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congratulations! if it ain't broke-don't fix it

I read in another forum that machines with alot of ram have booting problems. I have 2 GB 667 mhz and had no problems?

Maxtor has troubleshooter at its support site:Seagate Technology - Serial ATA (SATA) Troubleshooter

Hi Ogaer: my video card is an Nvidia geForce 8600 gts. The drivers I had were (prerelease-WDDM1.1) therefore they were on the win 7 disk or on update. the driver is 7.15.11.7923. There is the option of: right click the driver you have in device manager and update- you have the option of...

I have an Asus mainboard and a American Megatrends setup utility with an Intel 945 chipset. With my setup it's advanced>chipset>southbridge>hd audio controller:enable or disable. Also make sure the PnP option isn't enabled in PciPnP so the soundcard is reading from the bios and not the o/s.

checked setup to see if the onboard sound (can't remember if it's northbridge or southbridge) is activated?

Can't sleep either. I did a clean/boot install so I had no conflicting software. Will things work well enough to open Administrative tools>system configuration>tools and there are all sorts of diagnostic tests there? according to the experts at tecknet help isn't working in the beta because it...

basically your tasks aren't being completed because you have limited internet and the uncompleted tasks pile up and your resources are taxed. Do you automatically log onto live messenger for instance? Is something trying to update? Have you unsent e-mail?

start->type reliability in search for programs and files and click on resulting view problem history

I had a problem with crackling until I went contol panel>sounds>highlight speakers>rt. clk. and gave the right description of my speakers and tested:D

Had the same problem with an Audigy 4 card and 5.1 speakers. The solution for me was control panel>sounds>highlt. speakers and right clk.>set-up speakers. Worked for me but was fooled because I used to have seperate diagnose folder.

does your sound card show in device manager?

sounds simplistic but I had the same problem and found windows firewall and the firewall supplied with the ant-virus were both on and caused the problem with live and explorer. check action centre?

Have you checked action centre to see if you have 2 active firewalls?

Casper I have a Nvidia 8600 and I did a boot/clean install so the driver was provided from win 7 disk or update. Also I should mention I repartitioned-no problems.