Fix: Black screen on Windows 10

Windows 10 users have encountered issues including Bluetooth not available, touchpad not working, sound and audio issues, etc. fortunately, all of them were resolved. Recently, numerous users reported they got involved into a new problem of black screen on Windows 10. You might be familiar with the listed common issues below:

• It shows a black screen with only the mouse showing after upgraded to Windows 10.
• Windows 7 to 10 upgrade -part Installs... Black screen with movable white pointer.
• Black screen booting windows 10.
• Windows 10 Envy will not shutdown black screen with power lights still on.
• Black screen without cursor after upgrading to Windows 10.
• Windows 10 gets stuck on a black screen.
• Black screen windows 10 without cursor.

Generally, when black screen on Windows 10 happened there are two scenarios that are users can’t sign in to Windows 10 and users can sign in to Windows 10. No matter you are a user of HP, Lenovo, LG, Samsung, IBM, Thinkpad, Toshiba, Asus, Acer, Dell, Sony, etc., this issue could be easily solved using the troubleshooting methods.

Scenario 1: Users can’t sign in to Windows 10

Black screen of death occurred when you were trying to sign in to Windows 10 but failed, in this case, an outdated or corrupted display driver could be the cause resulting in black screen on Windows 10. The following solutions are helpful to fix the issue of black screen at boot on Windows 10.

Solution 1: Using Driver Talent to update the display driver.

Driver Talent is an easy-use third party utility, which is able to scan all the drivers, identify driver problems and outdated or corrupted drivers, fix the problematic drivers and download & install the best match drivers for your machine.

- Activate Driver Talent and click ‘Scan’
- Click ‘Start’ and Driver Talent will update the compatible display driver for you
- Reboot

Solution 2: Reinstall display adapter driver

- Click ‘Start’ and type ‘Device Manager’ in the tasktab
- Select ‘Device Manager’ and expand ‘Display Adapter’
- Right click and select ‘Uninstall’
- Reboot and reinstall

Scenario 2: Users can sign in to Windows 10

This is another scenario we talk about, which is allowing to sign in to but there is no display yet. Well, this issue of black screen on Windows 10 might be caused by external devices. The solutions listed below could be helpful to resolve the problem easily.

Solution 1: Check for external devices.

- Remove all external devices
- Restart your machine

Solution 2: Enter Windows 10 safe mode

- Boot and enter safe mode
- Click ‘Troubleshoot’ -> ‘Advanced’ -> ‘Startup Settings’ -> Restart
- Press F5 when your computer restarts, then it will enter Safe Mode With Networking
- Open ‘Device Manager’ and uninstall the display driver
- Reboot and reinstall the driver.

After you tried all the above solutions, you might solve the problem of screen goes black after installing windows 10. If you have other problems, please check Resource Center to get more useful tips.

Tips: How to fix the issue of Touchpad not working for Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP/Vista

For a laptop user, touchpad stops working could make you crazy when you are without a mouse. Well, the report reveals that HP, Acer, Asus, Sony, Samsung, LG, Thinkpad, Lenovo, IBM, Dell, Toshiba, etc. laptop users encountered touch screen/ touchpad problems like ‘Windows 10 touchpad gestures not working’, ‘Synaptics touchpad driver not working’, ‘touchpad/touchscreen not functioning’. You might be wondering why touchpad is not working properly? Generally, the common causes include inappropriate device setting, missing updates, and incompatible or corrupted drivers. In this article, it will teach you how to fix the touchpad not working issue in Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP/Vista.

Method 1: Check for touchpad settings

Certainly, a disabled touchpad could not work in your laptop. So the first thing is to check if your touchpad is enabled. We will take Windows 10 for example. Please follow the steps:

- Click Home> Settings> Devices> Mouse
- Click ‘Additional mouse options’ and then ‘Mouse Properties’.
- Click the tab on the right (named ‘ELAN’ or ‘Device Settings’)
- Check touchpad is enabled. If not, click on its name, and then on ‘Enable’.

Method 2: Use troubleshooter

Toubleshooter could help you to diagnose and find some common problems including touchpad freezes or working improperly.

- Click ‘Start’ and ‘Control Panel’ then
- Enter ‘Troubleshooter’ in the search box, and click ‘Troubleshooting’
- Click ‘Configure a device’ under ‘Hardware and Sound’

Follow this method step by step, you could repaire the problem of touch not working in your Windows operating system.

Method 3: Update touchpad driver

As we know an incompatible, outdated, corrupted, broken or missing driver could block the communication between the computer and touchpad. If you tried the above two methods, your touchpad is still not working, then the out of date touchpad driver might be the reason resulting in the issue. Using Driver Talent to update the best-match driver for you. It could scan to detect all drivers, then verify the problematic driver, fix them for you finally. All this just need one mouse click.

