i'm not quite sure why it's doing that and its really bugging me. the hiss isn't loud or anything but it is pretty noticeable. any person i have asked who have laptops haven't experienced this problem. is there some way to stop them from hissing?

I recently reinstalled Vista home premium. Now the colors on my monitor (acer al2216w)appear washed out. I downloaded the drivers for my onboard video and still it appears washed out. Could something else affect the color? Thanks

Hello ! I just made a new pc, and i had to get a Creative SB Xfi Xtreme Audio card so i can get sorround on my 5.1 audio system. I am running under Win Vista Home Premium. The problem is that when im listening to music or watching movies i have no bass from the subwoofer. When im playing games it works perfectly. I got the latest drivers for my sound card but that didn't help. I also...

i noticed a vga port on my pc. How does one activate or use this port...what is the terminology for accessing this port.

I have a Vista laptop, a Creative Touch mp3 player and an RCA Pearl mp3 player. When I connect the Creative player to the laptop, it recognizes the player as a portable device, installs the drivers and Windows Media Player, Yahoo Music and other apps that sync with music devices see the device and will synchronize with the player. However, when I connect the RCA player, Vista sees the...

I have been trying to install a logitech v320 mouse. When I go to Update software, almost all of the software is listed as not being compatible with Vista. Why do they have this software listed if it will not work with Vista? -- John N

I am using a D-Link DSL-G604T wireless ADSL router with a Vista Home premium system on an AMD Athlon 2800+ with 1GB of Memory. Just recently my computer lost contact with the router (ie. it returns the error message "limited connectivity" and the network centre doesn't acknowledge any connection with the internet.) Vista's "Windows Network Diagnostics" attempts to fix it by one of 2 ways...

I got one hard disk, which is split into two drives. One is about 40GB large and has Vista installed on it, the rest is unformatted for future usage. Now, I want to install a second OS on the unformatted half and need to give it a specific volume id. I know how to change volume id, but will it change volume id also for the half vista is installed on?

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...

So I accidentally clicked the take no action button on auto play when I plugged my ipod in and now it will not show up on my computer or anything when I plug it in to my computer. I am running Windows Vista and have looked into my auto play settings and have not found a solution, my ipod does not show up in my computer either, it works fine on my laptop and I have tried it in every USB port...

Recently installed an Epson V500 scanner on my system running Vista. It worked okay for two days. I left the computer and the scanner on over night. The next morning the preview function would not work. Epson support had me check device manager, uninstall the software, download new driver, etc. Nothing worked so they said it is the fault of the OS. Any ideas?

My cd\dvd drive has stopped working and is not recognized on my computer anymore. I need some suggestions to my problem as soon as possible.

I have a E systems Laptop and recently the DVD/CD Rom drive disappeared from the list on my computer as well as on device manager. It briefly said that drivers had been instaled and it appeared on my computer, then i put in a CD and DVD and it jut did not work. any suggestions, i have already uninstalled itunes!

Hello, I need to choose between these 2 systems: 1. comes with an Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 2.6GHz dual core processor, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, and a 320GB SATA II hard drive and Vista Home Premium (32 bit) 2. comes with Pentium 4 CPU, 3.2 GHz, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, and a 320GB SATA II hard drive and Vista Home Premium (32 bit)

I have replaced an HP Pavilion notebook running XP Pro with a new HP Pavilion notebook running Vista Ultimate. I had been using an external Acer LCD monitor with the old notebook. With the new notebook and Vista, the external monitor seems to disable both the screen saver and the power plan settings. The display simply stays on indefinitely. On a couple of rare occasions I was able to get it...

Hey I know this problem is has alot of words to read but please read it. Yesterday my 500gb capacity drive (i have used up 15gb space) worked fully which I named BX2BXsq The next time I got to use my drive, lots of folders were deleted. I restarted my computer and accessed my drive and this error came up E:\ is not accessible. The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.

Vista Ultimate x64 clean , ATi Radeon x1300/x1550 (VEN_1002&DEV_7183&SUBSYS_0D021028&REV_00), driver package 8.421.0.0 from 09/28/2007. Monitor is Proview PL926Wbi, running generic non-PnP driver. At one point after clean install I had the right display/monitor combination for native 1440x900 on this wide-screen monitor. At some point though I was offered a driver update and now I've...

Vista Ultimate x64 New build: Asus P5K motherboard Intel Core2 Q6600 Quad Core (GO) CPU Western Digital 500G SATA2 HDD x2 Western Digital 750G SATA2 HDD LG 18x SuperMulti SATA2 DVD Writer 1.44M 3.5" Floppy I wish to create a (1. floppy or 2. CD) boot disk (with support software) to

Hey there basically on my laptop my USB ports are no longer reading anything, my memory card, Ipod, Camera, Phone etc etc Basically is there anyway I can well reset the ports so to speak?

It appears the roadblock preventing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 from being made publically available when it was released to manufacturing two days ago is a deja vu of the same but less severe problem that also happened in 2004 with Windows XP Service Pack 2. The problem then affected a very particular ATI graphics driver and Dell Bluetooth driver which resulted in loss functionality after...