Vista Forums

Microphone feeds back through earphones.

Doc — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:09:41 GMT

Any particular reason your date is set 2 months ahead?

--

Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

"Doc" wrote in message
news:ueBrA9Y8JHA.4172@xxxxxx

Quote:

> First off, I am a complete Vista novice, having only installed Vista 64
> bit on a new machine a few days ago.
>
> I use a Logitech USB headset and as per the subject line, any sounds
> picked up by the microphone play out through the earhpones. The headset is
> selected as default as both playback and recording devices, and reducing
> the headset volume also reduces the volume of the feedback from the
> microphone, but then I can't hear anything at all :-) Reducing the mic
> volume (under "recording devices") helps somewhat, but even at 0 volume I
> can hear mic sounds through the earphones. Clicking the mute icon solves
> it completely, except for the fact that no-one can hear what I'm saying
> :-)
>
> I plugged the headset back into the XP machine and everything is fine on
> that. How do I fix the Vista machine?
>
> TIA
>
> Doc
>

FSX visualfx.dll error

cuff — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:11:00 GMT

A bit of background about my problem.
I have FSX w/Accel install on my system.
System specs have been posted.
I found this site doing a google search on my problem.
I use a RAID setup with the os on c and fsx is on d. The drive is partition.
I was getting a problem with smoke and dust effects showing as blocks.
Checking through the various flight sim web sites, the general solution was to do a repair of fsx to solve the problem. I did that and the problem did go away for a time. It came back up about a week ago, so I did the same thing, a repair of fsx and acceleration today. Problem compounded.
Other than that, a complete un-install/re-install. Not something I truely want to. For those of you who have fsx, you understand why.

When I go to start fsx I get the below error msg.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: fsx.exe
Application Version: 10.0.61637.0
Application Timestamp: 46fadb14
Fault Module Name: visualfx.dll
Fault Module Version: 10.0.61637.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 46fadb59
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00014857
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.2
Locale ID: 1033
Additional information about the problem:
LCID: 1033

:confused:

Sorry if this is long winded, but if anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

Thank you

Regards
Ernest

Flight Sim X visualfx.Dll Error

cuff — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:09:20 GMT

Re: Windows Vista slow file handling with large numbers of files.

Dennis Bryant BPC Solutions — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:06:46 GMT

Have you checked wether indexing is active on the drive? I don't know that
this is the problem but it sounds like maybe you have some
allocation/pointer issues. Just a thought.

"Cynyster" wrote in message
news:part1of1.1.ZsAPiFDv84WwWg@xxxxxx

Quote:

> Ok this has got to be one of the more annoying problems for me . Even more
> than
> the random folder view every time you enter a folder.
>
> I have a foler that collects a large number of small files for a program
> that
> I use.. Typically they are under 50k in size but often there can be
> close to
> 200,000 in a single folder.
>
> If I want to delete one it can take several minutes to delete it...
>
> It will sit at "preparing to delete" for what seems like forever.
>
> The more files in a folder the longer it takes...
>
> Now my computer is arguably top of the line it has an intel s3200 MB
> with a
> xeon quad core and 4 gigs of ram and terrabyte hard drives.
>
> It should not take 15 minutes to delete 1,000 of the 200,000 files,
>
> Additionally these files are on a second internal physical drive and
> should
> have nothing to do with the rest of the system.
>
> Oh and one other note. Mass deleting files from a command prompt works
> fine.
> so if I want to delete everything in the folder via a command prompt it
> works
> as expected but if I try via windows explorer it takes forever.
>
> Has M$ come out with a patch for this yet? I am on service pack 2 of
> vista
> ultimate and it has all the updates that were presented via the update
> utility.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
>

Can i record youtube etc by using s-video out to panasonic dvdr unit?

John32118 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:02:23 GMT

Is is possible to play youtube/netflix streaming in full screen and rather than send it to a tv screen, use the s-video out to send it to my stand alone panasonic dvd recorder?

