Hartismere

Hello peeps. Have tried the drivers from the Realtek site. They worked in a very, very, very,very,very sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow way slow way. So slow that I got kicked out of everything due to Timeouts, and, further, they only worked when there was a cloud in the sky. Rubbish. Total crap. So I have made a decision. Despite spending money, again to line the pockets of the multi-billionaire Gates - who is giving money to charities, but whose rubbish systems do not flipping work,and that is where ho should be spending his money, I'm dissing Windows 7. It is rubbish. Total rubbish, and I am now and evermore doing XP. Because in XP things WORK. Nothing in either Vista or 7 works. FACT! I thank you greatly for your time, but your time would have been better spent lobbying the scumbag Gates to make his rubbish systems WORK! I've got a winbdbobwbs - it's rubbish - wbibnbs 7 disk for sale. Anyone want to buy something that DOESN'T WORK? Unlikely. Windows 7 meet Windows Vista -you are SO alike. You both don't work!!!

Hello, peeps, and thanks for responses. Bit embarrassing this but... It appears that the Win7 driver on the Micronet site might be for a PCIE card and not PCI. I have absolutely no idea why this should be relevant. I would have thought the driver would write the specifics and then use system calls to affect the different bus architecture, surely that's what an Operating System is there for - to make things easier? . Anyway, this aspect is not yet confirmed, I am waiting for a further response from Micronet. But surely you'd reasonably expect a different bus device to be given a slightly modified name - just stick an E on the end perhaps, or change the appended v. Whatever, there was absolutely no way of knowing that this was for a different card bus, until installation. Even more interesting, though... After failing to install the card in 7 I reinstalled XP - just to be able to search for information and advice. In the meantime a gentleman from Micronet had replied to my intitial enquiry about 64-bit compatibility saying it would be fine with 64-bit, but the he added: "In addition, Windows 7 should have > the necessary drivers built-in for this chipset already, so it should work > without any problems." This is odd. Why would they write a new driver for a PCIE card and not for a PCI card? Hope he replies. So, if he is correct and the system does indeed have the drivers for that chipset, where are they, and how can I use them? (He's right in one respect at least, the card is 2005, and so I would expect that the chipset had been recognised and the drivers absorbed. (Would my refusal to allow updates affect this? See Automatic Updates always start immediately. When I turn on the computer, I do so to do something Immediately, and I don't want anything to to waste hours, or even minutes, downloading and installing. If these things waited until the mouse and keyboard had been idle for ten to fifteen minutes I would go with it. I only ever do updates when I've done what I switched on to do, and am now going to make tea. or de-flea the cat.)) Someone elsewhere directed me to Realtek's site where there are drivers for Win 7 but none of the text files give any indication if they are suitable for 64-bit or for PCI. I see Win7 and I see x64\x86, but no indication of difference OS or card bus. Looks like I'm going to have to experiment a bit. (Hopefully, one of you very nice, and very special geniuses will supply an answer beforehand. If you don't, of course, your name will be mud.) In answer to your appreciated responses - but, remember, my whole starting point might be spurious if the driver is only for a PCIE card...also, I'm now running XP again, and can't check 7 easily. cannie. 1. NO, the motherboard is not involved. This is a separate PCI WLAN adapter. I did, though, go straight to the Card Manufacturer's site and downloaded from there. I am always reluctant to go to the Driver manufacturer's site as we consistently get dire warnings about doing that - they are generic and can cause more problems than they solve, etc. 2. That's the reason I went for 64-bit. I want all my memory to be recognised (4 Gig system, 1 Gig Graphics, (2 Gig Swapfile and 2 Gig Thingy boost on a 4 Gig SD card). (Good Idea??) ExTruckie. Take your word for that. Clearly something not happy. It is very wrong. Can't do a cable hook up. Geography all wrong. Would involve moving my entire system to another part of the house, and I need to connect wirelessly from where I am, so I either solve this or go back to XP. No other choices exist. Tripredacus. 1. As I said, it shows up as a Realtek device and not a Micronet device - which I with my limited experience find odd, but it insists that all is fine - Working properly, no conflicts. 2. DCHP. I definitely recall that it told me that DCHP was not installed\selected\working properly, or something. The DCHP bit was not OK. But, if I had been given some choice to affect that and make it better I would have experimented and changed tons of stuff. But all was not well there at the DCHP. As I say, I'm hoping the guy from Micronet gets back to me, so I expect no further responses until I resume. Any input is welcome, obviously, but you may well be wasting your time answering my first post- (PCI or PCIE card), and I don't want to do that to you. There is a driver for the chipset on the Realtek site which says it's for XP/VISTA/7. I've looked at the various text files contained in the zip file, and Win7 is mentioned, but I want to wait a bit until some advice comes back a lot clearer - it's a slow install, is 7 for some reason - XP takes seconds. But I do appreciate your taking the time to bother. Incidentally, there is absolutely tons of stuff online elsewhere about wireless probs with 7, but surprisingly very little on MSFN. Thanks muchly, H.

