I have a problem with my USB FDD which is a Mitsumi model D353FUE. It
works perfectly well except when I disconnect it the whole system
crashes with a the BSD with the message "Bad_Pool_Caller" . I am
useing a laptop, P4 2.6gh, 512mb DDRSD Ram, and 40gb HD. I am running

I just upgraded from 98 to XP.  Now i have no sound,
everything says operating correctly.  I have creative
sound blaster.  Volumes are all turned up.  HELP!!
Thanks

How come every time i try to use my usb v1 device in my new 865PE Neo-LS
motherboard bios v1.9 it locks up my whole pc instantly? the device is a
barcode scanner by metrologic model: ms9540 POS. the physically same scanner
works fine on another machine that runs the same operating ...

The USB ports on our computer won't work unless you have the printer on when you turn on the computer or turn the printer on and then restart the computer.  We have updated the bios, printer driver, windows xp, etc.  Any suggestions?

How do you turn on the number lock key with a office
keyboard I have it turn on in the bios system just can
not get it on in xp professional

Could you please let me know what too charge per hour,
for Hardware and Software, Installations, Repairs and Services ?
Thanks
John

I have 2 optical drives in my system, one a CD-RW drive and
the other a DVD-ROM drive. For some reason however, thw
drivers for them seem to be missing. When i try to
reinstall them, I get the following message:

My CD drives will not work. I have not done anything
different lately and need desperate help. Details are..
In the "Properties" window under the "General" tab it says
in the "Device Status" box for my SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616F

According to ATI the reason my TV tuner card hangs is
because of a known issue with Windows XP ,
hyperthreading , and this card. Upon checking MS's website
KB article Q817589, this is true. Is there a way to get

I just installed Windows XP.  I have a Western Digital
WD800JB 80 GB 7200 RPM harddrive setup as a slave.  
The computer had Windows 2000, but yesterday evening I
installed Windows XP Home Edition. I have read many

Hi I have a new hyper threading P4. It works as advertised and is fast. When I encode video though,  task manager only shows 50% processor use. The "second" (virtual) processor is basically idle. Is there a way I can configure both processors for the video encoding process? If ...

Can someone point me to the Hardware Compatibility List for XP Home Edition?
I find references to it on Microsoft but not the actual list.  I'm having
trouble getting a Lucent AMR modem working ("Port could not be opened") so
am thinking of getting a different/PCI modem.  Thought I ...

just a little prob
went and bought a stick of 512 mb 333mhz ddr ram for my atherton 2400 m/board and this makes the system crash .
orriginal was 2 x 128 166 mhz ddr .this still kills system but not as fast
have tried correcting page file turned off auto restart plus other options

I'm not sure if my problem is hardware or software... Computer after boot up is very slow to respond to clicks of mouse - can take up to 2 minutes after double-click for programs to open. Items in Systray are slow to load, the last couple take several minutes. Problem is somewhat ...

Ok here is the lowdown, bought a new processor (p42.6),
motherboard (Asrock)and 512Mb of DDR ram all compatible.
Hooked all this up to an existing machine which has two
hard disks, 1 CDRW, Geforce 4 in AGP slot and Network card