Don't have an s-video output so I can't experiment, but I am thinking of buying a card with s-video out for this purpose.

Does anybody do this?

Fatal1ty USB Gaming Headset HS-1000 issues

BIGGD — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:19:17 GMT

So I followed the instructions and had uninstalled everything i installed with the disc it came with. I then downloaded the drivers from the creative website for windows 32bit and restarted.

Still no mic i checked the settings in the sound and nothing is muted and all bars are at high. I can hear everyone but no one can hear me.

Any help would be appreciated.

Games Randomly Freezing

Kidfork — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:05:22 GMT

My Buddy has had a problerm with his new rig, he would play a game and it would randomly freeze out of nowhere, it can range from any game from Crysis to Counter Strike. What will happen is everything will freeze (he cant even ALT+CTR+DEL)

Specs
MSI K9n2SLI Platinum
2.7 AMD ATHLON 5200+ DUAL
4 GIGS RAM
Vista Ultimate 64
600W PSU
XFX Geforce 9600 GSO

How do I update my Graphic card?

Antihiatus — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:42:53 GMT

I have Radeon Xpress 200m. My laptop freezes, and screen goes blue. I was told i need to update my graphics driver. How do I go about doing that?

System specs:

Windows Vista Home Premium, 32bit. Laptop. 512 ram

HELP PLEASE!!

What's a good 3rd party system restore program?

John32118 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:41:25 GMT

Long story short, my new hp vista home premium sp1 won't revert to previous restore points. I have spend several hours reading about this problem and it appears that I can either use a third party program or restore in safe mode which only works sometimes.

Is there a good third party system restore program?

If it matters, i use windows defrag, CCleaner and my pc came with norton but I delted it upon receiving the computer.

Thanks in advance

Commented codes still affect the program

Allen — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:13:37 GMT

I have a problem; I hope someone can help me. I have MS Visual c++
studio.net 2003. I notice that the compiler is acting up. If I comment a
block of code (For example if I use // ..or /* .... */), this commented
block can still affecting the program. I have to delete or cut the whole
block of commented code in order to prevent such effect. I remember I had
the problem before and someone from this newsgroup helped me to fix it.
If I remember correctly he talked about something like out of Sync.

--
Thanks
Allen

Ethernet connection problem. Local access only

mikey5050 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:11:14 GMT

Unplug your router, and modem from POWER...... wait about 2 minutes and hook
them back up.

--
Rob
Supporting Member, Cascade Bicycle Club
P.O. Box 15165 Seattle, WA. 98115-0165
206-522-3222 and 24 hr hotline 206-522-BIKE
http://www.cascade.org

"mikey5050" wrote in message
news:mikey5050.3urzfc@xxxxxx

Quote:

>
> My internet connection just stopped working after my battery died and i
> re-booted my laptop. It is a compaq presario running windows vista
> basic. I am plugged directly into the wall but I cannot get a
> connection. It says i am connected to my network but with local access
> only. Can someone please help?
>
>
>
>
> mike
>
>
> --
> mikey5050
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> mikey5050's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/111223.htm
> View this thread:
> http://forums.techarena.in/windows-v...rk/1207819.htm
>
> http://forums.techarena.in
>

Going Crazy

berrylover — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:07:15 GMT

I bought a new dell studio laptop and it came with Windows Vista. I just bought it two weeks ago and its driving me nuts. TO the point that I don't even use it. When the letter "h" is typed in, history opens up. When the letter T is opened up, a new tab opens. THis is so frustrating. I searched the forum and there was a similar post to remove hotkeys. There was a link I downloaded and it was supposed to remove the hotkeys from registry. It did not.

Any help? Please! Thanks.

Solved Task Manager View

Kidfork — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:05:41 GMT

I no this may be a nooby question but my task manager is all weird, its stuck on ythe process window and i can change it.

How do i change it form this

To the regular one.