Hello, I have just installed Windows 7, 64-bit. Clean install, not an upgrade. I cannot now get online via the wireless router. No problem with previous Operating System - XP. I have searched the net for advice, but nothing has worked. I still get, "Unidentified network", "No internet access", "No network access", and "the connection was unsuccesfull" notifications. I have tried everything that other users suggest worked for them, but nothing works for me. In case you are wondering, I'm typing this and entering this forum using an old XP laptop which is happily wirelessly accessing the same connection that I can't on my desktop system. I have not installed any programs. I am working just with this clean install of the OS, so all of the "solutions" that involved removing files or stopping processes installed by other programs were irrelevant, and nothing else has proven effective. Left alone, the Realtek RTL8185 Wireless LAN Utility is displaying my IP Address as 169.254.167.136. This is not correct. It also lists the Gateway as 0.0.0.0, which is also clearly wrong. I have changed the IP Address and related settings to the correct ones in the TCPIPv4 section of the Windows "Connection Properties", and used the Google DNS settings; 8.8.8.8, and 8.8.4.4, and although the the Realtek "utility" will now show the correct IP details, the connection still fails. There is no way of changing anything using the Realtek Config Utility. It offers just one and one only interactive button, "ReNew IP", but that just wipes the addresses for a second or two and then re-displays them exactly the same as before. Not much of a utility, really; just a supplier of information - mostly incorrect. Despite being unable to get online, when I hover the mouse-pointer over the Realtek bar graph icon in the Tray, it tells me that the Realtek Wireless LAN is connected to {my connection}. Curiously, though, even though it is telling me it is connected, and while the "utility" offers me signal strength and link quality bar graphs, it will not let me access the router from a browser (IE), which I have done on several occasions prior to Win 7, and can swiftly do from this old XP laptop. The Windows Troubleshooting bits have not been very helpful, simply offering, "Wireless Network Connection does not have a valid IP Address" - before I changed it. I have reset something using CMD\reset winsock something something, following online advice. This worked inasmuch as the reset command was successfully executed - it told me so, but a reboot revealed the same nonsense. When I first used this PCI WLAN (PCI is the motherboard's BUS slot, WLAN means Wireless Local Area Network) card about 18 months ago, I installed everything - drivers and utility. However, I never once got online using the Realtek (then XP) Config Utility. I always had to navigate to a Windows tick box to Allow Windows to manage the wireless connection - can't remember the exact path and texts. Eventually, the Windows-manage Tick box remained ticked, and I stopped the Realtek prog from loading, and remained happily online - until now. It appears that that particular, useful little Windows facility is not available in 7 - at least I can't find it. I did try disallowing the current (Win 7) Realtek prog from starting up, but that just blanked everything to do with internet access, though as a newbie to 7, I might have missed something. Is there a way to let Windows manage the connection? Control Panel\System\Device Manager\Network Devices is showing two entries; 1. NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller 2. Realtek 8185 Extensible 802.11b/g Wireless Device 1. Not sure that this appeared in the XP installation. But, just not sure. Can only prove by reinstalling XP. But that's looking very likely, anyway. I have disabled it. Makes no difference. 2. Absolutely certain that this is different. The XP installation offered information here by card manufacturer not by driver manufacturer, and appeared as "Micronet SP906GKxx...". No mention of Realtek. I downoaded the Windows 7 driver from the Micronet site, not the Realtek site. I have also uninstalled both of these and let Windows find them and reinstall them. Nada. I've trawled every information section offered by Windows, and there is nowhere any mention of the actual card, and CMD\ipconfig lists every instance of any "adapter" as "Media disconnected". Drivers up-to-date. Card well-seated. Connections secure. Have removed and reinstalled the card twice. Any ideas hugely appreciated. Many thanks. (To add insult to injury... A new icon just appeared in the tray - hovering over it produced "Solve PC issues: 1 important message". I clicked it and it said, "Find an antivirus program online (important)"... Would that I could.)

