Solved Mistery missing device driver

[Kau64]

Hi,
I'm a few days in on a clean Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit instillation with everything working great. So far I've loaded Flash 11, AMD CCC 8.0916, Foxit Reader 6.2.1.618, Nero 12, Acronis True Image 2013 and Win Zip 9.0. Everything seems to be working fine except now I get an error message every time I start or restart Windows. The error message reads; "ERROR Could not load the device driver". Do to the vagueness of the message I'm having difficulty locating the culprit. Is there a log file of any kind that may point to the program with the missing driver or any other method for pinpointing the source of this missing driver?
Thanks

 

[richc46]

Go to search by start button. Type device manager. Look for any drivers with a little yellow pyramid next to it, that will be the problem.
Nh
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/101379-driver-verifier-enable-disable.html
Try this next

 

[Kau64]

richc46,
Everything in the device driver is clean, that was the first thing I checked. I'm thinking it's related to a program I loaded.

 

[richc46]

Sorry the link did not work. It has been corrected now.

 

[richc46]

Read the tutorial that I gave you regarding driver verifier. I corrected the link, it did not work originally

 

[Kau64]

richc46,
I selected all the drivers that were non Microsoft and restarted. Now it starts, goes to desktop then restarts in a continuous loop.
First I need to break the loop to disable the Driver Verifier then I think I'll remove the programs I installed one by one to try and isolate the problem.
http://www.sevenforums.com/members/richc46.html

 

[richc46]

What you are suggesting is called a clean boot. This is the best way to proceed
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...ation-conflicts-performing-clean-startup.html

 

[Kau64]

richc46,
I started in safe mode and disabled the Driver Verifier. Everythings working again but I still have my error message. I'm going to uninstall the programs I loaded after Windows one at a time restarting after each and watch for the error. It started after loading them so I feel one of them is the culprit.

 

[DavidE]

Here is a tutorial by whs that might help you find where the error is coming from:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/74502-error-message-where-does-come.html

 

[Kau64]

Thanks DavidE,
I saved this video and will be going over it a little later, look good! I'll let you know how I made out.

 

[Kau64]

Problem fixed!
Richc46 and Davide thanks for all your help and advice. I located the source before I had a chance to watch the video Davide but it looks like a handy tool I'd like to know. I disabled all non essential programs in the startup tab through msconfig and the error message went away. One by one I enabled the disabled startup items until the error returned. The error was caused by a program called EZTune. It's an overclocking utility supplied by Gigabyte on the motherboard CD. I've used it before with this board with XP Pro 32 bit and it worked fine. Ether it didn't load correctly or it's not compatible with Win 7 64 bit. I uninstalled it for now and the errors gone.
I noticed after posting my thread that I posted it in the wrong category, updates and activation, thanks for your patience with a newbe. I'll be more careful next time.
Thanks again

 

[richc46]

We are glad that we could help. Good luck

 

[DavidE]

Glad you found the fix.
If you do want the EZTune utility you could check if there is a newer version available.

 

[Kau64]

I'll do that DavidE it's a great little program.

 

[DavidE]

I found this listing on MajorGeeks for EZTune:
Download GigaByte EasyTune - MajorGeeks

It downloads from a gigabyte site

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