I just bought a new HPPavillion Vista Media Center computer which should have
2048 mb ddr2 ram and a 400 gb hard drive. When I look in the system
properties it shows 1918 mb ram and  when I open the computer file it shows
1.87 gb memory. Shouldn't these be the same? And the other ...

Ever since I installed Vista on a new computer I built, it keeps crashing
giving me the BSOD and a memory dump.  It will happen anytime, online or off
while doing anything.  Very unstable and annoying and am considering going
back to XP!  Any suggestions ?

Just recently, something with the DVD/RW drive on my Toshiba Satellite A100
laptop has suddenly stopped working. The drive itself is fine it still loads
and acknowledges the discs but doesn't get any farther than that. So I opened
open device manager and sure enough the drive was ...

I bought a new laptop from bestbuy the other day. Everything is running well
except for the system clock.  System time will be running slow, 10 sec in
every 15 min. So the system clock kept on drifting off . The accumulation in
a day will be around 10-20 min. OMG!

I had this problem about a week ago, it went away by itself, and now it's
back again.
Vista stopped recognizing my SATA II HDD for no reason. What am I supposed
to do to get it working again?

Hi I got the vista on my PC, I need Silicon Image sill 0680 ultra-133
medley ata raid controller [driver] for Vista please
carlo

I have a Dell Dimension C521 with the most recent bios and certified windows
vista drivers.  I have a clean install of Windows Vista Ultimate.  I have a 8
- in - 1 memory card reader (SD, MMC, xD, CF, etc) and two front facing USB
ports.  Whenever I insert an SD card or Memorex ...

I just bought a acer aspire 380 with vista premium installed on it.  I bought
a western digital 250 hard drive sata to up my hd space. I used computer
management to partition but could only format the hard drive as a quick
format, in full format it would stop at about 9%.  When I ...

I have the 32 bit version of Vista Ultimate.  
When I try to install the Microsoft Common Controller app
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details ...

I am running dual monitors, and having a problem w/ the arrangment of the
monitors.  In Display Settings, I arrange Monitor 1 above Monitor 2.  The
settings take effect w/o any problems.  However, if I lock the computer and
then unlock it the settings go back to the default ...

I put together a PC with no floppy (A:) but Vista seems to believe that I
have one installed.  I have disabled it in the BIOS but it still keeps
showing a A: drive.  Any one run into this before?

i recently posted my problem in a thread called "USB Flash drives not
recognized" here which related to my USB flash drive not being recognized and
i had to look for drivers manually!
Today i tried to make a new partition (Using Acronis Disk Director), and

Anyone have the problem after installing Windows Vista, which your graphics
card onboard cooling fan continually runs?
And the I can’t find/access the old NVIDIA settings to see if my graphics
card is still over clocked after the Vista beta upgrade.

I have a problem. I installed Vista Business (from MSDNA-A) and all the
devices installed correctly. But now every time I connect a device the found
new hardware pops up and tells me no driver can be found (like for an USB
mini drive for example). If I search in c ...

I have my portable USB external HDD.
I have never been able to remove the drive with a "safe to remove baloon"
If i have browsed the drive , anad then closed all the windows and most of
the system tray icons,