I was having some problems with my Compaq desktop pc running Windows ME. Eventually I gave up trying to fix all the problems, copied files I needed, etc., and did a factory restore. I then followed the suggestion to create a user backup, also tested it a few days later by doing a user restore. ...

Windows ME and I get the yellow down arrow under display adapter. When I go to update driver it states: "device is either not working properly or does not have all the drivers installed" This is the best adapter for this comuter (NVIDIA VANTA LT Compaq) but it will not accept driver updates. Also...

I have a flash card removable disk pluged into one of my usb ports. It had worked fine up until a few weeks ago. Now all of a sudden every time I select the "removable disk" to down load pictures to my computer it locks up my machine. I am running Window's ME. How can I fix this?

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IN DXDIAG (nostics), In the PROBLEM DEVICES I have 4 Messages like This: IRQ 0HOLDER for PCI STEERING PCI\IRQHOLDER\IRQ03 PCI\IRQHOLDER\IRQ0A PCI\IRQHOLDER\IRQ09 PCI\IRQHOLDER\IRQ0B In my systems properties my PCI devices are disabled but everything works seemingly fine. I have my USB ports ENABLED...

Hello, i am considering installing an extra sound-card (actually an audio production card) on a PCI card). My motherboard also has it's own onboard audio. My question is, I still want to use the motherboard's audio output, as well as the dedicated output on the PCI card. Will my audio apps...

Three hardware profiles exist on Sony PCG-XG700 laptop running Windows ME: Original Configuration, Docked and Undocked. Yet, when I boot up the PC I am not ever prompted to choose a hardware profile to boot into so I am unable to try different hardware profiles. How do I get the OS to give me...

Computer: Sony Vaio PCG-XG700 running Windows ME, w/ 256MB RAM, PIII 750MHz. Problem: The USB and Firewire ports do not work. In Device Manager Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller and Sony CXD 3222 OHCI i.LINK(IEEE 1394) PCI Host Controller both have a yellow exclamation mark...

While fine on a WXP machine, my WD USB drive is not recognised by Windows ME. The blue light (USB power) shines, the gree arrow in the system tray comes up (Disconnect Hardware icon) come up, and in the Device Manager the USB Drive is fine as well. But in Explorer, no USB drive comes up. What do I...

Hi all, A friend of mine has the message 'Disk not ready - System halted' and a black screen during start up. This has only happened twice in the last 2 days, no sign of a problem before that. I'm not sure whether we should be starting to panic re HDD pending failure or not... TIA, Willy

Does it matter which connection is used for the Microsoft optical mouse with intellipoint software?? TIA

I have recently been given a wireless mouse which is for windows 2000 or windows XP. Is there a way to enable this for use on Windows Me. When I try to install the software, I get message---"not the proper operating system for this product".

I have a problem with the installation of the Asus wl 100- g wireless lan card on my laptop (win ME, P2 350Mhz, 350 RAM). After the installation Windows gives an error, hardware not functioning properly, or driver missing. Reinstall does not solve this. Conflict with ME, driver is said to be...

In outlook the phone number I enter are formated like this : +32 (2) 411.87.49. The problem is it's also stored like that in the QTEK using windows mobile 5. However if I want to phone with such a number my telco doesn't understand this, it expects something like +3224118748. Is there a way to...

I have a hard drive that had Windows ME on it. I think it got a virus on it and now it won't boot. I've put it in another computer and the computer recognizes the hard drive, but it says I/O Disk Error when it tries to boot from it. I really need to get some files off of this drive. Is there...

It's all gone. No TCP/IP--nothing. It just disappeared. So naturally I can't connect to the internet to download Adaware so that I can remove the spyware that's causing all kinds of problems on my friend's computer. Printed the How to troubleshoot modems in Me (253633), but wondered if there might...

I need a new drive letter to operate my camera ( USB ). I don't know how to assign a new drive letter. Anyone help?

Recently "installed" USB Camera but keep getting message "Cannot find VFW Driver". The camera came with it's own CD which has it's seperate section, - install device driver -, which obviously I have installed, but with no results. I am trying to work with PhotoImpression 3 and VideoImpression 1.6...

I cannot use my scandisk, when I try the message says that you cannot check this drive because the disk is not properly formatted. I cannot defrag my system, the message says the system is locked. Any ideas?????

Hi, I have just installed a Multi Ports PCI to USB 1.1/2.0 card on my sister's comp. She has Windows ME but I can't find the driver for it. The card doesn't have any drivers with it. The box does say that I can get my driver from Windows ME. Can anyone tell me where I can locate the driver from....