I am installing a new Lite-On 811s DVD writer and I wasn't sure if I
need to use the supplied audio cable to connect to the sound card. I
have an existing CD-RW drive also installed which has an audio cable
connected to what appears to be the sound card's only audio input. The

I have a second (1394 maxtor external Hard Disk) and a week
ago i have the message "drive is not accesible, I/O error".
How can i take the files from this drive?

my friend has just got a comp its second hand and he has no sound output Realtek AC'97 is his sound card what could be the cause the sound just isnt leaving the computer hes checked the speakers but cannot get sound

I'm building a computer. How do I install Windows XP Home
on a new serial ATA Hard Drive? Motherboard is Intel
D875PBZ. Hard drive is Western digital 120 gig serial ATA

i bought a shintaro 1394 firewire card (model 1394Ai
i have installed it, but windows cannot find a drive
or when it does try to install one it say that it cannot get ENUM1394.sy
i have checked www.shintaro.com.au for drivers but i cant find anythin

Can I use a usb memory stick on my laptop as a substitute
floppy drive ie. I must be able to map it as a: ?

I have a new CD-RW drive screwed into my computer and
that's about as far as I've gotten.
I know where to connect the IDE cable that jumps off of
the the primary CD-R drive and I know how to attach the

I installed intellipoint 5.0 software from the microsoft
site onto my laptop and ever since I get the following
message whenever I try to put the system on standby

There is a dialog box that pops up requesting what action
to take when plugging in a camera among other things.
There is a check box at the bottom "take no action" in
reply to 'always perform the following action'. I think

I am having problems getting WindowsXP to accept the Highpoint 370/372 Raid driver for my highpoint raid chipset on my Abit KG7-RAID mobo. Windows runs fine and everything else runs fine as far as hardware, but windows will not accept the proper highpoint driver. I Have tried ...

Hello,
I just installed a new mobo,hard drive, cpu. I loaded
Winxp and now my keyboard stops responding and mouse
locks up. I can use the keyboard in the bios, Windows

I just need some basic advice on formatting a new 120Gb
hard drive.  I will partition the drive to 30 and 90 Gb,
both NTFS.  In the formatting window there are various
choices.  What allocation unit size is best, or

I am installing a winXP  sp1  pro / MSDN version of XP on a new 160 GB drive
When i try to format it as one large partition i get windows general error screen saying that it could not format it
The maxtor's utility has no problem formatting it (FAT only) nor does it  se any ...

I have XP Pro, with on board usb ports that supports usb 2.  I know it
support usb 2 because all my usb 1.1 and 2 devices all work happily.
few week ago, I believe it's after a windows update, my usb 2 card
reader (to read memory stick, CF card etc.) doesn't work anymore when

I'm having no luck trying to upgrade the fireware on my
3ware RAID card. This card needs to be upgraded in DOS.
But after reading posts on this NG - i see that in short
you can't!