I have a Windows Vista Ultimate system with 4 SATA hard drives configured to look like IDE drives through an ASUS motherboard. I had the boot drive set as drive C: with a variety of applications installed on it. Two days ago I 'cloned' that drive to a new larger drive with the most recent version of Norton Ghost. That drive showed as drive H:. I've been trying to get the new drive to show as...

My DVD writer & CD writer are both locked in write mode, they will write but will not read. CD's show as blank disks. Can anyone help? I am runnning Vista home premium.

*.- HJ3133V FNA365Y SCSI CdRom Device: Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The drvier may be corrupted or missing. (code 39) *.- HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4084N ATA Device: Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39) 2 Days ago i was able to used this device now a can not even play a music CD...i hace tried...

I have recently upgraded to Vista (what a nightmare) and when doing so, I needed to update my drivers for my UPS - APC Powerchute Personal Edition v2.1, for Vista. Yesterday my PC cut out; there was no power cut, but the PC shut off completely in an instant and the UPS the alarm was going off. It did not switch to battery? Rebooting the machine, it seemed the UPS was not talking to Vista...

Hey all...I have been so frustrated the past few days. I just set up my new computer a few days ago. I installed windows xp and everything worked perfectly...I then used the vista upgrade that i got free when i purchased xp (it was a deal on newegg a few months ago) Vista installed fine but I have been stuck in 800x600 with 4bit color. I have installed the latest drivers several times, both...

I have a brand new pc with Vista Pro and 4Gb of RAM DDR800 on board. BIOS correctly recognizes the right amount of memory but Windows don't. It reports only 3,5 RAM. Am I missing something or it's a O.S. limit? Thanks in advance. Michelangelo Togni

Hello everbody, I just bought the Live!Cam Vitsa IM and its very nice and all. The webcam it self worked right away, however. The microphone that came with it doesnt work at all... And i dont understand, i plugged it in the right spot ;p And i'm fairly sure it isnt on mute... any idea what i am doing wrong?

I bought a New Computer a few weeks back a HP 6130 n and it came with a realtek soundcard (pretty sure its installed on the motherboard) and now for some reason there is no sound. I've tried reconnnecting the speakers going back to the built it ones in the moniter and just about everything else. Now I'm pretty sure something is wrong with the soundcard but when I check it it says that its...

Is there any procedure or trick to have the possibility to change motherboard with different chipset, without reinstalling Vista? Thank you very much indeed!

My brand new Vista system refuses to install the software for my LaserJet 2500 printer. I know it's supposed to use the generic PCL6 driver for this printer and that seems to get installed ok, but there is no communication with the printer. I can't even add it as a network printer when the printer is connected to an XP system. HP and Vista say the corect software is supposed to be...

Upon upgrading to Vista, my mouse stopped working. I have installed and uninstalled it and tried both a PS/2 mouse and a USB. After reading of other related issues on here I thought to completely uninstall all of the original mouse software to make sure it did not conflict with Vista. According to Logitech, there is no current Vista driver for my mouse but if you uninstall the mouse software...

Okay, after a SMOOTH install of Vista H.P. Ed, EVERY USB device I plug in gets a "Windows Need to install Drivers For your device". Flash drive, printer, MP3 (Zen), Wireless Mouse, Etc. These devices are supposed to have "native support" drivers built into Vista. Anyone have a suggestion as to why Vista isnt loading drivers for ANY USB devices?

For months the DVD burner in my system was working fine, but in the last few days it stopped working. Vista detects it and loaded the device drivers, but it does not initialize the hardware properly. (I always get error "code 37".) Note that the system does detect that the DVD drive is there, and the driver does get the model number from the drive. Just to make sure there wasn't an...

Hello, I recently installed Vista and I found that since installing I have only been running at half of my total processing power because Vista won't use the second processor that is on my mother board. Does anyone know a way that I can get Vista to recognize and use both processors? I am using Vista Home Basic and both of the processors are AMD K8 Processors. Each processor is 1.8GHz for a...

Hi New PC with clean install of Vista, by the PC manufacturer PC is a Shuttle XPC

Hi, I have a MSI 645 Ultra (MS-6547) motherboard with 1 GB of DDR3200 RAM. This motherboard has three memory slots and can handle up to 3GB RAM. I bought another 2 x 1GB and filled the other two slots. Vista Ultimate 32 bit wouldn't boot at all. I see some coloured rubbish on the screen and then a message comes up to say it can't boot, do I want safe mode. Safe mode also doesn't boot up. I...

All of a sudden Vista won't recognize my Samsung hd1600jj 160GB SATA II Drive, or my Samsung CD/DVD Reader/Writer. It's asking for the drivers, but I never needed drivers for them in the first place.

How and why does this happen? When I come back to my machine after being gone for a while when I wake the machine up it always forgets my settings for the extended desktop setup with dual displays. This is very annoying. How can I fix this?

Hi i recently posted my problem in a thread called "USB Flash drives not recognized" here which related to my USB flash drive not being recognized and i had to look for drivers manually! Today i tried to make a new partition (Using Acronis Disk Director), and during the process Vista prompted for Driver for "Generic Storage" and then for "Unidentified Device"? Yes Vista can't find a Driver...

Hi all: I decided to install Vista Ultimate as a test on the PC we use to run our plasma TV where we have had MCE for at least the last 2 years. We have always been pretty happy with the setup, a few performance hiccups here and there but nothing worse than I have seen with any PVR. So now that Vista is on there, a movie just came on the kids channel that I wanted to record, and I got a...