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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Which driver is resuming my USB device?
I have a USB device that correctly enters in Suspend state, but it gets Resumed after a couple of seconds, then goes back to Suspend state and the loop continues.
This happens on my notebook (Windows ...
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USB-C port only works if devices plugged during boot, and won't be recognized if Windows is running
My Dell XPS 9560 has an USB-C port, and it doesn't work correctly. If I plug in a device during boot (I mean before pressing power button), Windows can recognize it and things work normally. However, ...
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NVIDIA: “RuntimeError: No CUDA GPUs are available”
I am implementing a simple algorithm with PyTorch on Ubuntu. Two times already my NVIDIA drivers got somehow corrupted, such that running an algorithm produces this traceback:
Traceback (most recent ...
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Reusing old laptop webcam as USB camera
I took the webcam from an old Compaq 620 laptop and after a few wire connections I can connect it to the USB port
For a few seconds it is detected as HP Webcam 2.0 in device manager under Cameras (...
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Mongodb PHP Driver MacOS Unsigned package error
I installed MongoDB driver for PHP with the following command
sudo pecl install mongdodb
I had to disable "csrutil" at reboot to be able to run the above command. After installing the package I ...
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System interrupts causing high CPU usage
I purchased a Lenovo ThinkPad Helix 2 2-in-1 laptop/tablet second-hand around a month ago, it came with Windows 10 Pro and was working OK for a few weeks but recently I have had a problem with ...
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Windows 10: Force-Disable Palm Rejection
I recently purchased an Asus VivoBook S14 which uses their own AsusPTP precision touchpad driver. I've reinstalled the driver countless times, tweaked the touchpad sensitivity, and disabled every ...
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Windows 10: will drivers installed using testmode still work then testmode is disabled?
I have a general understanding problem with Windows Testmode and how to install unsigned drivers: I understand that if I have drivers (in my case for an USB to RS232 serial adapter) that are not ...
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How can I find out the USB Bandwidth usage of device in Windows 10
I want to view the USB bandwidth usage of different devices on my Windows 10 laptop (1607).
I found this article from Microsoft which advises to check in Device Manager, however the Advanced tab ...
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Webcam only detected through usb hub but not directly
I posted this question first on StackOverflow. I got the hint to post it here with additional information. So here is the updated question.
Original question:
I tried to connect a usb webcam directly ...
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Touchpad Smooth Scrolling Obliterated In Windows 10 Creators Update
I love the Creators Update to an extent-- it has a good amount of features that are applicable for me on my Surface Pro 4. However, trackpad scrolling has just been completely obliterated. It's really ...
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Windows 7 not picking up 8th GPU
Adding on to a previous question I asked.
How many GPUs Does Windows 7 Support?
I have managed to stick 8 Nvidia GTX 980Tis into a Tyan Supermicro Box.
It's running Windows 7 Professional 64bit
It ...
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DVD-RW doesn't read or write, SAMSUNG NP700Z5C-S03SA notebook
I upgraded my windows from Win 8 to Win 8.1 and I had never used DVD driver, Now when i insert CD or DVD it took some second and then it push it out, but if the DVD was free to write on it just keep ...
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blank screen after suspend: nouveau says link training failed
When I resume my HP 8440p from standby, my display gets activated but remains blank - just a white screen.
The journal shows the following log entries when going down for standby:
Mar 24 22:15:00 ...
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Realtek HD audio manager not starting
I suddenly noticed only my left speaker was working. So I tried sound trouble shooting and I believe I opted to use windows default sound driver and the realtek program closed.
Now I figured my right ...
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Nvidia "I Prefer Maximum Performance" Quick Switch?
fellow Windows users!
I want to be able to (quickly) switch between
I Prefer Maximum Performance
Adaptive Performance
Nvidia Control Panel
I've used Autohotkey as a quick hack, but there has to be ...
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Windows 10 sudden blank screen
Lately i re-installed Windows 10 to get a fresh OS. After i have installed and updated everything including drivers, it worked fine until few hours later, screen went blank with no cursor or anything ...
