I uninstalled it and manually cleaned all uninstall residue, then reinstalled and rebooted, but it still failed to open. If you sign in, click for more information. I tried to open Intel Extreme Tuning Utilities, but it failed to open. Unable to start XTU because the drivers are not present (i7-6850k) - Intel Communities Processors The Intel sign-in experience is changing in February to support enhanced security controls. i did not make any changes and got into the system. On reboot it prompted that I had a new CPU and needed to press F1 to get into Setup.

I changed the CPU cooling from air cooling to 240 water cooling and removed and reinstalled the CPU from the CPU snapper, reapplied the silicone grease and spilled a bit on the capacitor on the green bezel of the front CPU, but I cleaned it up. A reboot may be necessary if Intel Extreme Tuning Utility was just installed, otherwise download and install the latest version of Intel Extreme Tuning Utility from īefore, I was able to open Intel Extreme Tuning Utilities normally and tried to tune the CPU frequency to 4.7GHz using Auto Overclock. Get the latest official Intel Extreme Tuning Utility Device system drivers for Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, XP PCs.

Unable to start Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility because the drivers are not running. When trying to open the Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility (Intel® XTU), the system shows an error:

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