Always enjoy your advice, your recommendations invariably uplifting the capabilities of those like myself who otherwise would struggle. The Archer installer being of particular interest, I'm all ears as to your insights as to how best to manage this delightful accessory.
I'm like a kid in a candy store at Microcenter. :) The one in Overland Park, Kansas is always great to go to. They are very helpful even when I get quite technical. Recently I had to exchange a bad power supply. No issues with their in-house parts when it comes to exchanges. :)
Mr. Titus, thank you in reviewing Snappy Driver. I recently restored an old Asus Transformer and was missing some key drivers. Snappy Driver resolved the missing culprits and I was able to trace an unknown driver by it's hardware number to finish off the renegades in device manager. I wish I could like this video more than once.
I like the maker stuff at Microcenter. I was able to get a raspberry pi 4 at a great price when they were sold out on Amazon. (Commenting for the algorithm and your sponsor)
That is so funny I went to a Micro Center shop today and watched this video for the first time. Its a pretty cool place, with basically every PC component you need, and other accessories like mouses, headphones, console things, etc.
THANK YOU!!!!! I've been assembling a pc for my dad, using my older spare parts due to his not needing a ripper of a 'pooter. So this will hopefully make my life 100% better, thank you again!
Wanted a tool to try an automatize my driver updates. Tried it, bricked my PC, recovery didn't work so I did a fresh install, tried the tool again (I was suspicious that the first time around was due to something else since I had just had a blue screen), bricked the system yet again, currently doing the second fresh install... Chris, we love you, but this thing shouldn't be recommended! Half the people in the comments either mention how Malwarebytes flagged it, and the other half (including me) had a bad experience with it.
I remember you were quite impressed by the automatic windows 11 driver install done by Microsoft on a fresh installation. Thx for the update on your thoughts going forward, and this quality vid: There are an awful lot of very bad quality vids on Windows Drivers. They lack the practical detail and experience that you share.
I love snappy driver installer, i use this alot with my clients when i fix pcs, One of the best tools out there and keeps local copies of the drivers for the tool (if you choose to download them)
Wow this program is great I have an Acer Aspire Laptop that has no windows 10 driver support on the Acer web site, but this program found everything for windows 10. N1 Chris you are the man.
Windows 10 is such a pain, I want to manually install drivers through device manager but it won't allow it, it keeps saying your drivers are already the best, which is not the case
What a great utility. For a long time I've had minor, niggly issues, all drivers are latest. SDIO actually installed some older ones and/or different ones and had no issues for an hour or so .. Way to go!
I've been using this tool for a while, even before you posted about it. And it's intentions were amazing. Nowadays though, Malwarebytes gets triggered by this particular tool. Events are labeled as RTP detections with details such as trojans, riskware, compromised websites, and even a straight up virus (Neshta.Virus.FileInfector.DDS) was detected. I think it would be safe to back away from this tool altogether (even the one linked specifically in the description) until we can find a tool that truly is not triggering anti-virus protections like crazy.
I need to update several drivers while I'm reading your comment I need some help. It's recommended or not? I'm using Avast by the way, but I'm gonna remove it to install Malwarebytes Thanks in advance
@@davidfalcon3857 Have Malwarebytes or some other reputable anti-virus installed and running if you must use SDI for drivers. It seems to have blocked all of the nasties. Should be a last resort though. Otherwise, the safest method would be to look up the hardware IDs to your devices on Google (found on the Properties section of each device in Device Manager) to find the make/model of the device and then search the manufacturer websites for the actual driver. Hope this helps.
0:56 - Micro Center truly is heaven and I'm glad they appear to be growing as far as getting the word out through many different tech TH-camrs, but it would be nice if there were more locations or if they had more items available for shipping. The latest $50 off promo for the 4 mentioned CPUs is awesome and I'm truly blessed to live less than 5 miles from the nearest location 😁
Thanks for the tool recommend, though I only really encounter driver issues when it comes to either older Acer laptops, or laptops with goofy trackpad manufacturers, where even the manufacturer’s website can’t decide whether it’s an ELAN trackpad or the other brand whose name escapes me.
