Windows 11 Support Thread

Windows 11 / Dell sucks. Drivers just disappeared randomly. Nothing even in Device Manager. How is this even possible. Also why did Windows remove the auto troubleshoot fixes. It now just spit out google results and sometimes something completely unrelated.

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RedViking said:
Windows 11 / Dell sucks. Drivers just disappeared randomly. Nothing even in Device Manager. How is this even possible. Also why did Windows remove the auto troubleshoot fixes. It now just spit out google results and sometimes something completely unrelated.

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Explain? Screenshot what you referring to ?
 
dualmeister said:
So frustrated. Cannot install Win 11 IoT Enterprise 2024 on a motherboard. Win 11 Pro 24H2 also fails.
But WIN 10 IoT Enterprise 2019 and 2021 do install.

Secure boot is Disabled, but Win 11 IoT isn't supposed to care.

Windows 11 Pro requires Secure Boot and a TPM 2.0 module. However, with Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024, you have the option to enable or disable these features. Although the use of Secure Boot and TPM module is advisable, with the LTSC 2024 edition you have this option.
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The motherboard required a BIOS update to install WIN 11.

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RedViking said:
No. You'll know the day you need it. ;)

answers.microsoft.com

Microsoft is getting rid of all the Trouble Shooting tools - Microsoft Q&A

Since Microsoft is removing all Trouble Shooting tools and I cannot locate any other help are they still going to provide help? I heard that they were going to start charging monthly charge, us on top of the original purchase of Windows when we purchase…
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Im asking cause my Audio troubleshooter works fine ... was just wondering if you're referring to something else ?
 
Dimpie (COMPUTEK) said:
Im asking cause my Audio troubleshooter works fine ... was just wondering if you're referring to something else ?
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Well I'm not sure what you are using to troubleshoot so I can't confirm. Also if your audio does not have issues and you run the NEW troubleshooter of course it will work.

But when you click the link to troubleshoot Windows 10 used to run a diagnostic tool and troubleshooter. Which they now have removed or discontinued in favour of Cortana or Web or whatever.

When I click the troubleshoot in Windows 11 it sends me links from a Bing search. One of thing searches will tell you to go to Settings > Something > Other > Troubleshoot. When you then run the AUDIO troubleshooter it then asks me if my Graphic Drivers are working now. :ROFL:
 
RedViking said:
Well I'm not sure what you are using to troubleshoot so I can't confirm. Also if your audio does not have issues and you run the NEW troubleshooter of course it will work.

But when you click the link to troubleshoot Windows 10 used to run a diagnostic tool and troubleshooter. Which they now have removed or discontinued in favour of Cortana or Web or whatever.

When I click the troubleshoot in Windows 11 it sends me links from a Bing search. One of thing searches will tell you to go to Settings > Something > Other > Troubleshoot. When you then run the AUDIO troubleshooter it then asks me if m
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I use this way (right click on sound icon)...
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RedViking said:
Well I'm not sure what you are using to troubleshoot so I can't confirm. Also if your audio does not have issues and you run the NEW troubleshooter of course it will work.

But when you click the link to troubleshoot Windows 10 used to run a diagnostic tool and troubleshooter. Which they now have removed or discontinued in favour of Cortana or Web or whatever.

When I click the troubleshoot in Windows 11 it sends me links from a Bing search. One of thing searches will tell you to go to Settings > Something > Other > Troubleshoot. When you then run the AUDIO troubleshooter it then asks me if my Graphic Drivers are working now. :ROFL:
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People using HDMI audio these days.
 
Dimpie (COMPUTEK) said:
I use this way (right click on sound icon)...
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Run that troubleshooter - all it does is waste time, them link to an article on MS support page - total waste of time - as it does not detect/reload drivers for my Audio Interface. Then I reboot - with disconnected Audio Interface, do the required sacrifice of Black Rooster/Goat, say my Hail Mary's, plug the Audio Interface in, and hopefully it gets detected. If it does not work, uninstall drivers, reboot - install drivers, reboot - by then I have lost all interest in doing what I set out to do audio wise.

