hi everyone, how we all doing? better than myself i hope :( I am running an HP Compaq Presario V6000 Notebook with a Windows Vista Home edition i belive When i try to turn my computer on i am getting teh A disk read error has occurred; press Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart error.

On 32-bit Vista ultimate, I have an audio problem--and I'm not sure if it's hardware related or driver-related. With a Dell Latitude D820 laptop (Intel 945P chipset), I get an extremely loud beep (and volume or mute has no effect on it), every time I move from one item to another item but only on a few specific types of lists: for example, the list of drives under: Programs, Administrative...

I have a problem here that i have not been able to find an answer to but, in short, my computer can no longer find my CD/DVD drive, or as it once was, D drive. When i insert a CD/DVD and try to play it nothing happens. I have tried to set the comp to boot to the CD/DVD drive under boot options but, still nothing. I ran the Toshiba assistance application which checks all the main hardware for...

HI I'm getting an error using a Kingston DataTraveler usb key using a Dell 9150 820D processor 1 gig ram complete with floppy , a combo dvd drive and a memory reader 9in1. I'm running vista RTM 32bit .The usb key needs 2 drive letter, 1 for software and 1 for data. When i first connected the key i got the message saying that the drive letter L:/ was assign but it couldn't assign the next...

HP Pavillion dv9500 notebook running Vista Home Premium. I installed a 2nd SATA hard drive in bay 2 og the notebook and now my DVD RAM drive has disappeared from Explorer, Drive Management, and Device Manager. I swapped out the DVD drive with a new one to rule out hardware failure, but the problem persists. Does anyone have a clue as to why this has happened? Any advice would be GREATLY...

Just installed a Seagate 250 GB SATA hard drive in bay 2 of my HP Compac dv9000 series laptop. However, no matter what I do, VIsta Home Premium will not recognize the 2nd drive. It does NOT show up in Disk Manager in the Computer Management console or in Explorer. If I go into Setup the BIOS says that the drive is there. However it does'nt exist in Windows Vista. Does anyone have a clue as to why...

Been having problems with my video card and Vista. I have an ATI radeon X1950 Pro 512 MB ram AGP 8x video card. When I run the performance index, I have been getting a 1 for graphics and Aero. Seems like it doesnt even test the card. Well, I finally noticed that in the device manager, if I right click on the vid card and go to properties, it says my video card is on a PCI bus. Anyone...

Dont know if anyone else has discovered it but I was getting an Aero rating and gaming graphic rating of 1 with an AGP 8x 512mb X1950 pro. Not that its a whole lot but I installed the last XP driver for the card and ran setup in XP sp2 compatability mode and am now getting a 1.9 for Aero. Again, thats not much but it tells me ATIs drivers are not working right. I tried every Vista release...

Its a no go on this barebones box, I managed to get all but the lan working ..... now a wait n see thing The box uses a ATI RS3000 chipset and has intergrated LAN by 3COM.

For those that don't know about it bring up properties for a drive change to the Hardware tab select a drive and press properties button change to the volumes tab press the populate button on 64bit vista the window closes on 32bit the tab goes back to the fist one

A BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH (ALSO KNOWN AS A STOP ERROR, BSOD OR BLUE SCREEN) IS AN ERROR SCREEN DISPLAYED BY CERTAIN OPERATING SYSTEMS, MOST NOTABLY MICROSOFT WINDOWS *Issue: Notebook may show blue screen and restart. Or Notebook may not restart but it shows blues screen quite often.* HERE IS THE WEBLINK WHICH HAS INSTRUCTIONS TO RESOLVE THE BLUE SCRREN ERRORS ISSUES 'notebooktechnician -...

We come across this situation when we try to shut down the notebook even after clicking the shutdown button in windows Vista environment. Vista is one of the highly secured operating System. It has several restrictions to send or receive the Information from the Computer. Here is the weblink which help you to resolve this issue. 'notebooktechnician - Notebook is not shutting down--vista...

i totally wiped out my hard drive INCLUDING THE OPERATING SYSTEM!!! do the discs have the necessary tools and programs to get EVERYTHING back?!?!?!?!? HOW????????? PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE HELP ME!

After unsuccessfully trying to install Windows Mobile Device Center, and it did not find my AT&T 8525 pda...I now have 2 Unknown Devices showing up in my Device Manager, along with pop-ups looking to install drivers, which are never found. How can I remove these Unknown Devices and related pop-up messages? Thank you, Marc

I can Not Get My Wireless Mic model 1380 For the Game lips for 360 To work on my pc my controller works fine but the mic keeps comming up as a Wireless Headset anyone have any ideas thanks... -- Techman20

My set-up currently has 2 SATA drives that are striped (one logical image) and one PATA drive in Vista 32 Home Premium. When I delete a file in the PATA drive, the recycle bin Icon changes to the proper bloated image. When I delete a file in the Striped SATA drives, the recycle bin Icon DOES NOT CHANGE to the proper bloated image. If you open the Bin for both occurances, you will see the...

Any 1300 users out there with some tips?

If your CPU is AMD then it is 32 and 64...... "JamesJ" wrote: How does one determine if the processor is 32 or 64 bit. Thank, James

Happy to report back on my own post...THIS IS FIXED! Build 5536 fixes this issue. Now, USB drives, and I assume any removeable media, finds the next "available" drive letter, avoiding mapped drives. Thank you Microsoft for fixing this headache! "TechDesign" wrote: In Windows XP, I always had problems with clients who wanted to use USB

"deeppurple1998" wrote: My Medion TV-Tunercard ( Medion TV-Tuner 7134 MK2/3 + Medion (7134) WDM Video Capture ) doesn't work with Media Center. Thanks in advance for a solution ! deeppurple1998