I have an ATI Radoen 9800xt When I installed Vista RC1 x64 (5600) during initial configuration (after instalation) i would get a bsod citing a failure of atikmdag.sys approximately every 60-120 seconds. I managed to run through the configuration as quickly as possible and managed to get through it before the system bsoded, hoping that it was something in installation. Unfortunately I had no...

how can i disable this icon from permanently appearing in the taskbar..have unchecked in it msconfig..have deleted driver in control panel...have uninstalled two vaio wifi setup programs, but icon keeps reappearing...would like for it to just go away....don't like having icons in taskbar that i don't use...many thanks in advance... -- mukooh

HP printer driver is reinstalled every time my PC returns from hibernation. Is it a Vista's bug or an HP driver's bug?

Hi All, I am using windows vista home premium SP1. And whenever i put in a CD or a DVD in the DVD +/- rw. The auto play window would not longer appear. And the issue started 5 days ago when I re-installed windows (again). I have not installed any anti-virus software or anti spyware. Or any burning software. Its frustrating to open the disc through computer. I have checked the registry entries,...

..make it so that my RIAD drives don't appear in the 'safely remove hardware' list? The safely remove hardware icon has only appeared since installing nforce chipset drivers. Thanks -- elbeasto

I'm running vista home, and the settings keep getting lost. For instance, I get a message "corrupted win.ini", "can't get information from within win.ini" I really feel like this vista went beyond the vista never to be seen again.

I can no longer use my wireless Utility, I have an Advent laptop with built in wireless using "Ralink Wireless LAN Card" After installing the previous update 10/09/2008 The icon for my Ralink card is now blacked out, if I hover my mouse over it I get the information "Ralink Wireless LAN Card" and underneath "Not Exist" thus I can no longer connect to wireless networks etc My laptop is fairly...

Can ANYONE help ? I have spent the last 2 days trying to resolve a problem with the scanner - "failure to communicate with software" followed by "failure to comunicate with scanner" messages. HP admit they have a problem, but having spent the best part of yesterday communicating with them - notably with their chat service - which I wouldn't recommend as they don't even read what you send...

Are there any differences between the regular 8800GT Nvidia graphics card and the one issued as 800GT for MAC PRO ? Thanks for your assistance.

I think I have been told what causes this problem already, but I just need clarity and one of you experts will clear this up in no time. Every time I turn on my laptop PC, in the "Start Menu", it seems that all of the Icons have changed positions or some new icons have taken the place of previous Icons that were there the previous time I used the laptop. It seems like whatever program or...

I have a home built PC running Vista Ultimate - recently encountered issue where 1TB SATA HDD (used for backups and data storage - not primary drive) is no longer recognised by the PC. The HDD itself seems to be working - if I remove it and connect to another box it seems OK. All the cabling and connectors also seem OK. I've tried to reinstall by deleting and reinstalling drivers etc -...

I have a customer that upgraded from XP Home to Vista Home Premium. He did not uninstall the intellitype 2.2 or Intellipoint 4.1 software first. Now when I try to uninstall either using add remove programs I get the error "This version of IntelliPoint (or IntelliType) software preceded the release of the operating system you are running....." and the uninstall fails. I have followed all...

I just bought the HP photosmart C5280 All in one printer and it works great except for printing documents using the software that came with the printer. I don't think the software is defective because I installed it on my XP computer so see what would happen and it works fine but when I try and scan a document on my Vista computer, I get a Windows error message saying hpqsnvw has stopped...

Hi, Anyone any experience of getting Vista to recognise a Buffalo DriveStation Combo? Vista won't recognise mine whether I connect it via the USB or the FireWire cable. The drive is supposed to be Plug-and-Play under Vista - no such luck!!! I haven't had any problems with any other devices ... plug-and-play has always worked before. I'm about ready to give up and return the drive to the...

After nearly giving up, this forum recommended a driver that Dell no longer supports (according to their site they no longer have any vista driver for this printer) but I finally located it, downloaded it, unzipped it and installed it, having nothing to lose. I have two of these printers :) and was ready to throw them away. Was I surprised. It now works perfectly. The driver is R148368,exe,...

Recently my hard drive took a surge and stopped booting, even though I could still get to the files. I reloaded Vista onto a new SATA drive, imported the files from the old drive, and all was well. Except, Vista now only uses one core on my dual core cpu. I have looked at this with two cpu monitors, and they both show zero usage on core 2 and core 1 often staying at 100% for an alarming amount of...

Does anyone use a wireless headset? I want a full headphone type over both ears capable of pumping through both voice and game sounds from 2 different applications at the same time. Wireless is a must as I am sick of getting the wires in the way, clear sound is crucial also. Any recommendations, anyone use a wireless set, I have having a very hard time trying to find one that will do the...

Hi Guys I am having some problem with my laptop. Currently i installed my lappy from vista home basic x32 to home premium x64. However because of the bit difference, i have to search for the drivers. All seems fine except for this "mass storage controller" which i can't find the drivers online and i have no idea what it is. Can some kind soul please help?

I trying to change my 80G HD WITH A 500 G HD. I made a complete backup of my computer (5 DVDs). The new HD was unable to boot up with the backup DVDs. How does one replace a HD in vista business? Thanks -- edward7458

I looked at some of the other posts and didn't find any solution for my current problem, so here it is: My XP computer has recently decided to give up (i think the motherboard is bad), so I bought a new HP desktop that comes with Vista. I pulled out my old XP hard drive (which is partitioned into 2 virtual drives) and want to use it as an external disk. I used an external usb enclosure and pulled...