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Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer

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On 08/03/2025 15:28, micky wrote:
> When I was having trouble with the colors on my, fwiw, Acer Aspire
> E5-573, and again when I got a yellow triangle warning in Device Manager
> telling me to reinstall a driver** for  Mobile 5th Generation Intel(R)
> Core(TM) SMBus Controller 9CA2, I went to the Acer web site and found
> the suppport page for my model, but not only was there no newer driver
> for either one, there was no list of drivers at all.
> 
> The only thing there was Acer Quick Access, and all that does is let you
> adjust bluelight reduction, power-off usb charging, and what the power
> button does, most of which is already done and settled.
> 
> 1)  The laptop was built for win7 or 8, and is maybe 10 years old, but
> so what? Is this a serious bad mark against Acer in general that it
> doens't have the list of drivers?   My problems are currently solved and
> I have backups of the whole system, but should I complain to Acer, so
> they know people don't like this?
> 
> **For SMBus, the Device Manager entry said to install a new driver, so I
> used the Driver tab of the Device Manager Properties box to search for a
> new driver and there was not one in my PC, so it suggested Windows
> Update.  There, in the list at View all Optional Updates, there was a
> driver listed that exactly matched, every word, what I was looking for,
> so I dl'd it and installed it and the litle yellow triangle in the icon
> disappeared even before I restarted windows, like the instructions said
> to do and implied I had to do.  And after I restarted Windows it still
> said "No drivers are installed for this device" but the yellow triangle
> was gone.
> 
> 2) What was this about?  Why was it running me around to install a
> driver and then telling me no driver is installed but the yellow
> triangle is gone anyhow?
> 
> 

I've not had any problems finding drivers since I started using Snappy 
Driver Installer Origin
Ideal for reinstalling Windows when you don't have the motherboard CD
I run it from a USB drive so that it will find drivers for whichever 
machine (Desktop/Laptop) it's plugged into.
  - https://www.glenn.delahoy.com/snappy-driver-installer-origin/

I've left Windows 11 group in my reply because it is relevant across the 
groups.


-- 
Regards
wasbit

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Trouble finding drivers from Acer micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-08 10:28 -0500
  Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer Marco Moock <mm+solani@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-03-08 16:38 +0100
    Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-08 11:58 -0500
      Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-08 13:55 -0500
  Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-09 13:41 -0400
    Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-03-09 12:31 -0700
      Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-09 22:01 -0400
        Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-03-09 19:17 -0700
          Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-10 20:19 -0400
        Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-03-10 10:21 +0000
          Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-04-01 18:10 -0400
            Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer Zaidy036 <Zaidy036@air.isp.spam> - 2025-04-01 20:27 -0400
              Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-04-02 02:57 -0400
                Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-02 04:26 -0400
                Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-04-02 17:48 -0700
            Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-04-02 12:28 +0000
    Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-09 15:35 -0400
      Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-09 22:07 -0400
  Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer wasbit <wasbit@nowhere.com> - 2025-03-11 09:33 +0000
    Re: Trouble finding drivers from Acer micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-11 12:38 -0400

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