Attached Thumbnails

How to change default drive from C to D?

ST — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:03:09 GMT

The ever esteemed Malke replied, with the utmost intelligence:

Quote:

> ST wrote:
>

Quote:

>> Hello,
>>
>> My laptop has two hard drives. C has Vista on it and along with updates
>> it's almost full. D drive is much larger. I'd like any new programs to
>> automatically install to D. Is there a way to do that?

>
> Not automatically, no. When you install most programs you're given a choice
> of where to install them. Choose your D: drive. In the meantime, you can
> move your data to that drive, either by relocating your Documents, Music,
> Pictures, etc. or by just moving the data to it. You can also uninstall
> programs and reinstall them to the D: drive. Understand that some files
> will always be put on C:.
>
> Malke

Hello,

Thanks for the info.

ST

Coloring the cells and text in Excel 7

cpr — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:48:15 GMT

I have Excel 7 along with Vista. I am having problems in coloring the cells as well as coloring the text in the cell. It was so easy in previous versions of excel. I never had any trouble with this simple function.

Cell/Row Highlight:
But in 7, I don't know what'g wrong when I select the whole row and click on the format color, on selecting any color for the row or cell, it never gets highlighted.
Why this is happening ?

Text Hilight:
When I highlight text in any cell and apply color to it, the hilight color only appears when I click on the text. As get out of the text from that cell, the text goes back to normal color. Why this is happening ?

I am not sure whether I need to change any settings for 7 to do this.. I looked at the help. It simply says select the cells or rows and simply selects the desired color from the Format menu..

I am not sure why microsoft makes things so complicated.. In the older versions, in tools and options, quite a few useful options are there to checks all these settings.. this version is so cumbersome..
Any help please ..???

configuring windows mail ffrom gmail

Lindsey — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:36:01 GMT

Right-click on your error message, copy, then paste it into a reply here.
We can't do much troubleshooting without the complete error message.

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)

"Lindsey" wrote in message news:6A47E7B5-5353-4374-A817-36A5DB2B7C7B@xxxxxx

Quote:

>I am trying to use outgoing port 465 and incoming port 995 to configure
> windows mail from gmail but it is not working. Any suggestions???

gmail to windows mail

Lindsey — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:28:00 GMT

Please don't post the same question in separate threads.

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)

"Lindsey" wrote in message news:6FC97ECA-8809-4AF4-8EB7-89F1A45C123D@xxxxxx

Quote:

>I am trying to use outgoing port 465 and incoming port 995 when configuring
> gmail to windows mail, but it is not working. Any suggestions???

Keeping Cool This Summer

DaKine73 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:23:27 GMT

We all know how temperatures can affect system performance (specially if you Over Clock, but this is another subject)

I find myself living a few degrees north of the Equator in the island if Puerto Rico. Temperarures here are generally tolerable thru out the year. But summer time can be really hot!!

So here are some tips to keep your system cool specially in summer time.
For the following If you dont know much about Computer hardware Its recommended to get someone who knows to do the job or to help you.

1. Clean the clutter around your pc. let it breathe!

2. Clean out the vents. Get a paint brush or tooth brush and clean the dust.

3. Time to open the case.

4. Take the case fans out and clean them.

5. Clean the CPU fan And heat sink, when ready to install back in place, clean out the old thermal grease and apply a new coat of high grade thermal compound. (you will get better heat transfer spending a few pennies xtra than buying the cheap stuff)

6. Take everything out of the case and clean it! Clean the case completly, get rid of them dead roaches and cob webs!

7. Take your time when reasembling. This is a very important step!
When assembling take the time to reorganize your wiring to improve air flow. Tuck away unsused PSupply cables. Use some elctrical tape or plastic ties to pick up dangling cables. If using IDE 40/80 pin cables try to fold them neatly. (there are pre-folded IDE cables for sale) Do this and your system will look better and further more will stay cooler by improving air flow.

