Code 43 is the most misread error in Device Manager. People see “Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems” and immediately assume the card is dead. Most of the time it isn’t. In my years of cleaning up driver messes, I’ve pulled maybe twenty cards back from code 43 with nothing more […]
Canon‘s download page for the PIXMA MG3620 is a maze of dropdowns, and half the links it eventually spits out are for the wrong OS. I have talked folks through this printer until I was blue in the face, and the driver situation is actually simpler than Canon makes it look. There are two real […]
I’ve seen this exact complaint land in my inbox more times than I can count. You open Device Manager, expand Imaging devices, and there’s your scanner sitting pretty. No yellow triangle, no error code. Windows swears everything is fine. Then you fire up your scanning app and it tells you there’s no scanner connected. Meanwhile […]
Now and then a GPU driver update goes sideways on a machine I maintain. FPS drops in a game that ran fine last week. A black screen on boot. A crash to desktop that only happens in one title. Most of the time the fix is not the new driver. It is the old one […]