IMO no especially if you`re running an AMD powered system because of the second huge performance issue caused by the Win11 TPM 2.0 in combination with AMD`s TPM version from the end of January
@Watcher see "A key Windows 11 security feature is causing AMD performance issues" (27 Jan 2022) on the "Tech Advisor" website as only one example which explains that now for the second time (!!) in three months (!!) there are significant performance issues with devices powered by AMD ... this time the TPM module is to blame, because the issue seems to be caused by compatibility issues between AMD’s TPM (known as “fTPM”) and Windows TPM 2.0 , as opposed to a bug within the OS itself that`s what I found on the Internet, don`t kown whether it`s fixed already I`m running an AMD powered system (5600X + RX6700XT), but I`m definitely not in a hurry, neither with my modern gaming PC, nor with my elder normal Intel "office" PC, which isn`t compatible with Win11, because Win10 will be supported until Oktober 14th 2025 and since release my meanwhile "debloated" Win10 Home 21H2 works fine for me on my machines without any issues ... as we all should know: "Never change a running system unless you have to." ;-) Sorry, but for me, Win11 is absolutely not an option for a long time and as it looks so far I will keep my hands off it and hope for something much better from Microsoft, if they can still do it at all. Maybe a Windows 12 would help, because it seems to be common that certain new Windows versions are worth almost nothing and am best are skipped by most users. My hope is that "something with Linux" will be much better in the next few years, especially for the gaming genre and for passionate gamers like me, because my gaming passion is actually the only reason why I continue to use Windows especially on my “gaming” PC.
@Watcher Hello, Watcher, thank you very much for your very kind comment, I really appreciated that, especially because English isn`t my native language ... "you made my day" as they say ... Cheers !! ... and best wishes from Germany
I hate when windows installs drivers for me. I always have to block the pending driver updates that comes up when i press search for updates. It always installs old display drivers.
Your debloat script is too much closed to to my tastes. It automatically installs the tools which I don't want. And could install when I needed. First few version which just debloated were great. Couldn't you separate the options for debloat and optional installs. Until then I'm sticking with Sycnex's debloat script. BTW, this video is good stuff.
I am also less keen on the automatic installs issue. The current tool I find not so bad though on that issue, as it only installs winget and some O&O stuff , I think, the rest is optional via a button click
I remember I tried to change some automatically installed drivers for some of the new drivers that were in the official web, and when you uninstall the one you want to delete, PC asks for a reboot, and when you reboot Windows already installed it again, such a pain in the ass
Just a reminder - don't fix things if they are not broken! I gave it a go, despite not having problems, and the program succesfuly bricked my laptop keyboard. I had to use System Restore. Also, the automatic restore point created by the program didn't fix the missing keyboard. Always make MANUAL restore point before playing with drivers!
for my personal rig, i only install the minimum set of drivers that i need. if there are devices that don't have drivers and aren't working, then so be it. if i'm not using it, why should hackers get to use it? one less attack vector. can't turn on a web cam if the os doesn't even know the device exist because the drivers aren't even in the system to begin with.
A guy that looks just like me bought his laptop at microcenter. It was a return that they upgraded with a SSD and 8GB of RAM. ("Lenovo" Y-520) I wanna say it cost him like 800 bucks for an uppgrayyedd (for a double dose of this pimpin) gaming laptop. Pretty solid deal man. He's still using it, and he bought that thing like 8-10 years ago.
When opening the program, it literally did not offer me any drivers, does it mean that windows does install all the correct drivers and this is unnecessary?😂 P.D My manufacturer only offers drivers for windows 7 and 8 🙃
Used this app to try to restore a driver that disappeared. Not only did it not get me the missing driver, now I've lost all audio and I've been poking around my comp for 2 hours trying to get sound back. Some "upgrade" for my drivers.
Thanks for the automatic driver installation setting tip. I've had the problem at least twice already that my graphics driver has been updated automatically without my consent, affecting performance when I wanted that to be consistent/replicatable and rendering the GUI broken. Somehow I didn't research that yet though, probably because the setting in DDU doesn't seem to work anymore. Will set that soon on my PC, so I am again more in control. Will also check out your mentioned debloat script. :)
have saw many videos about windows optimization for gaming but none of them I cant trust.If you can made a new video about this topic would very helpful for gamers like us who does not have powerful PC for gaming.BTW appreciate your optimization guids
I really truely find your tips so helpful, i have actaully downloaded this and had a go, the reason for downloading this is because i have a very old laptop it's a Acer Aspire 8735G & hoping to sort an issue out which is a driver called.... nuvoton ec generic hid. No sadly it did not sort the issue out :-( Another thing with what it keeps on doing is resetting, even when the laptop working on updates etc. Shame it can't be solved :-( Yes it's old but just loved doing my personall bits on the laptop, but unfortunately the laptop as died from Old Age. Anyway my friend i just love hearing the tips you give, really usefull. Thank you
I have an aging Dell E6440 that has an AMD 8600M series dedicated GPU. The problem is, when Windows (10 or 11) installs the driver for it, it BSOD and corrupts the system, If I use the Snappy Driver app, it also do the same thing. Apparently the latest driver for this old GPU has that "annoying" bug. The only way to fix it is using the penultimate driver released that has no bugs. Ive only found this issue on this particular laptop...