8. Check your fans, make sure that they all work! Including the one inside the Power Supply. (If this fan is not working is time to get a new power supply unit, DO NOT attemp to replace this fan!!!! Nor to open the Power Supply!!! May result In DEATH!!! As high voltage residual charge is left in the unit even when unplugged!!!

9. Spend a few buck in some good fans if you are not satisfied with your temps (Use For example Everest to monitor system temps)
I replaced all stock fans from my system to higher grade ones Including Video card fans.There is total drop of 20 degrees f. in idle and a 30 degrees f. while playing games.

(Nornal v-card temps were 149f idle/186f running. Now 133f idle/ 156f running.)(CPU normal 117f idle/ 150f on full load. Now 103f Idle/133f on load)
(Ambient temps 115F/ now 105f)

A chipset Fan is also welcome.

And if you are still not satified you can do the following:

1.Move your PC to an air condioned room.

2.Use an external fan to blow on your PC

3.Invest in water cooling (this works wonders if you have around $200 to invest)

4. There in another device in the market (dont know the name of it) but it is said to work like an internal air conditioner for the CPU an other periferals. The cost is around $1200

5.Move to the North pole! I heard is quite chilly there. One may think your PC will stay cool enough the whole year!!

To finalize....do this your system will thank you!! will run smother when cooler. And you will be extending the life of your system...

Add-Content -Encoding UTF8 and -Encoding Unicode Powershell bugs

ioioio322 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:10:07 GMT

On Jul 3, 5:10*pm, ioioio322 wrote:

Quote:

> For proper character support, I need UTF8 or Unicode support.
>
> Powershell provides this for the purposes of writing to text files via
> the Add-Content -Encoding UTF8 feature.
>
> Set-Content -Encoding UTF8 ....works great
>
> ...... but......
>
> Add-Content -Encoding UTF8.....adds strange chars to the beginning of
> lines in the text file!!
>
> These extra chars look like little squares... *They are not visible
> when I use Set-Content -Encoding UTF8, only when I use Add-Content
> -Encoding UTF8, so I am assuming that it is not the end of line chars.
>
> I am using MS Notepad to look at the *.txt file. *Using Powershell 1
> and XP.
>
> Can anyone explain this? *How to get around this? *Is it going to be
> fixed soon?
>
> --
> ioioio322

This may be a stupid question, but are you using Add-Content to add
data to a file that was created as a Windows UTF-8 file?

There's a well-known issue with Windows UTF-8 files where they include
a BOM, where most Linux/Unix/Other utilities may not be expecting
it. If you're adding to an existing file, and you're not sure if it
has the BOM, then maybe it might be best to just read the old file,
add your data, and then over-write the file.

Publish Does Not Maintain HD Look

SForsgren — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:59:04 GMT

SForsgren wrote:

Quote:

> I recorded several clips in HD on a Flip Mino HD. Imported them into
> Movie Maker. In the preview window in WMM, they look like HD (more
> rectangle). I did all my editing, etc. Looked great in WMM itself.
>
> Then I publish using the HD 720p option and once it is done, in
> Windows Media Player, it looks more square and everything is squeezed
> into the square making the person appear very tall.
>
> I set Aspect Ratio to 16:9. Not sure what I am doing wrong. The goal
> is to get the HD video as originally recorded into the Published video
> to load to YouTube or Vidler.
>
> Thanks for any ideas.
>
> Be well,
> Scott

=======================================
The following article was written for XP Movie Maker
but still may be useful...also you may want to consider
using a Custom Profile...also mentioned in the article.

From Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3
PapaJohn's Guide to YouTube
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-Distributing-YouTube.html

Vista path to Profiles folder:
C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared\Profiles
[you'll have to Create the Profiles folder if it's not there]

--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

Can't reboot after fail

acupps — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:41:31 GMT

I've experienced crashes a few times over the three years I've had my current computer. I upgraded to Vista from XP about two years ago; and, about a year ago had to reinstall and reformat the computer after a system crash.

