- Jan 15, 2017
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When I bought a new GPU recently I made the mistake of using an incredibly outdated AMD Driver removal utility that messed up my chipset drivers. I had to disable xHCI (USB 3.0) to get my USB ports to work, and my ethernet driver would randomly work around 10% of the time, so I'd reboot my computer endlessly until it would load properly.
I finally bit the bullet and decided to re-install Windows, since there's no way to really uninstall chipset drivers that I could find.
But now, on a completely fresh Windows installation, I'm still having driver problems, getting the same "This device cannot start (Code 10)" error in Device Manager for my USB 3.0 and LAN drivers, with the LAN occasionally booting correctly.
I've re-installed twice, once installing the latest drivers for my motherboard from ASUS' website, and once using the disc included with my motherboard, which worked perfectly fine when I originally built my system.
I have zero clue how a completely fresh install could be having problems. As I have an SSD I'm just using the Windows 7 install disc's delete function, which as I understand is the equivalent of a quick format. Is this not wiping drivers somehow?
Any help is greatly appreciated, since I've been dealing with these problems for a while!
Relevant system specs:
ASUS Z97-A motherboard
Windows 7 64-bit
Intel i5-4690K
Samsung EVO 120GB SSD, WD Black 2TB HDD
I finally bit the bullet and decided to re-install Windows, since there's no way to really uninstall chipset drivers that I could find.
But now, on a completely fresh Windows installation, I'm still having driver problems, getting the same "This device cannot start (Code 10)" error in Device Manager for my USB 3.0 and LAN drivers, with the LAN occasionally booting correctly.
I've re-installed twice, once installing the latest drivers for my motherboard from ASUS' website, and once using the disc included with my motherboard, which worked perfectly fine when I originally built my system.
I have zero clue how a completely fresh install could be having problems. As I have an SSD I'm just using the Windows 7 install disc's delete function, which as I understand is the equivalent of a quick format. Is this not wiping drivers somehow?
Any help is greatly appreciated, since I've been dealing with these problems for a while!
Relevant system specs:
ASUS Z97-A motherboard
Windows 7 64-bit
Intel i5-4690K
Samsung EVO 120GB SSD, WD Black 2TB HDD
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