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anybody have any ideas on what is happening with Vista when the optical drive will just stop working? Device manager shows the driver is not...

I installed Win Vista a couple of days ago and everything was fine, but since early today my dvd drives stopped working. (I guess it was after I installed Nero 7, but Im not sure). It's an old driver LG 4160B ATA, I checked the device manager and it...

I'm finding that the first time I look at my "Computer" folder, everything is shown correctly. However, if I then close the folder and re-open it, only "MTP device" is shown. It doesn't show any of my hard disks, or DVD drives. The green "progress" bar in the folder keeps going, but it never shows any more content, and the green bar never manages to actually complete. All the drives are still working OK and can be access directly (e.g. by opening a folder to "C:\").

Anyone know why this might be?

Lee.

On a newly constructed system (Asus P5B Deluxe, Core 2 Duo, 3 RAID 5 drives, one SATA boot disk, 2 mb RAM, Pioneer DVR-112D DVD/CD writer connected via IDE cable and jumpered to Master) system install was progressing fine until I installed a Vista...

HiI upgraded from the Vista Business that was installed on my laptop to Vista Ultimate and the sound stopped working. The device manager shows the SigmaTel driver is working and the speaker icon on the taskbar is showing ok but there is no sound...