external devices

Hi, I have an annoying problem with my win7 (on dell studio 1555 laptop) - I can't hear sound from exterior sound source plugged into line-in input (when I plug some mp3 player, guitar or any sampler). Strange thing is that when I go to control panel - sounds -> recording, then I can hear it...

Okay i have been using Windows 7 for approximately 10 months and it never gave me any trouble...i have using it all along as the beta versions rolled in to the final 7600 build. None gave me problems. But just a few days ago i rebooted my computer and then my windows 7 got stuck at a black...

I recently upgraded from Vista 32-bit to Windows 7 32-bit and have run into an issue with my USB ports. Basically, if I plug any device (notably a USB pen drive) which requires automatic installation by windows, all of the devices attached to USB ports go dead. In the device manager, all of the...

Has anybody else had startup freezes after running Windows Update? I started having problems after the Oct securtity updates. It isn't always the same I had a fault on my built in card reader in device manager in external devices. I finally got that fixed then there was one from one of my 2...

I'm trying to connect my HV20 to my laptop via firewire. When I plug it in, I don't get tones or any notification from Windows that it sees my camera. I know it's not the port as I've connected an external HDD via firewire to that port and it was found. I tested the camera on a different...

Hello everyone, I installed win7 yesterday and just finished setting everything up the way I wanted it. I’ve only had to shutdown/restart a few times so far. The first time shutdown took so long I just lost patience with it and held the power button. The second time was last night, I...

Anyone have trouble getting a Magic Jack telephony device working in Win 7? So far when I plug it in, it acts like it will initialize, then fails and says I need to plug it into the USB port. I tried latest chipset drivers, but no go. :rolleyes: Magic Jack website is useless. Sounds similar...

After installing the windows 7 RC, the keyboard, trackpoint, and wireless were not working on my Lenovo X60 tablet (external devices would work, but I could not even turn the wireless device on). This is apparently a problem with many lenovo machines discussed on this forum, and I thought I'd...

When I tried to install Windows 7 Beta, an error screen pop out with this error. It says its some kind of I/O error and one of my external devices may be causing it. However, I'm not sure which, since the only external devices I have are the mouse, keyboard and monitor. >.> Through a bit...