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Download HP Media Card Reader Drivers for Windows 7

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Well I have a HP Pavilion dv-5000 series notebook PC. There has been a problem since I had upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7. The problem is that, my Media Card Reader is not working. I have been trying to find the driver but all in vain, until today.

I have downloaded the driver from HP Website, where they have given the driver is meant for Windows Vista. Well I have tested it in Windows 7 Ultimate and it works perfectly fine.

The problem I faced looked like this:

Mass Storage controller

There it is seen that, in Computer Properties->Device Manager->Other Devices, The Mass Storage Controller Driver is missing. The Automatic Driver update eventually fails.

The Solution steps are as follows:

1. Download the Texas Instruments Media Card Driver from the link given below:

Operating System: Windows 7 32 bit
Tested in HP dv-5200tx
Size: 6.31MB
Link: Click here to Download from HP

2. Install the driver.

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3. Now check the Device Manager. The Missing Driver in Other Devices should be gone. The Texas Instruments PCI Devices should be visible.

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4. Test by inserting a compatible card to your reader.

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Hope this will solve your card reader problem in your HP Laptop.

[Download] NVIDIA GeForce/ION Driver 263.09 WHQL

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nVIDIA has released a new WHQL-certified driver (nVIDIA ForceWare) for GeForce GTX 580 and GeForce GTX 460 SE. If you are a gamer and always look to improve the performance of games and graphics on your computer, you should update your nVIDIA hardware using nVIDIA ForceWare software:

Features:

* Enhanced 3D and video performance for all applications.

* Better compatibility, and reliability with nVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA).

* Robust product support

* Continual product performance and feature updates for the life of nVIDIA hardware.

The latest driver update will have the HD audio driver updated to 1.1.9.0 version, and the latest PhysX System Software 9.10.0514, and also includes support for DirectCompute, OpenCL 1.0 for Windows 7 and GeForce 8-series and later GPUs, support for OpenGL 4.1 for GeForce 400 and later GPUs, supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring through NVIDIA System Tools Software, support for various non-English operating systems.

Download:

nVIDIA GeForce/ION Driver 263.09 For Windows 7 & Vista [128 MB]

nVIDIA GeForce/ION Driver 263.09 For Windows XP [84 MB]

Detect And Download Missing And Outdated Drivers Automatically With Driver Easy

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Back in April, we had posted about a software called “Device Doctor” which automatically searches your PC for outdated drivers and downloads them automatically. But it can’t find the missing drivers in your system automatically.

It is very essential to install all the drivers from the resource CD that you have got from your PC manufacturer to make your system run smoothly without problems. But in case you loose the CD, it’s going to be very difficult to search and find each and every driver from the “Device Manager” in Control panel and download the corresponding drivers. In such situations, here is the software called “DriverEasy” that comes to rescue for us.

Just download (yeah, it’s free) the DriverEasy software from the link given below this post, install and run it on your system. It then performs the driver search on your PC and shows you the number of outdated drivers and the number of missing drivers found.

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You can now either choose to download each of the missing or outdated drivers or you may also download all the drivers at once click.

Download DriverEasy (1.20 MB)

ATI Catalyst 10.5 WHQL Display Driver [Downloads]

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AMD has recently released monthly release of ATI catalyst for the month of May 2010. ATI Catalyst provides drivers and other essential system software for ATI products such as ATI Radeon graphics processors, AMD chipsets, and other multimedia products.

The new version (Windows® Hardware Quality Labs, WHQL-signed) 10.5 hosts many feature enhancements, along with routine important bug fixes.

New In ATI Catalyst 10.5 Versions:

1. Added support for 120 Hz displays for the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series and ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series.

2. Enhancement to ATI Overdrive: Overdrive now offers full support for over-clocking functionality on ATI Radeon HD graphics accelerators connected to multiple display configurations.

