My speakers work fine on other computers, but when i hook
them up onto my new xp machine the loudest that the
vollume allows it to go is still quiet.
I had someone tell me that it has happened to them

Hi all, I have an Asus 52x24x52 cd burner.
And just got a pioneer A06 DVD burner yesterday.
I read on one site the DVD burner should be set
as master. (The CD burner is master atm, and the

I can't seem to access my DVD-CD drive. It simply doesn't recognize the drive no matter what I do. I have uninstalled it an installed it again but that doesn't help. If I put in CD it starts to spin but then stops without reading it or anything. It gives the following mistake: ...

How do I stop the "New Hardware Found" wazard from
popping up after I already installed a printer?

I have a problem with windows xp automatically
restarting.  I get a message saying that windows xp will
restart in like 30 seconds and it restarts.  I went
system properties and disabled "restart on failure" but

I have a desktop HP Pavilion 525W.  As soon as I push the
power button it starts beeping and it wont get past the HP
invents page.  It is a very annoying beeping that does not
stop.  Anyone have any ideas on what it could be??

  I've recently had a broadband connection fitted into my
house with telewest.  The modem they gave me was a USB
connection.  Problem is that when i connect the new modem
to the usb port, the system either freezes or the modem

I recently upgraded to XP and now my CD-burner registers
only as a CD-Rom.  I am trying to download the XP SP1
hoping the drivers are there, but I keep getting a Remote
Procedure Call shutdown.  Any suggestions?

This error keeps appearing when I try to format, using
Instant CD/DVD, a disc - usually DVD-R/W, or if I drag
and drop data to a disc.
Any assistance would be appreciated.

I just upgraded to Xp professional and for some reason
the dial ups that worked previously now are unavailable.
I am not sure if it is the modem that is causing the
problem or if there is something else. I know that the

My motherboard is a Gigabyte 7ZX-H presently fitted with a 1200 AMD
CPU. According to Gigabyte the fastest CPU this board will support is a
2100 Palamino. I have not been able to track down a 2100 Palomino
(.18u) either new or second hand, but I have been offered a 2200 AMD.

I just installed a 10/100mbps ethernet lan card on my
Windows XP home edition, I am connecting thru dsl.
When I am connected I am still showing speed of 10mbps.  
How do I set it so I can get the 100mbps speed???

My new comp is a P4 3.0 with 1024 (2x512) megs of ddr 400 ram. AND a Seagate
80 gig SATA 150 Hard disk. My m/b is a gigabyte GA-8IPE 1000 with DDR 400
and FSB 800
I am having occasional problems with cold starting the machine. Sometimes

I have recently purchased a guitarport. It is a device for
recording guitar. It requires all hard drives, cd, dvd etc
to be running in DMA mode, or the installation shows an
error. The error it produces says dma not enabled on

Apologies for the OT post but maybe someones come accross this. I have
been trying to remove my cdrw drive from my pc but one of the screws
just wont come out. Ive tried that hard to remove it ive pretty much
destroyed the cross head in the scre so its now just go a big hole.