Despite opening and cleaning both the main fan and CPU fan on my Mesh
Athlon 1800, it's still occasionally making some bizarre sounds. Hard
to describe, but basically, instead of the fain 'swish', it changes to
a sort of deeper growl, repeated several times, then maybe returning

We just built a PC with ASUS P4P800 Deluxe, P4 2.8C, HD Seagate 80 GB IDE
(Port 0) and Maxstor 120GB S-Ata (Port 0). We have 1 DVD reader and 1
CD-Writter (Both IDE, on same Port 1)
We installed successfully Windows XP Pro but when we start to boot, we have

Repeating the post here.
Subject:  HD Install
From:  "AlanR" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
Sent:  3/11/2004 9:14:28 AM

The CD-RW drive is not being recognized when a CD RW is
inserted.

I now have a new problem!  Any internal network interface card (NIC), or
Ethernet network adapter, completly disappears from my PC.  I have replaced
thew orginal card with an new one and it behaves the same way.  Also, now is
it not "plug and play"ing.  I have tried to remove the ...

after upgrading my comp. to home xp my scanner will not
work. I have downloaded a new device driver from
drivermagic but it still does not work. HELP. Mod.
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I have a used but new computer to ME. I installed windows xp. and the guy who I bought it from said it has two hard drives. C and D. D doesnt have much space on it. I dont it know what its for. C has tons. Well, the day I got it I put the new windows on it and everything I ...

I have just installed, uninstalled and reinstalled again
the newest SP 1a and I can not for the life of me get my
USB 2.0 drivers to work/recognize? The device manager
does not even show my root hub or any USB roots for that

I have an HP pc which came with a partition already made on
the C: drive for making backup cds. After making my
backups, I deleted the partition, which now leaves me with
4GB of "free space." I followed the XP instrustions to use

Does anyone know the maximum size of memory allowed by XP Professional
I am receiving a error that windows indicates is a bad memory or configuration error
I recently replaced the memory and tested the new memory and it works ok
My system stats are

I had to do a system recovery on my computer from a
recovery disk,now when it reboots up it says windows could
not start up because the following file is missing or
corrupt, please reinstall a copy of this file

I have a brand new Samsung EIDE HD that can do Ultra DMA Mode 6 (133)
on an Asus A78NX Deluxe (Nforce2 motherboard) that supports Ultra DMA
Mode 6. However, when I go into device manager, the drop down in the
NForce EIDE driver only shows Ultra DMA Mode 5 and below. Is there

I just replaced a Mainboard in a  system. The replacement
MLB is the same chipset and Manufacture. I am still using
the same PCI devices as before, SB sound, SMC NIC and AGP
Video ATI RADEON. My problem is that I was forced to

I am sure that this has been discussed before, but I
can't find the information on it again.  I have installed
4GB of RAM in my XP Pro box, but it only shows 3GB
installed in the System information.  What was the cause

I have bad sectors on my hard drive and can tell a
difference in performance of my XP operating system is
there anything I can do to fix this problem?