Hi, This is driving me up the wall. Error message... AUDIO DEVICE ON HIGH DEFINITION AUDIO BUS Yellow exclamation mark in Device Manager. I have been searching for a solution for this error for ages. I have visited many, many forums, and used many, many search engines. Nothing works. I have visited the sites of the motherboard maufacturer (AMD ECS), and of the device manufacturer (Realtek), and MicroSoft. Nothing works. Nothing will solve this error message. Today I tried again, and was directed to a Microsoft place. I actually, stupidly, held out hope. Fool I am. I downloaded the MS file, and then, as if in insult and with laughter, the **** thing required a password! Nowhere was I informed that a password was required! Nor was I given one. It was never mentioned. I finally got it to run just by ignoring everything and continuing to press Continue. But, guess what... It didn't work. I went into the Realtek logo in the System tray and found a long list of drivers and files associated with the thing. I found each and every one, copied them to a new folder and tried again. I pointed the Found New Hardware at that directory, and, guess what? IT DIDN'T WORK. I'm sizzling. You could light a cigarette off me. Why is this so difficult to resolve? Why is it happening? And why does NO ONE know how to cure it? Not even the manufacturer? Not even the manufacturer? This is appalling. Does anyone out there actually know what is going on here? And does anyone know how to resolve it - how to get rid of that yellow exclamation mark in Device Manager? I am sick of following failed instructions and links and programs. Pleeeeeeease, before you post make sure your solution actually works, because I am totally fed up trying stuff that always fails, and 100% of a million have so far failed. Fed up, Bob

Hello, I've wandered around the site searching for a definitive answer to this, but the wandering just continues. My system is self-built. I'm running XP SP3. In Device Manager I'm getting the dreaded yellow question mark, under "Other Devices",/"Audio Device on High Definition Audio Bus". Many responses exist, but all are vague and unspecific in their reference. Some refer to HP, some to other manufacturers, some offer Realtek, and some offer AC97. Like, we know the difference. If we knew the difference we wouldn't be here asking the question. Think about it. How can anyone glean useful information from such a plethora of stuff? All refer to separate devices. How do we know which device is being referred to? That information is not provided in the Device Manager message. If you suggest that the user should know which device is being referred to, consider this... I have installed and run an infosys program - quite detailed and, to my knowledge mostly correct. But it offers... Sound Sound chip vendor Nvidia Corp Sound Chip nForce 430(MCP61)High Definition Audio AC'97HDA Codec Name Realtek ALC662-GR Sound Chip Vendor ATI Technologies Inc Sound Chip RV730XT Audio Devbice (Radeon HD 4670) AC'97/HDA Codec Name ATI R600 HDMI (Unable to get the layout I wanted, hope the emboldened face will indicate which is title and which is result.) So, it appears I have two audio chipsets. One Nvidia, and one Realtek. Why? And why would anyone expect there to be two audio chips in the one motherboard? One wouldn't except if one lived in Wonderland, or drank too much. Why two chipsets? And so, how can we possibly know which the error is referring to when it (Microsoft/Device Manager) doesn't tell us. Madness. And why doesn't it tell us more than it does. The information given in Device Manager is meagre, and of no practical use. All posters are getting the same message despite them experiencing the problem from many different machines. The other problem, of course, and with respect, is that most people responding do not understand what it is to not understand, and they assume that the poster has a clue. If you post you must answer all questions, including the unasked ones, that's what distinguishes a good teacher froma a bad one. Always assume that the questioners understand nothing, not even how to make tea. Start from scratch. So many posts offer do this, do that, without ever once explaining HOW one does this or does that. If you tell someone to do this or do that, please make sure that you clearly explain HOW they do this or do that. Or you post will be meaningless. So, weve got a manufacturer that screwed up with the installation disc and failed to account for two chips, apparently, then we've got the the evidence of two sound chips, which is of itself baffling, then we've got a message from Microsoft's Device Manager which tells us nothing, and then we've got people who clearly assume we understand the system thoroughly, as they don't clearly explain themselves. No wonder these threads just go elsewhere and go on and on and on. I have trawled the net for quite some time looking for a way to remove that yellow question mark. Nothing, Nada!. Too much fluff. And so, what do you think? Anyone have a clue as to how we solve this problem. I've given you the parameters for response. Don't tell me to do something without giving full instructions; don't ask me for information without giving me full instructions about how I go about gathering that information. Leave no holes. Many thanks. Hope you are well. B.