Resolved Issues for Windows OS:

1. “Battlefield 2: Bad Company” maps will no longer take longer times to load
2. Fixed text and on-screen menu corruption if hardware shaders is enabled while loading missions in “IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946” game.
3.Fixed the warning message “Catalyst Control Center is not supported…” that arises when you try to re-login to a system after a Remote Desktop connection.
4. HDTV resolutions are now being reported properly by the tooltip.

Official Download Page Link:

Download ATI Catalyst 10.5 WHQL Radeon display drivers for Windows 7 , Windows Vista & Windows XP (32-bit & 64-bit) from the following link.

ATI Catalyst 10.5 WHQL Display Driver

Realtek High Definition Audio Driver R2.48

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Realtek has released update to the High Definition Audio Driver, the new version of driver package is R2.48.

Realtek HD audio codec contains ALC882 series 7.1+2 Channel HD audio codec with UAA and DACs for ensuring high performance.

Additional Features In  Driver R2.48:

1. HDMI device WHQL Support: ATI HDMI devices

2. Operating Systems supported: Microsoft Windows XP / 2000 / Windows Server 2003 / Vista / Windows Server 2008 / Windows 7 (x86 & x64)

3. Package coming with Microsoft High Definition Audio UAAV1.0a(5013)

Download

File Size:

Windows 7/ Vista (32 or 64 bits) ZIP file – 60.33 MB

Windows 2000/ XP/ 2003 (32 or 64 bits) ZIP file – 30.08 MB

Download Realtek HD Audio Driver R2.48

Dell Inspiron 1546 Notebook Conexant D400 Modem Driver A00

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A driver update has been released to Conexant USB modem driver for Dell Inspiron 1546 Notebook users running x64 Windows 7 version.The latest update Conexant D400 external USB modem driver A00 (released on May 25,, 2010) is an initial release with WHQL and  is a highly recommended download for Dell Inspiron 1546 users worldwide.

Download the latest driver from the direct download link given below.

Download:

Direct download link (file size: 1.92 MB, file: Conexant_D400-External-USB-5_A00_R223361.exe)

Note:

Don’t forget to create a system restore point before installing the driver that you have downloaded, System restore point, if set, can be used to roll back the wrong driver installation that may happen sometimes.

IDT High Definition Audio CODEC Update #Fail In Windows 7

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Alert: IDT HD Audio Codec Windows optional update causing problems in Windows 7

There’s a new optional Windows update showing up in Windows update from a couple of days, “IDT – Audio – IDT High Definition Audio CODEC”.But there seems to be some problems with this particular update no please do not install this update hastily.Some users who have installed this have reported there was no sound output after installing this and rebooting the system.

Continue reading this post if you have already installed this and facing problems.

IDT – Audio – IDT High Definition Audio CODEC

Download size: 8.9 MB

You may need to restart your computer for this update to take effect.

Update type: Optional

IDT Audio software update released in March, 2010

More information:
http://winqual.microsoft.com/support/?driverid=20347177

Help and Support:
http://support.microsoft.com/select/?target=hub

IDT High definition audio codec in windows update

Update failed: error 80070103 (see the below screen shot)

IDT audio codec update fail

Solutions:

1. The easy way- All laptops :

The easiest and the most worked solution for this is to rollback the default windows driver (“High definition audio device”) which was released in 2008 (12/12/08 or 06/27/08).This almost solves the problem.But if you are still getting the same problem, try downloading the latest update by following these steps:

2. Specific Notebooks:

HP Notebook users:

HP IDI audio codec driver download

Go to this HP support site, enter your product name and search for drivers and download the latest

Dell Notebook Users:

Go to Dell.com and search for “IDT High Definition Audio Codec” in the search field and look for the latest update in the drivers section, choose and download the right update for your Windows.

Dell IDT update

Alternatively, Dell users can first uninstall the IDT driver from the control panel and then download “SIGMATEL driver” from the Dell.com- drivers and downloads section.Let the program automatically detect your hardware and install the right audio driver for you.

Have you faced the same problem while installing IDT HD audio codec update? If so, how did you solve it? Tell us through comments..

