I have recently bought a new laptop with vista premium on it. I also have my dads old pda, running pocket pc 2002- which i use for my course studies. problem is, these machines are notorious for having volatile memory, and if power is lost, so are my installed programmes- such as adobe reader and pocket slides- both vital. at home during the holidays this isnt a problem, i have access to...

I have a Microsoft Intellimouse and sometiimes the scrollwheel stops working. Rebooting will fix it for awhile, then it happens again. I'm using Vista Ultimate. Thank you. JerryK

This video card is on the hardware compat list, but Vista (RTM) is not detecting my graphics memory. As a result, my computer gets rated as a 1. Has anyone encountered this problem and know how to fix it. Thanks,

Using Vista Home Premium 64-bit, after numerous attempts at installing a USB to serial converter based on the FDTI 232R chip I have the converter working but also have numerous extra com ports (1,2,3,4,5,8,9,10,11,12,14,and 15) that I cannot remove. From Control Panel Printers Right-click anywhere Click on Ports Tab these com ports are visible but when selecting a port and clicking the...

New PC. Vista Ultimate SP2 MS Entertainment Wireless 8000 kbd and mouse. When ever I plug or unplug a thumb drive or other USB device (SD with adapter), the keyboard and mouse locks up for several seconds to several minutes. Totally locks up until the thumb drive is accepted by Vista. The kbd mouse interface is plugged directly into the motherboard rear connector. The thumb drive is plugged...

I am attempting to set up a dual boot on my PC running Vista Ultimate X64. I want to load XP on a second hard drive but during windows XP setup I get a stop message informing me "a problem has been detected and windows is shutting down...etc. with the following tech info: stop: 0x0000007b (0xf78D2524, 0x00000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) Vista recognizes the new drive but I can't set up XP on it....

Hallo, I have NB HP 6730s with vista ultimate, but the LAN doesn´t function. I have installed original driver which I downloaded from 'HP United States - Computers, Laptops, Servers, Printers and more' (http://hp.com), but it doesn´t function. It reports an error: "This device cannot start. (Code 10)". Could you please help me? Although I reinstall Windows, there was the same problem. In...

HP Paviliion desktop, after system recovery get error message that new hardware found : 802.11g Network adapter Have reinstalled several times but driver wont load. How can I fix this.. I need the internet on desktop/ How can Ifind out the manufacturer of wireless card :eek: -- annehuffman

As many of you who use Seagate External Hard Drives might know, the Seagate tools that come on the External HDD do not work with 64-bit operating systems at all. Which personally, makes me upset. Pretty much anyone who is really going to use 1-1.5TB HDD space is going to know what they are doing when it comes to computer, in the current day and age with the amount of ram swelling to over what...

When i leave a USB flash drive in & boot the PC i get a message to remove disk. When i remove the Flash Drive the PC boots up. I want to leave the flash Drive in all the time. I tried to change the boot sequence. My Options a Boot Menu:

need 64 bit driver for agere hda modem

I just installed a TV tuner on my Vista box, and I get a very high-pitched ringing (barely audible, but annoying) every time that it's turned on. Is there any way that I could use Windows to filter out this upper frequency? Thanks! - Henson

Will the drivers for printers listed in add hardware, work for the printers listed? For example, If I buy a Canon MP160 printer thats in that list, shouldn't it work without a problem? I really want a 3 in one that will work with Vista, without spending a thousand dollars.

Vista no longer recognizes CD/DVD RW drive; is listed in Hardware and in BIOS but driver corrupt or missing. Have run Repair on Vista, Sys Restore, retried driver installation, removed recent software... still get error Code 39. Microsoft has no solution, by default error reporting and search for solution.

i need help on a huge problem here. I recently got a geforce 9600 gt verto PNY And when i installed it i did this Went into the hardware uninstalled my on board graphics drivers. Shut down my computer then loaded the new card in. Put the installation disk in downloaded the drivers FROM the disk and it required a restart. This is where the fun begins Now i cannot boot my computer at all it gives...

i have a new laptop, windows vista, but has only one hard drive c 250 G, I want this one to be three c, d and e. Is there any possible and the most suitable method to do that without hurting the laptop.

To Any Good Hardware and/or Software Samaritan, I have very strange problem that started about 3 months ago. It started out of the blue for some reason that I cannot figure. I cannot now write to my pair of DVD/CD drives (Plextor Model PX-755SA). They are recognized by the system and can read any DVD/CD that is place in them. However, with that said, every time I stick a fresh disk...

according the problem solving queries i had a problem of X64_0xD1_athrx+58a71 , type 0 - as the BLUE SCREEN Fault bucket name but on ur site http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?query=X64_0xD1_athrx%2B58a71&dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices&cat=en_US_9CA88DDB-D18D-FA0E-A366-6E527B0FBA67&lang=en&cr=US&pt=&catlist=&dglist=&ptlist=&exp=&sloc=en-us the...

I have a Seagate 1TB SATAII hard drive that I put in an external enclosure. The enclosure allows for USB and eSATA connections. When I use the USB connector it works fine. When I connect it to the eSATA port of my card reader using an eSATA cable Windows Vista does not recognize the drive as being there. I already have 3 other Seagate internal drives running fine. Am I missing a driver or is...

Ok I found the problem with usb ext drives (Hard drive, flash, etc). For some reason the usbstor.inf and usbstor.sys were missing for some unknown reason. Was keeping me from loading any ext drive including flash drives. I found the files in C:\Windows\System32\FileRepository\usbstor.inf_some hex junk folder. Just copy the usbstor.inf to C:\Windows\inf and usbstor.sys to...