Is this or is this not supported in Vista? Anyone know? It worked fine in XP, and it shows up in Device Manager, but I can't get a drive letter!! Thanks in advance Andy

6 days ago I had a Compaq notebook (6720s) that was working OK, although USB functionality was pretty random. Then I tried to install Vista SP1 as offered by Windows Update. The install failed. 2 different System Restore points also failed.... Terrific. Now the system no longer shows DVD drive in My Computer or Computer Management, but it shows in Device Manager as not working, no drivers.

I have a WD 250GB external hard drive, the MyBook. It works absolutely fine on a HP laptop running XP, but on another HP laptop running Vista Basic does not work properly. Symptoms as follows. Does not show in Explorer. Shows in Device Manager and claims it's running properly, but shows no Volume under the volumes tab. Shows in Computer Management, but no details and cannot perform any...

I upgraded from Vista to W7 when it first came out. I have just recently realized that it apparently cut off the mic and I cannot record anything. I can still hear cd's.etc. I did not discover this until I tried to send a video message to my son who just got deployed to Iraq. Dell customer support has been useless thus far. Thanks for any suggestions as to how to fix this problem.

I upgraded from Vista to W7 when it first came out. I have just recently realized that it apparently cut off the mic and I cannot record anything. I can still hear cd's.etc. I did not discover this until I tried to send a video message to my son who just got deployed to Iraq. Dell customer support has been useless thus far. Thanks for any suggestions as to how to fix this problem.

I put in Happauge tuner for xp but media says no card

I think I have been told what causes this problem already, but I just need clarity and one of you experts will clear this up in no time. Every time I turn on my laptop PC, in the "Start Menu", it seems that all of the Icons have changed positions or some new icons have taken the place of previous Icons that were there the previous time I used the laptop. It seems like whatever program or...

I've noticed that when I insert a memory stick, the drive info says its either RAW format or there's no format diplayed. The drive is usable and reads and writes ok. If I run ChkDsk on it the drive info then says it's FAT32, which would be correct. Is this a common fault with USB memeory sticks or a Vista issue? I'm using Windows Vista RC1.

I have 2 Lacie DVD/CD USB drives attached to my computer. One is about 3 years old and the other is 2 years old, the newer is a DVD DL and CD writer. They both run fine in XP, but in Vista the newer DVD DL drive does not like recorded DVDs. It just continually spins and I finally have to eject the disc. It will read manufactured DVDs and recordable CDs. The older drive runs fine. This makes...

I just got my new PC 2 days ago. I get to know that the Windows Vista Home Premium that I purchased is a 32 bit edition. I have a question that is what is the maximum ram can my Win vista support at 32bit. I heard from my colleague that its max at 2 GB ram, it that true?

I got a dell inspiron 531 came with 2 gigs of memory running vista 64 bit. I installed 2 gigs total of 4 gigs got b.s.o.d. upon startup so I startup in safe mode there it shows 4 gigs tried again to boot in normal desktop same bsod. I removed 1 stick leaving 3 gigs now boots and runs fine what's up with vista and 4 gigs of ram ? -- andy6432668

Hi All, I'm running Vista Ultimate OEM vers. and I'm trying to add another SATA HD to use as a backup drive. I already have a RAID 0 as the main drive and an additional drive for swap, small backups etc. but have exceeded capacity and need a new full backup drive. Problem is I can't get Vista to recognise the drive. It appears in the Device Manager as an unknown device and doesn't appear at...

1. How to I configure one of the favourite keys to the sleep function? 2. How do I configure one on the favourite keys to either the "Next track" or "previous track" command? I can configure other keys such as mail to do this, but then I loose their original functionality, but there is no option apparent to configure a favourite key to one of the "command" functions. I am using the latest...

Heres a weird one. Rc1 didnt detect my ancient Audigy 1 card so I tried all of creatives beta drivers and none of those worked ( all told me I had no soundblaster hardware). Thought I was going to have to format and go back to 32 bit until I found my old cd that came with the card. Tried that and no surprise it wouldnt run. So I got vista to try to detect the hardware and browsed to the...

Hello, I have intalled Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit on my Gateway laptop but I can't get any sound. My CPU is AMD Turion 64 and Motherboard chipset is ATI Radeon Xpress 200M. The integrated sound controller is ATI SB400 AC'97. I have installed the latest Realtek AC'97 audio codec Vista driver from...

I have a 3 month old Acer laptop and at startup over the past couple of days, its finding new hardware. However I've not added hardware apart from a Microsoft mouse. Having contacted Acer the say I should re-nstall the o/s (Vista Home Prem). They feel its a software problem. Which seems a bit drastic, so before I do, does anyone whse had experience of this annoying problem or knows of a way...

My system has been running fine for quite some time. I'm running Vista Ultimate on an ASUS P5ND2-SLI mobo. I just picked up 2 new 500 GB SATA drives to use for data storage, RAID 1 . My OS will remain as is, on a single, non-raid drive. I hooked up the two SATA drives and followed the instructions from my ASUS user guide: Via BIOS, I enabled RAID and selected the drives. Via the...

"Bad Kitty" wrote: This worked for me when my CD and DVD drives both did not show up in Computer: Start Run regedit navigate to registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318 Highlight it and in the right pane, find the Upperfilters and Lowerfilters

It seems that when a device using a filter driver is moved to a different USB port, it stops working. The filter driver no longer works and needs to be re-installed. In XP, when a device is moved to a different USB port, all drivers stay intact. In Vista the PC will do a new search for drivers for the device and re-install them when found, but will not re-install the filter driver and will...

Hello, I recently purchased a new Media Centre PC along with the Microsoft Remote keyboard. Having set up the PC however I cannot get it to recognise the keyboard. The PC came with a remote control which does work so I know the Infrared receiver is functioning, and as far as I can see the Keyboard is also functioning (small red LED flashes whenever I press buttons on it). So I don't know...