Unanswered Questions
3,418 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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ASUS PA328Q 4K monitor Windows and DisplayPort issue
I have an ASUS PA328Q 4K monitor plugged onto the DisplayPort output of an MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4G. The monitor is configured to use DisplayPort 1.2. I am running Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit. The ...
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After plugging in a USB device, Win7 severely slows. What causes this and how could it be fixed?
This is the second PC undergoing this condition, both running Win7. On PC1 a Logitech device was connected through USB before installing it's branded driver (allowing windows to auto-install it), and ...
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Why don't device and app sound mixers match?
My question is specified in the title, to be more exact I would like to show this particular screenshot of the sound mixer:
As you can see here, the volume of the IE reached the maximum level, but ...
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Windows 8.1 Does not Detect Bluetooth Headset
I have the Motorola S11 Flex HD wireless Bluetooth headset which I have had connected to a Windows 8.1 Pro x64 machine with an Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 + Bluetooth for Desktop card. This ...
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Enabling Intel HD Graphics can increase memory speed?
I found that enabling Intel HD Graphics in device manager can increase memory speed about 17%. I also used Prime95 to test memory speed, and same result is found. (Prime95 results are highly dependent ...
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How can I swap the usage of the 'fn' key for my Razer Blackwidow on OSX?
I just bought the Razer Blackwidow 2013 keyboard, and after installing drivers (Synapse 2.0) I run into a strange issue:
My function keys started to work very strange. They started to use their "...
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How to see detailed log of nVidia driver crash on Windows?
While doing GPU-intensive parallel processing, nVidia driver apparently crashed. Only information in Windows Event log is the following:
The description for Event ID 1 from source NVIDIA OpenGL ...
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Is there a way of scripting the "Roll Back Driver" feature of Window's Device Manager?
I need to roll back my graphic cards drivers once in a while(It's a long story.) and I have tried scripts using devmanview which worked great for disabling and enabling my drivers(and uninstalling it) ...
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Shared GPU Memory. Can I turn off this feature?
I am running:
Windows 10
Nvidia GTX1070-8GB
24GB System RAM
i7
I am running into an issue in my video editor, complaining about depleting the GPU memory.
When inspecting my resources, I noted that ...
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Windows 10 audio fades out
I'm having an issue with Windows 10 audio: when listening to something/watching a movie the audio automatically fades out and drops to a lower volume. To be clear, the volume indication in Windows ...
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Adaptive brightness won't turn off
TL;DR: I’ve tried everything to disable adaptive brightness with no luck. Brightness changes according to what’s on screen.
Recently I bought a Dell Inspiron 3542, built on the Intel i7-4510U with ...
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Toggle integrated/discrete graphics manually
Many laptops have two GPU's, an integrated Intel processor, and a discrete Nvidia processor. There are options to set which processor is used by specific applications, though those settings are not ...
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Alternative synaptics touchpad driver for windows 7
I have hp pavillion dv6 laptop(Windows 7) with a synaptics touchpad . The gestures like two finger scroll doesn't work automatically after I disabled a startup service or something. (I dont remember ...
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redshift color adjustment with hardware/software cursor
I'm running Arch Linux (with Con Kolivas' ck1 patchset, although that shouldn't affect this issue) and using the proprietary Nvidia graphics driver, currently at version 313.26 (my card is a GeForce ...
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Installing two different Nvidia drivers at the same time
I have a GTX1070ti for which the latest driver is 527.37.
I bought a NVS 310 for which the latest driver is 392.68.
I would like to use both cards simultaneously for different monitors. However, when ...
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xrandr doesn't detect HDMI monitor
My second monitor has suddenly stopped working after a reboot.
I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 with an OpenBox desktop and an nVidia 1060, using the nVidia 396 driver. I've been fiddling with my display settings ...
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How to Remap "Home" button on a Local Multimedia Keyboard without Driver
I recently purchased a multimedia keyboard (TECHNOTECH USB KEYBOARD 658) that is actually Made in China, and that doesn't come with ny driver CD or anything.