Note: The solutions listed here are the probable solutions that may work based on the opinion of a small numbers of users who faced this issue.There is no guarantee that it will work 100% even after you try all the above steps.

Device Doctor : Automatically Searches Your System For Out Of Date Drivers

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Device Doctor is a great free software, that automatically searches and downloads any driver updates in your system.

I have downloaded and installed the application on my Windows 7 laptop and it did it’s job perfectly it has searched and found as many as 9 driver updates (I never knew that there are updates available for all those drivers until I did this search !).

This is one great free software that any PC user with an active internet connection should install.Out  of date drivers could not only slowdown the system performance, but they may also result in unexpected behaviour.These are particularly true in the case of important hardware device drivers such as Ethernet card drivers, video card (or graphics card), sound drivers etc.Sometimes you may see the error messages like "This device cannot start. (Code 10)" or "This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31)” etc.

So the ultimate solution for this is to update your drivers regularly.The Device Doctor does this so perfectly for you.

Device Doctor:

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Just download and install this small application in your Windows system and let if automatically search and download the driver updates for you.

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Device Doctor supports all versions of Windows: Windows XP, Windows Vista & Windows 7 both 32 bit and 64 bit versions.

Download Device Doctor (6.90 MB)

nVIDIA GeForce Driver 197.41 WHQL for Windows 7, Vista & XP

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Release 197 Graphics Drivers for Windows – Version 197.41

nVIDIA has released the GeForce Driver 197.41 update for GTX 480 and GTX 470 graphics cards on April 9, 2010.Scroll down to read more about the update and also find the download links :

New features in Version 197.41 ?

  • This driver package installs NVIDIA PhysX System Software v9.10.0129.
  • NVIDIA PhysX acceleration is available on all GeForce 8‐series, 9‐series, 100‐series,and 200‐series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory and a minimum of 32 processor cores.
  • This driver package installs the HD audio driver, version 1.0.9.1.
  • This driver adds support for the following products:
    • GeForce GTX 480
    • GeForce GTX 470

This is a WHQL-certified driver update for GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470.

Direct Download Links:

Follow the following links to download the drivers for Windows XP/ Vista/ 7 versions :

Windows XP/ Media Centre Edition (32-bit)
Windows XP x64, Server 2003 x64
Windows 7/ Vista 32-bit
Windows 7/ Vista 64-bit

Download 3D version of the driver for Windows Vista/ Windows 7 here (16.3 MB)

Download the release notes: Win XP, Win 7 & Vista.

HP Compaq Web Cam Driver & Application For Windows 7

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For HP Compaq Laptop users, if you are migrating to Windows 7, then you need to have some of the drivers compatible to Windows 7.

If you see, unlike Windows XP, Windows 7 supports most of the basic devices with its inbuilt drivers like the sound card. And even if it doesn’t support the device, it tries to download the driver from the internet and installs automatically.

For the Web Camera, the driver can be directly downloaded using device manager of Windows unlike in the case of Acer Laptop PC where you need a different driver download. But the Web Cam needs an additional application to run. Here we have given both how to download the driver and the Web Cam application.

Note: Connect your Compaq PC to the Internet before performing these steps.

Downloading the driver:

Open Device manager. Right click on Computer and select properties. In the properties click Device manager.

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Now Click on Scan for hardware changes button as shown below:

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Under the Imaging devices section if your Web cam is already present then no need to download the driver. If it shows as an unrecognized device with a yellow exclamation symbol then, right click on it and select Update Driver Software…

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Select Search automatically.

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It will automatically download and install the Driver software to your Compaq PC.

Install Web Cam Application Software:

You have to download the Cyberlink YouCam application software to run your Web camera. You can download it from the official hp link:

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp37501-38000/sp37849.exe

Size: 49.5 MB

Extract it and install it. You can run your web cam and use it.

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The updating of the driver software is applicable to all the hardware devices in your computer. If any unrecognized device is found, then you can try updating the driver software.

The above given method has been tested successfully in Compaq Presario C783TU. Hope it will work for other models also. Any feedback can be posted as a comment below.