I just put a new SONY DWU-14AB model DVD+-R in my new
Dell yesterday.  It came OEM with no drivers, just a
watered down copy of Nero.  I've now made two coasters
with DVD-R media trying to burn simple DVD movies as a

My machine does not detect new card as PnP. When trying
to manually install XP tells me there are no available
IEE1394 drivers. Can somebody please tell me where I can
get a copy of a suitable generic driver and also why it's

I have the stange problem: green line (rather thin about 1 pic) appeared in
a distance about 2 mm from the right vertical edge of my laptop screen. The
length of this line is about 180 mm. It seems to me that this line appeared
after DVD-region Free installation, but I'm not sure:-( ...

My CD-ROMs will not detect new CDs that I put in them.  
This has not always been the case but for the life of me
I can't figure out why it's doing it now.
If I insert a new cd windows will not notice that it's a

I'm using a standard keyboard and Windows XP.  Recently had a new motherboard installed and now control and shift key combinations don't work.  Example:  Ctrl-F6 used to cycle between open windows does not work; Ctrl-F4 to close current window doesn't work
Any ideas why?

i tried to install a Colarado D600 scanner in my pc
(Windows xp).later i came to know ,that  scanner cannot
be installed in a windows xp system.i unstall the
same.now whenever i  start my pc,an error is coming

 Having just had to re-install xp, i've got no sound.
The device manager says it does not have any drivers for
it and it will not install any as i have no disk for it.
Does any one out there no where i can these drivers?

I have been given a no name iee firewire card and windows does not
have drivers for it.It runs a via 6306 chipset and i cant semm to find
drivers for it anywhere.Can anyone help me?I am running XP Pro.

I find that running Windows XP on 512mb RAM is fine.
However when I boost the RAM to 768mb the system becomes
unstable and freezes in Internet Explorer as well as
displaying blue screens sometimes. I have tried

I am one of many who have experienced the 137 gb
limitation in XP for large hard drives.  Mine is 160 and
have sp1 and the hot fix mention in the article about
enabling LBA and it is enabled and I have followed the

Hi has anyone managed to get a Plustek 9630p Scanner to work with Windows XP
Pro?
The problem isn't drivers, it is that Windows XP Pro does not even find the
scanner sonnected to the printer port I tried before on a different computer

Does anyone know of a SATA controller
card with an external port that supports
hot swapping? So that if I plug in an external
drive it will be recognized without rebooting

I have a weird boot problem.  I have 2 hard drives.  And I have verified the
jumper settings and they are correct.
If I have just one hard drive connected, it boots fine.
If I have two hard drives conneted at the same time it doesnt boot.  It

does this show it loading from a hard drive or cd rom or how can i tell? it
appears to want to default and load from my cd rom as with out the cd rom in
it doesnt want to boot
any other assistance would be greatly appreciated.

one of the reasons I needed to reformat my harddrive
recently was incompatibility of old (external)devices with
XP (in this case a software security dongle). As I will be
running a dual boot system with W98SE will I be able to