Windows 8.1 driver problems after update

teulk · 26 Oct 2013 at 19:11

Having updated to win 8.1 from win 8 i had to do a refresh back to windows 8 after constant driver problems. I had error after error where you get the message " there is a problem, windows is gathering information and will restart your pc for you", well something like that. The driver error is shown at the bottom. Sometimes i would get that message 6 or 7 times back to back obviously followed by the 6 or 7 restarts.

Has anyone else had any issues like this ?

banger9365 · 27 Oct 2013 at 00:50

you got any steelseries driver's on your pc have you,because they kill the update dead,just like the problem your having

ShakenNstirred · 27 Oct 2013 at 05:58

what driver is it listing ?

freshdeniability · 27 Oct 2013 at 07:19

Just had the same with my Intel Internal video card driver, I've since updated the drivers in Windows update and it appears to be ok now...so the only advice I can offer, run Windows update

ukpete · 27 Oct 2013 at 13:30

I had to go into the windows settings and turn off "Let Windows install driver updates" the win8 drivers were making a right mess of things.
There is a how to online somewhere, im on Win7 atm and can't remember the path lol.

bobuk · 27 Oct 2013 at 14:22

No, been ok

teulk · 27 Oct 2013 at 17:01

banger9365 said:
you got any steelseries driver's on your pc have you,because they kill the update dead,just like the problem your having

i have no idea.........

ShakenNstirred said:
what driver is it listing ?

Multiple listings, unfortunately again i have no idea. It was all just double dutch to me. Not much help really. There was something like a spool error ?

bledd · 27 Oct 2013 at 20:42

take screenshots

more info = more for us to go on.

teulk · 28 Oct 2013 at 09:13

Unfortunately i refreshed my laptop back to windows 8 and dont have any problems now. After doing some trawling through errors these few looked familiar
irq not less than or equal to
bad pool head error