driver update

Hi, I have recently bought Samsung galaxy S5 device. When I tried to connect it to my computer I nothing happend (what should have happen is that it will pop up the "What do you want to do? Go to folder/..." menu). So I tried another usb socket. still the same problem. I have Ubunto install as a...

I recently purchased a new machine with Windows 8.1 on it and an Intel Ethernet Connection 1218-V adapter with a rated speed of 100 Mbps. I have connected it to my home network. The layout is as shown In attachment. All of the computers get, according to speed test (I'd provide a link but that...

I've used Windows Essentials Codec Pack for many years, no problems. Now, due to a failed driver update, I needed to re-install my Windows 7 and, trying to download the pack, I got what you can see down left in in the pic. http://www.mediacodec.org/ Just curious, is this real, or is this just...

First post here. A few months I overclocked (a friend did) my computer. I7 sandy bridge from 3,4Ghz to 4,3 ghz. windows 7. After that I got the 0x00000124 blue screens. After a search it was the voltage that was too low. I fixed that. Now the last weeks I got a new blue screen: STOP: 0x00000116...

A customized computer manufacture driver is installed in your computer. The intel driver utility(IDU) is not able to update the driver. Contact your manufacture? I was getting a memory.dmp error and i thought updating the driver would solve the problem but the IDU gives me that. Any idea how to...

I had WIN8 and was happy with it. Microsoft updated me <without my permission BTW> to 8.1. I have had nothing but problems since!!! My computer won't stay connected to my ROUTER <I have to keep logging off and then back on if I'm IDLE too long>. My wireless printer is NOW NOT recognized by my...

Hello, so let me explain first, almost 3 months ago the power supply of my pc literally blow up,unlucky my Hard Drive died. I burned an Ubuntu live CD and keep using the system, one month before that i was able to buy a new one and install windows 7 in it, unlucky (again -_-) i got a BSOD one...

I am 72 and worked with PCs until 2002 but now Windows 7 has me baffeled. I just got a new printer. An HP 6520 all-in-one. When I try to save a scan I get "HP Scan has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a...

This has been going on for a couple months, and it hasn't gotten in the way but now it is as it's preventing me from opening certain files and games i want to use, such as Skype, and games like Bioshock Infinite. Whenever i start up my computer or open specific programs, it says ...

For years I have been the "go-to" guy for fixing friends and family's computers, which usually were desktops (which i could rip open and replace the hardware in). lately a majority of the issues that i have had to address were laptop issues. while a lot of issues can be fixed with some sort of a...

Hello all Firstly sorry if this is posted in the wrong place, I am not exactly sure what my problem is. After downloading Malwarebytes and doing a scan, my computer came up with Bad Image errors, and wouldn't let me connect to the internet even though it said I was connected. However I...

I installed a new video card to replace my old one that did not have HDMI connections. Since that time I am getting multiple BSODs sometimes one after another other times after a few days. The video card is an AMD Radeon R7 200 Series. My power supply is an OCZ 500W ModXstream Pro 500. I have...

So recently the sound on my machine will randomly stop working- no apps produce sound, Chrome doesn't, not even the system sounds. I posted about this on another forum which told me to check for hardware changes in the device manager, but that doesn't seem to be working, or at least not...

I can't install new version of graphics driver. When I install driver, it asks me to restart my PC, when i restart it, my screen freezes and i can't see anything. Computer is working normally but screen isn't showing anything. Then I use system restore to use old version of driver again, but I...

so i got a BSOD the other day while playing battlefield hardline on my new custom made desktop. I installed some software (bluescreenview) to view it in my dumpfile and it said that the BSOD was caused by the Driver pacer.sys. (driver adress is pacer.sys+1199) what should i do at this point? I...

Dear Windows Forums, This is my first time posting here as I have found myself caught in an emergency with my laptop. I have purhcased an Asus N550 Laptop with Windows 8 installed already (so I have no CD) merely yesterday, and I believe that I have slipped up somewhere and made a fatal...

I know enough about computers to generally fix anything that doesn't work... but I cannot figure anything out with this. I checked to make sure a sound card was installed... It appears one is and is listed under "High Definition Audio Device," which I assume is standard on any computer. Unless...

Hi A while back I updated to Windows 8.1 and had sound problems with very distorted sounds especially for speech and in games. I'd like to update again, but today I looked to see if the problems had been fixed by Creative. I found new drivers for my SB Recon3D PCIe sound card and installed...

Machine: Dell laptop -Latitude E7240 Ultrabook External Drive: 3 TB MyBook -- P/N WDBFJK0030HBK-04 when drive is plugged into port replicator-or laptop directly-- the machine will not boot to windows. if the drive is unplugged, the machine will then boot-afterwhich, the drive can be plugged in...

A common solution to various problems is to update the drivers. There are many third party programs that claim to do that. Virtually every one I have evaluated discovers that almost every driver on my computer is out of date. Often, the ones they find as replacements are either older or the...