First off, it's a SONY VAIO VGN-FZ180E and I'm running Vista 32-bit. In the last couple of months, I've started encountering an error - the screen goes blank upon recovery from Sleep Mode. Don't remember exactly when it started, and couldn't use System Recovery to roll back that far anyway. The only workaround I've found is either restarting or closing/re-opening the lid. The "Turn off...

Hi does anybody use a digital photo frame as second display on Vista ? I wonder what kind of frame it is and how slideshow works on it. Piotr -- mysiar

Windows Vista Home Basic 5 port USB 2.0 Compaq Presario F500 Laptop Have recently purchased a 4 port usb and I have noticed that It works for a while then stops working, it seems to disconect or enter a power save state and I have to disconect it to start it again. Have tested other devices on the port and they work. As far as I can tell I have power going through the device but they seem to...

The 'pen taps' are when you use a graphics tablet (wacom bamboo), and for example you hold the pen down, and the cursor pauses for a moment to animate a circle so that it can open up a menu. This gets in the way of my drawing, since every stroke is paused in this way which can be very disruptive and frustrating. I have searched on how to disable it, and it seems quite easy in the regular...

hey guys, i had a WUSB54GC wireless network adapter for my xp system and i just got a new windows vista 64bit system and that network adapter is not supported. In the last thread i had someone suggested this one that should work with a 64bit. 'http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16833129160' (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16833129160) Can...

Hello, I have had this problem on and off. I had blue screens when I first put Vista on the machine, then they subsided after all the updates were installed. That was over 7 months ago. In the past few weeks, I have started having trouble again, and everything seems to be pointing to an issue between Vista and my X-Fi Music Sound card. Basically, the problem is upon returning from sleep...

Just got a nice wireless keyboard and mouse. Problem is, when the machine is rebooted, these devices dont work anymore. I have to unplug the USB cable of the remote sensing unit, and plug it back in to get the devices to work. Needless to say, this is a pain. This is a Micro Innovations wireless keyboard and mouse, and Im using the latest Vista drivers (according to them).

I have replaced my old USB-to-Serial cable that died with a new one, but now I can't reset the COM ports for the new device because the registry/driver settings for the old one are maintaining their "reservations". I can't get the old one to be recognized (which is why it needed to be replaced) so I can remap the old reservations out of the way, and I can't delete the entries in the...

I downloaded the Agere system pci modem driver in Windows and never had a problem with driver but this month the agere system pci modem driver keep disappearing and it's gone. I remove the driver and can't get the driver using Windows Update. How do i download the driver again in Windows Update?

Hello, I am having a really frustraing time installing a RacketRaid 2302 RAID card in Vista Ultimate 64 bit. The new 64 bit drivers install perfectly well and runn fine. I want to update the RR card bios from v2.2 to the new version 2.3 as the boot up time is supposed to be much shorted among other improvements. There are of course two options; 1) use the highpoint provided hptflash.exe file...

I am using a Vista Ultimate system on a Dell XPS 420 computer with a Terabyte hard drive. I keep getting this message flag from my Taskbar --- " Low Disk Space. You are running out of disk space on RECOVERY (D:). To free space on this drive by deleting old or unneccesary files click here." I click on user files but there's no space available to delete. The user files shown (Office setup files...

I have upgraded to a wireless N router with rangeboost, Picked up a matching rangboosted PCI card for my PC. The problem is that the N is dropping out and has signal strength of fair to low it is connecting at 300 mbp's but is very unstable. I went back to my wireless G USB adapter and I get good to excellent signal strength and it does not drop off. All other G devices & computers work...

my speakers are plugged in, but they have no power? i have no idea how to fix that.... -- cmcmr

I am using my DVD writer from last 2 years. I am facing this problem that my DVD Writer can write all DVD formated CD's but cannot read any DVD formated CD. Even the CD which is been Write by the same DVD Writer.

Every time I put a new CD or DVD in one of my two drives Vista starts indexing them. It is soooo bl88dy annoying and takes up too much time when you are constantly changing CDs. Does anyone know how you can turn it off for DVD drives at all? Can't find anything in properties Cheers ArtySin

I have a Vista laptop with a NVIDIA Graphics card. when i try to set up a dual moniter, it doesnt let me have seperate displays, rather only lets me clone the laptop display onto the other screen. Can anyone help me?

A friend with a vista PC was having problems connecting wirelessly to a router. It had been working OK for months then she decided to download the MS Office 2007 trial. Since then her wireless connection stopped working (though I have no idea why this happened at this time). Their other computer was also having a really slow ethernet connection so I had them buy a new cisco wireles router...

Where can I find a list of video cards that not only supports vista, but will support windows 7 as well?

I previously was using an Optical Desktop Pro and experienced the same problems I'm having now with a new Laser Desktop 6000 and that is that the mouse becomes slow and unresponsive require several forceful taps to get it to work and some keystrokes have to be repeated. I'm using Vista Home Premium and my pc is only a few months old. Since I was having the same problem with the other set, it...

In the last couple of months, I've started encountering an error - the laptop LCD screen is blank upon recovery from Sleep Mode or upon boot. After rebooting or closing/reopening the lid (or sometimes just waiting a few minutes does the trick), it starts working and after that works consistently, it's just the initial "warm up" period from off or sleep state. Any ideas on how to fix it or...