In my machine on the primary ribbon cable I have a new master 250GB hard
drive upon which I have installed Vista.
As the slave on the same ribbon I have my old XP boot disc, which is still
bootable if I change the primary device in the BIOS to be IDE1

Ok I asked posted this problem about a month ago in the XP forum but
didn't get many answers and was told that It was in the wrong forum so
here's the 'link '
(http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=874511)to the page.

Hi, After about 10 minutes of me being on my laptop, a message appears
telling me the Alps Pointing Device has stopped working and that it had to
close. This then disables the scrolling function on the right hand side of
the touchpad. The only way i can get it to start working ...

I have a custom Flash Drive.  It works great in 90% of computers, but in the
other 10% it has two problems:  1) it randomly resets the computer (no blue
screen!), and 2) will not allow a boot (stuck on the PC logo before the drive
boots).

We are upgrading our Dell systems to Vista Ultimate in this branch office.
Then, roll out to other offices across Southern California.
The display adapter in the systems are Nvidia GeForce FX5500 (drivers is
Microsoft WDDM). We are taking the old Dell system's adapters Dell Nitro ...

After installing important/recommended Windwos updates on my Dell Inspiron
XPS, Windows can't find the broadband connection via my router (another PC is
still connected to the internet via the same router). After System Restore,
the network connection is re-established. What is ...

 I get this error message : hardware error :1024 what do I need to do to
rectify this please.
regards      aga

Yesterday I bought the Lifecam vx-1000, as I was looking for a new
webcam for Vista. The installation was no problem. However, as soon as I
tried to use the programme of the webcam the problems started. The
programme was crashing all the time and just doesn't work fine. The

I'm running Vista Ultimate.  Recently, when installing a new program that
requires reading from more than one CD or DVD, when I remove the first disk
to put in the second disk, I get an error message: "Windows-No Disk,
Exception Processing Message",  followed by 0xc0000013 ...

I've read all of the "I'm not seeing all of the 4GiB of ram" articles and
none of them seem to match my problem.  I have 2 sticks of 2GiB ram (Mushkin)
installed in dual-channel.  The bios on my mainboard (EVGA) recognizes all
4GiB of it, so that isn't the problem.  I'm running ...

Anybody know why my lcd screen would lose signal while the computer is in
sleep mode (sleep, not hibernation or any of the other options)?  If I put
the system in sleep mode, I have to reboot my system in order for my monitor
to receive signal again.  I have an acer 2223w and an ...

i have a 4Gb USB Flash disk that originally formated with FAT file system,
but windows recommended to format it with FAT32.
my Question is that FAT file system is FASTER than FAT32 for USB flash disks?
Thanks...

Prior to installing Windows Vista, I was able to drag (camera) pictures from
the desktop or document onto a new document (In this case, Newsletter).  
Doesn't work now.  Also, camera pictures placed on desktop are labelled
SHORTCUT.  I'm confused and my hands are tied.  HELP, ...

Hello,
I just have a few questions about Media Center in Vista. I'm running Home
Premium.
First: I subscribe to Comcast HD, and want to get HD into MC. Can I just

My sound was working perfectly and then I inserted the Upgrade Your Windows
Vista Experience disk.  A red X appeared next to the speaker icon on my thing
tray.  When I click on it it says "no audio output device is installed".  Did
the disk wipe out my "audio output device"?   ...