as above i have no sound, and im not sure what drivers i need, the mother board is a abit kn8 sli, i have installed the nvidia drivers for it, and i have tryed the realtek drivers but that didnt work either.

If someone knows what I ought to be doing to get these devices recognized, please, please speak up. All of my IEEE 1394 devices work perfectly in Windows XP Pro, which I am dual booting in another partition. Can you point me to a place where I can get information to figure this out? Do I need to add or turn on a Service? Anybody else have iLink/Firewire/IEEE 1394 working?

My microphone is always on and I wonder is this is a problem with Vista Home Premium or with the Vista driver from Auzentech? I think it may be causing feedback thatI do not wnt. In XP PRO the microphone only worked when required by an application. Al

I am installing Vista 64 bit on my system. I have a 2nd HD I use for storage. After installing Vista, will it be able to read this 2nd (32 bit) HD or will I need to format the 2nd drive also??? If so, how can I save the info on the 2nd drive??

I have the original "Intellimouse Optical" mouse. When I connect it to my Vista Ultimate x64 machine it shows up in Device Manager as "Microsoft USB IntelliMouse Web" which is the incorrect name. At first I didn't notice the problem. But then I installed the latest IntelliMouse drivers which supposedly support this mouse. When I start the IntelliMouse control panel it tells me that a...

Hi, i plan to use MS Vista Business on my new laptop. The machine is Asus A6KM with 2.0 Ghz AMD Turion (one core), 512 MB DDR 333 MHz of RAM and GF 7300 GO. As i know, VIsta required at least 512 MB, but i want to run my laptop properly, so i'd like to buy another 512 or 1 GB of memory. The question is: would i be able to run VIsta like my XP on this conf? What do you think? It sounds...

How is one supposed to check for errors on, and reformat, a USB flash disk? I assume these things all have some specialized geometry, and a standard command line CHKDSK or format is going to mess them up? -- Will

Running Vista Business edition, motherboard D945PSN with PentiumD 3GHz, upgraded from XP Pro. The motherboard has built-in sound. The previously excellent 6 speaker sound has turned to rubbish. The sound is distorted and only 3 speakers work. Can anyone help? TIA Andrew

I have two IDE hard disks, to be used as external hard disks for backups. For this purpose I bought two NexStar hard drive enclosures, with an IDE/USB interface. The first one, a Maxtor 60 GB disk, works fine. With the second one I have a problem: The hard disk for the second one is an IBM Deskstar, 80 GB. Prior to installing it into the enclosure its partitions had been deleted, so there...

I can not get my sound loud enough on my acer 5050 ever since I upgraded to vista. I tried everything, I updated the driver and turned everything up but it is still very quiet, espcially when I try to play a movie or music on it. Can some one help?

I am running Vista Home Premium upgrade from Dell. When I try to open the device manager, I simply get an error message that says "class not registered" and then nothing happens. Any advice? Thanks.

Upgraded from windows/xp. ATI Radeon Video (16mg) - unable to determine exact model number. Windows/xp current ATI driver version 10.xx.xx causes Blue Screen of Death problems in Vista, faulting module is at3xxx.dll. Attempt to upgrade to ATI 7.3 Catalyst results in setup hanging in Detectionmanager.dll which is part of the Catalyst setup application. ATI of no assistance, refered me to my...

I have just purchased a new desktop with Vista. When trying to install the printer driver to my HP 750 it automatically selects HP750xi. On text it does not matter but it is reeking havok with graphics. I just want to select the HP 750 off the driver list without Vista "automatically" selecting the wrong driver. Can anyone help?

Hi, I am using a S-viedo cable to connect Vista PC to the TV Sometimes it is working fine but mostly not. I could dedect when faulty the resolution of the second screen had a resolution 600/800 while it should have a lower one 640/480 But when not ok resoltion 600/800 is the only which i can take.

i have a NEC MultiSync LCD195WVXM monitor, and window XP.... but then, the system does not support the resolution of 1440 X 900... someone told me that it works if i download DirectX 9C....but..i don't think it does.. what can i do?.. thank you

Help A few weeks ago I found some info in one of the forums that said I could speed up boot time by disabling unused com / ptr ports. I did so and now I can not find out how to undo this as I now need the ports. nay help would be appreciated. Mike

I have a 2 year old Toshiba laptop with Intel 915GMS graphics which lately has been having a serious problem with the screen going "semi-dark" upon "waking." It has been occurring for a couple of weeks now and the interim solution for me was to not "sleep" it. I am running Vista Ultimate and have all the latest drivers, updates et al. With the aid of additional lighting, I can see well...

Hello, After I burn a DVD, and when I re-insert a disc into the drive, the drive light stays on forever, and the drive is no longer recognized in Windows. It isn't listed in Device Manager, and it doesn't show up as a drive in Windows Explorer. The manual eject button is non-responsive. It doesn't seem to matter what I use to burn. I've experienced the problem with different burning...

After I installed windows vista, I began experiencing a problem with the headphone jack. Audio works completely fine, however, when I plug in a pair of headphones, the sound stops playing out of my laptop speaker but does not resume in the headphones. Instead no sound is heard. The speaker device is SigmaTel C-Major Audio. Like I said though, the speakers work fine. just not the...

When I install the USB bluetooth transciever for my Microsoft bluetooth mouse and Keyboard on my new Dell computer with Vista Business I can't find the bluetoothicon in the control panel. I tested on a Vista Home computer and it worked fine. But on Business it's not working.