Driver executables won't open

[astrogeist]

Trying to reinstall some drivers manually, but for some reason when I click them (unzipped from their downloaded folders) nothing happens. I've tried running them as an administrator, but no dice. Windows defender is completely off, and Malwarebytes doesn't seem to be getting in the way (or detecting anything in the way, for that matter) either. Why would this happen?

[Kilrah]

Depends on what form these drives have been distributed as. Is there an executable installer?

[aDoomGuy]

Did you download them from a sketchy site? What drivers are they and for what device?

[astrogeist]

6 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Depends on what form these drives have been distributed as. Is there an executable installer?

 

5 minutes ago, aDoomGuy said:

Did you download them from a sketchy site? What drivers are they and for what device?

 

My PC is a custom-build, so no executable installers. I'm downloading them straight off of Asus' website.

[Kilrah]

Which is one that specifically doesn't work? What do you get when extracted? What file in that folder are you trying to run?

[astrogeist]

21 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Which is one that specifically doesn't work? What do you get when extracted? What file in that folder are you trying to run?

I've tried the wifi and bluetooth drivers. I'm on a different machine than that one currently, but here's a screenshot I took for an example. AsusSetup is the one I'm trying to run. (It's an exe file--I turned file extensions on to check.)

 

[Kilrah]

AsusSetup should work, might just do it silently though.

You could also go into device manager, select update driver on the BT device, select manual and point it to that folder.

[astrogeist]

3 hours ago, Kilrah said:

AsusSetup should work, might just do it silently though.

You could also go into device manager, select update driver on the BT device, select manual and point it to that folder.

The device manager route didn't help either unfortunately, but I noticed that when I tried extracting the files again, 7zip gave me an error saying "There is some data at the end of the payload data". (This occurred with both zip files.) I believe this happened the first time around as well, but I overlooked it because I was distracted and I know that extracted files can sometimes go unscathed when this happens. I tried renaming the zip file to a rar file and got the same result. Is this indicative of anything? I'm running the latest version of 7zip.

[astrogeist]

Just an update to say the problems I had that led me to want to reinstall my drivers has been fixed, and were not driver-related; I power-cycled my PSU and the bluetooth connectivity issue righted itself. I would still like to know why the drivers didn't appear to open, though. Is it because they were already up-to-date? Thank you for helping me try and work through this, Kilrah.

[aDoomGuy]

If there is a setup.exe you should run that. Usually that runs asussetup.exe maybe sometimes in the background. So it appears that is exactly what happened.

[Kilrah]

5 hours ago, astrogeist said:

Is it because they were already up-to-date?

Probably, or the BT adapter had crashed in such a way as not to be detected/responding correctly so when you launched the installer it went "there's no hardware for me".

Always power cycle things first when they don't work