop, I recently re installed my computer and when i checked device manager it show's i have microsoft basic display driver, I tried updating it by Search automatically for updated driver software. It say's windows encountered a problem...
This thread follows on from post #159 in the thread found found here:
Windows 10 Creators Update
Well, tried again ,no luck still this BSOD,only after cold reboot( wait for about 30minutes,PC off) ,then BSOD with message; Driver IRQL not LESS OR EQUAL. Then PC reboots into Windows.
I have some...
So i have done all these so far: MemTest86+ without errors, clean installed all drivers, tried to reset but got BSOD during it too, sfc /scannow fails, dism caused BSOD too, did check disk too and as i told in title, it only come when i cold boot PC.
After clean installing Windows 10 Home day before yesterday it showed 3 unknown devices in Device Manager. I ran the diagnostics thing at Dell Support and it fixed two of them. Now I don't know how to fix the remaining one. I'd like to just install the driver but I have no idea what it is...
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My wife has an Asus SonicMaster 17" laptop.
She uses a wireless mouse with it, not the touch pad.
Since she updated from Windows 8 to Windows 10 there is no way to turn off the touch pad.
This is driving her crazy because she keeps touching it when she is typing.
I've tried but there is no...
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