I've used APC's PowerChute Personal with their batteries since Win95. Never had any problems with un-attended shutdowns due to power outages, all worked as advertised. Problem: PowerChute v2.1 for Vista, when a power outage presents itself, the computer shuts down at the correct interval, followed by the monitor and then the battery. Upon re-start, I get a "Resuming Windows" followed by...

I hope someone can help. I have tried many times to do a backup and each time it tells me to put a blank disc in the drive I do that and it keeps saying put a blank disc in the drive over and over until I finally hit cancel. I have tried DVD-R's, DVD-RW's, CD-R's and CD-RW's. Drive E, the drive shows up in my computer. I checked Device Manager and it says the drivers are up to date. What can...

I wanted to be ensured that this problem doesnt cause a power waste and high enegy bills thats all!

Have u ever seen a electrical device that its metal cover lights the continuity Tester!? Have you? (for example) does yur SAT reciever metal cover lights the tester? why SAT reciever inside power supply doesnt have this effect?

I have Vista Home Premium and have downloaded the appropriate driver and Canon Toolbox update for the Lide 20 flatbed scanner. However, after installing (before plugging in the device) and then connecting, the TWAIN source is not recognised. I'm now at a loss as to what to do. Has anyone else experienced this or found a solution?

I have a 5 month old HP Desktop with Vista Premium an one Original from factory 320GB HD with everything installed at HP. I installed Kaspersky Internet Suite 7.O as Security. I purchased a 500GB HD and took HPs Recovery discs and installed an exact replica of the 320GB HD on the 500GB HD. Naturally i disconnected the 320GB HD an hooked up the 500GB HD to load everything then I switched back...

The most quality board I knew was here and searched for proper boards related to PC power supplies but this boards posts happens to be the most helping 1. Thank you ALL

After I installed Vista 64x on my machine, my DVD drive started to randomly hang in the middle of installations from discs, or in the middle of ripping music. I assumed it was my drive going bad, but I order a new drive (Asus this time, instead of the old LITE-ON) and it's doing the same thing. I'm beginning to think it's a Vista problem.

I've had Window's Vista Ultimate 64-bit for about a year now and things have been fine so far. However, today, none of my IDE drives are detected in Vista. Neither the CD/DVD Rom or IDE Hard Drive are detected. They have just disappeared. They do not show up in the Device Manager or anywhere else. I have Window's XP Pro installed as a Dual-Boot backup just in case. XP see's the drives just...

About a week ago my Toshiba Protege began suffering serious problems which seem to relate to audio/video and the RealTex HD Audio card (Vista 32 bit). Typically after 5 to 30 minutes of playing an audio stream the CPU usage goes to 100%, the audio becomes distorted. Now today my computer simply freezes while this occurs and after about 5 minutes it shuts down. There is no ability to...

I guys, I have a problem with a vista home premium, when i connect my usb mouse or my usb harddrive, the vista tell me i can install the good drivers?? In past when i plug the mouse it's work. if i check the mouse and hardrive in another computer it's work well, and windows install the good driver; If someone have an idea ??

Guys i need help fast. On my workstation I'm running vista ultimate x86 on Core 2 Duo E6600, 2 GB RAM, 2x Albatron 8600 GT 256 in sli mode. So few days ago i downloaded new nvida WHQL driver from MS update and from then my screen frequently turns black and i see my mouse for few sec and than my lcd starts looking for signal, second after vista is back on screen and i receive a message...

I don't know if i'm posting in the right place but here it goes I'm running vista. I hve two DVD drives the one that reads works but the one that burns doesn't I believe the one that works is HL-dt-st DVD-rom GDRH10n SCSI cd rom drive the other one is TSST Corp DVD+ - RW TS-H553A SCSI CD ROM Dvice the problum is if I put a disk in it dosent reconize the disk and ask to put a disk in...

Hi - I plugged in my microphone in but cannot get sound to come out of the speakers. Vista has provided no 'Microphone' or 'Line-In' Levels in the SoundsPlaybackLevels tab, or an 'Unmute' button. When I was using Vista Home Premium 32 I found a registry fix that created an 'Unmute' button in SoundsPlaybackLevels that could be un-checked to allow the sound through, but now I'm using...

I have Vista home premium. The keyboard quits working during bootup, either usb or ps2. OSK works fine. This happened after a virus infection. I can boot with a cd WinPE and it works so it isn't a hardware problem. I not sure where to go from here. Also, I cannot open user accounts, all others cpl's I can. What was possibly changed in the registry? I checked for rootkits and viruses and it...

My sony optiarc dvd is on the HCL, but not for my 64bit Vista,will it be? ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click...

I have had this problem for over two or three weeks now. I normally just let my computer sleep, but sometimes it needs to be restarted for whatever reason. When it gets shut down or restarted, it's like it goes back to the default settings, or a temporary account. My background has changed, the DELL support welcome screen pops up, any settings for the computer I have manually set are back...

Hi, I want to backup my Windows Vista Ultimate PC to a 1TB time capsule on my home network through Vista's inbuilt Backup and Restore Centre. When I pick 'Back up files' and then select 'On a network' and browse, I find the time capsule. I can even browse the folders inside it. I have a folder called "Windows backup" that I created, and I can select this folder. When I go to click 'Next',...

I added my Treo 700p device, but I cannot get a COM port on my computer (Vista) to open to make the connection. The Treo HotSync error message says "unable to initiated HotSync operation because the port is in use by another application". What should I do?

I am having a horrible time with my windows vista home premium, I bought an external Lg dvd writer, when I connect my laptop ( an acer aspire, and all specs are good for device compbility) recognizes the device, but can not find the necessary driver, it gives me the option of updating windows or installing device cd, I am set to update daily, but went and checked and installed all updates I...