Automatically Detect and Download all your PC drivers
During the last decade, I got the chance to try many driver repairing tools, some of them were free, some were not. I never liked any of them though, some couldn’t correctly detect the hardware that is unrecognized by windows, some provided dead driver download links, and some were loaded with spywares are scarewares.
When I was working on a friends Acer laptop, trying to find almost all of it’s drivers that Windows curiously was unable to recognize any of them. Even the manufacturer was not quite sure what the hell they put in this model.
That is when I tried a software called Device doctor, I kinda liked it for the following reasons.
1. Free
2. Was able to detect all the needed drivers.
3. Was able to provide driver updates for the installed drivers.
4. All drivers were hosted at the device doctor website.
5. No registration required !
6. There is even a portable version of the software, to be used without installing from a flash drive, if you were geeky enough for that.
I still haven’t got the chance to really check it’s capabilities, but so far, it’s looking good.
You can download Device Doctor here
Also you can get the Portable Device Doctor here
Patriot Memory Flash Disk repair tool
This tool allows you to repair your Patriot Memory flash disk if you are unable to format it with any other method because it appears as Read-only.
This method performs a low-level format to the disk and remove the Read-only attribute.
This tool is not available from the patriot memory website, only the support guys can directly email it to you.
Here is a copy of the email a friend got from the support team on how to use this tool.
Dear Valued Customer,
Attached I have included a software that will low level format and re-initialize the device. Please keep in mind using this software will delete all the data on the drive and restore the drive to its original manufacturer stage.
Please make sure to detach all other flash drives and only have the Patriot Memory drive plugged in to your computer when using the utility.
The file name is been set to Patriot.vin. Once you download the file, rename to Patriot.zip and use the software. Please be aware that this process can only be completed one time!
Patriot Memory Technical Support Team
I have successfully used this tool to repair a patrioit 8GB Xporter. the downside is that according to the support team this tool can only be used once for every flash disk for some reason.
Here is the download link. Patriot Memory 2.9.0.5
please report about the results of using this tool
Good luck
Activating the sound front panel on Asrock motherboards
sometimes, after installing a new asrock motherboard, you will notice that the front panel is not working (either the MIC or the headset jacks). this problem is caused by the board failing to detect that your computer case does have a front panel and that it is connected.
To get around this problem and use your front panel, go to the BIOS settings and find the front panel detection setting and change it from auto to enabled. this will make the front panel jacks appear in your realtek audio manager.
This problem has been detected by Asrock and they released new BIOS versions that change the default setting to enabled instead of auto.
I used to love asrock, but not anymore, what about you? do you like the newer asrock MBs?
BCM2045A USB Bluetooth Dongle driver for windows Vista 32 and x64 bits
BCM2045A USB Bluetooth adapter is a cheap Chinese usb bluethooth adapter, it works very well under windows XP but under windows Vista, there is no way you can install it’s driver because it is not digitally signed and there is no version on the internet that is.
To use this BCM2045A USB Bluetooth Dongle on windows Vista follow these simple steps:
HP 656c Driver for windows Vista 32 and 64
HP 656cThe HP 656c is a very old hp printer. I got it around the year 2001, recently I needed to download a driver for it to work on windows Vista x64 and not surprisingly there was not.
The trick to use your HP 656c on windows Vista 32 or x64 is easy.
Rosewill RHM-556 3.5mm Circumaural Headset review
I got this headset from newegg.com a while ago for $14.99. the price is very good when compared to other headsets with the same specifications.
Rosewill RHM-556 Circumaural Headset
Radeon Catalyst and display driver 9.6 NEW
A new driver is released for almost all recent Radeon display adapters. The following improvements are announced with this new driver
- Company of Heroes – performance improves up to 25% with HD 4600 series products and below as well as improvements of up to 10% on HD 4800 series
- Crysis – performance improves up to 13% in multi-GPU configurations
- Crysis Warhead – performance improves up to 11% in multi-GPU configurations
- World in Conflict – performance improvements of up to 30% can be seen in settings
that were previously CPU limited
Also, some crashes and problems with the CCC has been fixed.
This is all great, but now in a time where AMD (ATI) cards are considered better than their equivalents in nVidia, I think it is time for AMD to stand up for the challenge and fix embarrassing bugs such as:
- 3D graphics corruption in many games with Adaptive anti-aliasing enabled.
- Games crash on minimize and resolution changes.
- funny looking effects.
- Buggy deinterlacing that actually make movies interlaced (scan-line effect)
- V-sinc does not know when to turn on or off
AMD (ATI) must work more with the developers and do more “Best played on Radeon” games. Also it is time to flood the market with DirectX 10.1 games, since no nVidia cards already supports it. and I’m not talking about crappy games such as Stormrise.
Radeon card are strong but I feel that this miss a Strong software support.
what do you think
XIGMATEK Dark Knight-S1283V 120mm Long Life Bearing CPU Cooler Review
I got this to use it with my Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz.
XIGMATEK Dark Knight
Here is a short review of how I liked it, may be it will help you decide if you would buy it or not
New hard disk not appearing in ‘my computer’? make it
Problem: You got a new hard disk, after installing it, your system can’t find it.
Causes: If the hard disk appears in the “Device manager” it is probably just not formated. Samsung and other brands ship their HDs unformated
Solution: From the control panel go to “Administrative tools” choose “Computer management” and inside it select “Disk Management”. In the lower portion of the form you will find your HD as “unpartitioned” right click it creat partitions as you wish then format them as you wish.
You can check more Quick tips for your computer here
Fix desktop crashing into 16 color display mode
Problem: When Windows Xp starts, the display reverts to a low resolution 16 color mode.
Cause: Generally this is caused by a malfunctioning display adapter driver, I have seen it on built-in VGAs from intel.
Solution: reinstall the display driver, if you still have the same problem, uninstall the VGA driver and do not install a driver for it again, windows will just use software support to display your desktop correctly. but you still wont be able to play games or correctly view movies until you find a working driver and install it.
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