Hi, When I try and manage my hardware devices I get this error: The pipe state is invalid. This has only been happening recently though I don't know what I had been doing before it stopped working.

My Acer-pc M1100 was born with an onboard videocard ATI Radeon HD 1250 which only gave me the possibility of one monitor. So I added a new videocard ATI Radeon HD 2400, which uses the same ATI Catalyst center. I have upgraded all drivers to the latest from ATI's homepage. But I keep getting the message from Vista, that "the screen driver atikmdag.exe has stopped answering, will now be...

I have an HP Media Center computer with two 320G hard drives. The boot drive crashed, replaced it and ran the restore disks, but when Windows re-started the HP restoration software had partioned C: as a small (48G) drive, with the rest of the drive unallocated. Looks like it also mirrored the primary logical disk (0) onto the secondary disk (1). I extended the unallocated partition on the...

Hello, I have a windows optical mouse 5000. I installed the batteries in the mouse and it shows a red light, but the curser did not move. Can someone tell me the process to start and end of the mouse operation? Thank you, alanrr

After downloading Windows updates and driver updates, my cd/dvd player does not work. I cannot install my printer or camara software because the player will not open. I took it to Frys (where I purchased)and was charged for a diagnostics test which they stated was not a hardware problem, but a software problem which the warranty did not cover. They then charged another fee for putting my...

My touchpad is not working properly. When I move my finger down, the mouse on the screen goes up and vice versa. How do I get this fixed?

Help!!! Okay, I have a friend who has an HP laptop, Windows Vista (obviously lol) and, at first his internal mic would pic up sound-music, background noise, &c., but not voice. On Skype it said that it was muted. There were no "mute/un-mute" buttons to be found, anywhere. And it wasn't just on Skype either. Yahoo too. It just wouldn't register it at all. He was trying to mess with the mic...

Hi I've had my laptop 6 months using Vista Home Basic and have connected through a wired LAN connection everyday. This week, it didn't automatically connect and when I went to the "Network and sharing centre", selected "Full map" and selected "Local area network", it doesn't show anything at all. It's as if the connection (or the icon) has just disapeared. I'm not very technically minded,...

hey guys... i am a music artist.. singer.. hiphop ect anyways.. i upgraded to vist and did a check it said all my equiptment could run onnit, now ive upgraded and basically my External soundcard behringer fca202 Will not work.. the drivers say they installed but no sound is comming out.. i guess its incompatible.. is there anything that can be done? Thanks in advance

Hello, I started to have problems with Local Area Connection in Vista, during logon there was two networks identified, one that I had set up and one unrecognized. This was a problem, because it disrupted the DHCP discovery. I have read here that many have the same problem, but so far haven't been able to pinpoint the cause. My solution was to try to disable the network connection and enable...

Hello there I have just got a new machine with Vista Home 64 and when I click onto the D Drive which is my DVD player it informs me that D:\ application not found but it will show the icon from the disk or film. I have looked into the properties and location, channel and lun are all at 0. I can get the disk to run if I click on the DVD folder on the left handside. Can anyone please help --...

Please help to find drivers for Hoya USB - IR adapter model irWave IR 520 UK. Thanks in advance.

my computer showes all the time messages of usb device not recognized and only the mouse and camra are concted

every time i try to burn some music, it will come up as a error saying device may not be connected properly, or cd is not compatible with computer. Check device says its working properly, cds i just brought them CD-R

Please read the following announcement very carefully: http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/02/04/announcing-the-rtm-of-windows-vista-sp1.aspx It explains reasons why some folks will not be able to download SP1 from Windows Update right away. The more of us who understand the drivers issues the more there will be who can explain to posters why they may have to wait...

The Windows Update for the "nvidia nforce networking controller" caused my internet to not work properly. I restored my system and rolled back the driver, both on separate occasions to resolve this issue. It worked, however, now I need to know what to do about the update. I cannot leave my settings to update automatically because of this. Any ideas?

we have a usb key which manage 3 audio devices. 2 microphones (mic1 and mic2) and 1 speaker (speak1). when windows vista automatically installs the drivers when we put the usb key on the usb port we want the driver to set the "mic1" be the default input device and "speak1" the default output audio device. how can we accomplish this? how should we tell the driver to do this...

Hey again I’m here as a new user of vista and I’m going trough a bunch of problems. As for now one day I ran the diskeeper and some how I lost 45 GB of hard disk space for no real reason. After that I ran it again but it didn’t help, I don’t know if it has to do with the diskeeper or maybe some other type of problem with the computer applications. So any help you can give me I’ll...

Hello everybody. I need some help with an odd tech problem. I'm working with a Windows Vista HP Pavillion PC. No hardware has been modified. I'm not sure which version I have, I think I have all but the most recent update. I'm not sure if this is a hardware problem or not, but here goes. Anyway, about 4 months ago, my computer started acting odd. It would make an odd ticking, or...

Windows had an update for me today. Some sort of update for Toshiba Bluetooth hardware (I have a big Dell XPS 710 with the Dell bluetooth keyboard and mouse). After that update, I had no mouse or keyboard and the update 'failed' to find any driver. Attempting to restart my bluetooth hardware was unsucessful as the system could no longer find my bluetooth hardware. Luckily System Restore...