I have a new ProStar notebook computer and I noticed that processors section
in Device Manager shows two instances of the installed processor.
So far as I know there is only one processor in this notebook.
Anybody have any idea why two processors are listed?

My set up is a Scsi Hard Drive with Adaptec Card in new box I need a formatting utility to format the scsi Can anyone recommend?
went to install XP and it can't format the scsi drive I can see the HD so the card is workin Adaptec said XP SP1 has the bios drivers but when i try to ...

Can anyone please help. I have a 256Mb USB flash disk key
and I'm running WinXP Pro. However, my machine is only
recognizing the key at 24mb and I can't really work it
out.

I really need help. So if you have a solution give me a
response.  I had windows ME home on my computer.  I am a
Computer science major and my school allow us to get free
copies of Windows XP professional version. I need Windows

To All:
Upgraded my HD from 10GB to new 80GB which the bios did
not reconize. Used the dos boot disk to idenify as a 33.8
drive. Everything working fine but will I ever be able to

I've recently installed WindowsXP Pro and now my sound
does not work. I had purchased my computer with ME on it
and my sound worked fine without me having to configure
anything. I don't see why my sound does not work anymore.

I just installed XP Pro. I also installed a second sound
card (manufactured by Digidesign). I use my computer in
my music studio. All of my music programs I use show the
Digidesign sound card in the in each individual sound

talk to people with real knolage microsoft never comes on
this forum except for me
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Any Ideas on what might cause my computer to hang before
even the BIOS screen every time I turn it on? When I
powered up my box thismorning, It started to fire up, I
heared the CDROM and Hard Drives start to whirr, and then

At home I have a desktop system with Win XP Home - it is hard wired to my
wireless access point router (Netgear MR 314) which is wired to the cable
modem.(Comcast in MD.)
I also have a notebook( Toshiba Satellite 1905-S301) that also has Win XP

How long is this monitor going to last?  Have been using
this monitor since win3.1 days....used with win98 and now
with winXP.  Do not want new monitor until this one fails.

Apologies in advance if this is not the appropriate group
for this post.
I am running Win XP and recently acquired the wireless
optical mouse.

How can I check to see if I have a bad fan?  I have a
grinding noise from tower when I open/save files in
Word.   It was suggested I check the fan.

I am helping in the development of a shareware program and we would
like to find a way to link our registration codes to the physical
machines our software is installed on.
We need a reliable way to tell if the machine our software is run on is

I have just purchased a Fujitsu Siemens laptop Lifebook
C1020. I have installed broadband software to run a BT
Voyager 100 modem which is external and draws its power
from the USB port. Unfortunately this does not maintain