The thing is no matter what I disabled windows kept updating my GPU driver on my laptop. Well yeah, updating. Always downloaded a 1y/o version of it. Since I went to Linux no problems at all. Running mint on my laptop for basic office stuff and everything is fine. The problem with the windows driver was the colour output was so weird sometimes and it always installed the lite version so you could not change anything in the settings. When you installed the propper version it just went and removed it again.
This bricked my PC. Attempts to load into windows, keeps spinning, no error messages, reboots several times, goes to blue screen trouble shooter. All settings were left at default values as shown on your copy. BRICKED! Any help would be appreciated.
Now if MS would just keep its fingers out of GPU control panels. They keep updating mine on my laptop and breaking it. I keep downloading the latest one from AMD, and it's broken again in days... The driver itself isn't being updated, but the control panel gets whacked. Funny thing though, its so proud of itself that it creates a notification saying that it installed the latest one and that I should check it out... And I think to myself, you just broke my stuff again and you're bragging about it? Thanks MS for being so dang helpful!
I don't know if you read the comments but this is really strange. I lost sound on my laptop. It still worked with earphones and connect to wireless display. I run Fedora from the USB and sound OK. Rebooted into Windows and now the sound is OK. Really weird, right.
1) Snappy Driver sometimes shows drivers with a more recent date but a lower version number. How is this to be understood? In such a case, should the more recent date or the higher version number be preferred? 2) Which is the correct startup file for Windows 11 64-bit? Of the files with "x64" in the name there are SDI_x64_R2201.exe SDI_x64_R2309.exe SDIO_x64_R749.exe SDIO_x64_R756.exe Maybe I overlooked something in your video.
I don’t recommend this app on laptop, because laptop manufacturers have their own drivers for own software, for example this ruined my audio drivers on razer blade thx drivers and it doesn’t work anymore thankfully I created restore point so be curious with this app on laptop
Fantastic Chris !! I wanna see if it will find my elusive driver that Intel or anyone else, so far, supports for that matter. It’s the: Intel Centrino (R) Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150 HardwareID: USB\VID_8087&PID_07D9&REV_0000. Love this video as well, I have heard of this application before SDI), that is before Glen made it open source. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I have a intel i5 m 540 cpu which intel dont give support for windows 10. So on some fresh installations rarely it detects and install intel hd graphics and most of the times it don't. And for them to work i have to literally install windows 10-15 times such a pain in ass
Speaking of faulty drivers, lately on my HP dy2037nr notebook (running Windows 11), a driver named "Intel Software Component" kept failing to install by Windows Update. Oddly enough, Intel's driver assistant had no issues (and reported no driver updates). Something shady if you ask me.
I am not doing anything special and Windows is not updating or even attempting to update any drivers so no idea why anyone else's system would be.The only thing that ever happens is the Nvidia app telling me there is a new driver but nothing is automatic update other than Windows security updates.GPU drivers have always been just some simple additions for newer games but if playing anything older than a year or two you likely won't need any updates to your gpu. I have never heard of Micro center no such store near my city. So doing a little Google search i see that MC is USA only so nothing up here in the great white north.
I bought a second-hand computer with Windows 10 pro, actually it is new from a company off-load. One of the first things I did was look for driver updates. I stumbled upon a software called Bit Driver Updater and installed and used it. It seems to do a good job. Is it doing the job? Non-professionals like me really do not know what any of this stuff does.
i have four pcs in my home two amd two intel running this driver update tool took out the keyboards and all usb ports on the intel systems i tried it on the second intel one after it bricked the first one just for curiosity and it did bricked that one too forcing me to use remote desktop to get keyboard and mouse back to be able to system restore which thankfully worked
Always enjoy your advice, your recommendations invariably uplifting the capabilities of those like myself who otherwise would struggle. The Archer installer being of particular interest, I'm all ears as to your insights as to how best to manage this delightful accessory.
