• webhead@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I’ve literally never had a computer need drivers to make basic USB work in the past probably 20 years. I had a bleeding edge ai 350 framework right even when it came out. Linux was a little flaky with my sound but everything else worked. Same in Windows. Maybe I needed Wi-Fi drivers, don’t recall, but I know USB worked without any. I’m really curious how you needed USB drivers of all things genuinely. I mean you installed the OS presumably from a thumb drive so how would that not work in the same os after installing? Lol.

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      2 days ago

      It may be a separate issue to drivers, because I have this other issue where after waking up from sleep, I have to either reboot or physically remove the USB port and plug it back in to make the USB work. I’ve disabled “allow windows to put this device to sleep” for every single USB titled thing in device manager, so I’m not sure what the issue is. I plan on installing a small linux partition at some point to play around and see if I like it.

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        2 days ago

        If you really moved the hard drive from one laptop to another without reinstalling the OS, that’s probably going to cause issues. It’ll “work” seemingly but it’s gonna be messy like this. You’re going to spend more time hunting weird shit than you would just doing a reinstall imo.

        I’d backup what you need to and start over or you’re probably going to keep having strange issues.

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      2 days ago

      I took the working hard drive, OS and all, from my previous laptop and slotted into the framework. No OS installation needed.