My DVD playewr does not what to work.  My drive will play
cds but will not play the dvds...it just does error and
then will not shut down.  Then asks if I want to send an
error report.

I don't know how to describe this perfectly... I'll do my
best in explaining, please bear with me.
I have 2 hard drives, a primary and a slave one of
course.  For some reason this morning, the primary was

I bought my compaq Presario 6000 on 08/04/02
sn U23ZKN 3Z A161.
I have Windows XP
My Microsoft works program became corrupt.

My PC, WinXPHome, shuts off as though someone pulled the
plug. It is working from a new APC batt. backup supply in
case the power fails. I think it is a software problem
since my daughter's PC is doing the same thing. Can this

ok so i bought a new gforce fx 5200 pci card, installed it, hooked up all the wires, got power, pc comes on, programs run, i can acces the internet, etc etc, my problem is that everything got bigger and now the windows start in the bottom left and everything that goes with it is ...

We use a software package called Solid edge, which uses a dongle controlled license. The problem is that Windows XP (pre installed on a workstation) does not seem to recognise any dongles as being present. Windows XP is recognising the dongle on a couple of other workstations ...

Ran the update report on my computer to install windows xp
p. I have devices that prohibit upgrade.  My Highpoint
hpt366 ultra dma controller.  Does anyone know where to go
to obtain files to correcr this issue?

Windows XP Home (SP1)
I have two mouses, an MS Wireless Wheel Mouse (optical), that has a
transmitter/receiver that plugs into the USB port; and I have a regular
two-button mouse that plugs into the PS/2 round port next to the

This is a continuation from my previous post. titled " semaphore timeout
period has expired"
My 250gb hdd is causing probs. I cannot format/partition it using WD own
progs. I have just zeroed the drive and tried to format/partition, this took

my cd drives have disapeared from the My Computer folder.
cd's wont run, and i cant access them either. please help

I have similar problem as Keith in earlier messages.  I
have a WesternDigital 250 Gig dirve in an ADS Technology
External Drive Kit USB2.0.  Sometimes Windows XP has seen
the drive the I do an MS upgrade or load some software

New PC with 160 GB Hd
Win XP already installed compleet with some program
I wish to make 1 or to more partitions
What is the safest way to do this, without loss from dat

I have a problem with my Sidewinder force feedback pro.  I
get no forces in the joystick if I have any other joyspads
connected to my PC.  This has in fact always been the case
with this joystick (and the Force feedback games I play).

I just bought a 250GB 7200RPM 2MB Cache Hard Drive passing
up the 8mb cache option.  The same HD with a bigger cache
was $30 bucks more.  How much of a performance difference
does the cache make?