I'm like a kid in a candy store at Microcenter. :)
The one in Overland Park, Kansas is always great to go to. They are very helpful even when I get quite technical.
Recently I had to exchange a bad power supply. No issues with their in-house parts when it comes to exchanges. :)
Mr. Titus, thank you in reviewing Snappy Driver. I recently restored an old Asus Transformer and was missing some key drivers. Snappy Driver resolved the missing culprits and I was able to trace an unknown driver by it's hardware number to finish off the renegades in device manager. I wish I could like this video more than once.
I like the maker stuff at Microcenter. I was able to get a raspberry pi 4 at a great price when they were sold out on Amazon.
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That is so funny I went to a Micro Center shop today and watched this video for the first time. Its a pretty cool place, with basically every PC component you need, and other accessories like mouses, headphones, console things, etc.
THANK YOU!!!!!
I've been assembling a pc for my dad, using my older spare parts due to his not needing a ripper of a 'pooter. So this will hopefully make my life 100% better, thank you again!
Wanted a tool to try an automatize my driver updates. Tried it, bricked my PC, recovery didn't work so I did a fresh install, tried the tool again (I was suspicious that the first time around was due to something else since I had just had a blue screen), bricked the system yet again, currently doing the second fresh install... Chris, we love you, but this thing shouldn't be recommended! Half the people in the comments either mention how Malwarebytes flagged it, and the other half (including me) had a bad experience with it.
Snappy drivers is pretty famous and is widely used. It's very reliable and I've never had any problems with it.
I remember you were quite impressed by the automatic windows 11 driver install done by Microsoft on a fresh installation. Thx for the update on your thoughts going forward, and this quality vid: There are an awful lot of very bad quality vids on Windows Drivers. They lack the practical detail and experience that you share.
I love snappy driver installer, i use this alot with my clients when i fix pcs, One of the best tools out there and keeps local copies of the drivers for the tool (if you choose to download them)
How do I run the program? It just keeps going to files
Wow this program is great I have an Acer Aspire Laptop that has no windows 10 driver support on the Acer web site, but this program found everything for windows 10. N1 Chris you are the man.
Loved Linux because of you, using Arch + gnome shell best decision in my life
Love seeing Microcenter supporting you! :) Keep up the good work!
I have been looking like a tool like this for a very long time! Thank you so much for making this video. Downloading all 32 GB of drivers right now!
Windows 10 is such a pain, I want to manually install drivers through device manager but it won't allow it, it keeps saying your drivers are already the best, which is not the case
What a great utility. For a long time I've had minor, niggly issues, all drivers are latest. SDIO actually installed some older ones and/or different ones and had no issues for an hour or so .. Way to go!
Niggly issues?
Wow was looking for a tool to do this just recently and this popped up. Thankyou so much!
I've been using this tool for a while, even before you posted about it. And it's intentions were amazing. Nowadays though, Malwarebytes gets triggered by this particular tool. Events are labeled as RTP detections with details such as trojans, riskware, compromised websites, and even a straight up virus (Neshta.Virus.FileInfector.DDS) was detected. I think it would be safe to back away from this tool altogether (even the one linked specifically in the description) until we can find a tool that truly is not triggering anti-virus protections like crazy.
I need to update several drivers while I'm reading your comment
I need some help.
It's recommended or not?
I'm using Avast by the way, but I'm gonna remove it to install Malwarebytes
Thanks in advance
@@davidfalcon3857 Have Malwarebytes or some other reputable anti-virus installed and running if you must use SDI for drivers. It seems to have blocked all of the nasties. Should be a last resort though. Otherwise, the safest method would be to look up the hardware IDs to your devices on Google (found on the Properties section of each device in Device Manager) to find the make/model of the device and then search the manufacturer websites for the actual driver. Hope this helps.
Ayo? A sponsor from Micro Center? LET'S GO!
I have used SDI for a long time when it was only 6GB? Such a handy tool, I recommend this to everyone....Nice to see you recommend it also.
Amazing! Spent 1.5 days searching for a driver. Snappy driver installler. Two clicks. Bam
0:56 - Micro Center truly is heaven and I'm glad they appear to be growing as far as getting the word out through many different tech TH-camrs, but it would be nice if there were more locations or if they had more items available for shipping. The latest $50 off promo for the 4 mentioned CPUs is awesome and I'm truly blessed to live less than 5 miles from the nearest location 😁
As always, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. I'll be seeing you on twitch !!!
thank you very much, I am a Tech guy from Argentina, I enjoy your videos and keep all your advices in mind!
