I have a toshiba satellite a200......the optical drive has worked likea dream until today. Only installed logitech keyboard.......and new mouse...surely it has not caused such havoc:confused: -- annakar Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com

I purchased a new computer last year's christmas. It came with Vista Home Premium, recently I heard of ReadyBoost and that it was included in Vista Home Premium. The problem is that I don't have ReadyBoost or I'm just too stupid to find it. Can anyone help me? -- Tanelman

Hello! Just Installed Vista 64 (Clean) and everything is working great except my combo DVD. The drive can read both CD and DVD. However, when I burn a CD or DVD, it hangs but never comes to a solution. I'm using Nero 7 and the model is a Sony DRU-840a that says its Vista compatible, I checked for firmware or driver updates but there aren't any. It's detected in Bios and Windows and is scene...

I have just built a new system and after much trouble setting things up everything is finally running. The problem is, while my DVD drives are working, it is taking a LONG time for vista to access them making it virtually impossible to install any software/drivers from disc. When trying to access any information, the system will usually hang for 5-10 minutes before accessing the drive for 20...

Hi all, When I turn it on my notebook, it will only show the first screen with the Acer logo and the blue bar on the bottom, that bar will get to about 60% before the notebook shuts down. During this process the screen shows the option for Press F2 for setup. When I do that, the option is replaced with "Please Wait..." and will do nothing further. Nothing happens if I press Alt and F10 either....

Whenever i try to open WMM it says "Windows Movie Maker cannot be used because the required audio hardware cannot be found" . . . everything is plussed in plz help

Hi, I had to remove my printer from my laptop and when I tried to reinstall it Windows cannot find the driver. I tried adding it manually and HP does not even show up as a manufacturer. I tried contacting HP and they just said that the driver should be built into Vista and they don't have one they can provide. My printer is an HP Deskjet 5650 and my laptop is running Vista Business 32-bit...

What is this ? I run chkdsk and found no problem. I marked the disk as normal using Intel storage manager and it runs fine. Still I worry. Any suggestions? Thanks

Occasionally, my microsoft usb keyboard won't function when I start the computer, but it's fine when I re-start. This isn't a big problem, but I was just curious as to what could be causing this to happen. Thanks -- A7X808

ok, so i got TSSTcorp CDDVDDW TS-L632H ATA Device and it has stopped working. my computer originally came with vista, but recently Norton 360 was taken off... and the device stopped working. i tried the search for updates, but its up to date, i tried to do a search for "check for solutions" because it was saying i was getting an error 39...

I had a media center with Windows XP Media Center Edition. I upgrated to *Vista Ultimate* and the *remote keyboard for Media Center Edition XP* will not work. The media center functions work, but the keyboard and mouse functions do not. Can anyone help me get this working? -- VinyMAC

When in sleep mode (Vista Home Premium), will programs continue to run in the background ? Specifically internet downloads ? Thanks.

Hi all, new to the forums :) I have been fighting with my PCI IDE Raid card. I have it set up as RAID, I have been through F3 and set up which disk is the primary and secondary. In Vista I can see both drives in explorer and disk manager. However... I'm not sure that RAID is working, I have set it up as mirroring, so I would expect both disks to have the same data on. If I copy something new to...

I plugged in my Microsoft Precision 2 joystick into my Vista sp1 64 bit machine, the driver installed automatically and it worked fine with Flight Sim 2004. Later, I had to restart the machine to finish installing updates and now the computer won't detect the joystick. I've tried plugging the joystick into every USB port. I've shut down the computer and restarted it many times. No...

hi! i don't know what happened, my dvd burner was ok... but now i can't burn even 1 dvd it's very verrrrrry slow. more than an hour. & it always fail in the data verification. i tried nero, roxio... i uninstalled it & reinstalled it. but the same problem. i tried different media... same thing.

Ever since I started using Ready Boost, Vista will no longer read flash drives (USB or SD) that use FAT. When the drives are inserted, Vista will request to format the drive. If FAT is selected for the formatting, the formatting will fail. If NTSF is selected, the formatting will succeed and the device can be used. However, I can't use the typical flash drives that others will give me...

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Hello, I just got a new machine. I have 4gb of ram (2 dual channel cossair 2gbs). Whats happen is, my computer wont load up Vista 64bit if I have all 4gb of ram in. The problem is it works fine with 2gb and Ive downloaded the KB929777 update, but vista wont let me install it with only 2gb Ram (says it doesn apply to my system) but the thing is I can even get into Vista to install the update...

I know you can use fingerprint scanners for logging on to your personal windows user account, but is there a way of using such a scanner for passwords on the internet? e.g. my ebay/online banking email accounts etc. It would be really cool Thanks, Adam

Like many, I had this problem with a Printer. I have now found a solution, though not for everyone. The cause in my case was a USB device not supported by Vista (a Webcam that Creative haven't bothered to provide Vista drivers for). I have this connected and have an XP partition on my computer to allow me to use it for Skype Video calls. When looking at the power tab of the "USB Root Hub"...