Hello all, , great forum. I have a problem. Just finished building my new workstation. I have: 1x 250GB SATA drive on wich I want to install Vista Ultimate x64. 3x 500GB SATA drive wich i'd like to have running in Raid-5. Asus P5E motherboard. Q6600 core.

How can you tell if your computer can support Bitlocker? I read something about having the TPM 1.2 Chip. What is that? I have an Asus P5GD2-X motherboard. Thank you, David

Hi there, Vista Home Premium with MS Natural Wireless Keyboard with Intellitype 6.1 all of a sudden my top keys stopped working My Docs, My Pics etc but I think the Volume buttons worked so uninstalled Intellitype 6.1 and reinstalled 6.1 all worked well except the Volume buttons didn't work. So uninstalled 6.1 installed 6.2 still all buttons bar the Volume ones work. Any thoughts on how I...

Hi all, I have a laptop with windows vista ( premium) installed with DVD-ram Mat****a. I have checked the CMOS configuration ( the drive is listed ) and this device is listed also in the device manager. The problem is when i go to the my computer, there is no DVD ram/ drive dislayed. I have tried modifying the registries but still this dvd doesnt work. Anyone who can help me on this?...

When I run the Windows Experience Index, everything is fine until it runs the Windows Media Playback Assessment. A few seconds after my monitor goes blank and the light on it starts blinking. It doesn't display anything and nothing is responding. I have to restart the computer. Please help as this problem is driving me crazy as it does the same thing with the Orange Box games. I have an ATI...

I successfully installed a network printer on my Vista laptop. It's connected via wireless to the network. The printer is attached to a hard-wired tower running XP Pro. Like I said, it was fine for weeks. I don't know what event has caused this, but it now will not print. If I try to print from any application it will lock up that application. When I try to remove the printer it takes...

I bought a Microsoft Mini Optical Wireless Mouse 3000 to use with my laptop, It would not let the computer go to screensaver not knowing this I closed the lid to put computer to sleep with the mouse receiver plugged in and it all most fried my computer. The computer did not go to sleep everything was still running except the cooling fan. The computer got really hot. If you use a Microsoft...

I have a Trust WB3240N HIRES webcam. This came with a driver on a DVD. Using this driver, there is no problem with the camera. Everytime Vista starts, it says that I have to download a driver to enable the webcam to work. If I use the windows driver, I can't get the webcam to work. Also, I cannot get the error message to stop returning.

My computer performed an automatic update Saturday night. This was deemed "important" by the Windows Update program. It completely blew up the graphics on my computer, a 4 month old Dell Insperion 530S running Vista Home Premium. It turned my 19 inch monitor into a 12 inch monitor. Some web pages were squeezed into the middle of the screen, with blank spaces on each side. Some were spread...

I read in the news, this past January that MSFT was not going to support XP after June 30, 2008. I don't remember the extent of support downsize. My concern was that I wanted to be ready and updated and have a current supported system in place. I'd like to make it all easier and get a new computer but I'm saving for my first LCD 1080p HDTV, maybe two. They're both old and I like to update...

Hi, Well you know how in Vista, you can go to the start menu and click on computer for a view of the disks ect.? Well, for some reason, that opens for me without me choosing it a dozen times a day. Why would that be? I’ve had this machine for about a month but I’m not too vista savvy.

I own a Dell inspiron 1501 laptop. A couple of days ago my microphone was working fine. Now, it won't pick up sound unless you scream and even still you can hardly hear it. I tried turning up the volume and boost all the way, didn't work. I even bought a new microphone and still, same problem. PLEASE HELP! -- Cat Peterson

I have a couple of thumbdrives and sd cards that I would like to sync with vista and media player 11. They do not show up in the devices area of wmp11 or as items that can be synced in the sync center. I know when I first started using vista a few month ago that they did but for some reason, it's no longer an option. I'm still able to access the thumbs and the sd through my computer. Any...

Hi, have Compaq Presario C500 laptop. New battery & AC. Receives charge. Emits 2 quick beeps at start up. Can hear fan very briefly. Can see "compaq" screen but can't use function buttton to do anything. Did see BIOS screen once before Tech Support said to click OK. Hasn't popped up again. No longer under warranty. Will reseat memory. Question is this: Do you think this sounds like the video...

I just wanted to quickly confirm a procedure as being safe for the following situation: I have an internal 1 TB hard drive that is not being recognized by Windows Vista (even though it is listed in the Device Manager (as working properly) and is fully recognized by the bios). I have been informed by the computer manufacturer that this problem should be fully resolved with the release of...

my computer continually shuts down at no special time and the message I get is: problem cause by nvidia graphics driver...I have gone on the HP site and downloaded the lastest version and it is still not fixed..can you help me. I have a HP Pacilion dv6000 and using Windows Vista Thank you

Windows Vista build 5600 is detecting the card and downloading the drivers from Windows Updates but during the driver installation it gives the following error message: WindowsUpdate_80070005 WindowsUpdate_dt000 or WindowsUpdate_800F0217 WindowsUpdate_dt000 Neither of which return any information when searching the knowledge base.

the other week my laptop just crapped out and stopped playing sound through the speakers, and now the 2 headphone jacks in front are both only playing about 25% but only in the right headphone. I've contacted HP support and what they told me was the right thing to do but it still didn't fix the problem. I had to uninstall my audio driver then reinstall it, then update it again, but no fix. I...

The Windows Explorer under Vista Home Premium does not list my new HP Color LaserJet 1600 even though the printer works fine and is an available printer to every other application on my computer, including Internet Explorer. Is this a bug in Vista Home Premium? I can work around this by printing in the Paint program but it would be quicker and more straight forward to be able to print directly...

I have Vista Home Premium 32. I have 8GB of RAM in my MB. My BIOS is showing 8GB of Ram but when I go into Windows it is showing in Device Manager only 3667GB of RAM. Why is there a difference and why is Windows Vista not recognizing the other 4GB of RAM.