What kind of shenanigans were going on behind the scenes? I am hesitant to trust a tool that had a shady past.
Thanks for the tool recommend, though I only really encounter driver issues when it comes to either older Acer laptops, or laptops with goofy trackpad manufacturers, where even the manufacturer’s website can’t decide whether it’s an ELAN trackpad or the other brand whose name escapes me.
please make a video about pros and cons of current version of windows 11 and tell us Whether we should switch to Windows 11 or not.
Thanks Chris! This really helped with my missing drivers on device manager which was drivin' me nuts 😅
All your videos help me a lot, Thanks!!!
Nice video, Chris!
It's safe already to install Windows 11?
I say no, but its down to your choice really...
IMO no especially if you`re running an AMD powered system because of the second huge performance issue caused by the Win11 TPM 2.0 in combination with AMD`s TPM version from the end of January
@Watcher see "A key Windows 11 security feature is causing AMD performance issues" (27 Jan 2022) on the "Tech Advisor" website as only one example which explains that now for the second time (!!) in three months (!!) there are significant performance issues with devices powered by AMD ... this time the TPM module is to blame, because the issue seems to be caused by compatibility issues between AMD’s TPM (known as “fTPM”) and Windows TPM 2.0 , as opposed to a bug within the OS itself
that`s what I found on the Internet, don`t kown whether it`s fixed already
I`m running an AMD powered system (5600X + RX6700XT), but I`m definitely not in a hurry, neither with my modern gaming PC, nor with my elder normal Intel "office" PC, which isn`t compatible with Win11, because Win10 will be supported until Oktober 14th 2025 and since release my meanwhile "debloated" Win10 Home 21H2 works fine for me on my machines without any issues ... as we all should know: "Never change a running system unless you have to." ;-)
Sorry, but for me, Win11 is absolutely not an option for a long time and as it looks so far I will keep my hands off it and hope for something much better from Microsoft, if they can still do it at all. Maybe a Windows 12 would help, because it seems to be common that certain new Windows versions are worth almost nothing and am best are skipped by most users.
My hope is that "something with Linux" will be much better in the next few years, especially for the gaming genre and for passionate gamers like me, because my gaming passion is actually the only reason why I continue to use Windows especially on my “gaming” PC.
@Watcher Hello, Watcher, thank you very much for your very kind comment, I really appreciated that, especially because English isn`t my native language ... "you made my day" as they say ... Cheers !! ... and best wishes from Germany
Wow I had no idea about this little and fantastic utility. Thank you!!
I so love your videos. Have learned so much thank you so much, coming from a 61 year old lady!
I hate when windows installs drivers for me. I always have to block the pending driver updates that comes up when i press search for updates. It always installs old display drivers.
I hate even more when it uninstalls some drivers with no explanation
I've been shopping MicroCenter since when they were MEI Micro Center...
Gotta try NVcleaninstall on my notebook soon. You were right! Geforce experience is so annoying!
Micro Center in Michigan is AWESOME!
Your debloat script is too much closed to to my tastes. It automatically installs the tools which I don't want. And could install when I needed. First few version which just debloated were great. Couldn't you separate the options for debloat and optional installs.
Until then I'm sticking with Sycnex's debloat script.
BTW, this video is good stuff.
I am also less keen on the automatic installs issue. The current tool I find not so bad though on that issue, as it only installs winget and some O&O stuff , I think, the rest is optional via a button click
Awesome Chris! Thanks for the video and information.
George
I remember I tried to change some automatically installed drivers for some of the new drivers that were in the official web, and when you uninstall the one you want to delete, PC asks for a reboot, and when you reboot Windows already installed it again, such a pain in the ass
Thanks for sharing this tool with us!
we need microcenter in the uk
Yep, they look really good.
Just a reminder - don't fix things if they are not broken!
I gave it a go, despite not having problems, and the program succesfuly bricked my laptop keyboard. I had to use System Restore.
Also, the automatic restore point created by the program didn't fix the missing keyboard. Always make MANUAL restore point before playing with drivers!
for my personal rig, i only install the minimum set of drivers that i need. if there are devices that don't have drivers and aren't working, then so be it. if i'm not using it, why should hackers get to use it? one less attack vector. can't turn on a web cam if the os doesn't even know the device exist because the drivers aren't even in the system to begin with.
