Please tell me; what is the true minimum RAM requirement for Vista Ultimate
and installed programs to really run properly without the need for Readyboost
or crutches?
I see Notebooks being advertised with Vista and a mere 512MB of RAM and XP

IBM Rapid Access 2 keyboard quick access buttons no longer work (worked
under XP)
Mini Digital Camera (My DSC) Dual-Mode 2770 shows no picture (also worked
under XP)

I just bought a new laptop with the Vista Business Edition and stupidly
followed MS's marketing and uprgaded to Ultimate, but now the sound doest
work (audio out or mike in). The device manager shows that the SigmaTel audio
driver is working properly and the taskbar shows the ...

Hello People,
I have a New Toshiba Notebook A135 with Vista Premium (English, USA),
installed.
It came with a 120GB HDD.

i think my windows might have crashed or something it was about a year ago i
had a virus and it killed my firewall windows media player i cant log onto
windows messnger or ne windows things i tried to do a system restore to find
out that was gone i dont have it ne more.

I've seen other posts about missing CD rom drives, but I think my problem may
be different?
I have Windows Vista basic, on an eMachines PC. I have a DVD rom drive AND a
CD rom drove, both recording drives. Often when I go to access the CDrom

Silicon Image - Other Hardware - ATI 4379 Serial ATA Controller
Installation date: ‎3/‎31/‎2007 1:47 AM
Installation status: Failed
Error details: Code 80070103

I recently purchased a new computer w/ Vista Small Business. It has a Mitsumi
3.5" floppy drive (IDE) and Vista wont recognize it at startup. I can force
to see it if I plug in a Teac USB 3.5" drive and restart Vista. In system it
shows the controller and Microsoft driver: 6.0 ...

while installing windows vusta home premium, it recognized my 2 hard drives.
But after the installion, I could not find my second hard drive.
So how I could find it back.
Thanks,

I recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 6400 with windows vista already
installed.  ever since the very first time i tried to turn it on the power
button refuses to work correctly.  when the computer is turned off completely
and i attempt to turn it on by pressing the power button, ...

I have an issue. I have samsung q30 laptop with SD card. Vista
installed just fine and everything works, but I wanted to have my 2Gb
SD car to have ReadyBoost, so I got it into my slot, it installed
itself, and the computer sees the card and can read/write but I do not

Just a few notes before I launch into my problem:
I am running Windows Vista Home Edition
My laptop is a Compaq Presario V6000
I am using the WLAN Broadcom 802.11b/g card

Does anyone know where I can find the Beta driver for the Vista Beta, that
would run the Intel 910/915 Chipset?
There was one but now its gone. Intel is saying that graphics card can not
run the WDDM needed to run Aero desktop, which is a bunch of crap because it

I installed a USB driver for a Sony memory stick drive (MSAC-US1).  Vista
initially couldn't install it and suggested installing it under recommended
settings.  That seemed to work, but the is not recognized, and basically the
hardware installation failed.