I have a fairly new computer (less than one year old) and it came set up
with Vista.  Recently, I was using iTunes and tried to burn a CD only to
receive an alert that the software was not found.  After several hours of
reading/looking around (I am not an expert at fixing ...

Vista does not provide any USB printer ports after I install and hook up my
printers. Software for HP printer is there, but no go on printing. A look at
properties for that printer finds Vista installed the printer to a parallel
port, when there is none on the system. My Brother ...

My computer just powers off wothout warning sometimes then won't turn on
again for several minutes. The computer hasn't been overheating or even under
heavy load when it happens. Which piece of hardware is the cause of my
trouble so that I can replace it? The motherboard is an ...

I hope I have posted in the correct NG, apologies if I haven't.
I have just changed a q6600 processor for an e6850 processor on my xfx 680i
sli mobo.
Before I changed the machine was running well with all settings at stock.

Anyone any ideas as to why this could be? i recently upgraded the memory and
had to reset the bios but it was running fine for about a week and now all of
a sudden over the past few days ive come in and my pc is on.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

When i want to restart the computer, i can't do it. and the computer show me
a blue screen with this message.
driver_power_state_failure.0x0000009F(0x00000003,0x86681030,0x87CF93DO,0xC1926F00)

I made a mistake and created a RAID0 of my 2 drives. Since the drives were
not the same size I lost disk space on the larger one.
Can I make a full system backup, remove the RAID0 defenitions from the
drives in BOIS and  do a full system restore and that way get rid of the

I installed a second dvd burner but vista doesn't recognize it when I go to
"My Computer".  This occures with which ever burner is installed as the
slave.  Both burners show up in the BIOS but not in Vista.  Any ideas. I'm
not very computer smart but I'm not a dummy either.  ...

Not sure if this should be posted here or Windows Update.
Compaq Presario SR2180Nx
Vista Home Premium
Intel Pentium D CPU (Dual Core)

i got a new pc 3 days ago that came with vista home basic. i ve been having
problems since i turned it on , it keeps freezing and when i i try to shut it
off or restart i cant so the only solution is to cold boot. i get this
message:

I am running vista ultimate on my laptop.  I record audio in my spare time,
and Have a firewire audio interface which does not work with vista.  Hence
the the reason I looked at VPC 07 to install on my usb external hard drive.  
Only worry is, will VPC even help me, or will the ...

I recently had my hard drive replaced in my dell inspiron e1505, the  laptop
worked great until I turned it on in the morning 2 weeks after the hard drive
was replaced and the beeping occured. An initial diagnostic said my optical
drive had an error, after I was instructed to ...

Hi, I have tried to connect my new Dell laptop with Vista on it to the Optoma
DV11 projector using the supplied VGA cable.
I get NO IMAGE from the projector in spite of all steps shown below.
1. when cable is inserted Vista automatically changes DPI at 800x600. Is

Running Vista Ultimate, had tried to install Logitech Pro 3000 cam. Not able
to do so, bought Microsoft LifecamVX-3000 which is supposed to be Vista
certified. Inserted the installation disc as instructions and was told that
it was not compatible with Vista. Link to Microsoft ...

Does anyone at microsoft know the current state of vista
video drivers in ref to how optimized for desktop performance
Nvidia and Ati/Amd really are. and what features in the
future we can look foward too, like shaders for window