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):
