Hey, I was fiddling around in vista the other day on my new laptop and unintentionally inactivated my microphone port in the belief that I could activate it again. Just it disapeared from the list when I inactivated it. Now I can't seem to activate it again. Would anyone know how I get it working again?

How to get the Video Adapter Memory Information via WMI on Vista? The information should includes Total available memory, Dedicated Video Memory, system video memory and shared system memory. Te Win32_VideoController's date structure is changed from Vista, and the old data structure reports error information.

So, I've been getting the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL BSOD for the last couple weeks. Lately it's down to a couple times per hour. Quite horrible. error Description: Windows detected a new device attached to your computer, but could not find the driver software it needs to make the device usable. Each device manufacturer typically includes driver software of a CD that comes with the device, or as...

So, I've been getting the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL BSOD for the last couple weeks. Lately it's down to a couple times per hour. Quite horrible. error Description: Windows detected a new device attached to your computer, but could not find the driver software it needs to make the device usable. Each device manufacturer typically includes driver software of a CD that comes with the device, or as...

Can you guys help me with a system,this is a small system that I may build in the near future. Would like some input on hardware selection. I can say this particular system is upgradable and complete with hardware & monitor. all hardware was priced from newegg. The goal would be to keep the final build under $1000. CASE: Antec Sonata III 500 Black 0.8mm cold rolled steel ATX Mid Tower Computer...

Hi, I am trying to use my Logitech keyboard on my laptop (which is running vista) and when i plug in the USB it tells me that windows cannot locate the driver. I have spoken with the logitech support team and I have downloaded setpoint but the device is still not working. I took the keyboard to work and plugged it into my work computer as well as

Using Maxtor Onetouch III Turbo with Windows Vista. Nearly completed a copy of system when power went out. Have surge and pc and drive both work. Tried shutdown and restart of Maxtor. Driver software comes up and allowed a diagnostic check which stated drive is running properly. However, am unable to reset, choose files to copy from system or run copy function on Maxtor. Will...

Hi all, I wanted to clone my old drive onto a larger drive. I used dd to copy the entire disk to the new drive, then I used qtparted to resize the partition. However, when I boot into vista, the size of the drive reported is different than the size of the partition. The drive space shows only the capacity of the old disk while the partition size shows the size of the new larger...

Hi, Ive got a Casio Fx-9860 calculator, ive manage to install the FA-124 program, but it cant find the usb driver for the calculator. I can find them manualy, they come with the program. But I cant install them. The driver is called CESG502. Ive searched all over the net, but cant find anything that works. Starting to get tired of vista x64 :( Every program is a problem. Please help me. --

When I first installed Vista Home Prenium, the USB portswere working fine. However, recently, they stopped working, now even when I format my Hard drive, my none of the USB Root hubs are worling, even in XP. The Device Manager says that the USB is working fine and that it is updated. Would installing a new Motherbourd fix this, or can I just buy a USB -PCI card?

This is the second desktop computer I am putting together and installing Vista on. I discovered that on both (different motherboards, CPUs, HDs) Vista reverses HD order during install. I know exactly what HD is connected to SATA socket 1 (socket 0 is for SATA DVD writer) and which is connected to socket 3. BIOS shows them correctly as SCSI-0 and SCSI-1. Yet Vista persistently calls the...

I've had my machine for about a year and its always Bluescreened on me. At first i thought it was the 2 graphics cards, so I've just removed them. But i'm still getting the problem. So I did a check on my memory (using the Memory Diagnostic Tool) and it tells me that out of the 4 ram sticks 3 of them cannot be written to in certain ranges. My question is can I force Vista to ignore certain...

Hi, I recently purchased a Dell with Vista 64 bit. I have been watching DVD's the past few days on it without any problems. I was able to watch one this morning but when a put another one in I received the following message: *Unable to detect DVD or DVD device on this computer*. This computer has yet to be hooked up online, so nothing new has been added or updated on it. I rebooted, as well as...

I just loaded some music and created a playlist from using URGE for Windows Media Player. I pluged in my iPod in order to transfer the songs intio the iPod, but nothing happens once it's pluged in. How do get the player to recognize that my iPod is plugged into the USB port?

i have got this message under network adaptors This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31) can anybody throw any light on this for me, please? i am using a compaq presario computer purchased in june 2007 with vista home premium pre-installed. i am not a computer expert so explanation will hopefully be in plain english.

Hello, I'm using a netgear wg111v2 wireless usb adapter with 64 bit vista. When I turn off my monitor, the usb adapter is disabled and I have to unplug it and plug it back in again to reconect. As long as the monitor doesn't turn off it stays conected fine. Any advice?

I'm running Vista 64 bit with four gig of RAM and a Geforce 7100 gs Video card. THe computer is showing 3199mb of Ram. Total Available Graphics memory is 1471MB Dedicated Video is 128 MB System Video is 0MB and Shared System Memory is 1343 MB. How can I get it to see 4 gig of ram?

I recently bought a Packard bell machine. I noticed that there was a spare partition on the drive otherwise Y:\. This is only shown when I do a recovery on the machine. but when it gets booted to the GUI it doesnt show in "My Computer". is there a way that I can access this part of the drive so it can be used for storage. regards Darren

I have a Logic3 USB Pro Flight Stick, This used to work on my old XP machine. But after getting a new windows Vista Home Premium machine, it does not recognise it. It tells me that it cant find any drivers for it. can anyone help? Thanks Darren

Platform: Vista Home Premium SP2 and SP1 Problem Description: VIA OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller This device cannot start. (Code 10) Attempted solutions: Uninstall / Re-install: Error, Device Driver was not Correctly installed. Check Driver: Driver update tells me I have the right driver.