Trouble:

We recently published a post on checking the details of device drivers installed on your computer, this will help you when you want to upgrade your device drivers, but the trouble arise when:

What if you have no device driver installed for a particular device?

For example : If the audio driver is not installed on your computer and audio is not working, in such a case you can not see any installed driver or version through the post published before.

Well, we also have a fix for this problem. The fix is to first know what is the hardware configuration of your computer, then find a driver for that online. Let see the fix in detail.

continue reading "Know Detailed Hardware Configuration of Your Computer"

Trouble:

We have received certain problems from the users reporting that the audio is not working after they have installed / uninstalled certain devices.

For example: one of our readers installed wireless modem and after that the sound of the computer is not working.

Why sound stops working?

Most common reasons for this trouble are:

• Such kind of troubles arise after some device / software is installed which tries to gain control as default sound device.
• Also while un-installation of certain softwares, some shared files are removed. At times some important shared file can be deleted which causes troubles with working of sound drivers.
• While installing certain games, it tries to gain control of sound or video drivers and may accidentally harm these driver softwares.

Lets see the ways to fix such troubles.

continue reading "Audio not working / Problem with sound in Windows"

Trouble:

One of our readers, Jamie wrote

“My PC monitor used to have 32-bit color quality at 1024×768 pixels. Then one time, the screen appeared to be bleeding. Large red globs rained down on the screen. After that, the best I could get was 800×600 resolution and 16-bit color.”

This is not unusual to get such type of problem. I also faced such a problem when I installed a new game on my desktop. After I launched the game, the display resolution was degraded and remained like that.

Why display resolution gets affected ?

The most common reason for display resolution reduction / degradation is corruption of display driver files by some application or game. Sometimes drivers may get corrupt due to a corruption of drive area which stores the drivers.

Lets see how to fix it.

continue reading "Display resolution decreased / degraded"

Trouble:

One of our readers is facing a problem, whenever he hibernates his computer, the computer does not hibernate properly and restarts. Isn’t it annoying? It surely is.

What is difference between hibernate and shutdown?

Shutdown : All the contents of the ram and other resources are cleaned up and computer is powered off. When you turn on your computer, all the operating system files are loaded again to boot the computer.

Hibernate: All the contents of ram are stored in a file on hard disk. When you turn on the computer, the same file is copied back to the ram and your computer will start in the state you hibernated it.

But what to do in case your computer restarts on hibernating or standby ?

Lets see the how to get rid of this problem.

continue reading "Computer restarts on hibernate or standby"

Trouble:

We recently received a trouble from one of our readers Adam, that whenever he plays movies or play games on his computer, it starts to flicker. Let us have a look at this trouble and see how this can be fixed.

Some common reasons for this trouble can be:

• Slow performance of hardware.
• Old or incompatible graphics drivers.
• Old or un-supported version of DirectX

continue reading "Flickering graphics while playing games or watching movies."