For some strange reason, I can no longer disable my soundcard in device manager without having to restart the computer. It will disable if I end the audiodg.exe process, but since restarting audiodg.exe and re-enabling the soundcard dosen't return my sound, I have to restart anyway.
View 6 Repliesanyone knows how to record from the sound card in vista? i remember when i used to run XP i would select "wav" or "stereo" and i wud be able to record whats been played on my computer. now i got vista and a built in mic those options arent showing up. is there any other way to get this?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have an old (high quality) grammophone record player and want to create CD music records from my grammophone records. Apparently I need some kind of an external Soundcard to my Vista laptop (home premium), but when I search on Google I get many hits which seem to meet the target of feeding loudspeakers or headphones from PC files, not create files on the PC from external media.
"something" (make&model) to connect my record player to my PC, preferably with suitable software to process the incoming sound and make file(s) on the PC. If there is a newsgroup better suited for this enquiry I shall be grateful for information.
Got myself a Creative PCI express Xfi extreme audio a couple of months ago and have now come to the conclusion that it sucks... Thereīs betadrivers for most other cards BUT the one I got and I read som where that itīs a older card just being re-labled.. Great.
I listen to tons of music and play games, mostly counterstrike Source, i have Sennheiser HD555 phones and a Logitec Z-5500 5.1 soundsystem. My old computer had another Xfi card in it and the sound is totally different in quality with same settings (crystilzer etc). So anyone know of another soundcard that you have experience of? in vista 64?
I have been having this problem, which is that sometimes, my sound is working, and sometimes it is not. It usually starts working after my PC has been off for a long period of time (for example, when I wake up). Oh, and if this helps, my soundcard is a Realtek HD card.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI bought a laptop last year that came with Vista Home Premium 32 bit...I am not at all computer savvy, but bought some recording software called Audiogram that is supposed to be the equivalent of Garage Band that comes on a Mac. However, I have never been able to make the recording program work! It acknowledges there could be some problems with Vista, but ultimately it should work. The latest message I get when I open the recording software is "The currently installed soundcard driver does not support Direct Sound Input. Recording audio is not possible." What do I do? I can't return the recording oftware because I registered it, plus it's been months that I've been reading/downloading updates thinking I could get it to work. I've been told by several people that vista has soundcard problems.
View 7 Replies View RelatedWhy, on Earth, that even my desktop computer which I've just recently re-installed windows XP is it annoying me with the yellow shield saying I need updates?! I just did it now and it said "done, now we need to restart" I click restart, it boots up and it STILL says I need to update! Could it be because, this computer ALSO has Microsoft Office 2003? If Office 2003 the problem, or is my luck just crap bad nowadays?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI Just got a new computer and upon first turning it on my daughter accidentally hit the button on my power strip turning the computer off mid-installation. Now when I turn on my computer it looks as if windows is trying to start but goes to a message stating "Windows could not complete the installation. To install windows on this computer, restart the installation." I then click "OK" and it just brings me back to the same message after re-starting. Could anyone please help me get this thing back on track?
View 9 Replies View RelatedHave had pavillion dv9408nr home premium vista 32 notebook for 2 and a half years,no problems.Untill 3 days ago laptop would not restart after sleep. Lights on but screen black.Started to do the same when i try to boot up from cratch ,never done that before. Takes a few attempts to boot up. Updated the bios and a few drivers but still the same problem also tried a system restore never worked either.
View 6 Replies View RelatedMy PC will not restart. Windows will shut down, screen goes blank (but still powered) then nothing... Power is still on, No HDD activity, just sits there all day long! You have to manually press the reset button on the case. Ive re-formatted with no luck. Even exiting bios does the same! I had a few problems yesterday when something went haywire and i lost registry keys to the point where windows would not load up in norma mode. no problems in safe mode though. So today i formatted and then i noticed this restart problem.
View 6 Replies View RelatedSeems like it's since SP1. Happened twice now, have to restart to get it to work. Anyone else having this problem? Running Vista Home Premium.
