My monitor is a Gateway VX900 (re-branded Phillips) - XP
detects it as a generic PnP 19" monitor and restricts
refresh rates to 85Hz.
Latest driver from Gateway's website is detected as older

I am having a problem with the CD Roms not being noticed
XP has been on my computer for a year now and this has
just started to happen can any one help me with this
issue   thanks bill

While doing a "repair" reinstall of XP Pro my mouse froze
up. The install completed and my desktop looks exactly as
before but the mouse is still frozen.
Would appreciate any ideas on solving this problem besides

All right I have tried EVERYTHING!!  I was running XP
fantastically on my system but it was getting time to up
grade the motherboard (I have done this before with no
problems).  So I installed the new board and reformatted

Is there any downloads I can get.  Thankyou

i'm running xp pro on my machine and am wondering can one
use pure dos mode in xp? like maybe put in a dos 6.2
bootdisk. The issue realy is i want to install system
commander but need to boot in dos with cd support, how do

I was running XP Pro from the boot and during the format and partition phase it froze at 97% complete.  After 1 1/2 hours I reset the system, but now the computer will not read that drive at all.  The XP system set up will allow me to modify my slave drive, and it recognizes that ...

I have just installed a secondary HD in my machine; WinXP
finds it great, installs it, but will not assign a drive
letter to it.  It is in device manager, and seems to be
working fine according to Windows.

ive got a wireless optical mouse, when ive been using my
computer for about 5 minutes my mouse starts moving
around the screen by itself and opening up various
programmes...i know its just my wireless mouse because my

I must have turned off the auto play for CD ROM drive E:
how do I restore this

I have an 80gb hd in a removable caddy. I update files
between a dell 400mhz and an ibm 2.4ghrz. After updating
files, I get an error on the 2.4ghrz during post stating "
hard drive is now locked. enter password to continue (you

I recently bought a USB external hard drive and notice that
whenever I have it turned on it causes a cracking sound
when I play music (or generate sound, eg with text to
speech programs). Kind of like suddenly the music is being

I recently added a hard drive that had been in another
desktop.  It was running WindowXP.  I installed it to be
the slave drive (E).  My computer still boots up using the
WindowsXP operating system from my original drive (C).  

Not much here bout building yoiur own.  Anyone know of a
list or group which gets into that?  Thinking of small
form bare bones box that can be toted around the house
easily, sure a laptop might do but.....  

Problem:  Windows XP detects my printer, but Does not
print any documents, from any programs. I can print from
command propmt.  Also the external modem is detected and
installed, but cannot commnucate with it (either from COM1