I've got 2 different Sandisk MP3 players, as well as a new RCA player I bought for my daughter. Vista cannot locate the "correct" drivers to install any of them. Does any brand MP3 player work in Vista, to where you can sync songs to the device? As a caveat - I should point out I'm on RC1, and am awaiting for my "express" home premium upgrade DVD to arrive by this weekend (3/23). I will...

i tried to download itunes but it won't let me when i try to install it a message appears saying not valic win32 application i don't konw what that is... please help.

I just bought a Compaq computer, which came with Windows Vista. I'm trying to get all of my music (2.5 Gigs) from my laptop, which I was using before this computer. I have a 40 Gig WD Passport, and I've loaded my music onto it from the laptop. I've plugged it into the USB port of my new desktop, and I can't open the back-up file. It won't open unless I find a file to open it with, but...

I've been running XP Pro for years, 3 SATA hard drives in the case & 1 external SATA drive (FAT32). With XP, I could turn on the eSATA drive (always connected) anytime & it is automatically detected. With Vista Ultimate, if the eSATA drive was OFF at boot time, turning it on, once fully booted, does not detect the 4th drive. Disk Management (local) doesn't see the 4th drive either. If I turn...

hi I just installed Windows Vista Business Edition x64. After I set the sound device to 5.1, i got the problem that mono sound is played on the center speaker but i would really like to have it on the two front speakers as it was in Windows XP. In this knowledge base article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925901/en-us they write If this default behavior presents hardware difficulties, use...

I am trying to get a Billionton Compact Flash Bluetooth card to work in Vista Home Premium. Vista says the original drivers are not compatible and not to install them. I have tried all the Broadcomm, Widcomm, and anyother BT drivers close to no avail. The card is found by Vista and shows up as Compact Flash Bluetooth in the Device manager. It seems all of the new drivers are for USB BT only....

Upon reviving my computer from its low power state (Power button) I get the message boxes detailed below. This has only started to happen within the last three or four days, up till then my modem connected to the internet automatically and any web sites previously open where available. I have tried to close my internet connection down before using the power button, but when I revive the...

Creative SB Live! Series (WDM) output volume is too high. It's making me nearly deaf when I wear my headphone on and it suddenly BOOM~~. The sound volume outputted by this WDM driver is too high, even if I turn the volume to 3 out of 100, it was loud enough to have the same output volume as I was using Windows XP with Creative's driver, with volume bar set to half. For now, creative don't...

I have 2 rs-232 serial printers, they work on my other computers when plugged into the on-board serial ports. (echo hello com2 ) I need them to work in Vista.. I bought a new computer that did not have any on board serial (except SATA which will not help in anyway to this) so I decided to get a USB to db9 serial converter. I used the drivers it came with (95-ME/XP/2000-3/ NT) and had an...

I see that in the instruction book that came with my computer it tells me how to connect my bluetooth. Is there the need to add additional software to operate this because when I push the buttons to turn it on nothing happens? I'm lost help!

Just purchased a new Dell PC with Windows Vista Ultimate. Own an IBM Flat Panel monitor, Model: 6653; Type: G52. Monitor initially worked enough to enable me to login to Windows Vista and set up my user account. After that whenever I boot up the new PC, I see the inital boot up information on the flat panel screen, but I never get to the Vista login screen. I received an error stating...

Hi, I have a new x60t with vista and installed the support for the Microsoft Notebook Laser Mouse 6000. The mouse works but, now the middle button on the laptop nav keys behaves the same way as the wireless mouse. If I recall correctly, my old laptop's nav keys and the mouse settings could be set independently. Was I dreaming or am I just not finding the right thing to do? Thanks

Hello, I have a TerraTec Aureon 5.1 Fun sound card. Divers are v5.12.1.639, signed by Microsoft (and installed during Vista rc2 installation). I have configured the speakers in 5.1 surround with the Speaker Setup pannel. Then I launched the test and all speaker work well. When i clic on a speaker picture, the sound comes from the good speaker. But my problem is that even the good...

I keep recieving a stop code error when i listen to music and watch videos or tv. I have contacted dell and also have the newest bios and sound drivers.. problem is really getting me.. The stop code is 0x00000124 (0x00000000,0x85CB2B60,0xB2000000,0x00000175). Of course dell said it was a new issue, i have sent an email to sigma tel and they havent replied so i dont know what is going on. I...

Running Vista Premium Home on a 500 GB hard drive shows 80 GB used in properties pie chart. I configured win explorer to not hide system files, actually see hidden & system files in directories. If I get properties of the root & all folders, their sum is about 18 GB. How can I account for the 4X overhead shown in the pie chart? Why does the sum of the folders disagree so much with the pie...

I have a Visiontek Theater Pro 550 MCE PCI card installed in my Vista machine. However, for whatever reason, Media Center cannot get through a scheduled recording without halting for various reasons. I've searched through the event logs and these are the various messages I get: Recording of Welcome to the Grindhouse began late on 04/03/2007 23:03:55 due to a lack of audio/video data and...

I spend 2 hours on the phone this morning with the Vista team of Microsoft Customer Support and the end result was "talk to Dell or Seagate". So I'm hoping that some of you other MSFT support folks have some info or know of someone that I can contact to get this working right. I've got a three-disk stripped set that is permanently "Offline" and will not come back using "Reactivate Disk" in...

I want advice from an intelligent who could advise me with a motherboard which has the best feature, which suite Vista with out any problem witch is causing me now with the motherboard I have, what I am looking for is a motherboard witch it could accept the feature I have: 1- P4 3.8 GHz. 2- 4 GB of memory 3- Dul 16 PCI of graphic card

when I cold start the computer ultimate vista keeps installing new sound driver, digital, but does not install analog driver. I install it get sound. If I cold start it does it again and I have to reinstall the driver for analog.

Okay, the sound was working just fine the other day, I used my ipod, music etc..no problem. But now there is no sound and every time i click on volume control it there is no active mixer...ok. So I have gone through a million troubleshoots and a million of these posts. i can't find anything that can help. Oh and when i get to the devices thing to set my default thing it won't let me click...