Device Manager showing exclamation marks on all cpu i7 cores
After using Acronis to copy Windows 7 x 64 system disk image from an old Dell Core2Duo desktop to a custom modded Gateway/Acer desktop with Intel DQ57TM motherboard and 1st gen Intel Core i7 870 CPU, you see this message in the device manager: A driver (service) for this device has been disabled. An alternate driver may be providing this functionality. (Code 32) Sure its an old Lynnfield Core i7, a first generation processor from 2009, but's still better than a Core2Duo, it's a poorman's upgrade. To resolve this problem you need to do: change device installation options to "Never install driver software from windows update" on each core of the CPU, then reboot. in Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Devices and Printers click on the computer icon, and then right click, then "device installation options" Before following through the article (for method 2), I disabled automatic driver installation. To do this, I did the following: 1) Opened Devi