Amd gpio controller

Ian Evey · 1 Dec 2022 at 00:00

I keep getting a windows notification on windows 11 startup saying I need to reboot my pc to finish installing the gpio controller driver. I have no idea what it is or why it’s trying to install every time I power up the pc.

I have a x570 motherboard with a 3700x and 16gb of ram and a rtx 3060ti if that helps.

Anyone else got or have had this?

Murphy · 1 Dec 2022 at 06:33

Ian Evey said:
Anyone else got or have had this?

No.

It's the driver for the General Purpose Input/Output chip (more like a part of one) on the motherboard, have you tried reinstalling the AMD chipset drivers?

AthlonXP1800 · 1 Dec 2022 at 07:47

Ian Evey said:
I keep getting a windows notification on windows 11 startup saying I need to reboot my pc to finish installing the gpio controller driver. I have no idea what it is or why it’s trying to install every time I power up the pc.

I have a x570 motherboard with a 3700x and 16gb of ram and a rtx 3060ti if that helps.

Anyone else got or have had this?

Yes I have this GPIO controller driver on system devices list on my Linx 10 tablet, Surface Pro 6 tablet and Dell Inspiron 17 7737 laptop with touchscreen.

Back in 2014 when I updated to Windows 8.1 on Linux 10 tablet and restarted tablet then I noticed touchscreen gestures not worked with my fingers. I plugged in usb keyboard to log in desktop from lockscreen and checked device manager found gpio driver was not installed and I downloaded Atom Baytrail drivers and extracted it found gpio driver inside. I updated gpio driver in device manager and then screen went black and flashed back to normal, I tested touched on screen and it was responded with gestures enabled.

I dont have it on my desktop PC motherboard. It really odd your AMD X570 motherboard asked for gpio driver, maybe you have touchscreen monitor?

Ian Evey · 1 Dec 2022 at 07:50

Murphy said:
No.

It's the driver for the General Purpose Input/Output chip (more like a part of one) on the motherboard, have you tried reinstalling the AMD chipset drivers?

Hi, yeah reinstalled chipset drivers and nvidia drivers, it’s just weird that it actually does not install the gpio driver and on every boot up it says restart pc to finish the install of it.

Weird.

Ian Evey · 1 Dec 2022 at 07:58

AthlonXP1800 said:
Yes I have this GPIO controller driver on system devices list on my Linx 10 tablet, Surface Pro 6 tablet and Dell Inspiron 17 7737 laptop with touchscreen.

Back in 2014 when I updated to Windows 8.1 on Linux 10 tablet and restarted tablet then I noticed touchscreen gestures not worked with my fingers. I plugged in usb keyboard to log in desktop from lockscreen and checked device manager found gpio driver was not installed and I downloaded Atom Baytrail drivers and extracted it found gpio driver inside. I updated gpio driver in device manager and then screen went black and flashed back to normal, I tested touched on screen and it was responded with gestures enabled.

I dont have it on my desktop PC motherboard. It really odd your AMD X570 motherboard asked for gpio driver, maybe you have touchscreen monitor?

Thanks for that, but no touch screen here, just an lg gaming monitor. Nothing shows up in device manager about gpio so it’s as if it’s not actually there but windows keeps trying to install it.

The suspicious side of me is thinking it’s some kind of hacking attempt…

Murphy · 1 Dec 2022 at 08:31

Ian Evey said:
Hi, yeah reinstalled chipset drivers and nvidia drivers, it’s just weird that it actually does not install the gpio driver and on every boot up it says restart pc to finish the install of it.

Weird.

Have you checked device manager to see if the AMD GPIO driver is installed? (It will be listed under system devices and be called AMD GPIO Controller, latests version is 2.2.0.130).

If it's not listed try going to view in the top menu and selecting show hidden devices.

If none of those show anything try reinstalling the chipset drivers but this time when it's done don't click finish or reboot but the link in the bottom right hand corner (i can't remember exactly what it's called but it should show you a list of what it installed and if it was successful), (You may also want to click on the link on the left hand side to bring up the full log of the install and save it somewhere).

Glanza · 1 Dec 2022 at 08:59

Have you actually restarted? Shut down puts your PC into a hibernation state rather than a full shut down unless you disable Fast Start up.

Ian Evey · 1 Dec 2022 at 19:25

Thanks all, turns out I had 2 gpio’s under software components in device manager and not under system, so I uninstalled both and reinstalled the chipset driver and it’s now under system and working now.