Thats another strange thing, the restore only went back to the 26/8/07 and
not to the 25/8/07 when it was installed (unless i'm missing something). Do
you think a registry cleaner or anti virus software may sort my mess out?
"Engel" wrote:
Quote:
> As always, you should make sure that you have got a working system restore
> point before you run any test or installatiºn.
>
> Use the System Restore utility in Windows to reset the OS to a time and date
> point prior to the installatiºn.
>
> I hope this post is helpful.
>
> Let us know how it works ºut.
> -- ---
>
> "TeXaS*pEtE" wrote:
> Quote:
> > Greetings, i've had Vista ultimate 32-bit now for a few weeks and its been
> > going great. This last weekend I installed Daemon tools and ever since my
> > system has been freezing up completely, and I'm having to power off to get
> > the damn thing to do anything. Since this happened the first time my working
> > DVD drive vanished! and I was left with the virtual drive E: (my dvd drive
> > having been d: I thought it must be Daemon tools, so I there fore
> > uninstalled it as i thought it might be the virtual drive. But no! The
> > virtual drive E: vanished then leaving me with an unknown DVD drive F:?????
> > Now after swapping the around the dvd drive wiring inside the cpu, it has
> > once more returned! But I'm still left with this F: drive. I managed to
> > uninstall this useless drive and everything was fine, until later on the cpu
> > froze AGAIN! I powered off, re-booted and shock horror The f: drive is back!
> > along with my working D: DVD drive!
> >
> > I am still getting random crashes and mainly freezing of my system. Can
> > anybody shed any light? I'm pretty sure its the DVD drive and Daemon Tools
> > causing it (Even though its uninstalled). I did also notice when I was
> > searching for hardware changes when I lost the DVD drive the first time,that
> > it froze the system up as well. This other drive f: appears as LITE-ON then
> > a load of numbers & letters and it says its a cdrom drive.
> >
> > My system is as follows:
> >
> > Processor: intel core duo E6600
> > Motherboard: nforce 680i sli
> > Memory: 2GB corsair twinX XMS2
> > Graphics card: 768mb Gainward 8800GTX
> > Hard Drive: 250 Gb Western Digital WD2500KS Caviar SE16, SATA300, 7200 rpm,
> > 16MB Cache, 8.9 ms
> > 1.44Mb Sony Black Floppy Disk Drive OEM
> > Bog standard DVD drive (make escapes me! but nothing fancy)
> > LN18713 - DVD writer - £20.20(x2 because its so much better having 2)
> > Windows vista ultimate 32-bit
> >
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> >