Hi senthilit592 and welcome to the WindowsBBS community. Try the suggestion aciid has made. Let us know if you might be unsure or if you have...
Oh good. Windows and it's drivers need to interact very closely with the BIOS to control the sleep function. Windows passes control over to the...
Try updating the drivers, in particular the chipset drivers. ...and just a maybe, try going into the BIOS at startup and setting it to...
As a test I disabled the LAN controllers on my computer. They were under the heading Integrated Peripherals. You can try just setting "Defaults...
If you don't have any data on the drive, you could take the opportunity to get some experience in this area. The logical partitions may be still...
If anyone wants a comparison, my system appears about the same Have you tried connecting another computer to the modem? Alternatively, you might...
I've just thought of some thing(s). You could try making a smaller partition on the new drive, say maybe 950GB or even down to 500GB and see if it...
The onboard controller will be SATA I, which is the same speed as IDE/PATA, so if it says SATA II you should expect more speed.
That sounds like a strange address. They are usually low in the last 2 ranges, eg. 169.254.0.4 (although I haven't used a 169.... address for a...
The network controller drivers should be installed (although maybe malfunctioning), so if you want to reinstall them, go to Device Manager,...
If you are stuck you can get a SATA PCI controller card....
Sorry, I haven't seen the problem before. I can tell you how I would try to tackle it though. Run Error Checking on the Vista (main) drive. Look...
Thanks for thinking to mark it Resolved, it wasn't a thread that necessarily needed it, we stated our best information from our own point of view....
Well done! Thanks for letting us know.
Hi and welcome to the WindowsBBS community. First try turning off the firewall for testing. Check that you don't have more than one firewall...
Can you tell us more about Initio? I did a quick websearch and I could not see a link to computer hardware or HDDs.
I like UAC :p, it's a double-check in case I might be installing something I should think about twice. It was an absolute PAIN when I was setting...
Hi and welcome to the WindowsBBS community. Freezes are often linked with overheating. If the cooling fins inside the laptop are blocked you will...
Let us know what happens.
Maybe the switch has had some physical damage. That might be why it was off and now that it is on, you can't turn it off. The four places I can...
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