Yep, same here, not happy.
A guy that looks just like me bought his laptop at microcenter. It was a return that they upgraded with a SSD and 8GB of RAM. ("Lenovo" Y-520) I wanna say it cost him like 800 bucks for an uppgrayyedd (for a double dose of this pimpin) gaming laptop. Pretty solid deal man. He's still using it, and he bought that thing like 8-10 years ago.
It worked on my laptop but when I try it on pc I get a blue screen
On SDI you can download only the Index.. And then SDI will download what is missing/needed for you ;)
MICROCENTER should become the Next Newegg , a lot of people doesn't have a Microcenter store near town
When opening the program, it literally did not offer me any drivers, does it mean that windows does install all the correct drivers and this is unnecessary?😂
P.D My manufacturer only offers drivers for windows 7 and 8 🙃
double click, OK, OK ,OK, OK... job done. You are now a pro !
"go to the manufacture of your box" what how what does that even mean what box
Used this app to try to restore a driver that disappeared. Not only did it not get me the missing driver, now I've lost all audio and I've been poking around my comp for 2 hours trying to get sound back. Some "upgrade" for my drivers.
Do you still not recommend getting Windows 11?
Great video Man
I'd much rather have a toothache then have to re-install drivers...
As usual you are the MAN thanks.
good god
16 drivers needing update yeah will recommend this software to less tech savvy individuals
could do with a microcenter in the UK. we've nothing like that now
Thank you for the awesome info
is it normal for bitdefender to flag snappy driver tool download as a virus?
I love your content and would like to ask you a question. Is Driver Booster safe and can't cause any problems?
Thank you.
i tried snappy driver installer out, but then on a driver it said "device requires a driver but it wasn't found in driver packs"
Thanks a lot for the info, but is it recommended to keep your drivers always updated?
please make a video on extending battery life in laptops
Oh no... Not again... CHRIS PLEASE- STOP THE TORTURE-
Sounds like great advice. I subscribed. Will this work with windows 8 on my ASUS? THANKS AGAIN
Thanks for the automatic driver installation setting tip. I've had the problem at least twice already that my graphics driver has been updated automatically without my consent, affecting performance when I wanted that to be consistent/replicatable and rendering the GUI broken. Somehow I didn't research that yet though, probably because the setting in DDU doesn't seem to work anymore.
Will set that soon on my PC, so I am again more in control. Will also check out your mentioned debloat script. :)
Windows automatic push best supporting driver like for blutooth wifi you only need to download graphics driver only
have saw many videos about windows optimization for gaming but none of them I cant trust.If you can made a new video about this topic would very helpful for gamers like us who does not have powerful PC for gaming.BTW appreciate your optimization guids
hi everyone, I wonder how to show the logitech C910 webcam on windows 10. it worked perfectly in windows 7 but is not found in windows 10
When i installed this, malwarebytes was giving me notifications about blocking malware and trojans ... just FYI
Ditto from malwarebytes : Blocked Website Category Compromised after full installt usb after 1st scan
My MalwareBytes keeps blocking the app trying to go out to various IPs and ports. Should I not be using this app now?
yes, do not use it
Love microcenter
I really truely find your tips so helpful, i have actaully downloaded this and had a go, the reason for downloading this is because i have a very old laptop it's a Acer Aspire 8735G & hoping to sort an issue out which is a driver called.... nuvoton ec generic hid. No sadly it did not sort the issue out :-( Another thing with what it keeps on doing is resetting, even when the laptop working on updates etc. Shame it can't be solved :-( Yes it's old but just loved doing my personall bits on the laptop, but unfortunately the laptop as died from Old Age. Anyway my friend i just love hearing the tips you give, really usefull. Thank you
I have an aging Dell E6440 that has an AMD 8600M series dedicated GPU. The problem is, when Windows (10 or 11) installs the driver for it, it BSOD and corrupts the system, If I use the Snappy Driver app, it also do the same thing. Apparently the latest driver for this old GPU has that "annoying" bug. The only way to fix it is using the penultimate driver released that has no bugs. Ive only found this issue on this particular laptop...
it has worked ,thank you
The thing is no matter what I disabled windows kept updating my GPU driver on my laptop. Well yeah, updating. Always downloaded a 1y/o version of it. Since I went to Linux no problems at all. Running mint on my laptop for basic office stuff and everything is fine. The problem with the windows driver was the colour output was so weird sometimes and it always installed the lite version so you could not change anything in the settings. When you installed the propper version it just went and removed it again.
