I just replaced my power supply on my Dell 8100 and can
only get a message on the monitor of "monitor is in power
save mode, activate using pc".  I can not get any response
from the keyboard to override this or wake it up any help

My OS is Windows XP Pro. The computer has been upgraded with the latest
hardware available last December. It performed perfectly until now.
The computer will boot up, but will not respond AT ALL to any clicks on the
desktop icons. It will not respond to Start to show option to shut ...

Recently I installed the "Hercules multimedia software
update released on August 13 2002" and immediatly my
Hercules Game Theater XP sound system STOPPED working.
Since then I have tried to track down the update, but

I have an Abit NF7-S V2.0 motherboard with onboard Serial ATA,Firewire and
LAN.  There is a green light on the motherboard and next to it a red one.  I
am not sure what these are for.  I have looked thru the motherboard manual,
and I believe the green light is for the onboard LAN, ...

At start up my computer is not recognising my plug and play USB mouse. Its
getting a little annoying having to go under the desk to unplug and plug it
back in every time.
The mouse is a Harma HM-703 I can't any other drivers for it either.

Just got a Radeon 9800 (new PC) and it crashes every couple of hours and displays a message regarding a device problem, then the monitors res and colour levels drop down way below normal, any ideas?

I have one system that have 6 COM ports on system, the COM port resource
are:
COM1: I/O port 3F8h, IRQ4
COM2: I/O port 2F8h, IRQ3

I've already adjusted the drive type for my CDRW and
DVDRW, but XP will still not recognize any type of blank
disc when trying to burn the files I am able to send to
the drive.  Nero works fine.

i am wating to reconvert my drive from NTFS to FAT 32 is this possible.
am i right in saying that fat32 is the better option as i seem to have
problems since formatting to NTFS

Here's my issues:
I am trying to setup my Advanced APM Power Support so I
can turn my PC off normally.  
Right now, all it does when I shut down is hang and

I used iolo technologies system mechanic to delete some
supposedly "unused" registry keys, needless to say my
system got messed up.  So i installed a new OS on a new
Western Digital drive as my new boot disk, the only

Hello,
I am not pretend to be too bright but it seems that I
have somehow removed my volume control that sits on the
toolbar. I went Sound and audio device properties to

 I'm getting conflicting info from Dell about what type processor I have. It is an Intel with the following markings:FW82801D
             L250004
             SL6D
 One source calls it a P4 w/1.8GHz , another said it is a Celeron 1.2GHz , and My Computer (properties) claims 1 ...

My system has crashed and I cannot load windows because a
VFAT device is failing to initialise on boot.  Does anyone
know if I can buy an exterior hard drive or CD writer and
install it in DOS so that I can copy some files from my

I just installed Windows XP 64bit edition and tried loading the nic adapter driver and it loads but then says the driver never loaded. I've disabled the mb nic and installed a new nic and the same thing comes up. Can anyone lead me in the right direction. The motherboard is a ...