The error message I am getting now is similar to the one I got a year ago when the system failed. However, this time, I simply cannot interface with the computer. The screen brings up an "HP" logo with directions to push "esc" "f10" etc, and if I put the boot disc in, I get the message "Push 'f' to format or 'q' to quit."

Normally, I would be able to push 'q' and I'm good to go.

What is happening now is that I cannot communicate with the computer at all. It doesn't recognize, record, or respond to any input.

I thought maybe my keyboard was broken, but cleaning and switching the keyboard didn't help. I still cannot communicate with the computer to get into the boot menu.

What is my next step? Am I at a loss, and the computer is kaput? There is no major data on the hard drive, everything is backed up, but my powerful desktop is not working, and I kind of need it to.

Thank you for any help you or advice you may have.

Using AD on guest

Jack — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:38:11 GMT

"Jack" wrote in message
news:e#qhqcE$JHA.1376@xxxxxx

Quote:

> "Bill Grant" wrote in message
> news:OM8pPKE$JHA.3320@xxxxxx

Quote:

>>
>>
>> "Jack" wrote in message
>> news:OEBxidD$JHA.4692@xxxxxx

Quote:

>>> I want to add a server role to my guest OS Win2.3k server... DC
>>> I want to be able to play with Active Directory, mostly querying it
>>> using LDAP.
>>>
>>> I'm not really from a networking knowledge (more app prog). When I try
>>> to add this role Win2.3k asks me for a DNS FQDN. As this guest is just a
>>> stand alone instance there is no domain etc.
>>> Am I able to get around this stuff so I can get AD up and running?

>>
>> If you want to play with AD, the best method is to put the server in
>> Local Only and give it a static IP in its own IP subnet (ie not the same
>> one as the host). You can then set up AD in its own domain with its own
>> DNS (and DHCP if you like).
>>
>> With only 2G of memory you are pretty limited, but you could probably
>> run an XP guest as well if you give both server and client 512M each.
>> Put the guest in Local Only as well and it should get its network config
>> from DHCP on the server.

>
>
> Thanks Bill,
> I'm 99% certain I chose to not join a forest/domain at this point when
> setting up 2.3
> Is this what you meant? I'm not sure how to specify local only.
> I don't want another guest to talk to the server. Simply using .NET code
> to talk to AD on the server.
> Can you tell me where I assign the IP, Subnet addresses and set the DNS
> and DHCP options please?

Where are you planning to talk to AD from? The host machine? I would not
recommend that. I also suggest you do a bit more reading on AD!

You select Local Only for the NIC in the guest from the vm settings for
the guest machine.

Printer sharing Vista

lmiller4 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:32:11 GMT

I receive an error when trying to share a printer..the server does not
have the correct print driver installed.
The printer is connected to my desktop pc running Vista and works fine.
The driver is correct.
The laptop is also running Vista.
When I go to Add New Printer, the printer is recognized by the laptop.
That's when I get the error that the driver is incorrect.

--
lmiller4
------------------------------------------------------------------------
lmiller4's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/111209.htm
View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-print-fax/1207800.htm

http://forums.techarena.in

display name

pontypool — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:27:00 GMT

I had my display name as Tony.. But changed it to Anthony.
However when I send people a message it says Tony says.
But the recipient sees the new display name, what's this all about? i know how to change my display name it just doesnt seem to be taking effect on my end. is that a plugin problem or what?

DCHP Service failure

powderhownd21 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:13:57 GMT

My roomates computer has an issue that I have not been able to solve all week. here's the gist of it. The computer connects wireless, and is able to get an IP from router. I can ping the router, and other computers on the network. All other comupters on network are able to access the internet.

One thing that is happening is the DHCP Service keeps stopping on me. I've perused the posts on here looking for answer's. Here's a list of all I've done.

