I have a number of USB cables, one of which I know is a USB 2.0 cable.  Is
there some way to determine if a cable is a 2.0 or 1.1 cable?  Either by
something on the cable, or by plugging it in and checking transfer speed?
Chris

After installing Windows Service Pack Express 1 yesterday,
the USB ports on the front of my computer stopped
working.  (The ones in the front are USB 1.1; the ones in
the back still work and they are USB 2.0.)  I contacted

The player that came with my compaq opens and starts to
read the Cd. But then stops not goingany farther. I go
into Run and inter the comand and it begind the think
again and then nothing. So i replaced it with  one i had

Every time I connect an USB flashdisk to my WinXP Pro
system it's assigned the driveletter "G". I can change the
drive letter in disk manager and it works fine after that
as long as I use the same flashdisk. But as soon as

I have several new HP desktops.  I am finding that all of
them have sporadic problems with reading/formatting
floppies.  I have tried several new, different brands of
floppies in these drives.  Sometimes they format fine,

I an trying to run a dos program on XP and it comes up
with a runtime error 200. Can anybody help??

Each time I have tried to download a Windows update today
the computer has crashed and all tried updates  have
shown failed both and there was a very critical one today
11-2-2004As soon as I attempt to download and install it

I can't run my lite-on cd player
I think I accidentally deleted some files like a muppet
and now I'm screwed. Apparently xp should sort it out,
but it just says that it can't.  Any ideas?

 I've just made a new computer, but the case is so small, so everything is
pack together, the power supply is just above the CPU fan. Is that OK?
 At first, i got a blue screen, and then when I tried to reinstall the OS,
it suddenly handed and I have to restart again....

I have installed a new HD into my system and now I want to
move my old system partition to the new drive.
I want to use if possible only Microsoft tools for that
purpose. Maybe XP Backup is not only able to recover a

Might be clutching at staws here but I refuse to admit defeat:
I've got a Lex BN730 Ultra M/board with onboard audio in the form of
SIS 7018 chipset. I also have a SB Live which is my prefered soundcard
however I'd like to run both on my XP Pro Build.

I am about to do a complete reinstall of XP Pro on a ASUS P4PE motherboard.
The PC will be used for video editing and general use - office aps etc
My question is sort of in 2 parts
I have one 60gb IDE ATA 100 drive and a pair of 120gb SATA 133 drives

Having a dual boot machine, if I boot to 2000 the USB hub
will function at 2.0 speeds.  Booting to XP causes the
machine to spawn the message that a high speed device has
been plugged into a non-high-speed hub.  The BIOS has

I have a soyo dragon with via kt400. usb 2.0 with
winxp/sp1a.  I have a lexmark x73 mfp and a usb modem
(found it stuffed under desk and decided to try it again).
The x73 works fine, until the modem (aztech 9100) is

I installed a chipset update (SIS 7018) and I now have no
sound, no icon in the system tray, and in control panel,
no audio device is available - it is all "greyed out". No
IRQ interrupts in hardware manager.  Tried a sys restore,