Recent content by CommonTater

Head for your laptop manufacturer's website... look for the support downloads section and download a driver set for your laptop. Install them as directed and let us know how you make out. Win7 is pretty good... but it doesn't have every driver for every machine built in. There are some you...

The settings will be in control panel... either in your audio device's own applet or in the Sound applet. I can't be more specific because every maker has their own way of doing things. Be a little adventurous... click around in the various dialogs... look for things like "Karaoke mode" or...

Try the Mpeg-4 codec from here... Free-Codecs.com : Download FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 2010-09-13, FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 2010-09-07 and FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 2010-07-07 SSE : FFDSHOW is a DirectShow decoding filter If you can't hear the sound you may also need...

This can happen in one of several ways... You're going to have to look through your audio settings and any software installed by your audio drivers ... 1) Your setup might be in Karaoke mode... left and right, no center channel. 2) You may have inadvertantly set multispeaker modes such as 5.1...

Good insight Mike... And I'm not disagreeing with you one little bit. I'm just suggesting that our friend should try the least invasive fixes first. I mean... you wouldn't want open heart surgery for a wart on your shoulder... would you? ;)

I've seen event scheduler hacks that claim to do this but I wouldn't really trust them. The safest answer is "No, they don't let you do that". And for what it's worth... I would give my eye teeth for a "while list" in the UAC.

Good advice Mike. However he is getting it to work with one memory stick but not the other (so far) so there is reason to believe the checksum error might be the result of memory mappings changing while the machine was on (i.e. when the memory failed). Unless he is unfortunate enough to have...

What format are they in?

Cybercore is on the right track here Jakee... when your machine is starting up you should see a "Hit Del to enter setup" prompt. You have a short window in which to press the DEL key on your keyboard to get into the BIOS settings. Once in there look for your memory timing settings which are...

I've seen that one too. Acer is bad for that... had a bunch of Aspire Ones with WiFi problems and the only available answer was to find older Acer drivers and install them. The new ones from Atheros simply would not activate on the version of the A1 I had. I do understand this issue has been...

TorrentG ... Go troll somebody who cares.

Well, logically if removing that one stick of memory restored proper function... it's your problem. But, yes, it could still be your bios. If you are overclocking your memory or running it under or over voltage, memory that would work perfectly at it's design settings might just screw up...

I don't have the exact answer here but from what I've been able to adduce so far is that Win7 had changed the way disks are partitioned so that you can now have only 1 primary partition on a drive, returning us to the Win95 days of Primary and Secondary partitions. Why they would do this is...

I'm certainly no Dell fanboi but on this particular point I happen to agree with them. I've had many experiences which demonstrate that "newer is not always better" with stunning clarity. Once a system is in a stable state, you can rely on that old adage "If it ain't broke... don't fix it!"...

My personal setup for this machine is an external 1tb drive for the 500 in my machine and the 500 in my smarter half's. The network also has a NAS with 2X2tb that houses our movies and music as well as 500gb backup for the kid's systems. There are at least 3 copies of everything... but you are...