Now you might resolve the problem about touchpad not working, right? If the answer is negative, please leave your details in the comment and we will try to figure it out. For other Windows driver problems, you could obtain valuable tips from source center.

Drivers backup for Windows 10/ 8.1/ 8/ 7/ Vista/ XP

We know Windows drivers work as an essential bridge allowing hardware device communicating with your computer, laptop, or notebook. Without drivers, hardware and external devices including video card, audio card, Bluetooth, printer, network, etc. will never work properly or even not work completely. You might also know formatting operating system will make all the drivers gone. If you don’t want to involve a trouble of searching and downloading them, you’d better to backup drivers before reinstall. In this post, it is dedicated to show you how to make drivers backup for Windows 10/ 8.1/ 8/ 7/ Vista/ XP.

Backup drivers by Driver Talent

Driver Talent is a professional and authorized device driver update and manage utility. It is a feature-rich free software that is able to help you scan your computer, backup device drivers, identify the driver problems, download the best-match drivers, repair the problematic drivers and do much more. The strong compatibility makes Driver Talent could work for all computer and laptop including HP, Sony, Lenovo, Samsung, Toshiba, IBM, Asus, Acer, Dell, etc. Well, let’s see how to use this tool to backup drivers. 

Step 1: Scan to detect all the drivers.

Launch Driver Talent -> Click Scan. Driver Talent could scan and detect all the driver backup information automatically.

Step 2: Drivers backup with simply one click.

Driver Talent would list the identified drivers need to backup. What you need to do is just one mouse click, and then all device drivers are going to be backuped.

Certainly, driver backup could help you to avoid issues of display, sound, bluetooth, network, printer, etc. If you haven’t done that, you could download and install Driver Talent to help you. 

How to fix Windows 10 sound and audio issues

More and more users upgraded their computer from Windows 8/8.1/7 to Windows 10, they have enjoyed the new features, apps and functionality, however, quite a few users also reported they encountered sound and audio issues like - ' No sound on Windows 10', ' A recurring problem with sound', ' Unable to play videos', ' Sound not playing after Microsoft Windows 10 Update' , ' My sound is cracking after upgraded to Windows 10', ' Hear anything at all speakers', ' My sound drivers also completely disappear', ' My sound randomly cuts out and clips, especially when watching videos.', etc.

Now, let's learn how to fix these Windows 10 sound and audio issues. All the solutions listed below could resolve these issues for your computer, laptop or notebook including Sony, Samsung, HP, Thinkpad, Lenovo, Asus, Toshiba, Acer, LG, Dell, etc.

Solution 1: Basic sound/ audio troubleshoot

Go to check for your speakers and make sure they are plugged into your machine properly. Also please verify there is nothing muted. This is the quite basic and first step, but most users are easy to ignore.

Solution 2: Run the sound/ audio troubleshoot

There is a function of ' Playing audio troubleshooter' in Windows 10, which you could troubleshoot sound/ audio issues easily by it in ' Control Panel'. You could watch the following video to run the audio troubleshoot. 

Solution 3: Update sound/ audio card driver

The sound/ audio card driver might get outdated or corrupt during upgrading to Windows 10, which could result in the incompatibility or bad communication between them. In this part, it will give two methods of how to update sound/ audio card driver.

Method 1: Update sound/ audio card driver by Driver Talent

Driver Talent is a professional and authorized third-party device driver update software. It could help you to scan all the drivers, identify the driver problems, download the compatible drivers, and repair the problematic drivers.

• Activate Driver Talent to scan your computer
• All verified driver problems will be listed 
• Click ‘ Start’, ‘ Repair’ or ‘ Update’
• Reboot your machine

Method 2: Update sound/ audio card driver in Device Manager

• Click ‘ Start’ and type ‘ Device Manager’, then select it from the list of results. 
• Expand ‘ Sound, video and game controllers’, choose your sound/ audio card, right-click the driver tab and select ‘ Update driver’

Note: If this did not work, follow the above steps to unsinstall the driver. Don’t forget to reinstall after restarted your machine.

Well, those are the probably solutions to fix Windows 10 sound and audio issues . Does your sound back to your computer? Can you hear everything from your laptop? If the answer is nagetive, you could leave the details about your problems in the comments, and we would like to work it out for you. For other problems related device drivers in Windows 10/ 8/ 8.1/ 7/ XP/ Vista, you could get some useful tips from Scource Center.

How to fix Bluetooth not available error in Windows 10

Recently, more and more computer users are facing an issue of ‘Bluetooth not available error in Windows 10’. When this problem occurs, you might encounter some problems like ‘My Bluetooth device not connecting to windows 10 on my Samsung laptop’, ‘My Bluetooth enabled keyboard or mouse doesn't work with Asus computer’, ‘The Bluetooth device and my HP machine can't communicate’, ‘My Thinkpad doesn't recognize my Bluetooth enabled device’, etc.

