After installing Vista, my system's fan ran at a very high speed. I had a similar problem in XP that I fixed by installing the sony fan control driver (xSOG061XDAN.EXE) from the sony web site. I tried running that installation on Vista, but it just hung. I then had the idea of running it on XP to see what it did. I saw that it copied 3 files (SFCINST.EXE, SonyFanC.inf and sonyfanc.sys) to...

Heya Guys I Have Been Burning DvD's and CD's For Ages Now But Ever Since The Other Night My E: Drive Has Just Gone Missing.................. I Forgot My DvD Drive Name But When I Check Device Manager I Can Easily Say It Has Changed........ I Mean If You Need Any Other Information I'll Try My Best To Help You To Help Me

Heya Guys I Seriously Need Help Because When I Get My New Hard Drive I Dont Want To Lose My Operating System But I Shouldn't Should I Because Its Basically Like Upgradin Your Hard Drive ?? My 80GB (Original Hard Drive) Which Is Somehow Fuc*ed Up And Died On Me So Basically I Lost All My Documents And Programs. I Had Which Is A Pis*Take. The Problem With It Is That It Just Wont Show Up On BIOS...

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.

Recently I purchased a 300GB ATA/100 internal hard drive, but when I installed the drive, the Vista only recognized 137GB of it, what can I do to get my full capacity of my hard drive? Does Windows Vista RC1 support 48-bit logical block addressing?

Recently I purchased a 300GB ATA/100 internal hard drive, but when I installed the drive, the Vista RC1 only recognized 137GB of it, what can I do to get my full capacity of my hard drive? Does Windows Vista RC1 support 48-bit logical block addressing?

I have a big problem. I am using a Z61m IBM notebook with bluetooth and Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer for Bluetooth. Every time I start a game, that changes the resolution, it disconnects my mouse. It does the same thing when the User Account Control window appears. And to get it back I can't just push the make/break connection button on mouse, but I have to remove it from bluetooth...

I have a hauppauge wintv-pvr-150 card and am running vista. I updated the drivers from the Hauppauge website but still cannot get the card to pick up any imput in thr rca jacks. Please Help!

Like title says I have 2 sata burners that just wont work right in vista 64. I have tried every thing I know yet that read and write very slow. My system is a Asus P5K-E wifi board. 4 gigs of ram and 2 sata 2 250 gig hdds. Ive tried resetting bios to stock. Heck ive searched google for hrs trying to find an answer to this. One of the burners is a brand new Samsung and the other is a...

I have a HP laptop that initially recognized my cingular (at&t) 8525 but now it wont (via usb connection). My xp machines recognize it - havent tried it on another vista machine. It doesnt even recognize a usb device is attached. However when I connect my usb hard drive that works fine, Any ideas? Also almost every flashdrive I have attached to any USB port on the laptop has been toasted. I...

I've a HP Pavilion m8050 w/ analog video and audio inputs, and Vista doesn't recognise them. There are RCA inputs (yellow, white and red) and S-video... How can I get to function... I need help I work with this kind of things. Thanks --

I cannot complete the "Windows Experience Index" as it hangs about 1/8 way into the "Running the Direct3D Alpha Blend Assessment" test. It's been sitting there for an hour or more. Tried several times, canceling just hangs Explorer and requires task termination or else system goes to its knees. http://stateson.net/pub/v64_wei_hang.png I'm running Windows Vista 64 with an Intel DG965WH...

I currently have two analog Hauppauge PVR-150s (on one PCI card) in my system for analog cable, but I want to purchase a HVR-1600 to control my HD QAM cable box (Cox Cable) to watch/record HD content. Is this possible in Windows Vista Media Center? I have found some sources that say Windows Vista Media Center will only recognize two tuners total. If Media Center only recognizes two...

Hey, I'm having some problems with my Rock mobile disk external hard driver. Maybe somebody can help? I have an external hard drive that I use to store all my music on (I just moved all my music from iTunes on there a few weeks ago). It was working fine and all of a sudden it doesn't show up at all on my Windows Vista even though it used to. It used to not show up on my disk management, but I...

I want to create a partition - following the guildelines in "Help and Support", once I have opened Disk Management, I am told to: "Right-click an unallocated region on your hard disk, and then click New Simple Volume." I can't seem to do this anywhere, despite having 224GB free space. Options on C drive appear to be limited to "Shrink Volume" (with Extend volume greyed out).

I want to buy an mp3 player, I have a 64x2 dual core processor, everything that is compatable with vista is x86. For the 64 is unkown, does it really make a difference & if so how?

Hey, I just installed the Windows 7 RTM build from Technet. I also just purchased an AverTV Combo M780 Tuner (for the analog and OTA). I already had a HDHomeRun which gave me 2 ATSC Digital signals. But I'm having trouble configuring all the tuners in Media Center... I can get the Analog working fine, and the 2 HDHomeRun tuners.... Although the MCE only detects HD signals from HDHomeRun if I...

I have many flash drives and i have a External CD-RW drive and they wont work cause vista asks for drivers. Well the only drivers you can find are for MS98 and they dont work. i am the full admin so i dont get it i dont think anyone else seems to have this problems but me. if anyone can help me that would be very helpful Thanks.

I have already talked to Canon Technical Support and have had no success. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the Vista 32bit drivers for my scanner and it is detected and device manager reports it running with no errors. I am running Vista 32 Ultimate. The moment I go to scan anything with it, it starts to scan, freezes, then errors out. I have tested the scanner on a Win XP machine and it...

Last year, i bought one of Virgins Mobile Lobster 700 TV smartphones, which i also bought a 2GB micro SD card for. Recently i went to a friends house and tried plugging my phone into her laptop with vista on to see how vista works when it comes to utalising phones. It installed a download from the update thing to let it work with my phone, and it all seemed fine. Afterwards, when getting...