the other week my laptop just crapped out and stopped playing sound through the speakers, and now the 2 headphone jacks in front are both only playing about 25% but only in the right headphone. I've contacted HP support and what they told me was the right thing to do but it still didn't fix the problem. I had to uninstall my audio driver then reinstall it, then update it again, but no fix. I...

1. How to I configure one of the favourite keys to the sleep function? 2. How do I configure one on the favourite keys to either the "Next track" or "previous track" command? I can configure other keys such as mail to do this, but then I loose their original functionality, but there is no option apparent to configure a favourite key to one of the "command" functions. I am using the latest...

i have a ups connected iwht my computer through a serial port on xp i was able to configure through the power options to set it to hibernate or shutdown during a prolonged power outtage now on vista i cant find any option i need help very badly since there are a lot of power outtages where i live and i leave my pc on 24/7

there are no drivers yet for the external creative live external 24 bit. since rc1 this is not a big problem anymore though. after going into sound setting, into speaker properties and checking off the two lines under exclusive mode I get 5.1 sound (need to restart wmp to hear the changes, or sometimes a reboot helps). This is also working under 5728. I downloaded the new logitech...

I am trying to get my MP3 player (Sansa m230) to work in vista, and I have made a lot of headway, but... When in normal use (moving music in or out, and playing) it seems to work fine. In windows explorer it shows up as drive "J". When I switch the device internally to "MSC" mode (required to update firmware) it shows up in explorer as drive "K" and I get an error message- "Exception...

I recently built a new computer and had XP 64 bit on it. I installed everything (mouse, dvd burner, wireless, video card, etc.) successfully on that OS. I then bought the Vista 64 bit upgrade. I had a successful upgrade. I then installed the drivers that came with my mother board (Intel BOXDX48BT2 LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX), but I think somehow I accidentally installed a wireless adapter...

Recently, with a download of a pdf file, the computer (Lenovo T60 running Vista Home Premium) suddenly stopped being able to run any exe file and the logo ob a number of desktop apps changes to the Acrobat logo. . The problem is resolved when Acrobat 8 is uninstalled. The bottom line is that I cannot run applications when Acrobat is installed. Adobe tech support suggested "restore...

On this laptop with 2 HD in RAID 0 configuration, Vista Disk Management reports: 1)a 10 GB recovery hidden primary parition and 2)a 288 GB C: primary NTFS partition with 265 GB free space. Yet, if I right click C: to add an other partition using Shrink, the popup windows lists (in rounded value) for C: size befoe: 295 GB size available to shrink: 92 GB Amount of space to shrink: 92 GB

My brand new Vista was awfully slow, the CPU being used by the hardware interrupts. I deactivate the "PCI.sys" driver since the device management told me this for pci.sys: Memory 000A0000 - 000BFFFF used by: \Driver\VgaSave I/O 03B0 - 03BB used by: \Driver\VgaSave I/O 03C0 - 03DF used by: \Driver\VgaSave

Hello. Suddenly I am having conflict problems. I have checked in the Device Manager for exclamation marks and other indicators. In checking the "Non-plug & Play drivers," I see the message: "spldr" problem. I do not know what this means or to what it refers. I appreciate any help. thanks.

Hello, I'm gonna purchase a new system! I'm planning to have a 4 gigs of RAM! I've heard many of my friends say that 64 bit utilizes 4 gigs of RAM better than 32 bit. Is is true?? And i am confused between choosing the Intel Core2Duo 3.0 and Intel Core2Quad 2.4! Both are arnd the same price here! I don't plan to overclock my processor!

I have a Windows XP box with a HP 3015 printer attached USB. I loaded the drivers on my VISTA pc, because I would like to share it. Anyone able to do this? I have the appropriate flags set, but I keep getting a driver error message -- dalehob555

My new computer has Windows Vista, old computer had Win XP. I want to trnasfer all my data files from the XP machine to the Vista Machine. I konw about master and slave drives, whne I opened the Vista Machine, it has only two SATA connectors in the motherboard an one with the 40-pin? connector the ribbon goes to the DVD-ROM. My question is: can i connect my IDE drive to the motherboard using...

I have a Microtek Scanmaker 4800, Type MRS-1200 T48U. I believe this unit is designed to function w/o the use of a driver and it connects to the PC via Microteck Wizard 5 v5.79 software.? I now have a new PC and am trying to get it working. This software is installed in my both my old and new PC (I have the disk). With my old PC a Microteck Scanner icon would light up and direct me to scan...

I have a gateway mt3707 and i recently bought a vga to rca cord so i could watch movies from my lap top to my tv! but for some odd reason it wont work! can someone please tell me how to set it up! the rca is ( blue, red, green):shock: -- Sonya10

I have a samsung hl-s5687w DLP TV, and a sony vaio laptop with vista home premium. i am trying to connect the laptop to the tv with a vga cable. when i connect the cable to the laptop, the laptop display goes blank and the tv says mode not supported. the first time i connected the calbe i selected the option to display same image on both screens. my question is how can i modify the...

Hi, I have tried to connect my new Dell laptop with Vista on it to the Optoma DV11 projector using the supplied VGA cable. I get NO IMAGE from the projector in spite of all steps shown below. 1. when cable is inserted Vista automatically changes DPI at 800x600. Is there a way of stopping that ? Very annoying...Attempts to change DPI to higher at this point crashed the system every time. 2....

Hi, I have tried to connect my new Dell laptop with Vista on it to the Optoma DV11 projector using the supplied VGA cable. I get NO IMAGE from the projector in spite of all steps shown below. 1. when cable is inserted Vista automatically changes DPI at 800x600. Is there a way of stopping that ? Very annoying...Attempts to change DPI to higher at this point crashed the system every time. 2....

Hi, I have tried to connect my new Dell laptop with Vista on it to the Optoma DV11 projector using the supplied VGA cable. I get NO IMAGE from the projector in spite of all steps shown below. 1. when cable is inserted Vista automatically changes DPI at 800x600. Is there a way of stopping that ? Very annoying...Attempts to change DPI to higher at this point crashed the system every time. 2....

I have an external BT Dongle I used the Toshiba BT Stack Ver. 5 (For Vista) which is an evaluation for some reason for 30 Days (Does anyone have the full version ?) I have both MIO PPC and Nokia N73. Whatever configuration i try i keep having the devices disconnect allmost immidiatly after connect (WMDC\Nokia Suite). Is anyone else expieriencing it ?