I need to find out how to disable the error checking that
XP does on IDE hard drives. My system runs real fast
until I start working with large files or alot of small
files. Any kind of extensive movement of files whether

I've two computers running xp pro:
the first one is a fujitsu siemans whihc came preinstalled
with windows ME, i put xp pro on top of it but it didnt
give me any USB drivers (i.e. in device manager there's

Does not install on the following system
MSI NEO KT8 Motherboard
MSI 5900 XT 128 MB Graphics
120GB IBM

I recently purchased and installed a new USB printer (HP
PSC 1300 series) and a safely remove hardware prompt is
constantly on my system tray.  How do I remove the
prompt, as I want to keep my printer?

my cd rom/rw/dvd wont read a disk device manager says
device working properly think it is a bad driver can u
help

I just installed a 2nd hard drive on my computer. I can find it in the device maneger and it is working proprely, but it does not appear as a drive next my original drive in the "My Computer" screen. What happened?

  I have this great gemini d-16 transperiency scanner.
It is a few years old but does everything I want well. I
was able to get an updated driver for it when I was
running minellium but have been informed that umax will

I update XP using auto update for windows and it gives me
the option to download a driver update for Intel
Processor Software Update January 27,2002.Everytime I
download the file it gives me a messge saying there was

I'm curious if anyone has used one of those small USB drives as a drive for
the system swap file and how it's performance is compared to an internal
hard drive.  Seeing that these USB storage devices are now up to the 2 GB
range I'm wondering if anyone has tried this.

I only get this blue screen when i reboot.  I do a power
button reset and the computer works fines.  The error is
a
stop: 0x0000008e (0xc0000005, 0x805a9033, 0x3c90ca54,

I got an external 5.1 surround sound audio card and sometimes when i am playing music.  the sound will gett all staticy and does this until i stop the music and open another program.  once i do that the music plays like it should when i press "play."  So i am woundering if i can ...

I'm using XP Pro on a Pentium 4 1.8GHz machine with two hard drives.  At
least a couple of times a day, I'll hear two (2) beeps, and the machine will
suddenly stop responding.  If I manually reboot immediately, the boot will
halt at "Searching for IDE drives," and I'll end up with a ...

I have found out a lot of information on this newsgroup over the past few days, and I have found out that I should get a new video card.  So I was looking on sites and I found some pretty good ones for cheap, here's what they are called and how much they are (Canadian prices)... ...

I have just bought an Advent 7035 laptop, with Pentium 4
2.8 processor (using Windows XP Home Edition) and as all
game problems I have encountered in the past have been
RAM related, I made sure it had 512MB RAM already on it.

Within my Device Manager, when I look under "Memory", I
have "Nvidia NForce2 AGP Host to PCI Bridge" listed 4
times. Underneath this the drivers for my Graphics card
are listed, "GeCube RADEON 9200 SE 128MB Game Buster"