I have a Toshiba Satellite A100, bought in March 2007 and running Windows Vista Home Basic. I bought your Passport USB drive in April 2008. Right from the very start it has given problems, to do with not being able to access files because my PC freezes, or files taking a very long time to be accessed. When I plug the drive into a USB port, it can take several minutes in order to access a...

My computer updated itself in the middle of the night, as it is set to update daily at 3 am. I have been using a Western Digital MyBook external hard drive for months, on Vista, which I installed on a computer I built myself. When I woke up this morning to use some of the applications on the external HD, it did not even show up. Sometime in the night Windows decided that the same HD it had...

Hello: I have a Dell Inspiron 1501, running Vista Home Premium. Overall I really like the computer, and I like Vista. Recently I had to reinstall Vista because I have this habit of tweeking settings, and sometimes I end up messing things up. (I can't help it, I use various programs like Tweek VI and change things without thinking it through at times. I guess it's the hacker mentality in me....

i got into zoo tycoon and decided to buy zoo tycoon 2: zookeepers collection it was able to install but when i tried to play it said i needed 256 MB of System memory to run the game and that 0 memory was detected. i'm not quite sure what system memory is but my Partition (C:) and Recovery (D:) have more than enough free space 216 GB (partition) and 7.99 GB (recovery). the hard drive where i...

looking for drivers for a vivicam 5190 from vivitar that will be Vista compatable

Hi I have a linksys NAS200 and installed an ST31000340AS 1TB HD. When windows vista is trying to install the Mass Storage Controller it remains forever and cannot be removed, does not leave the windows to shutdown and does not allow even other programs to be installed. I have replaced the NAS200 with a new one and the problem persists. so the probles is with some driver.

I recently installed SP1 for vista home basic 32 bit. I find that when I burn CD on my laptop with Pioneer DVD-RW, the burn processs completes but the CD's appear blank. I tried with Live system and Mastered but same result. I cannot play /open the CD's burned on my Laptop. Appreciate help in resolving this issue. -- Uday

I have a Finepix DBC UD1 USB xdpicturecard reader. I get a message similar to the title when I plug it into my Vista machine The contents are pics taken on a fairly simple camera. My old xp machine reads the card perfectly. If I had a dvd burner on it I could get round the problem. and use the dvd to transport the pics to my Vista machine I cannot locate a source for the driver. The Finepix...

when i had windows xp for the first time aol was installed on it i just had 2 find my modem and type my name and stuff in. well i a week before xmas i got aol 9.1 it said it runs on xp and vista ? im was getting vista 4 x mas which i now have BUT there are so many compatible problems modems' graphic cards so i got my zoom modem tp work i then found that aol 8.0 (cd) has a compatible issue...

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...

I have a Vista Business 32-bit computer which shuts down after about 20 minutes with no warning of any kind, as if the power has suddenly been shut off. Are there any log files I can look at to see if there is any indication what the problem is? My guess is that it is the power supply, but I am reluctant to buy a new supply in case it is something else. The computer is permanently on,...

Hi, I'm currently working on a project with some specific storage which internally does a lot of write buffering. The whole thing is working perfect except of a single problem: when shutting down/suspending/hibernating/ rebooting or whatever the power is cut too fast and the storage (it is USB bus powered) is not able to complete the cached pending writes thus we are loosing/corrupting data. Is...

will any pci 2.2 card work in a motherboard with pci 2.3 slot?

I've got windows VISTA. All was well till 1 Feb 08. Put my camera card in the xd slot and it said "Microsoft Windows You need to format the disk in drive F: before you can use it. Do you want to format it? (Format disk) (Cancel)". I tried to format it and it wouldn't do it. Then I discovered it was saying the same thing when I put in a thumb drive! I've checked everything and it...

I'm having a problem. I'm running Vista x64 Ultimate. I'm getting hundreds of Event ID 11 errors in my Event Viewer. The source is atapi. Here is what it states: The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort2. Now, there is another twist to this. I ONLY get this error after waking up from either standby or hibernate. I do not get this error on first boot or subsequent reboot.

MS wireless laser mouse 8000. When trying to crop an image in Paint shop Pro or edit text in Pinnacle Studio 12 the mouse is either unresponsive or erratic. Works great on all other programs. System; Windows Ultimate 64bit --

HAVING A BLUE SCREEN ON VISTA ULTIMATE. COMPUTER RESTARTS RANDOMLY OR WHEN I TRY TO PLAY ANY OF MY GAMES. I COULD NOT FIND THE HELP I NEED ON THE INTERNET LOOKED EVERYWHERE. I think It WAS SOME HARWHERE ERROR OR SOMETHING BIOS AND CACHE SHAWODING OFF SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

I just took out 1gb card and inserted a 2gb card in my phone/MP3 player(SamsungSCH-r510) . Formatted card in phone with no problems (using phone to format card) Whent ot move my music on to new card and Vista(Home Premium Edition) says that card needs formatted. Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong?

I just took my new Dell Inspiron 1420 out of the box yesterday, the OP is Vista Home Premium. The screen's brightness is great when the computer is plugged into the A/C adapter. But when I unplug the computer from the wall and use the battery the screen darkens up quite a bit, to the point that it's difficult to read. I changed the battery plan brightness level and that didn't work. I've...

Hello community! Here is my problem, I recently installed Windows Vista on my computer. But I am having problems with my CDROM drive. At first it was fine, but after I installed my realtek HD audio drivers, my CDROM went missing. I can still get it any time by going into device manager and hitting the detect hardware changes. It will install automatically. Now the funny things is...