Disabled then enabled wireless adapter
uninstall/reinstall wireless adapter
manually set IP address
repaired winsock/winsock2 entries using LSPFix.exe and "netsh winsock reset" command (elevated to admin)
ran virus scan (AVG 8.0.169) with no hits
ran AD-aware SE (1 hit, removed, did not solve issue)
ran RegCure with 999 hits, cleaned, did not solve problem
Try'd to do a "system restore"..but the computer couldn't do it (hard drive has 6% free space)

I'd give a screenshot of the error, but its on another comp. Here's what it says:

"Host Process for Windows Services stopped working and was closed. A problem caused the application to stop working correctly. Windows will notify you if a solution is available."

Any help is appreciated.

Bad sound quality on You Tube videos

Trizorion — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:12:53 GMT

I recently installed vista 64-bit OS on my pc ( clean istallation after disk format). After downloading and installining Sp1 and Sp2 i updated my IE 7 to IE 8 , but after this i have bad sound quality under the most you tube videos.

The sound is very low or somekind of broken , especialy in videos with human voices. I can play mp3's or other audio files without any problem on my pc .
I have the same problem on other browsers too like Opera and Firefox ( latest downloads )

I updated my sound card drivers , installed latest Flash Player and Java.

Used the latest realtek drivers but nothing helped.

Waiting for some tips to solve the problem , thnks

Printer sharing Vista

lmiller4 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:08:39 GMT

"lmiller4" wrote in message
news:lmiller4.3urtvb@xxxxxx

Quote:

>
> I receive an error when trying to share a printer..the server does not
> have the correct print driver installed.
> The printer is connected to my desktop pc running Vista and works fine.
> The driver is correct.
> The laptop is also running Vista.
> When I go to Add New Printer, the printer is recognized by the laptop.
> That's when I get the error that the driver is incorrect.
>
>
> --
> lmiller4
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> lmiller4's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/111209.htm
> View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-print-fax/1207789.htm
>
> http://forums.techarena.in
>

If you are running Vista 64 on one of them and Vista 32 on the other..

I am assuming that you know how to and have made the necessary share
permissions on the computer which is hosting the printer.

To share a network printer being hosted by a computer running a 32 bit
operating system with another computer running a 32 bit operating system,
Vista or XP, you would go to Control Panel > 'Printers' > 'Add Printer' >
'Add a network printer'. Apologies to any of you who consider that I am
stating the obvious. In fairness, it is obvious.

Sharing a printer being hosted by a computer running 32 bit Vista or XP with
a computer running 64 bit Vista is not obvious, because if you use the above
method, it will not work.
So how? First, you need to know the name of the computer which hosts the
printer, and the name of the printer to be shared.

Sitting at the host computer: The procedure is the same for Vista and XP

Start > My Computer > Properties > Computer Name tab > Change button. Write
down the name that you see here because this is the computer name.

Start > Settings > Printers and Faxes > Right click on the printer to be
shared > Properties > Sharing tab. Write down the name that you see here
because this is the printer name.

OK. Now sit in front of the Vista 64 computer:
Start > Control Panel > Printers > Add printer > Add a local printer > Click
on 'Create a new port' > 'Local Port' > 'Next'.

The port name will look like this: \\Computer name\printer name

So enter the names already retrieved, ensuring that you use the same format,
then click 'OK'.

At this point, you will be presented with the 'Add New Hardware' process.
You can either select the make and model of your printer from the lists or
insert your printer installation disk if you can't find yours. The printer
will be added, and you should be able to print a test page.

Another solution is to use a print server. There are three options if you
take this route.
1. Replace your router with one which includes a print server. This is the
most expensive option.
2. Acquire a wired print server unit and connect it to your existing
router. Beware the cheapest units as they will invariably be USB 1.1
compliant only.
3. Acquire a wireless print server. Setup may not always be
straightforward, but the printer can be moved around.

