Does Vista support SMP (like 2 AMD opeterons or 2 Xeons)? Is it only supported on specific versions of Vista?

hello, well i have vista and a aspire 5100-5023, and i was playing GTA san andreas and after i quit i tried to replay it but guess what? the dvd drive is gone. its not on the my computer thing and when i try to play any game the standard please insert (name of game) disk 1 pops up. no matter what game i try playing this happens. so i was wondering if this happened to anyone else and if anyone...

A couple of weeks ago I installed a game called tiberian sun and had no problems with anything. A couple days ago I tried instaliing it with a different serial number because the game's from 1999 and the serial was invalid for online. So eventually after installing it about 3 times I just installed the game and the expansion like before. Now before all of this happened (right before the...

Hello! How to make a 802.11g Broadcom BCM4311 adapter connect in ad-hoc mode at 54mbit/s, not at 11mbit/s? A peer adapter connects with it at 54mbit/s. Regards, Dmitry

Hello All! What two head video card can play High Definition video on a secondary monitor in the extended desktop mode? I saw in MS Knowledge Base and on the Internet that most of two head video cards reduce speed on the extended desktop. Does Windows Vista Media Center run slower on the secondary monitor in the extended mode? Is there any video player program which runs on the secondary...

Hello! Does Media Center run slower on the secondary monitor in the extended mode? Is there any video player which runs on the secondary monitor in the extended mode as fast as on the primary monitor? Can anyone run two monitors in the mirror mode in their two different native resolutions? How to make Windows Vista Media Center component run on the second monitor in the extended mode always?...

Hello! My HDD activity indicator lights up for 20 minutes and even mouse cursor freezes some times. This is because of uTorrent 1.8.3 and video conversion activity I guess. Will increasing of RAM from 2gb to 6gb help? Can I combine 2x1gb 800mhz installed modules with new 2x2gb 1066mhz modules? Page file is on G: HDD already, not C:. Windows Vista is x64. What would help? How to know what makes...

Hello! explorer.exe uses about 90% of CPU after a restart for several minutes and in about 10 minutes intervals during 720p video playback in VLC Player for several minutes. RAM 6GB, CPU Intel E6750. Vista Ultimate x64. Regards, Dima

Hello! Setting 'System managed' page file for my d: drive (EIDE Samsung SP2514N on JMicron JMB363 PATA and SATA controller on my Asus P5K motherboard) causes explorer.exe to use about 90% of CPU after a restart for several minutes and in about 10 minutes intervals during 720p video playback in VLC Player for several minutes. RAM 6GB, CPU Intel E6750. Vista Ultimate x64. I have set 'no page...

Hello! Explorer.exe began to use much of CPU (it look like) after increasing RAM from 2GB to 6GB. Explorer.exe uses much of CPU when I open a 4Gb mkv file in VLC player when uTorrent has been seeding for 8 hours already. OS is Windows Vista Ultimate SP2 x64. Page file is 'system managed' on G: HDD. Before increasing RAM, HDD was busy for several minutes in 30 minutes intervals when uTorrent...

Hello! My video card is DirectX 10 ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro 512mb. The latest Catalyst driver 8.4 is installed. But: Windows Vista 64 "Performance Information and Tools" shows that "Graphics: Desktop performance for Windows Aero" has 4,8 Subscore and "Gaming graphics: 3D business and gaming graphics performance" has 4,9 which are very low, that the HD 2600 Pro is the bottleneck of my...

Hello! How to add "Hibernation" to the Start menu in my Windows Vista Ultimate x64? The computer goes to the Hibernation after pushing the power button on the system case but the power light stays lit for 3 minutes. Best regards, Dima

hi i have the motherboard k8n diamond plus and i have raid 0 my question is will windows vista support the sil 3132 controller ? because it's a new operating system and to my opinion it's a mistake not support chipsets that are already in the market and as a user i must run to find a driver and to compromise no to have raid 0 it's in the rc1 version and i am worried about it

I installed Vista 64 Ultimate on my PC about a month ago. Drivers were installed from the CD that came with the Intel D975Xbx2. Everything was just fine. A few days ago I checked Windows Updates and found "SigmaTel - Sound - SigmaTel High Definition CODEC" driver that was recommended (Publisher 3/21/2007). Naturally I thought "Well a WHQL drivers should work no problems... after all they were...

Hi,could anybody share some info if my ADSL modem/router (roadrunner 40C) and crt monitor(viewsonic E72f+) will work with 64 bit vista? Or is it time to go shopping...?

XP Home, SP2: Attempting to Capture Video in Windows Movie Maker (WMM). WMM doesn't recognize the internal Cyberlink Power DVD. I've had home movies transfered to DVD and wish to edit them in WMM. How can I fix?

My MSI Vox USB Tv Tuner is not working under Vista Pre-RC1, Vista only recognizes the video in part of it. Back in XP it is recognized as 4 devices under Sound & Multimedia (Tuner, Video, Sound & Infra-red remote receiver). That was using the drivers from MSI. Any idea if it's a limitation with vista to only have one driver for each USB connection or if drivers for the vox will be included...

I have got a 5 in 1 built-in media card reader. It didnt work fine so i installed its driver from hp.com/support. i know i have installed the right driver for my media card reader but when i restarted the system, it disappeared from the My Computer("Computer" as called in Vista). it wont even show in diskmgmt.msc . when i check in device manager, there is nothing such called as media card reader...

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are you to a victum of vista??? felt ripped off??dissapointed with the new OS? cos its let you down?..............................................well i would like to hear your story?