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Tip On Installing An Olympus VN-960PC Digital Voice Recorder

I hope the following helps others, as I found similar complaints (with no fix) out on the web.

I just bought two Olympus VN-960PC Digital Voice Recorders--one for me (a re-manufactured one) and a brand new one for my son so he could record his college lectures and upload them to his computer.

I tried installing mine on an HP Pavilion 775y running Win XP Home Edition with no luck. I kept getting "a service installation section in this INF is invalid." I tried installing the recorder first; I tried installing the software first. No go.

I then tried installing it on an older Dell running WIN 98 and a newer Dell with XP Home Edition. Same problem. (I did install it successfully on a newer Dell with Win 2000 Pro.)

I called Olympus (because their website is totally worthless) and the guy I spoke with told me to drag the drivers folder from the CD onto my desktop and try again. Worked like a charm on both XP and Win 98.

Ah, The Sound Of...Nothing

My computer has been making a highly annoying sound this past week--so much so that I haven't been blogging.

Thanks to The Computer Hospital, I can now once again sit down at the computer without risking insanity.

Fast work (it was done in about an hour) and I got a discount because I had already diagnosed the problem.

Mike, you rock:)

Computer Noise

What's that strange sound your computer is making? Well, it just might be your hard drive. Check out Hitachi's Hard Disk Drive Knowledge Base; it has audio files at the bottom of the page to help you diagnose the problem.