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Hello, in my windows xp whenever i run any program it says unable to read drive A.. which is floppy disk.. but there is no floppy drive harddrive in my computer.. and wat am thinkin is to format ma pc willl that be 5n.

Hi, I have been having headache with this strange arp table in windows vista. My computer connects to the internet through wireless router. The address for the router is 192.168.0.1. When I type arp -a in command window, it shows the following arp table: Interface: 192.168.0.2 Internet address...

I know that vista 32 bit supports only 4GB of total system ram and vista 64 bit supports allot more.I'm planing to upgrade to 4 GB of ram.My total system ram will be 512x2(8800 GTS 512 SLi) + 4Gb=5 GB. Vista will only see 3 gb + 1gb video. So i'm planing to upgrade to vista x64.What is the bad...

I had a Pentium-D that ran as hot as a firecracker. One day the Pentium-D died and I had to replace the CPU. The MoBo only supported the Pentium-D and 2.16 GHz Core 2 Duos which are no longer available, so I decided to replace the Mobo and the CPU. Got A GSI MoBo and an Intel 8400e 3.0 Ghz CPU...

Alright so the plan is to build a 64 bit machine with 8gb of memory. I know that Home Prem can access 16GB, and ULT can access quite a bit more. According to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspx That at least. But cutting to the chase, Is ult a worthy upgrade or should i stick...

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Hope this is the right place for this, I recently re-installed 64-bit Vista on my new 10k Hard drive and I've run into some very unique problems. I did the installation and it looked like nothing went wrong, it then rebooted as usual and then I got the "BOOTMGR is missing" when booting up. At...

Could I get some input on installing Vista 64 bit please? My hardware is a AMD 6000 with 4 gig of ram Western Digital Raptor 150 GB Sata (main Drive) Western Digital 500 GB (data Drive) BFG 8800 GT 512 Video Card LG 26 " Flatron Monitor 1920*1200 5ms I use mostly for gaming and am...

I just got vista x64 Home premium and I have XP pro x86 installed. I have no way of backing up my data but I do have my game saves saved to a flash drive. Would it be ok to just do an upgrade install? My computer has no infections currently and runs well, I am just wondering if doing an...

Okay guys, sometime this week I plan to install Vista 64 on my PC. I'm probably going to buy a separate hard drive so I can dual boot without having to do any partitioning. I've gone through and already downloaded all the 64 bit drivers I will need. The primary reason I want to upgrade to 64...

Had xp and clean installed to vista with upgrade cd, now i only have 30 days to activate. HEEEEEEEELP i dont wanna spend hundreds paying for vista. Any workaround?

Hi, I started using Vista 64-bit yesterday. Installed 64-bit drivers. Will installing my old 32-bit software slowdown my system? Without any software I feel 64-bit is slightly faster than 32-bit(May be my imagination....)

my configuration: mobo: Gigabyte AM2 MA69VM processor: AMD 4200+ RAM 2 x 1 GB DDR2 graphics nvidia 8400 GS Software: VISTA ultimate 32bit I use this computer to do some basic office stuff and multimedia things, like - surfing the net - word - playing movies from my NAS on my television...

Ok.. I've been debating this for over a week now. I'm currently in beta for a new MMO called "Age of Conan". It goes live on the 17th. I'm in the Open Beta. I can't really tell how well its going to perform on my machine due to there being a debugger running, and some memory leaks hogging all...

Hi all. Yesterday my new PC with Vista x64 had a BSOD. After the BSOD, Vista would not start back up, no matter what I tried. It wouldn't even startup in safe mode, safe mode with Networking, and I had no success when I tried a clean reinstall. I kept getting sent back to Windows Error Recovery...

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I am trying to upgrade to windows vista from XP. On installation i am receiving the following message when testing compatibility. You must make the following changes before installing Windows Close Windows installation and contact the device manufacturer for updated driver software for...

I recently noticed that my drive won't read original Audio Cds or Original Program CDs. It can still read original dvds, data cds and copied cds/dvds. I've tried reinstalling/ updating the driver, no luck. I have a HP Dv6446us which is only 1 month old, running on Vista. Any help would be...

I'm using the Gigabyte GA 965P-DS4 onboard audio (Realtek) in 5.1 mode. This worked fine under Win2k, but I upgraded to Vista RC1 to fix some hardware compatibility issues (Win2k isn't supported so much these days), and lost the 5.1 surround sound. In my case, I just seem to get 2.0 sound...

