DAL Computer Help - Drivers

wireless driver

reysdon — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:35:11 GMT

Please,

I need help determining why my wireless modem stopped working after only two months. I suspect that it could be my internal driver on my HP compaq notebook F730US.

However I'm not sure and am open to any help I can get.

no audio

arndtsmotorsports — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:24:07 GMT

I have an acer extensa 4420 (vista basic) and after a recent automatic update the sound doesn't work anymore. I've tried updating the driver but the search said I had the latest version available... which is weird because when you move the cursor over the speaker icon on the status bar in the bottom rh corner of the screen it says "no audio output device is installed" my computer savvy is basic at best so any and all help would be appreciated

Win7Ult.-7900GTO drivers won't install/No access to Nvidia control panel

3izarre — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:11:07 GMT

Hello DAL, :turned:

Back again with some driver and software issues. I need to turn down my hardware acceleration a little to get my encoder program to work properly.

When attempting to access the Nvidia Control panel:

I have no desktop>right cick option

I have the NvCpl files, but they won't work. I double click and they do nothing.

I have no options (that i know of) in control panel for Nvidia

I have no options or listing in msconfig or uninstall for nvidia

When I go to install new drivers, so I can get the control panel working. I tried to install the newest and an older driver but it says that the driver I'm trying to install is not compatible. I tried a couple different compatibility modes but couldn't get anything to work.

When I tried to install the new drivers I did the following steps:

Uninstall in device manager
Reboot
Attempt to Install new/old driver

Drivers I tried to install:
(185.85_desktop_win7_32bit_english_whql)
(191.07_desktop_win7_winvista_32bit_english_whql(2 ))

My desktop view-
Yfrog - desktopu
Same different sizes::
http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/6294/desktopu.png

I'm stumped. The driver works fine but I don't have the software.

Any help or suggestions would be...........DYNO-MITE!

Creative SB Audio Audigy 2 ZS-no stereo mix

3izarre — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:31:26 GMT

Hello DAL,

I just up graded to Win7 Ultimate. I got everything working properly but now that I want to make videos my soundcard driver won't allow me to set it to recording. Stereo mix wasn't included, which is the brain of the operation.

I was wondering if you could find/have a old driver that has stereo mix and would compatible with win 7?

Thanks,
3iz

Nvidia Geforce 7900GT/GTO driver causing windows not to boot

Oddl3all — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:40:46 GMT

Hello,

PCpitstop informed me I had a couple of outdated drivers.

PC Pitstop OverDrive Tests Overview
D-A-L Computer Hardware Scan Results

So I went to Nvidia and them search for the appropriate drivers for my machine even though I know my card is a 7900GTO. Downloaded their recommended Oct .5 2009 7900GTO driver. Installed and rebooted. On reboot I got passed the Windows loading screen then nothing happened. Rebooted again and nothing but a black screen. I did a system restore tried to write you you guys and I got the blue screen of death. So right now I'm on my second attempt at write you this.

Also I can't find any Ceative sound card drivers at all :sweatdrop

damn damn damn!

Any help would be much appreciated thanks, Odd

Device supports D3 power save but wrong map

pastures — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:34:44 GMT

Minor issue. If I let my system hibernate automatically (when idle), my PCI TV Tuner & Video Capture card fails to revive properly after the system awakes (though the audio continues to come across okay); and I have to reboot the machine before my TV will work correctly again !?

:detective

There are 4 sub-devices found on that TV card. The ones named "BtXBar, WDM Crossbar" and "BtTuner, WDM TV Tuner" are suspected of causing this difficulty.

:tt1:

Really, I don't understand these Power Management functions or acronyms like D0, D3, and S0 thru S5. I installed this TV Tuner card and hunted down a newer fully-capable driver for the device (from driverguide.com of course) that will serve under WXP (I had bought the device ages ago for use under WME and the included driver CD wasn't working quite right under WXP). I toiled and toiled to locate this newer driver. It was a nasty and perilous trek, lemme tell ya. I wouldn't look forward to trying to replace this driver!

:sweatdrop

I am looking at something on the Properties panel for those BtXBar and BtTuner devices that makes me very very suspicious. On the Details tab, under "Power State Mappings" it shows S0 thru S3 all mapping to D0, and that can't be right! It then shows S4 and S5 unspecified. This CANNOT be correct because according to the same tab under "Power Capabilities", both D0 and D3 are supported -- just like the other devices, both on the TV card and also true of most (if not all) of the other devices on my PC. But those other devices show what I presume to be the correct "Power State Mappings", that being S0->D0 and S1->D3 and S2 and S3 unspecified, and S4 and S5 map to D3.

So my question is: does Windows get that information about the Power State Mappings directly from the device hardware, or is from one of the driver files, and how can it be modified to reflect S1 -> D3, which I'm thinking might overcome the present difficulty because D3 is ('seems obvious) the desired state for a device to be in when the PC goes to hibernation ?

Thanks!

[Edit: I should also mention here that I did peruse the .INF files for the BtXBar and BtTuner and there was no obvious mention of the Power Mappings to be seen. Drivers have other binary files too, like .SYS files, and I'm wondering if therein lies some key.]

[Edit#2: Come to think of it, my system now refuses to go into hibernation voluntarily when idle, and I've got to presume it's those errant mappings that are the cause. I can still command my PC to hibernate, and in fact I gerry-rigged something using a free utility, SwitchOff, and setting it up as a scheduled task when idle, to achieve the same effect as the Windows automatic hibernate when idle.]

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