Wow great tool, I need friends like you
This bricked my PC. Attempts to load into windows, keeps spinning, no error messages, reboots several times, goes to blue screen trouble shooter. All settings were left at default values as shown on your copy. BRICKED! Any help would be appreciated.
Now if MS would just keep its fingers out of GPU control panels. They keep updating mine on my laptop and breaking it. I keep downloading the latest one from AMD, and it's broken again in days... The driver itself isn't being updated, but the control panel gets whacked. Funny thing though, its so proud of itself that it creates a notification saying that it installed the latest one and that I should check it out... And I think to myself, you just broke my stuff again and you're bragging about it? Thanks MS for being so dang helpful!
I don't know if you read the comments but this is really strange. I lost sound on my laptop. It still worked with earphones and connect to wireless display. I run Fedora from the USB and sound OK. Rebooted into Windows and now the sound is OK. Really weird, right.
Great Video!
1) Snappy Driver sometimes shows drivers with a more recent date but a lower version number.
How is this to be understood?
In such a case, should the more recent date or the higher version number be preferred?
2) Which is the correct startup file for Windows 11 64-bit?
Of the files with "x64" in the name there are
SDI_x64_R2201.exe
SDI_x64_R2309.exe
SDIO_x64_R749.exe
SDIO_x64_R756.exe
Maybe I overlooked something in your video.
Thank you for your effort I tried downloading the tool but windows deemed it a malicious link and deleted it
I don’t recommend this app on laptop, because laptop manufacturers have their own drivers for own software, for example this ruined my audio drivers on razer blade thx drivers and it doesn’t work anymore thankfully I created restore point so be curious with this app on laptop
Fantastic Chris !! I wanna see if it will find my elusive driver that Intel or anyone else, so far, supports for that matter. It’s the: Intel Centrino (R) Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150
HardwareID: USB\VID_8087&PID_07D9&REV_0000. Love this video as well, I have heard of this application before SDI), that is before Glen made it open source. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
You do know that MY computer and graphics card is old when the official site doesnt support the drivers for it anymore
Been using Driver Booster from Iobit for yrs now. Free version is already good.
this snappy driver looks dodgy
Hello Sir I am Form India And I love Your Vidoes And please tell me which mic is using
I have a intel i5 m 540 cpu which intel dont give support for windows 10. So on some fresh installations rarely it detects and install intel hd graphics and most of the times it don't. And for them to work i have to literally install windows 10-15 times such a pain in ass
Hey 👋 can you show us how to install Nextcloud on Ubuntu 20.04 with ssl .. I tried everyone’s installation videos but they all sucked. Thanks 🙏🏻
Speaking of faulty drivers, lately on my HP dy2037nr notebook (running Windows 11), a driver named "Intel Software Component" kept failing to install by Windows Update. Oddly enough, Intel's driver assistant had no issues (and reported no driver updates).
Something shady if you ask me.
I am not doing anything special and Windows is not updating or even attempting to update any drivers so no idea why anyone else's system would be.The only thing that ever happens is the Nvidia app telling me there is a new driver but nothing is automatic update other than Windows security updates.GPU drivers have always been just some simple additions for newer games but if playing anything older than a year or two you likely won't need any updates to your gpu.
I have never heard of Micro center no such store near my city.
So doing a little Google search i see that MC is USA only so nothing up here in the great white north.
Tried Snappy Driver, it’s ass
Why is it that other driver update programs find a lot of things missing, but snappy does not?
I bought a second-hand computer with Windows 10 pro, actually it is new from a company off-load. One of the first things I did was look for driver updates. I stumbled upon a software called Bit Driver Updater and installed and used it. It seems to do a good job. Is it doing the job? Non-professionals like me really do not know what any of this stuff does.
i use SDI also
nice i prepared a extrernal ssd with a win to repair systems.. i was looking for something like this..
thankyou i wasted whole day searching for drivers
i have four pcs in my home two amd two intel running this driver update tool took out the keyboards and all usb ports on the intel systems i tried it on the second intel one after it bricked the first one just for curiosity and it did bricked that one too forcing me to use remote desktop to get keyboard and mouse back to be able to system restore which thankfully worked
At least put a direct link to website.