View 6 Replies View Relatedi,ve been playing about on my satellite pro. got board at 3a.m yesterday. since then when i restart my laptop and logged in, when the start- up screen comes on there,s a cmd exe box that appears. inside the box the dialog goes off and on to quickly to be read, need help to get rid of this please, totally annoying and also how did it get there in the first place.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI had been putting off updating to Vista SP2 but bit the bullet 2 days ago.After downloading the machine shut off never to restart.When I restart now it wont boot.I have done all the recovery tests and programs.I have tried a manual restore(all restore point were somehow lost) via the command prompts nothing seems to work. The startup Repair log says registry is corupt.I can see my files and obviously want to retreve them before I do a complete system restore.As I see it I have 2 choices. Buy a external harddrive,run unbuntu and hopefully copy files to the drive. Option 2 but a internal harddrive,buy a new OS,load it, connect my bad drive and see if I can copy the files that way. Computer is 2 years old (Dell) no Vista disk,downloaded the Vista recovery disk(didnt help) Vista home premium 32 bit.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have Windows Vista 64 bit and have been experiencing problems AGAIN. I have to actually pull the plug on the computer to restart it because a message keeps coming up saying I have another instance of Windows mail running in the back ground. I THOUGHT the problem was solved when we un-installed and re-installed Norton but it worked for about a week and now I have the same problem all over again. I can open the mail ONCE and the when I exit and try to go back in. it says " Another instance of Windows mail is running in the background. I can't even go to Start/ re start. I have to unplig everything. Has anyone else had this happen?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a problem with my girlfriends Inspiron...I was running Partition Magic today and wanted to resize one of the partitions ... After restart Vista won't run... I pick the Launch StartuP recovery, it shows System recovery Options window with nothing in it .... When I try to load the drivers it lets me to choose from 3 partions ... but there is no Partition C with the OS . When I run startup repair it says: The Partition table does not have a valid System Partition. repair action : Partition table repair ... girlfriend nearly killed me ... cause of "lost" music etc ...
View 4 Replies View RelatedThe problem symptom is that:
1) CD ROM is completely ignored and OS boots
from a HDD.
2) booting process begins but it stalls. There is one kind of bootable CD which still boots which is DOS CD. I replaced the optical drive with a new one, but the problem symptom is the same.
I have a HP Pavilion Entertainment PC(32-bit OS). About two weeks ago, I was online when my power went out and my laptop shut down(no battery). It powered back up afterward with no problem but a few hours later when I tried, it would not go online. It cannot find any networks in my area. The message I get is "This computer does not have a wireless network adapter installed and configured." It suggests I install wireless networking hardware and verify the correct drivers are loaded. When I click that(Troubleshoot Driver Problems), it tells me to update the driver through Windows Updates. However when I do that, I'm told that I'm already running the most up to date driver.
The problem is not with my router/ISP. My husband's laptops are online with no issues. I'm not the most technologically savvy person so this is beyond my expertise.
I had this problem just over a year ago, and I took my laptop back to the shop -- they told me to take Vista back to the factory defaults. But when I did, there was a failure in the installation process and they told me that they would have to replace the computer -- apparently it was the motherboard -- on warranty. I hope it is not so major this time. Here goes. The USB ports have become very intermittent, spontaneously reading the plugged in storage device as having been unplugged, then spontaneously reading it as having been plugged in, with the sound that alerts you to that operation (this is exactly what happened last time, except over a prolonged period). Now my USB external hard drive isn't being read. It shows in the device manager, and the sound that alerts to when it is being plugged in or disconnected pings as it should, but in computer > manage > storage it is 'unknown' and 'unreadable'. My memory sticks can be read, though. And the USB mouse works in all the ports.
View 6 Replies View RelatedThis notebook used to stream with wmp fine just like the other pc's in the house, which by the way still do. The defaults are right and there may have been an ms update that ended it all. When I click on the program a download box appears and if downloaded it will play ok but not stream.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am ready to buy a new computer, probably HP, but it is my understanding that regardless of manuf., computers no longer come with CDs for the Oper Sys (like Vista, or XP). In the event of a hard drive crash, how would a recovery take place? What are the options? Using of Win XP Pro, FrontPage 2002, Outlook XP, Word-PowerPoint-Publisher 2002, Word 2002 AMD Athlon 1.2, 512mb mem, 80GB disk, DVD and CD burners.
