I have a Realtek AC97 soundcard. I have the official XP drivers from Sony
which install when ran under XP SP2 compatibility mode. Once installed, the
sound works with no issue at all, however when I restart I have to reinstall
the driver again to get sound to work again.

I know Vista is beta and all that, but was wondering what you guys think one
of the major things Microsoft needs to work on before final version. I have
cable but still not as fast as should be. Pages seem to cover other pages
up, especially downloading. Will be on screen ...

When I open windows explorer on any of the local or network drives My cpu
usage spikes to 100% and will not go back down until I minimumize or close
window explorer. My Daughters Computer is a about 2/3 the computer of mine
when it comes to CPU Memory and video card. This proble ...

I have an Ati X800XL card in my system and everytime I go to install the RC1
drivers from Ati my display goes unreadable. Once I restore back to vista
driver it works fine. Anyone else with the problem or with a suggestion. Thx

I installed PreRC1, hoping the realtek audio drivers would support sound AND
mike, but that was not to be.  MS built-in driver got ok (not great) sound
but the mike would not work at all and the beta drivers on realtek's site
were no better, in addition to giving a warning that ...

i emailed Shuttle today, the manufacturers of my small form factor PC,
asking what their intention is regarding the provision of Vista drivers for
their PCs.  I just got RC1 running now, but i was fairly apalled by the
attitude from their customer service.  have a read of their ...

Yesterday I installed the Pre- RC 1 on my computer, and after the
instalation, the 'Aero Glass' was enabled. But when I got to my Performance
Rating (wich was 2.3) and clicked 'Update my Rating', the Aero-feature
disabled, and my rating didn't change at all? What happened? Can ...

I have a Dell 6400/E1505 laptop with 1.86GHZ core duo processor and when I
unplug the power cord it BSOD's and turns off. I can then turn it on on
battery, and it runs fine on battery, plug it in and its fine, unplug it
again and I get the same BSOD!

Does anyone know if AVG virus scanner is compatable with vista, build 5536.
Thanks

Anyone get a dell notebook using the 1350 wlan mini-pci card working? Seems
to be based off a broadcom chip.
Vista picks the card up as a broadcom, and it will let you connect to the
local network and browse it. It shows connected to the internet but won't

Folks:
I would like to build/assemble my own DVD Duplicator. Looking to build a
system (10 separate DVD drives) that integrates well within a computer
network.  I want to buy the: case, copy controller, DVD drives, etc and just

I have a Dell B130 Inspiron Laptop. the laptop screen works fine when on
charger. When I go to battery power the screen becomes washed out, colors are
not correct and hardly readable. This is a new problem. I have the laptop set
for automatic update. Has anybody else experienced ...

Here's an odd one. I've downloaded the latest RC1 nforce drivers and tried
installing both 32 and 64 bit versions of Vista RC1 (clean install) but they
show the same problem on my 4*250GB SATA RAID0 array. Motherboard is a DFI
SLI-D.

I have connected my Sony digital camera (DSC-W100) to Windows Vista, and
Windows Vista does not have any drivers for it.
When I connected it to XP it did not require any drivers. My Old Sony Video
Camera connect using USB still works DCR-TRV33.

Well, I installed the lastest Vista drivers, which install fine with the
Pre-RC1 build 5536. My personal results below:
- Window dragging laggyness I experienced before with the default drivers,
has been improved.