Here I want to map Home button to ...
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Videos flicker during play back 2 GPUs Multi-Monitor setup
I have a multi-screen desktop. I have 4 screens in total. Three of them are in NVIDIA Surround setup. My issue is when playing any video on my right most screen the video will blink (only the video ...
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Where can I get Windows XP drivers for MacBook Pro hardware without using Boot Camp?
I have an Intel-based MacBook Pro whose hard disk was formatted before I received it. It had no OS installed, and I have no Mac OS X installation disks.
I’m trying to get the machine to run some ...
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Programmatically installing a system driver on Windows 7 x64
I am experimenting with the WinDDK and trying to install a system driver on a Windows 7 (x64)virtual box. I have an .inf file:
; testdriver.inf - install information file
[Version]
Signature = "$...
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nvidia driver conflict with another display adapter
I have a laptop equipped with GT540M. Drivers are fine, games are running properly. But then, when I install my tablet driver (Yiynova DP10HD, just like a cheap replacement of Wacom Cintiq) which is ...
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LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose not working?
I'm trying to track down a problem with direct rendering being disabled, after reverting to nouveau on Fedora 18 x64 (the official NVidia drivers were having stability issues). Unfortunately, when ...
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Built-in webcam on Asus laptop missing under imaging devices in Windows 7
My built-in webcam for U43JC Asus laptop (Windows 7 32 bit) did not work, saying
The camera is being used by another program.
I searched on the net to solve the problem and the solution that ...
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Linux Mint Cinnamon HiDPI scaled with xrandr -- laggy interface?
I am running Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.
I have two 4K monitors running their native display.
Everything is too small for me.
Then I turn on HiDPI scaling in the Cinnamon settings under General.
This ...
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How to enable unsigned driver install during Windows 10 Setup?
In Windows 7 during Installation Setup one could press F8 and Force Unsigned Driver installation.
When I try to press F8 during Windows 10 setup nothing happens.
How can I enable installation of ...
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glxinfo Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
I want to create a pipeline rendering 3D on remote server and visualize locally via Mac XQuartz. But I am new to 3D rendering and openGL. I found VirtualGL a helpful tool to do this, but I met a bug ...
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Debian Stretch and Realtek r8152 chipset carrier off/on error
I've bought some USB-Ethernet adapter based on Realtek r8152 chipset. And it works perfectly under my Debian "Stretch", but it works like this only if you plug it after OS gets loaded. If OS starts ...
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Mouse lag/stutter playing games in Windows 10
Since I got this computer:
i5 7600K 3.80Ghz
16 RAM Single channel 1069 Mhz
STRIX Z270E mobo
PG348Q Monitor
GTX 1080 Zotac
500 GB SSD Western Digital
I haven't been able to play smooth any games with ...
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Browser tabs turn black
Around since the release of Firefox 54 many, many times all tabs have turned to black. Nothing outside of the Firefox UI can be seen and and restarting browser has been necessary. The change is ...
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Framebuffer device /dev/fb0 missing after installing Nvidia graphics drivers
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a thin client desktop with NVIDIA ION GPU. Using the commands below, I installed NVIDIA graphic drivers while logged into the TTY1 console. After install, I rebooted.
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Problems while installing Nvidia-367 Driver on Ubuntu-16.04
I had earlier installed nvidia-340, using
sudo apt-get install nvidia-340
I was trying to install Cuda-8, but it required nvidia-367. So I removed nvidia-340 and all other nvidia products, using
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Linux Mint will not boot up on my computer
I have a Razer Blade 2016 edition computer. I downloaded a Linux Mint ISO file, and used Rufus to make it a live file system on a USB. I load my computer's boot options by clicking F12 while the ...
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ubuntu 16.04 can't add 1080p mode to xrandr asus VS247H-P, nvidia
I asked this already on ubuntu forums but have been unable to find a solution, see:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2341827
My 1080p monitor is stuck at 1360x768 resolution in ubuntu 16.04. ...