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How do I enable OpenGL 3.3 on Fedora 23 with AMD graphics card?
I am using the open-source Mesa drivers (Gallium3D/radeonsi), which should support OpenGL 3.3, but don't seem to on my system.
According to this news article and this page recent Mesa versions should ...
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Controller (or driver) causing Windows 10 to always stay awake
Ever since upgrading to Windows 10, my machine would not allow the screen or machine to timeout and sleep or hibernate. Before upgrading from Windows 7 the machine slept normally. After some searching ...
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Should my graphics card be running at a clock speed higher than the spec?
I have a GeForce GTX 660 on my windows 7 computer. I have been having problems with certain games where it randomly freezes. I began monitoring using EVGA Precision X16 and I noticed that the clock is ...
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How to identify and remove unnecessary files from Windows Driverstore?
My Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository is 48 Gigabytes in size.
That is way bigger than I have ever seen anywhere else, and is way out of proportion for a 128GB SSD.
I know how to list the ...
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Installing new driver on Linux, missing the 'Build' directory
I recently installed Kali Linux on a very old PC, and since it doesn't have a wifi card I bought a Realtek USB wifi adapter. The adapter came with a driver to install, and I went to run the "install....
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What is an intel wifi "inbox driver"?
Intel list the driver for my wireless card (Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG) as an inbox driver. I have no idea what this means or how I am supposed to get hold of it. The intel website specifically ...
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Overriding/fixing TV HDMI EDID with Windows
My Samsung JS8500 TV provides a default EDID with only 2 channel audio to Windows/Nvidia. e.g. under audio playback devices, or the monitor device in the Device Manager, the number of audio channels ...
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AMD Radeon GPU driver installation cause black screen
My laptop worked just fine until 2 days ago. After exiting some program windows crashed and I had to restart my laptop. After restart (windows booted) I got black screen with cursor. I googled it and ...
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Possible to Load/Unload DiskDrive Filter Driver On-The-Fly Without Restarting?
As the title implies, I want to know if I can load or unload a diskdrive filter driver without restarting the machine and have the change take effect immediately.
I'm doing this in a WinPE ...
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bcm4331 (wifi) doesn't work on FreeBSD 10.1
I've installed FreeBSD 10.1 on my MacBook Pro Mid 2012 (MacBook Pro 9.2). Everything works pretty good, except Wifi interface (bcm4331).
FreeBSD has two modules - bwi-firmware-kmod and bwn-firmware-...
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Webcam on MSI GS70 stealth not working
I have a MSI GS70 stealth with a built in webcam. I have many troubles trying to get it working.
In Device Manager, the webcam is register under imaging devices, USB boot. I cannot use the webcam on ...
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Windows 8 "Device Setup" process stuck without further progress
After plugging-in of an USB device, standard window with progress bar appears. The problem I experience is that it gets stuck at certain progress and doesn't continue no matter how long I wait.
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Reinstalling X11 drivers Ubuntu 14.04
After a recent upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04 xserver would no longer start on my workstation. When running
startx
the following error occurs:
(EE) module ABI major version (6) doesn't match the ...
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Offload dri to a render node in xorg
There is new feature in mesa DRI_PRIME emerged to keep up with modern hybrid graphics on laptops. I'd like to use it for desktop too. Powersaving is always good.
So I make xorg to use only intel ...
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Editing the Synaptics touchpad driver registry settings
Running the latest version of the Synaptics touchpad driver (17.0.19)
I'm also running mDesktop, which gives virtual desktop functionality. At the moment I have it set up so that "Ctrl + Left arrow" ...
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BSoD DRIVER_VERIFIER_DETECTED_VIOLATION
I'm having a lot of BSoD's lately, so I ran Driver Verifier (verifier in command line). It generated DRIVER_VERIFIER_DETECTED_VIOLATIONBSoD. Analyzing the dump with WinDbg:
!analyze -v
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