I keep getting a memory error in BF2. I am using about 2GB on BF2 and assorted processes, and 2 GB task manager says is cached. This leaves me with a grand total of 17 MB of free memory, which is what is causing Vista to display the error. Is there a way to release this cached memory so BF2...

I have been using Vista 32bit premium for about 4 months now. I plan on buying a Wolfdale 8500 and 4 gis of some faster ram to OC it in January. I also plan on switching to 64 bit OS at that time. I only use the computer for gaming. I don't like the aero glass function, or the sidebar and...

Hi Guys I'm using Windows XP SP 2 right now but in a couple of days I will be upgrading to Vista Home Premium. However I want to save XP SP2 if its possible so I can continue to play my old legacy games. What I would like to know is: How can I set up a dual boot system? Should I instal both...

Guys, i have been using vista for sometime and did not ever switch it on for more than 24 hrs but lately i have been trying to dl some files and the connection to my router will only show connected to the internet for about 20 hrs and after that it will just get dc and only accept local...

i have webcam of Mron sharp view & window 7 doesnt support the drivers Cd... so i need window 7 drivers.

Looking for a good benchmark for Vista 64. Tried Sandra, and tried PCMARK05... neither seemed to work all that well. Is there a 'standard' for Vista 64?

I have another issue with a new computer i recently built with Vista Home Premium. For some odd reason it will not go idle, ie. screen saver turning on/ powering screen off. I have set the screen to turn off at 20 minutes in the power settings, and for the screen saver to turn on after 10...

Hello, i am looking for help in getting my usb drivers working again. whenever i plug into them an error message appears and says usb device not recognized. please help with this problem

I installed this new patch and it seems to help local file copies but does nothing for copying from an XP folder share. Are there ANY ENGINEERS on the Vista team at MS? Or is Vista just a marketing exercise? Why can't they see this as a complete dealbreaker and fix it? Same hardware that...

Hello all, im new to the whole Windows vista operating system, i currently come from windows XP. I am here get some help with a blue screen problem that ive been getting ever since i built myself a new PC. Maybe it has to do with windows vista and maybe it doesnt but maybe you people can shine...

Hi I have a dell XPS M1330 arriving in a few days with VISTA HOME BASIC OEM on it. it will arrive with the oem disk also. I dont want to activate it on the laptop. I want to move it and activate it on my desktop, on a spare hard drive. I want to clean and install XP Pro on the laptop I...

I just got vista and installed it a day or so ago. Its going pretty good but every time I do something it give me a pop-up summarizing what i am about to do :x, and it does it for everything !! does anyone know how to turn of these alerts ? :?

Ok well, I've had Vista Ult. 64bit installed for about a week now and had no problems with it at all. Today when I booted up my pc, the desktop was gone. Like, my wallpaper is there and so is the task bar, but there are NO icons whatsoever on the desktop, whenever i drag something there it...

i don't know if this is the right place to put this, but im all out of ideas. when i run vista to install i never get past 0%. not only that i get one of three errors.. something like "windows setup could not reinitialize the deployment engine", something about couldnt intiate the restart phase...

That green bar that fills up when you try to open something.. IE a picture... what is it doing and how do i make it go away! I try to open a picture or just some file and that green bar fills up like it's doing something(gathering all the info about the file i guess) but why does it take so long...

I'm planning on upgrading to Vista some time this summer, and was wondering, because I don't have any idea what the difference is...which is should go for? I hear the 64-bit has problems with applications, so I was wondering what everyone thought? My rig is... Core 2 Duo e6600 2gigs of Corsair...

so disapointed game crashes when load level is complete. running 2 gigs of ram platinum series, E6600 clocked at 3.5 very stable temps below 40 Celcius on load time and a x1900xtx. bf2 and bf2142. stuck with double boot, hard drive for games on xp and vista for applications. almost regret going...

I have a new Vista 64-bit system up and running except for one thing. Can't get the USB to work at all. If I put a flash card directly into the motherboard (Foxconn P9657AA-8KS2H), I get a "Found New Hardware" message. I follow the steps but it always ends up unable to find a driver. In the...

I have a Seagate 320GB SATA hard drive. When I had XP Pro, I had three partitions (1 for Windows and 2 for storage/backup). Then when I got Vista, I just used Disk Management to shrink one of the volumes (the second one) and installed Vista using the empty space. The layout after doing that...

Hey all, Kind of a noob question, I only ask it because of all the negative crap I've been hearing about Vista. I bought a new pc about 3 weeks ago and it came pre-loaded with Vista. Having used it for 3 weeks has allowed me to get a pretty good feel for it and pretty much allowed me to...

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