View 4 Replies View RelatedJust upgraded from a 7300se to a 8600gts, and now I can't play DVDs. I've changed from a vga to a dvi connection, so I don't know if HDCP has kicked in? Whenever I try to play a DVD I get an error message "There is a problem with copy protection between your graphics card and computer" or something like that. VLC plays DVDs, but nothing that uses the Vista decoder (or any other decoder pack I try to install).
View 4 Replies View RelatedDoes anybody know how I can set a scheduled restart to occur regularly overnight.
View 9 Replies View RelatedEach time I restart Vista Home Premium, it logs me into a user account I don't use anymore. I then have to log off and then log in to the account I want to use. If I delete the unused account and then restart, Vista then tries to log me into the deleted account, giving me the error, "The user name or password is incorrect." I then have to "switch user" to a valid account at the startup screen. How can I delete this account? Or, how can I make it so my preferred account becomes "default" and remains the login account after a restart?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if anybody out there is having freezing/random restart problems using Asus' p6t deluxe MOBO or having problems using Corsair's 6GB 1333Mhz ddr3 tri channel (TR3X6G1333C9) while using Ultimate64.
View 7 Replies View RelatedMy default LCD Resolution is 1680x1050 When I run Half life 2 or source any games which has a 1024x768 as my default resolution the game ran perfectly.,then I exited...the DEsktop res is still 1680x1050 BUT when i restarted my PC the resolution changes to 1024x768 when LOGON screen appeared (the screen resolution is from the game itself) it seems that vista is not changing it back when I exit the game (this is in the registry, I think) Drivers updated Bios updated TMM disabled Base video UNCHECKED (this is by default) System restore I've followed All the suggested options to fix the problem in all other forums including this one.. ALL HAD FAILED The only thing left is the registry....... thousand of people are experiencing this...specially those with laptops...mostly GAMERS No issues on XP sp2 32Bit only on Vista
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have just re installed crysis today on my system and all was fine, I played it for a few hours on high settings and max res. I went to work and got home tried to load it and it begins to load then 20 seconds in causes my system to restart....
View 5 Replies View Relatedmy laptop,running vista, does not obey the restart function. neither when prompted by an update nor when i invoke.it will shut down but on restart it closes down. then i get the bios info.then it stay black screen,power indicator on only,no activity. every now and then,very rarely,it completes the full restart.
View 8 Replies View Relatedsomethings wrong with my explorer. it has to restart every few seconds and i dont know why. i keep on scanning my laptop for a virus but nothing comes up.
View 5 Replies View Relatedi have been having a few problems with my new vista computer its a hp txz 2500z with vista buisness and im the administrater acount if that will help first prob is when i try to log off or shut or restart down the computer it hangs in the shutingdown or loging off screen and i have to use the power button to turn it off
other prob is the taskmanager wont show up. i see its icon in the bottom right bar (green gridlike box) it jus wont show up on the screen last some programs wont open like itunes or the conect to a network and network setings and sometimes windows defender i think they might run in the background but i cant get taskmanager running
I have had less issues with my vista than I ever did with my xp. First, I have a card reader that is hooked up to the usb internal port. I can read sd cards etc. with it. My problem is that if I take out the card and then want to put it back in later the card reader goes away out of my view window under my computer. I then have to unplug my card reader from my mother board and then get lucky and log off and log back in or sometimes have to restart to get it to work and show up again. Does anyone care to comment on this My second problem is that if I put in a cd or dvd it will not auto play. I have to go into my computer and double click or go to media player and whatever player I decide and hit play.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am using a Vista Home Premium Edition x64. I have wireless internet on it from my grandmas router in her room. Here's the problem though..., I am a real dedicated gamer. I play America's Army v2.4.0 so im real picky about lag. Sometimes I can just turn my computer on, and load up America's Army.. It will run very fine for hours and hours. Then again, I can turn on the computer and load it up, and everything will be going real slow. Even when I let everything have time to load. Maybe there is some kind of system performance tool I could use? Or maybe it's just my wireless connection. And if it was that, is there anything I could check to find out if it is really my connection?
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