After upgrading from Windows Vista or from Windows XP you will find out that the sound doesn’t work.

Like me, you have tried all the drivers available on the internet: XP sound drivers, Vista 32bit or Vista 64bit sound drivers. Still, no luck.

On a forum, I have found a post about a tool that enables the sound for Vista.

The name, obviously, is “Sound Utility to Turn Mute Off”.

The link to the tool:

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/downloadDetail.jsp?soid=1671893&pf=true

Let me know if this helped you, it did worked for me in Windows 7 x64.

EDIT: The step was required only when I have first time installed Windows 7. Second time I have installed Windows 7, the sound was working from the first boot.

USB stopped working, suddenly! F#uck! Nothing on USB is working, but it did! WTF can you do?

On MS support the KB articles are not offering a straight to the point solution for this.

So, I have searched the internet and after a few searches I have found this article (Google PR 3 page):

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/usb-device-not-recognized/

The answer is:

UNPLUG YOUR COMPUTER FROM THE POWER SUPPLY!!! and wait a few minutes to have all residual power consumed.

So, I did it.

And, it worked.

I had a 3 m USB cable extension for a USB WIFI adapter and, after removing it, is all good. It works!!!

Later edit:

This is a bit extreme, it still works if you shutdown the computer, unplug the power cord, push the buttons of the computer a few times, plug-in USB devices and wait for a minute or so.

One cause of this may be the grounding of the appliances, high density of wireless devices, unshielded USB cable, or, a combination of these.

My buddy with the gmail account problems in Outlook 2007 said today that the Word’s behavior is odd and the mouse cursor is switching fast between edit vertical line (text select) and the hour glass.

Investigating and applying different solutions including complete reinstall, rename Normal.dot or delete Data and Options sections from registry, uninstalling using revo uninstaller didn’t fixed the problem.

So, I went back to forums and after half an hour of reading I have found that the default printer may cause this problem.

Setting (the) other printer as default one or uninstalling it fixed the problem.

Now I have to find other/better drivers because each time when he will need to print something from Word he will need to select another printer.

Of course OpenOffice has no problems at all

I searched all over the internet (actually a few hours) for these drivers to use them when installing Windows XP on Myria D15NG-A3.

If you ever need them here there are:

LAN_PCI_Driver_XP_5719_11202009.zip
Modem_sla56-v4.20.01-mv-win2k-xp32bit.zip
ricoh R5C592
video_winxp_14324.exe
WLAN_IS_AP_STA_RT7x_D-1.3.5.0_VA-3.1.7.0_W7-4.0.3.0_RU-3.1.2.0_AU-3.0.3.0_082409_1.5.4.exe
AUDIO_WDM_R249.exe
chipset_infinst_autol.exe

Just say thanks if this helped you

Note: the files were scanned for viruses and the post time were clean. The files are presented as they were downloaded from the producer’s page.

On one day, suddenly, one of the XP computers didn’t wanted to start and entered in reboot loop.
After disabling the automatic reboot if an error occurs (press F8 after BIOS POST) we got the Stop c00000218 {Registry file failure} error for software registry file.

After running twice the chkdsk to fix errors on C partition, we still receive the error and the computer doesn’t want to start.
Manually verifying the software file showed us that the file is corrupt and the chkdsk didn’t helped much in fixing the problem. The file is located in an area containing bad sectors undetected by the chkdsk.

Before reinstalling Windows XP, I had an idea: Why not use registry backups from “System Restore” snapshots if any?
I saw many guys disabling System restore because it consumes lots of space on C drive.
This one, (still) has the System restore enabled and I could copy software from the previous day in C:\Windows\system32\config\ and boot successfully.

Another happy user .