Complete one by one, and restart your computer after every section to get slightly higher chance of success.



Simple Solutions (most common problems)

- Check that all of the cables are plugged INTO THE RIGHT SPOT, and PUSHED IN WELL

- Find the site for your devices manufacturer (dell.com, nvidia.com, ati.com, etc) find and access the search bar/feature in their site and enter your model number / part number. Once you find the download page for your device, save the driver files to your computer. Install the new driver file. If an auto-install pops up, you can figure the rest out.

How To for harder problems, estimated 30 min for all 4:

Disable all virus scanners/programs that run in the backround after every restart.

Plan A

Open My Computer and double click the driver file you downloaded. An install window starts and extracts its files to a place on your computer C:xxxxxxxxxxdrivers for example. Make sure you write it down, and WATCH CLOSE -It may automatically start the install; otherwise we do it manually in Plan B

-Follow the install, finish it out, and restart your computer. Check your problem.

Plan B (if plan A didnt work)

- Click>Start>Run C:xxxxxxxxxxxxdrivers where that location is where the extracted files went.

- Find the drivers install file (setup.exe, install.exe, [etc].exe)

- Start and complete the install. Restart when done. See if problem is gone

Plan C(if plan B didnt work)

- Right click My Computer>Properties

- In the Hardware tab, go to Device Manager

- Find your troubled device in the sub-lists in the window

- once found, right click, and update driver.

- install it from a list

- check "include this location in the search" C:xxxxxxxxxxxxdrivers (extracted files location u wrote down)

- click next.

- If found, check your problem, and if not, move on.

Plan D (Last chance!!!)

- In Device Manager, find your problem device

- right click, update driver

- yes, connect to windows at this time

- follow the menu, restart and see if problem is gone.

If still broken, your problem is beyond the capability of this article.

Estimated reasons for failure (estimated based on experience):

70% Device not installed using proper directions

10% Problem with Windows

10% broken device

10% other