device issues

my computer's power options have been acting up. it started after i downloaded a windows update and the computer failed to restart. my computer is a laptop and it wont give me the option to choose what happens when i close the lid and nothing happens. also, i do not get a battery icon in the...

Hey guys, since i installed windows 7 on my pc (formerly win xp) i've got a really strange problem: At first everything works fine, but after a few minutes or a few hours keyboard and mouse turn off. Not necessarily at the same time, but in the end none of them is working. But apart from that...

Hi, ive been getting the blue screen lately and if im right i think ive located the driver responsable, its ymctidu.sys in (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\ymctidu.sys) ive searched it up on google but havent found anything relating to it. ive tried deleting it and it but it said Can't read from...

Hello. I'm completely new to this forum and I feel terrible for posting issues right away, but I'm so desperate and frustrated with this issue that I'm about to throw my laptop out the window. I also apologize because I'm fairly aware that this problem has been posted several times on this forum...

For the last 2 or so months I have been unable to format to or read usb thumb drives that are FAT or FAT32, I tried everything that I have read but none of it worked. I recently discovered that I am now unable to format to NTFS too, I can still read it but wonder how long until that goes away...

Okay, I have a big issue with windows 7 even asking me about formatting my device. What if one day I hit yes and everything I have on it is gone? It works just fine, I can access all my files and folders. It tells me I need to format it before I can use it, but it works just fine. No problems in...

Dell laptop E5500 running windows 7 x64. DVD ROM appears in device manager after start up for a few seconds then disappears. Showing Error Code 45 (not connected to computer) Earlier this evening it also showed error code 10 (device cannot start) Opening and closing the tray prompts it...

Both of my mics work in windows; I can select them both as the default device and they respond to noise. In skype, if i select MIC1 and make a noise, skype detects the noise. However, if I select MIC2 in skype, it doesn't detect any noise. Only MIC1 works in skype, but not MIC2. Anyone know a...

Over the weekend, reports have been piling up saying that iPhone syncing with iTunes doesn’t work for some users on Windows 7. The official Apple forums have several threads related to the issue , so it’s quite safe to assume the issue is real. Looking for a common denominator, it...

I'm using Vonage Companion and I have a Skype phone plugged into a USB port. For some reason when WIN 7 goes to sleep it drops the drivers for the phone. So I unplug it and plug it back into the USB port and it would work fine. Later I found out I could go to the control panel. Click on Hardware...

When I installed Windows 7 on top of XP, it seems that my audio drivers were just not found, and the audio icon appears with a big red X. I click this red X in order to see if it can solve the issue, but it does not, and returns a "hardware changes may not have been detected". Device manager...

Hi, I have an HP Pavilion dv2000 with HP DV-TV Express 32 TV card that worked fine in Vista. I have upgraded to Win 7 (home premium) and now have a problem. MCE loads but when I select 'setup TV signal' it displays the TV card correctly but the I get the Blue Screen of Death... Any Ideas...

Hi Thanks to all that thay are giveing great information to make better windows 7 ..;) so know my problem that in computer there is no icon for my usb hdd ,,in system manager there is in hard drive section placed ,also in other sytem like windows xp or vista usb hard drive working fine ,, please...

Hello, Ive been searching for months for a solution to my problem but unfortunately ive been unable to solve this. So i thought id try here. I bought 2 sets of gaming headphones, one for myself and one for my girlfriend. I did this because i work away and its much cheaper to talk...

Couple of issues I'm having with WindowsLink Removed 7 if anyone can shed some light; Every time I restart my pc my default audio playback device reverts to the hdmi output of my 4870 card, I change it, restart, same story. When I play a blu ray disc through powerdvd, Windows 7 reverts to...

I recently went from Vista 32-bit to Windows 7 32-bit on my Acer 5536g laptop and I can't for the life of me get the DVD burner to work. It worked fine on Windows Vista: I used Windows DVD Maker to encode and burn DVDs to watch on my DVD player. However, after having switched to Windows 7...

Hey guys im just gonna go straight to the point every time i tried to transfer a file or run a programme that requires quite a lot of ram, Excluding games. it frezzes then the wireles usb gets stuffed up,disconnects from the internet and the device itself was not found . it fixes it self for...

my pavilion dv7-1247cl came with this remote and after installing windows 7 i cant use it how can i get it to work

Hello everyone, this will be my first post, and I had this issue with vista and there was a fix prepared by microsoft but nothing I can fine for Windows 7. THE PROBLEM: OS installed no issues, did a cleaning of the system to find later that my DVD drivers and processor are not seen by the...

I recently had some bad sectors on my hard drive, and corrupted my Vista which made me install windows 7. I had installed Windows 7 by booting to disk. After I installed Windows 7 I noiced my DVD RW does not appear when I log into Windows, although I can still boot up to cds... just wonering...