posted a question re cd drives which stopped working, and received an e-mail that someone replied to my question. I cannot find my question nor the answer to it. Please help me find my question and reply. Thanks. -- lady

For some annoying reason, the Blu-Ray disk drive in my stock HP dv9847ca Notebook (1 month old, so still within warranty) seems to have an odd habit of sporadically disappearing on me - it won't show up in explorer, nor device manager. It does, however, show up in BIOS. The problem I have is that the drive itself seems to have power/etc, and when it -is- showing, it works fine, and only ever...

After installing two 300gb velociraptors the system hangs in a strange way.The mouse can move around ,I can use the start menu ,but the apps I run never run.I have to reboot.It is too often ,any suggestions ? Configuration windows home premium 32bit Asus p5premium mb Intel 9300 quad and 4gb 1600mhz ddr3. Thanks

I'm using Vista Business Service Pack 1 upgrade, and certain games or software on cd do not get detected on my laptop. SONY Vaio SZ430W Dual Core2 t7200 2.00gHz 2gRam 32bit OS NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 Mat****a DVD-RAM UJ-842S ATA. I can run games like Oblivion or Morrowind with no problems, but can't load Fable (or a couple other disks - but Fable is my need now). I can watch DVDs too.

I've been using vista for about a year and never had any problems. But now all of a sudden my SATA HD spins down and shuts off, forcing a re-boot to bring it back. HD passes all the SMART testing and is not overheating. Now for the weird stuff: I moved the HD to another port.....it works with no problems. I installed an additional disk to the port that was causing the

It appears that I do have the older Intel chipset drivers despite my installing the news ones because we have to do a manual upgrade: "In order to install an updated version of the utility, you will need to use the have-disk installation method. Otherwise, you can use the setup program to install the utility" 'Intel® Chipset Software Installation Utility - Have-disk...

I removed the CCC and it is filially gone 100%. I held off one my #1 system because I wanted Avio, -- chuckbam *q6600 slacr quad cpu at 3.36 ghz/ fsb 1680 mhz ~ asus p5b deluxe ~ mushkin em2-6400, 8gb at 840 mhz, 5-5-5-15 ~ maxline pro 500, raid 0, 931gb ~ hd 3850 512mb/ hd 2600 pro 512mb ~ dual tv tuners: ati 650 pro/

I initially didn't install CCC. But, when I started getting BSODs, as a test I did install it to see if it would resolve the BSODs. Unfortunately for my computer, having CCC installed or not installed doesn't affect the BSODs. -- mehuh

I would not think having the drivers loaded only would cause BSOD. I would look in the event viewer. JMHO -- chuckbam *q6600 slacr quad cpu at 3.36 ghz/ fsb 1680 mhz ~ asus p5b deluxe ~ mushkin em2-6400, 8gb at 840 mhz, 5-5-5-15 ~ maxline pro 500, raid 0, 931gb ~ hd 3850 512mb/ hd 2600 pro 512mb ~ dual tv tuners: ati 650 pro/

I wasn't able to locate anything in the event viewer that would explain this around the times the BSODs occur. I also analyzed the crash dump and it keeps pointing to atikmdag.sys (one of my crash dump bugcheck analysis is at http://www.vistax64.com/vista-hardware-devices/3707-atikmdag-sys-post765915.html#post765915 in case you want to see it). Also, the BSOD does not consistently occur during...

Mehue, One last thing, try to clean up ad fully un-install the CCC installer before updating. good luck -- chuckbam *q6600 slacr quad cpu at 3.36 ghz/ fsb 1680 mhz ~ asus p5b deluxe ~

What do you mean by fully clean up? I always uninstall, reboot and then install the new ATI driver-only package. Do you do something else after uninstalling the ATI software? -- mehuh

Hi I am getting loads of errors saying "Not enough storage is avalable to compleate this operation." My sound is not working and loads of things (services mainly) are not working. I have 2 GB of ram and 20 GB of space on my hard drive. Thanks for your help in advance -- jammmie999

Hi Everyone, I've read the whole forum and tried to followed the instructions given especially that from Mr John MVP about the network card on My device manager not being recognise... When i go to device manager to check for the network card i dont see anything that says about a network card not being recognise, although I see a notice anout one unknown device whose driver is not installed, I...

I got a second HDD yesterday due to my old one running low on space. Both are hooked up via SATA, both Seagates, old one is 320GB and new one is 500GB. When I installed it, I was able to format and assign it a drive letter and copy files to it. When I turned the computer off and on, it was gone. My BIOS can read it, the device manager can see it, the Disk Management can see it, but every time I...

could sombody please help me with this. It affects my dvd drive. Doesn't work (tried 2) I have downloaded Nero update, does this have anything to do with it. I can't get Nero running due to serial number confusion. I am a newbie on Vista Ultimate 32bit. Splinter -- Retnilps

I am experiencing an issue when i schedule a task that has the "Wake the computer to run this task" option checked. The computer wakes up as expected and the task runs but the monitor wakes up too showing only a black screen with the mouse pointer on it, and i don't want the monitor to wake up. My notebook has an Ati graphic card (X1600) that is connected to motherboard through pci express...

The LCD monitor LG L1900 series has no buttons to tune it up, so one should use their software (Forte 2.80, vista compatible). Since in my case it is not compatible, in fact it crashes every time upon restart after installation, I know "microsoft" is investigating the problem (reported by sending dumps). However, is anyone of you aware of a workaround for this issue? I don't care about LG...

I have a hard drive that was removed from a computer that I had a year ago. The drive was the primary drive in that computer and has XP operating system on it. I want to get some of the personal files and data that are on that drive and installed it in an external USB h/d enclosure. Upon plugging it in the computer found the USB device but then gave an error message stating that there was a...

The Nokia N80 phone has worked successfully with a Bluetooth connection for most of the time since I started using the Windows Vista computer 9 months ago. The phone is still working but a few days ago I started getting the following message whenever I restarted the computer (Dell laptop Inspiron 1720). "Found New Hardware Windows needs to install driver software for your Bluetooth...