first off, many thanks to peter baker and alvin brown for
their answers to my problem.
have tried the f6 approach untill my fingers are blue.
Problem is xp always comes back with The filw TXT.OEM

hi ...everytime i try to print something ...the printer feeds one sheet of
paper and only prints on the second sheet
anyone have any ideas thanxs for any help...

I'm new to XP and after having set my XP Pro installation to play music, I
find it won't
play audio CD's, but I had no problems getting the system to play MP3's.
I'm not new to computers, so I know how to set software and hardware. I

I have an XP-Home edition with a microsoft wireless
optical mouse. At times the mouse will jump to one side
of the screen, oftentimes while I'm still moving it. It's
very fustrating. I've tried to enable "snap to"

Did anyone ever lose your screensaver capability on your computer?  Mine just stopped working and I can't get it back.  Any suggestions on how to remedy this situation?

can anyone help please? My desktop keeps locking up and i
have to turn off and restart

I did a HP PC System Recovery and it seemed to work
fine.  Then I got this Error Message "NTLDR is compressed
Press ctrl+Alt+Del to Restart" in Dos mode.  When I did
what it said it went to the same screen saying "NTLDR is

I have Toshiba notebook, (P4 2,8GHz,  512MB Ram, Windows XP Home + SP1, HDD
60GB NTFS) and have noticed this intermittent problem when Restarting from
the Start Menu. After I press Restart, Windows shuts down and then the
Laptop appears to go to sleep. Then I have to press the power ...

hi. i was wondering if anyone can help me. one problem that i have is with my cd-rom/dvd drive. my computer has stated that it is functioning properly; however when i put a disc in the drive it will not play. a message that says please put disc in drive appears even though a disc ...

I was careless enough not to have yet backed up my precious data when I got a file system virus.  I am currently using a 2 gig drive because I don't want to format the 120 gig one if I have a chance of recovering the data.  Can someone help me fix the disk?  I have broadband, a ...

I have a GigaByte 8IRXP with ULTRA133 Promise 20276 controller.
I have installed XP Pro connected at the standard IDE channel and than I
have installed gigabyte ata drivers hoping to move the drive on the ata
channel.

When i try to install my digital camera using the
provided cdrom, half way through install, a message
appears saying i require bulk533 with an option to
browse. As i cannot find this anywhere, the install fails.

i have xp on my pc, w/o sp1 and when my slave drive
reached 137gb my pc ran a chkdsk and apparently started
overwriting itself.  (xp does not support large drives w/o
sp1)  By doing this it overwrote my MBR on track 0 , now

Since loading XP SP1, besides having to reload windows I
now have no sound. I have a Toshiba Laptop model
Satellite 2400 -S251.The audio card is a Yamaha AC-XG
card with a YMF753 Codec chip. If I try to load the

I have a lexar jumpdrive that works on other computers.
On mine (windows XP) it is detected, but not displayed
under drives in "My Computer".
Any ideas?