The benefit of any of the three options above is that the printer is
available all of the time, not being reliant on a host computer's power
state, but they all cost $$$ or more.

--

Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

crcdisk.sys error with SATA RAID Vista x64 Ultimate

splosher — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:36:33 GMT

Hi
It's been a while since i've listed anything on this brilliant forum due to the fact that with people like Brink/ Shawn giving you infomation regarding a problem you've got, you suddenly don't have that problem anymore!
So, as this goes against my usual grain, in the space of just 4 days I have had 2 crcdisk.sys boot errors, which have resulted in 2 complete rebuilds - not a happy bunny, I can tell you.
I'm running an ASUS P5N32-E SLI that's fully flashed to latest BIOS and have happily run it with a Q6600, 4 gig RAM and Vista x64 Ultimate on SATA RAID0 for the last 18 months and had no problems whatsoever. However, on Monday I put the computer to sleep instead of shutting down, so just pressed the "off" button and went to bed - big mistake! Next morning, defaults have been loaded at POST, it wouldn't boot and going through safe mode showed the dreaded "crcdisk.sys" stopping place in the boot list, so tried and tried to no avail and then spent 12 hours reloading, updating and installing right up to SP2.
Woke up this morning, switched on and suddenly the POST screen flashes up and it says that defaults have been loaded for some reason and lo and behold! we're off again with "crcdisk.sys" error and once again, it's taken another 10/ 12 hours to get back to a semblence of order.
My question is this: is there ANY workaround when faced with the crcdisk.sys error? Bearing in mind I run a SATA RAID set-up, so the problem does appear to be the loss or corruption of the Nvidia SATA RAID boot drivers. Surely someone must have worked out a way of salvaging their operating system rather than doing a rebuild? I have tried repair but that doesn't work, even if you wait for 3 hours for it to end its cycle, nor does the memory check do anything of value.
Have searched Google but nothing's come of that, so i'm hoping one of you guys with the big brains can sort this out.
By the way, sorry if in wrong topic/ section.
Many thanks

Asus N51VC with Windows Vista disconnects randomly from Internet.

DayakMoah — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:10:31 GMT

Hello,

I have just bought an Asus N51VC with Windows Vista and this laptop disconnects randomly from Internet. It is not that it lose the Wifi signal , but it looks like the laptop stops recieving data after a while; Firefox (or IE) tries to get the web page and eventualy displays an empty page (white, without error message). Then, I have to disconnect my laptop from the Wifi signal and to re-connect it to the same signal so that it works again.
I have in parallel two other laptops (Windows XP and Windows Server 2003) and when Internet does not work on my Asus N51VC it works without problem on two other PCs.

Here is all I have already try, unsuccessfully:
- I have updated the Wifi driver
- I have installed the SP2 of Vista
- I have uninstalled all Antiviruses, Firewalls, Defenders ...
- I have forced my computer no to deactivate my wifi card (even in case of energy saving)
- I have tried with or without fixed IP with or without the DNS recommended by my ISP
- I have reinstalled the initial image of the OS such as supplied by the manufacturer

I do not know any more what I can do; does somebody would have any idea?

Thank you

disabled a network connection ????

jdm95integra — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:55:31 GMT

can any one help me out please i disabled a network connection thinking i would be able to re enable it and its gone now:(

C:\Users\Tricia>ipconfig/all
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Tricia-PC
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Mixed
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : socal.rr.com
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1C-26-06-50-C0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controlle
r
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-19-B9-81-E2-B7
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::64f6:7adb:b750:9e02%9(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.100.10(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Friday, July 03, 2009 12:49:47 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Friday, July 03, 2009 12:54:21 PM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.100.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.100.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1
fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1
fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 6:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-00-54-55-4E-01
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 7:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 9:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #2
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 10:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft 6to4 Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 13:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 6TO4 Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 14:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 6TO4 Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
C:\Users\Tricia>ipconfig/all