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:) I'm glad you two straightened that out as I know you are both married. I would hate to have a talk with your wives.:p

No problem. I'm just trying to understand too. Things change.

Since your computer is running Vista and is so new I assume you have a SATA hard drive not an EIDE. Can anyone provide detailed steps on this? How do you connect and slave a SATA?

Proper music? My generation and Bobs defined rock and roll. :)

Thanks. Good to know. :)

Dalo is this ok with DDR?

Due to the expensive cost of real estate the Japanese tend to live in small quarters. It's just a fact of life for them. Instead they take pride in the little luxuries of their abodes. A main point being pride in their commodes. They have some very unique ones. So a toilet or commode is an integral prestige factor with them. Thus what we might consider an obsession is quite normal for them. Different strokes for different folks.

I would rather take my chances with a bear then a spider, bee or wasp. I'm extremely allergic to insect venom. Different creatures for different people.

Hi rowal: It seems I remember hearing something like that. I'll let others chime in but I think you might be right. Thanks.

An excellent point Daylo. It may be worth a shot. Blood do you have the CD's? Are you familiar with or have you ever installed drivers by this method? Dave, which option do you think best to try first? Running an exe is easier then reinstalling the drivers from a search or CD if that's an option but of course that would ensure the original drivers are correct. Let us know please Blood so we can finalize the best options for you.

I agree with Goku that it would be best to leave well enough alone if all is working right. Don't install for no reason. Most of the time it is best to get the card drivers from the card manufacturer but not always. With HP they tend to be the same ones based on my experience. With other OEM manufacturers they may be partnered with the card supplier and have a specific set for that OEM computer. But even then nothing is written in stone. I've seen it work the other way too. Dell comes to mind. (Long story)

Hi geoff; To expand and agree with what Dalo says about registry cleaners you may want to look at this registry cleaner discussion. that was started by maynardvdm

Goku could be onto something if certain codecs or codec packs are installed. See his #9 post. (malware codecs are a possibility too) I think the device manager shows all is ok Dave. See post #4 and #5. Of course we have seen that showing ok many times and a driver update resolves the issue. Using the Windows Update feature in Vista is a good idea to check for driver updates as Dave has pointed out. I would try his advice. As Wolfeymole stated you need to save the zip file to a location and use the Windows Extract function to unzip it. You can double click the file to open it and see the exe file and click on it but you can not install via that method. You need to right click the zip file after you save it and choose extract all. Then go to the extracted folder and run the exe file from there. You can not Open a zip file directly from a download link. You need to save it, extract it then run the exe from the extracted folder. All good points everyone.

Hi bledford; Where did you download the drivers? Nvidia downloads? The GeForce 7000 series latest driver is 175.19 Or did you download them from the HP site? There are a lot of 6000 series. Which one is yours?

Hi wardy; What version of Windows and Media player do you have? Are these video files, a dvd or streaming video? Have you looked in Device Manager to see if there is a problem with the drivers. Have you tried a driver update?

Try updating the drivers.

Right click Computer and click Properties. Click on Device Manager. Click the + next to Sound to expand the tree. Is there any question marks there? What kind of audio device is listed?

Hi; What's the model number of the Advent? This might be a driver issue.

LOL It is a very large island isn't it? It definitely dwarfs most of Europe. How long would it take to do a complete "walk about"? LOL

That's not an island, that's a continent.

Just a blip. Anti malware vendors deal with this all the time. The bad guys won't go away and the good guys won't go away either.

Hi snooky. Glad to see you here.

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Hi Chilli; Can you get into Windows? I don't know if you are posting this from the infected PC.

I'm not exactly sure what you are saying. After running our suggested scans and your Mcafee scans did it come up clean or quarantine all the files? SpyBot is ok but SuperAntiSpyware is better. Did you run that too per our malware guide? After running all the scans are you still getting infection notices?