Driver Failure

After playing games for a decently long amount of time (I'd say about 4-6 hours on and off), I shut down my laptop for a good hour or two to eat dinner and watch some Netflix. After turning my laptop back on, it froze to the point where I had to shut it off. After shutting it off, it searched...

Hello guys. Lately my laptop (PC Notebook HP ENVY dv6-7280sp ) takes a lot of time when booting but yesterday something happened. On the task bar on the right side(dont know the name) there are less programs then before. On startup some programs dont start like avg for example. My sound icon...

Hi All. I've just got a new PC, (maximus vii formula motherboard which uses realtek audio drivers), installed the latest drivers, and hooked up my 5.1 surround speakers from my old PC (which they worked fine on yesterday) and am having huge issues. (Logitech Z506 I think) When I test in the...

Hi, My MSI GT70 Laptop keeps blue screening. Here is the latest dumpfile: crash dump file: C:\windows\Minidump\042715-22932-01.dmp This was probably caused by the following module: nvlddmkm.sys (nvlddmkm+0x7ACA08) Bugcheck code: 0x116 (0xFFFFFA8009D52010, 0xFFFFF880061F2A08...

I just install windows 7 on my laptop acer aspire one. The problem is that, i am unable to install the driver for my wireless adapter because it is disabled and the toggle Fn key is broken (F2). Now, how can i unable the wifi without using the fn+f2 key? Help please.

So, I got my laptop on October 2014 and it was running fine until, when i recently started to watch netflix, my laptop screen started to flash black and I realized it starts to flash black for a second, the sound is still going while I stream netflix, it gradually increases the flashing and...

I have intel i7 working on windows 8.1 .i came up with an issue of unable to adjust the brightness in my laptop.so found the solution to update intel integrated graphics. my intel onboard graphics is missing and couldn't find the intel hd graphics driver in the Device manager,neither any...

So, i just upgraded my laptop's win 8 to win 8.1, and upgraded my AMD GPU's driver from 14.4 to the latest 14.12 driver, or the Omega Driver on my AMD Radeon HD 7670M right after upgrading my OS. But strangely enough, after finished upgrading the driver, and rebooting two times, i noticed that...

Help, I had a display driver crash when I alt-tabbed out of Far Cry 4 and I force closed it. I then went on to try to play Cod: AW and noticed I was getting around 15 fps instead of the regular 40-60 fps I get when I'm plugged in. I restarted the computer twice and it still hasn't fixed the...

Good day, First of all I am not realy into computers so I am quite ignorant when it comes to this subject, also I don't know if this is the proper section to post this. With that said the problem: 1 month ago I started to play Counter Strike GO as usual, however the moment I get on the menu the...

Lenovo S210, 1 year old refurb notebook windows 8.1, intel hd graphics driver, windows updated bought it 2 months ago and has been using it without a problem until now. the display driver has been crashing quite a few times recently, and just an hour ago, the screen just stopped displaying...

Hello everyone, Been reading a lot here in Tom's Hardware forums about fellow Kernel-41 sufferers and I must say it makes me sad and happy at the same time to see that I'm not alone. I will write the detailed situation here. -Have the laptop for 2+ years. -This ONLY happens when I'm gaming...

Hey, just yesterday i noticed that when i change preferred Graphic driver to use it always reverts to "Automatic choice" And since my Main Nvidia GPU has Artifacts i have to use my laptop's intergrated graphics driver. But now because of this i can't play some of my games...

Hey guys, I am having an issue with my Asus laptop that is running Windows 8.1 64 bit. When I tried to use skype today I noticed skype was not detecting my built in webcam. Thinking it was skype I rebooted my laptop and tried to use the camera app which also did not detect the webcam. When...

Hi! So today i got my old office pc and wanted to try some 3ds max on it. The specs are : Athlon LE-1600 2.2GHz HD3870 512MB 2gigs of ram mcp6p m2+ mobo So i get into 3DS max start doing something like making a box , split it into 2 segments and when i get to a dropdown menu or start moving...

Hey everyone, thank you for taking the time to read about my issue! I purchased my laptop in June 2011 and recently about 3 months ago my laptop started giving a BSoD whenever the GPU is being used for more than about 30 seconds, saying nvlddmkm.sys has stopped responding... I have reinstalled...

I recently had my HCL me laptop completely reset-which included installing a clean,new version of win 7 ultimate and reformatting the drive. after it was booted up, it only displayed a max resolutions of 1024x768 instead of 1366x768. please help.

Before dismissing the tag line as another link of the same issues others have mentioned, I'll say that I have read the other Tom's links and not found a solution to my problem by following those offered solutions. I am having an unusual issue where my USB headset (Turtle Beach Z22 chat) is no...

I have currently downloaded an x64 version Sony Vegas Pro 11 and I am running the Windows 8.1 pro x64 and whenever i start the program it gets about 1/4 of the way through then freezes at "Initializing video services" and gives and error message saying "Display driver Intel HD graphics Drivers...

I have spent a decent amount of time trolling the web trying to find a fix for this. System Information as follows: ------------------ System Information ------------------ Time of this report: 12/20/2013, 15:54:09 Machine name: XEONPEACEMAKER Operating System: Windows 8 Pro with Media Center...