My video card is acting strange, can anyone tell me what to do? For some reason when I game my screen blanks to black. It can only be fixed by opening and closing the task manager, and even then it blanks again after only a few minutes. When I quit the game, it says my video card has encountered an error, but recovered. Outside of games, there are green dots all over my screen that move...

At some point unknown to me, possibly after a BIOS flash, I ended up losing my network device object in Device Manager and in its place I now have a "Network Device #2". The whole #2 designation alone was enough to drive me nuts, but now the original Network Connection icon of "BellSouth.net" (my ISP) is also gone and in its place is "Local Area Network 3". When I try to rename LAN3 back to...

Hello. I recently purchased Windows Vista, and have had an error with my microphone. I have my microhone setup through a push-to-talk button, as if I was to program a key on my keybored and my microphone would turn of for all to hear. Programs that Vista recconize's, or are commonly used like Internet Explorer, MSN, TeamSpeak, my microphone will work. But, programs like Xfire, Call of Duty,...

Hello Everyone, I have been using Vista RC1 on a ThinkPad R52 (Model 1858-6MM) and when resuming from hibernation I sometimes get a bugcheck 0x000000d1 (0x00000080, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xbaed0b6c) Anyone else experiencing this? I have the post RC1 but can't be bothered to upgrade to this, as it takes around 6 hours to get all my apps reinstalled. Does anyone know if the version of...

Hello Everyone, I have been using Vista RC1 on a ThinkPad R52 (Model 1858-6MM) and when resuming from hibernation I sometimes get a bugcheck 0x000000d1 (0x00000080, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xbaed0b6c) Anyone else experiencing this? I have the post RC1 but can't be bothered to upgrade to this, as it takes around 6 hours to get all my apps reinstalled. Does anyone know if the version of...

I initialized the HDD I was using for my PS3 with Disc Management so that Windows can read it when I right away realized that it wasn't such a great idea. Is there any way whatsoever that I can undo that so the PS3 can read it again? -- Typhoon859

Vista stopped recognizing my installed USB devices yesterday. System restore, Last Known Good Config and reinstalling the device drivers have not corrected the problem. Also did a registry clean and repair. Tried renaming INFCACHE.1 to INFCACHE.1.bak Tried the hotfix mentioned in a similar post. Ran a registry scan and repair. Devices include memory stick, webcam, printer, wireless KB and...

ok this is really complicated but here goes. I have 2 systems an xp sp1 with an elite board and a vista x64 with an evge 750i now i got this sea gate barracuda 500gb to use as another drive in the vista machine and it worked fine for awhile then it started not being recognized after shutting down so i would have to unplug it and plug it back in and restart sometime a few times before the vista...

Hi. I have a Dell Inspiron 9100 which was until recently quite happily running Vista. I recently installed MagicDisc which is a freeware app that can be installed with magicIso. MagicDisc is a virtual drive emulation app. On the download site it said it was Vista compatible but when you install, Vista pops up with a known compatibility issues error. Anyway I went ahead. Now none of my USB...

I keep getting this message and have no idea how to fix it: Wireless networking problem You received this message because hardware or software in your computer caused Windows to shut down unexpectedly and restart. This is a serious problem, commonly referred to as a stop error or blue screen. Although the specific cause of this problem is not known, it appears to be related to wireless...

Hello, Ever since roughly 2 weeks after I bought my Gateway FX laptop, I've been getting several different FRUSTRATING display issues. I'm running Vista Home Premium 64bit, I have a 9800M GTS, 4GB of DDR3, and a 2.26GHZ DuoCore. Where to begin, lets see... I constantly get the BSOD blaming nvlddmkm.sys, my computer constantly freezes up on games, we're talking full-blown freeze, not just a CTD, I...

Windows recently did an update, for the Defender definitions. Prior to that my system was running fine. After that update, the dvd-rom will not read dvd's, audio cd's, games etc. In control panel, it says the device driver is missing or corrupted. When I go to the device in device manager and try to update the device, it says it is using the best driver already. I tried removing the...

John of course that the problem is Vista, I do not know if you are using IpOD, Sony digital cameras, Blackberry phones or simple kingston usb, everyone at my company and may people that I know have the same trouble. How is possible that with windows xp everythiing is working fine but within vista everything fails... "John Boy" wrote: Mithun wrote: Hey, I justed installed my copy of...

I put a memory stick in my computer and it worked. I did a safe remove on the memory stick, yet now everytime I reboot I get four drives appearing. I do a safe remove again and they go away. This happens everytime I restart and it is getting annoying. I would appreciate ideas. -- regards, Mark

I have a 3380 connected to an XP computer using the PCL6 driver. When I try to connect to it using Vista I get an error saying the monitor is not supported. I loaded the printer drivers in Vista using the lpt1: just to see what is available and I find that only the PCL5 driver is available with Vista. Does anyone have any ideas about what to do to get my printer connected? -- regards, Mark

Afert installind i tryed to access bios but i cant, in system startup i press F2, message is showed that going to bios but windows starts, witout goint to bios. How to i can go to bios????

Hi, Does anyone know if there is a driver for Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller that will work on Vista, I went to intel.ca and downloaded the newest version on the driver but it doesnt work on vista.

I recently installed SP1 for vista home basic 32 bit. I find that when I burn CD on my laptop with Pioneer DVD-RW, the burn processs completes but the CD's appear blank. I tried with Live system and Mastered but same result. I cannot play /open the CD's burned on my Laptop. Appreciate help in resolving this issue. -- Uday

I find that every time I reconnect my HP L7580 All in One thru USB cable, the drivers get reinstalled. This typically takes about 15 minutes. I can see the icon in task bar showing all the drivers being installed. HP help line is on help as they say this problem is with Windowns Vista. I use Win Vista Home Basic 32 bit. Appreciate any help -- Regards Uday

i have a creative sound blaster 5.1...i removed d windows xp that i earlier had n installed a fresh copy of windows vista......d drivers that i gt in d CD with the sound card worked very well with xp....i tried 2 install d drivers from d cd that i got.....d setup said that d drivers are not made for this version of windows...but i tried to install d drivers using the compatibility wizard...