Windows hardware developer troubleshooting

Welcome to Windows hardware troubleshooting. These articles explain how to determine, diagnose, and fix issues that you might encounter when you use Windows hardware.

Bus Driver

How-To Guide

• Interrupt and DPC time streaming Isoch data

Display Driver

How-To Guide

• Loading and starting a graphics Mirror driver
• Windows 7 parsing MCCS information

General

How-To Guide

• Bug check 0x7E occurs when Device Guard is active
• Commands under GuiRunOnce doesn't run
• Disabling File Based Write Filter causes a crash
• Failed to redirect connected UDP traffic
• IVssBackupComponents returns a value of 0x1 or S_FALSE

Human Interface Device (HID) Driver

How-To Guide

• Bluetooth and POS peripherals fail to connect

Network Driver

How-To Guide

• Device can't be removed in Device Manager
• LWF could cause 90-second delay
• Wi-Fi connection settings are lost

Other Driver

How-To Guide

• Applications don't find a new scanning device
• I/O timeout is 10 times shorter
• Unowned driver updates are installed unexpectedly