Then I start wishing that I played the LOTTO, and actually won it a time or two. Then I could buy a Apple Mac-Book, and a standards complaint Audio Interface, that does not need drivers. The only good feature off Apple is they have a fairly sane Audio Subsystem.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
Run that troubleshooter - all it does is waste time, them link to an article on MS support page - total waste of time - as it does not detect/reload drivers for my Audio Interface. Then I reboot - with disconnected Audio Interface, do the required sacrifice of Black Rooster/Goat, say my Hail Mary's, plug the Audio Interface in, and hopefully it gets detected. If it does not work, uninstall drivers, reboot - install drivers, reboot - by then I have lost all interest in doing what I set out to do audio wise.

Then I start wishing that I played the LOTTO, and actually won it a time or two. Then I could buy a Apple Mac-Book, and a standards complaint Audio Interface, that does not need drivers. The only good feature off Apple is they have a fairly sane Audio Subsystem.
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It's pure rubbish. Why did they do it? Troubleshooter used to work perfectly fine.
 
RedViking said:
It's pure rubbish. Why did they do it? Troubleshooter used to work perfectly fine.
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No idea, mine Trouble Shoots, my onboard, Realtek Audio and my Bluetooth headsets. But loses my Audio Interface entirely then directs me to a totally useless web-page on MS support base
 
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RedViking said:
Yes! It trouble shoots my graphics card! I promise I am not making this up. Windows is broken.
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Looks like it doesn't detect your audio hardware and then goes to the next available audio output which would be the audio via the HDMI output of the GPU ... so it's doing what it should ... maybe the audio hardware is "ISM"
 
Dimpie (COMPUTEK) said:
Looks like it doesn't detect your audio hardware and then goes to the next available audio output which would be the audio via the HDMI output of the GPU ... so it's doing what it should ... maybe the audio hardware is "ISM"
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"ISM" ?

Mine is a 2009 vintage Tascam US 144 MKII, when Windows picks it up, if works perfectly and sounds very good. Not the greatest, but I like it.

Would be nice if it was usable in Linux, but it requiring drives to work, makes that not possible.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
"ISM" ?

Mine is a 2009 vintage Tascam US 144 MKII, when Windows picks it up, if works perfectly and sounds very good. Not the greatest, but I like it.

Would be nice if it was usable in Linux, but it requiring drives to work, makes that not possible.
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HeHe sorry, us afrikaners use that abbreviation when something is broken : In Sy Moer
 
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Where to begin? A friend of mine (a Luddite) was trying to install the latest 2025-02 Cumulative Update to Win 11 24H2 on a Huawei Matebook - which has an integrated C: Drive with 128 GB (on a chip) & a separate SSD for the D: drive (either 512GB or 1TB, I can't remember offhand).

So he sends me a screenshot (photo on phone - instead of using PrtScrn) on WhatsApp this morning saying that it is taking an inordinately long time to install the update (last week, when I did some IT support for him, I noticed that the C: Drive was almost full - about 10GB free space remaining on the 128GB C: Drive.

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I had previously told him - on MORE than one occasion - to ONLY download or save any documents, movies & tv series, videos & music onto the D: Drive - so that the C: Drive was used exclusively for Windows & MS Office 365 - but apparently this information fell on deaf ears - no surprises there!

Then he tells me he was trying to MOVE folders from the C: Drive to the D: Drive (instead of creating folders on the D: Drive & using CTRL X / CTRL V to move the data over) - and then sends me another photo 'screenshot' on WhatsApp, saying he is trying to MOVE this folder over to the D: Drive and this 'Error Message' popped up...

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And people wonder why I sometimes go to the wall and bang my head against the it when doing IT support for people who have NO cooking clue about how technology works - OR how easy it is to royally screw things up in moments with their ham-fisted meddling either.

"Fools Rush In Where Angels Fear To Tread" comes to mind... ;)
 
Dimpie (COMPUTEK) said:
Looks like it doesn't detect your audio hardware and then goes to the next available audio output which would be the audio via the HDMI output of the GPU ... so it's doing what it should ... maybe the audio hardware is "ISM"
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It's brand new 100k Dell machine.


You are probably right.
 
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