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Questions about KMS/DRM and linux /dev/fb* devices
Basically, what I want to do is to allow most standard framebuffer graphics apps (At least, any that support being told which /dev/fb* device to use, or can deduce that from the framebuffer the VT ...
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Kali Linux's NVIDIA driver install guide does not work
I'm trying to get my natively installed Kali Linux distro to detect my second monitor. I have two Samsung S20B300 monitors but its only picking up one of them. The one it is picking up is plugged in ...
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Is it possible to use uvesafb with nvidia proproetary drivers?
I would like to have high-resolution console with NVidia proprietary driver.
To accomplish that I'm trying to use uvesafb. So what I've done:
yaourt -S v86d
/etc/modprobe.d/uvesafb.conf:
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Issue with WINE after NVIDIA Driver installation
I used to be able to successfully play Pocket Tanks and Commandos on my Fedora 20 64bit system using WINE. Few days ago I finally got time to install NVIDIA Driver. After that, WINE is now not working....
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Make USB virtual COM device persistent through reboots
EDIT: Having rethought the issue, perhaps my question can be summarized like this: Is there an existing COM terminal type program that will automatically detect when a COM port becomes unavailable and ...
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Where to find "sleep mode" drivers for debian distro?
I have HP pavillion g6 dualbooted, running windows 7 and crunchbanng 11, 64 bit, based on debian wheezy.
My crunchbang won't wake from sleep mode, I had similar problem on windows 7, solved the issue ...
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nVidia - Display driver stopped responding and has recovered
I keep getting this error of nVidia driver. So what it does basically first it freeze all windows then my monitor becomes black and if it recovers it gives me error message like u see in the url, if ...
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A service installation section in this inf is invalid
When I connect a Samsung phone to my Windows XP SP3, it gives the error
A service installation section in this inf is invalid
I browsed lot of blogs, every post says to try the Microsoft_User-...
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How I can fix the "Display Driver has stopped responding and has recovered"?
I'm using a GeForce GTX 580, with Windows 7 64-bit. The driver version of the GTX is 301.42.
The problem happens after a few minutes, when I'm playing specifc games. It won't happen in all games - And ...
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Downsampling on Nvidia Optimus (with Intel HD Graphics 3000)
What this is about
The question behind the question is actually how to place four virtual machines with 800x600 resolution on a screen smaller than 1600x1200. I am trying to enable split screen ...
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DisplayPort to DVI not working on Quadro FX 580
I have a PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 graphics card with 1x DVI and 2x DisplayPorts. The DVI port works fine with both my Viewsonic monitors but I cannot get either of the DPs to work using the supplied ...
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How can I remove an *extremely* stubborn driver in windows 10?
I recently bought a pen tablet to replace an old Wacom Bamboo that wasn't working correctly anymore. I've read having multiple tablet drivers can cause issues so I tried removing the Wacom drivers but ...
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Windows 10 - Cannot disable signed driver installation
I am sick of trying to disable "only signed driver" installation on Windows 10.
I tried running as admin:
bcdedit /set testsigning on
bcdedit /set nointegritychecks off
But to no avail.
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Windows 7 very slow installing new usb devices
I'm find an issue on some machines I administer where, upon plugging in a USB device, Windows takes forever 'searching preconfigured driver folders' for the device driver. This includes USB disks, ...
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How to check the battery level of devices connected via Bluetooth in OS X
I have a set of Bluetooth headphones that I use with my iPhone and Macbook (OS X Yosemite).
On my iPhone, a little battery meter pops up next to the Bluetooth logo each time I'm connect the ...
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headphones showing up as recording device instead of playback device
When I plug my headphones into my laptop, for some reason they have started showing up under recording devices instead of playback devices, and no sound comes out of them. When I plug my headphones in ...
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Mouse and keybord stutter when connecting though a USB hub
I have a stutter issue when connecting USB peripherals (USB-connected mouse, keyboard) through a USB hub. I have attempted to troubleshoot to the best of my abilities, but haven't managed to solve the ...
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