You might notice the Bluetooth device works well in Windows 7/8, but it can’t even work in Windows 10. Don’t worry. No matter your machine is Lenovo, Samsung, HP, Thinkpad, Acer, Asus, Toshiba or other brands, in this post, you could learn the probably solutions to fix the problems of Bluetooth not available error in Windows 10. Here are the steps:

Step 1: Make sure the Bluetooth is On.

Go to Devices -> Bluetooth, then you face the page of ‘Manage Bluetooth Devices’. Turn on the Bluetooth. Now your device is connected.



Note: Please also make sure your Bluetooth device is fully charged.

Step 2: Check for the Bluetooth Driver

The Step 1 is leading you to check if the Bluetooth device was installed properly or not. Go to ‘Device Manager’ and make sure your Bluetooth is enabled. Bluetooth not available error in Windows still shows up? Well, the reason resulting in this is the outdated Bluetooth driver might be incompatible with the new operating system after you upgraded Windows 7 or Windows 8 to Windows 10.  In this case, updating the old driver could help you to solve the problem.

Download and install Driver Talent, which is able to scan various drivers and identify the problematic drivers and then fix them. It will help you to update the Bluetooth driver and download & install the best-matched and compatible driver for your device.

Step 3: Remove and Reconnect Bluetooth

Generally, the Bluetooth device could be workable after you updated the Bluetooth driver and enabled the Bluetooth. What if the Bluetooth still stop working? You could try to remove and reconnect Bluetooth.

- Go to Device -> Bluetooth
- Click the one you want to remove.
- Reconnect the Bluetooth device.

This is how to fix the problem related to Bluetooth including wireless keyboard, headphones, mouse, speakers, audio devices stop working and bluetooth icon is missing in Windows 10. Suffering from other problem about Windows 10/8/7? You could get more information from ‘Hot Tips’.

How to update printer driver on Windows 10/ 8/ 7/ XP/ Vista

A printer driver works as a bridge connecting your computer and printer. When a printer driver got missing or corrupt or outdated, you might encounter some related errors like ‘ Windows fails to recognize the printer’, ‘ The driver for this device is not installed. To reinstall drivers, click reinstall driver.’, ‘ Fatal Error 2753- MSI.dot4wrp’, ‘ printer driver not showing up’, etc. In this case, you need to update the latest or best-matched printer drivers to fix the problems. This post is dedicated to propose the probable solutions of how to update printer on Windows 10/ 8/ 7/ XP/ Vista.

Steps to find the missing or corrupt printer driver

This part is intended to discover the missing or corrupt or outdated printer driver. I will take Windows 7 to demonstrate. No matter your printer is HP, Canon, Brother or other brands, these solutions are applied to how to update printer driver on Windows 10/ 8/ 7/ XP/ Vista. 

Step1: To find the printer driver

- Click Start, type devices and printers in the search tab, then hit Enter.
You will see all available printers are listed. 

Step2: Check if the printer driver is outdated

A yellow triangle icon with an exclamation-point on printer device? That means your printer is outdated or missing or corrupt. It reminds you downloading and installing a updated printer driver is necessary. 

 

 

Methods to update printer driver on Windows 10/ 8/ 7/ XP/ Vista

In this part, I will demonstrate the two methods to update printer driver in details. Both the two methods you could have a try in order to avoid the same problems showing again. 

Method 1: Download and Install Driver Talent

Driver Talent is a professional and authorized third-party device driver update utility, which is able to detect the outdated/ missing/ corrupt drivers automatically and update/ repair them with simply one click.

Step 1: Activate Driver Talent and click scan. The scanning results will be listed in seconds.
Step 2: Update and install drivers or repair the problems by clicking ‘ Update’, ‘ Install’, ‘ Repair’, etc.
Step 3: Reboot your computer.

 

Method 2: Update printer driver manually

Using this method to update printer driver on Windows 10/ 8/ 7/ XP/ Vista, you need to go to your printer manufacturer’s official website to download the matched driver. Here are the steps. 

Step 1: Check for the model of your printer
 
You could confirm the model or name of your printer on the printer itself, or in the ‘ Device and Printer’.

Step 2: Download the printer driver 
 
Go to your printer manufacturer’s website and download the best-matched printer driver.

Step 3: Install the printer driver
 
After you downloaded the appropriate printer driver, double click the installer to finish the setup. Do not forget to restart your computer.

These two methods could ensure printer driver updating to the latest one. If you are suffering from other computer related problems, you could get more probable solutions from Source Center.