Hello, I've recently been trying to speed up XP. Went to a lot of sites looking for tweaks. Found a few apparently reliable ones, and cross-thingyed a few until I got a set of agreed good tweaks. Then I did them all. Not one at a time. I know, but all that re-booting is very tedious. Anyway, my machine is so much faster - both on-board and internet. But... Following this my joy turned a little bit sour. I ran Medal of Honour Allied Assault, and ... no video. Sound's there, but no picture. Question, then, is what would make me lose video? If you lot can't come up with some targetted points, then I will just have to try and undo as many tweaks as I can remember - or reinstall. But maybe some of you will have some idea as to what might make the video disappear. Hey, isn't this what we're here for? Soz. But thanks. Oh. Tried seeking updates for drivers. Nada. Mobo is GeForce 6100PM-M2, and even when I get that file it tells me it cannot find any suitable hardware for the drivers, and then closes. So I can't even update the drivers. Tut. No, actually, Flipping big TUT! Grateful for any help/ideas.

Thanks for all the replies. It wasn't actually a "Backup" situation, simply the way windows responds in that situation. But, I am very familiar with DOS - sigh - happiness - but only in some situations. I remember trying to get a hand scanner to work with DOS. Took me and the college's tech assistant days and days. But I used DOS's Sort to prepare a book 'cos Windows version is wrong. Anyway, I'm not absolutely certain that Shift/No works, but it seems to. Will do more definitive tests soon. Buuuuuuut, got another one. Also when copying or moving multiple files, if windows meets a file it can't, for any reason, Copy or Move, it jumps out of the whole process. I doesn't just flag that file and continue, or offer an "Ignore" button, it actually refuses to continue the whole process, which is very annoying. We have to try each file individually to find those causing the problem. Windows should, clearly, have written the routine to flag and list ornery files, but still continue the process. Another error. But, anyone know how to force the process to continue? In the case of Move, we would simply be left with a directory view that showed those files unable to be copied and deleted. Copy would pose different problems. There are so many of these little niggles that I wonder if the techs at ms actually take notes. "Oooh, must sort that Copy thing out.", "Oooh, that Move thing didn't work, must talk to Bill." , instead, they probably say, "Oh, sodit, never mind, let's just sell the thing anyway as it is, faulty, illogical, wrong. We'll just say it's user-inadequacy, whose to know? Not the user, ha, they're inadequate." Would it not be wonderful if this site, and all other windows-users problem-solving sites did not exist. I think so. So many Operating Systems from ms, and so many sites seeking solutions to ms OS problems still. Speaks volumes. The next decent OS from ms should be 100% FREE to all those with any Genuine copy of any previous OS from ms. Anything else is just usuary and theft. (It must, though, also contain NO, absolutely, NO messages from the awful UAC stuff. I can't believe that this computer thinks it controls me. This PC is no different from an electric drill, simply a tool that I own. If my drill started requiring me to input passwords, or prove ownership, I'd smash it to bits with a sledgehammer, and then demand my money back for the inconvenience, and get a lawyer to sue for hospital costs.) Sorry, just a tiny rant, there. Lord, I hate ms and UAC. Anyone disagree, fine, go to another post. The question was: Also when copying or moving, if windows meets a file it can't, for any reason, Copy or Move, it jumps out of the whole process. I doesn't just flag that file and continue, it actually refuses to continue, which is very annoying. Anyone know how to force windows to ignore those problem files and continue the process? Cheers.

Hello, I do all my backups to external drives manually - never used a backup program, I must remain in control at all times. When I am Copying or Moving I always meet the same dialogue box when the process encounters a file with the same name as that being copied/moved. Here I have the options to overwrite, not overwrite, and also, "YES TO ALL". Fine, but what I mostly want is, "NO TO ALL". This would mean that all the questionable files are not automatically overwritten, and when the MOVEing process has completed I will be left with a list of files that I can check manually to see if they are actually the same. This, I think, should have been offered long before "Yes to all", as this latter overwrites regardless, which is dangerous. Does anybody know how I can add this feature to that window? I know I can simply hold down the "N" key, but some transfers take a lot of time, and I got other things to do. Good site, by the way. Found several useful solutions and answers. Hope I can supply a few of my own. Paul.