My girlfriend has just purchased an Advent 8115 laptop, its a good quality machine for its price and runs Vista Premium.
It has according to Device Manager a RT73 USB Wireless Card, the wireless card is in fact internal and not USB dongle but we cant seem to connect to my Belkin G+ Mimo router, Its showing a full 5 bar signal but still wont connect. I also have and Macbook and another older Advent laptop running XPSP2 Media Centre Edition which all have no problem’s connecting.
I hope that this is simply a software issue with compatibility with Vista. Has anyone got any idea’s how to try to solve this annoying problem?
Cheers
For whatever reason the Creative 64-bit X-Fi drivers don’t work if you meet either or both of the following requirments:
>3GB RAM or
nForce 680i motherboard.
I have both so my X-Fi was creating glorius 5.1 channel surround static at very high volume.
Since Auzentech can’t seem to ship the prelude I decided to swap my order for the Asus Xonar D2 since it cost the same and was getting decent reviews.
While it lacks the ability of the X-Fi software to translate DS3D/EAX calls to OpenAL, this isn’t much of an issue for me as I rarely play games that require positional audio these days.
Audio produced by the card is razor sharp and crystal clear, when wearing my Sennheiser HD280 Pro headphones I can make out tones, notes and instruments I didn’t know existed when using the X-Fi (which in itself is an amazing piece of audio hardware [vista hardware]mod.info/category/vistamods/>[hardware mods]).
The Logitech speakers are not quite as detailed but then I don’t have them glued to my head with environmental noise attenuation so the extra detail is probably lost in the environment.
If you are in the market for a new soundcard and positional audio is not a "must-have" feature for you then I would highly recommend this card. If you are looking to plug it into a hi-fi or home cinema amplifier the card provides 4 3.5mm mini-jack to left/right phono input cables as well as an optical cable and adapters to fit the coax/optical combo ports.
Hello,
I have a DV6365us laptop with a SATA hard drive as disk 0 (At least, thats what it tells me. It’s unlike any SATA I’ve ever seen). Anyway, it was a pain to get XP on there to dual boot, what with XP not having SATA driver support in the install process… but I finally now have a dual bootable computer (Vista and XP). When I got the computer, it had a 6.xx GB partition used for system restore. I backed it up via DVD’s as suggested by HP, and deleted the partition.
I then shrunk the Vista partition to the allowable dimension (apparently, about 40% free space is too much to shrink anymore?) using Vista’s build in partition manager. I also have a maximum on the shrinkage allowed in the XP partition (Something about pagefiles/snapshots it says?). Back to the main question, as those are side questions: I freed up about 14.66 GB by doing this shrinkage, but oddly enough the 2 unallocated drive spaces (From the deletion of the HP_RECOVERY and one from the shrinkages) read as seperate spaces. This means I am unable to combine them, or basically even use that 6.xx GB space from the recover to extend another volume into.
My goal here is this:
1. Vista Volume, about 75 GB
2. XP Volume, about 15 GB
3. My Documents Volume, about 59 GB (The goal is to have both OS’s to open these without problem)
But, as you can see from the attached screenshot, I am unable to do any of them. DISKPART does not help either, as it cannot work with the volume. I have installed the most current drivers for the SATA, etc and still no-go. Any ideas?
I successfully dual booted my laptop with Vista and XP using an article I read (I’ll edit this with the link once I find it)… but here’s the problem. When the computer starts, it says "Which OS? Vista or XP"… if i select vista it boots it but when i select XP it brings me to a submenu: "Select which XP version" and it has 2 entries of XP (one from previous install, drive doesnt exist, and one thats current.) … how do I delete this duplicate entry?
EDIT: Found
The comp I use is an Inspiron 9200, “supposed” to have 2GHz processor, 512mb ram and the other stuff doesn’t matter. I’m using windows xp home edition. Problem with my cpu is that its running at one fourth of the speed its supposed to be running at, i have this cpu info software and its telling me my cpu’s speed is 598MHz. I used Ad-Aware and AVG Anti-Spyware to check my comp for virus’ and they caught/saw nothing, but im still certain it’s a virus or worm or trojan, or something screwing with my computer. I have 82GB of 111GB of space, so im not thinking its a worm using space or RAM because my RAM seems to be doing ok, seems to be doing all the work actually. So im wondering if there is anything i can do with REGEDIT maybe or another, better, virus scanner/remover i can try.
P.S. I do remember one of the dell techies saying there is a place where you can edit the delay time of your cpu to do tasks, usually they say to put it at 100 and its at like 100000, I’m guessing this is ms or something but i cant remember that location, if anyone is familiar with this step i have had some success with this in the past and would like to implement it. Thanks, sorry for the length but you said to make it detailed.
I am running a duel boot with XP Pro and
Vista Ultimate.
The problem is, that under XP Pro everything works fine but when running Vista the DVD/CD does not appear to work. When I put any sort of disk in the drive it still tells me to insert disk. The drive shows up in My Computer and Device Manager but it just can’t read disks. This suddenly happened about 3 weeks ago, until then it was working fine.
Any Ideas ?
Thanx
Hi Everyone.
I have a pair of USB headphones connected to my Vista machine. If I start listening to something via the normal speakers, how I can I switch the sound to start coming from through the Headphones?
Cheers
DD
This is the first time I’m installing my existing printer under Vista. It’s a Brother Laser Printer (USB) connected via a Belkin Print Server (Ethernet). I have installed the Belkin Printer Port driver and then the Brother Printer driver. However, when it comes to configuring the printer port, as I click on the option to ‘locate server’ a box flashes on screen then disappears. I can’t seem to get this box to stay on-screen so that I can configure the port.
Any suggestions as to why this is happening?
