I am thinking about buiding my own PC, and have had trouble finding out if motherboards come with the CPU alreay installed. Does anyone know if they do, or if the CPU has to be also purchased as an addition?

i installed a hp 1010 laser printer a couple of weeks ago
and it has worked beautifully until tonight when the
microsoft xp tells me the printer is no longer supported
and cannot use it. I have tried removing and reinstalling

I was wondering if anyone can help me with my problem.
I have windows XP pro and a canon zr60 camcorder.  When I connect the canon
camcorder to my computer through my firewire cable, windows DOES NOT detect
the camcorder.  In fact, nothing happens.  My firewire card is fine as

         I am trying to connect my JVC GR-DVL-9700 to my pc but when I try to capture data I get the message "connect error". The software which came with the video camera installed ok and I know that my serial port works as I have connected other devices to it without any ...

If I do a cold boot of my computer the bios does not recogonize the IDE
channel the hard drives are on. This results in the message that no
operating system is found.  I have to shut it down and restart a couple of
times before the bios reconizes the hard drives.

have just bought a broadband wireless G-kit MN-820, for
my notebook to access the internet without any wires. I
do not have broadband where i live and i was told this
system would still work on a normal dial up. I have got

I have a P4 2.4, Ga-8SIMLH m/b, 384mb ddr266 with a ATI
9600pro 256mb display card. XP Pro keeps crashing and
when I reboot a message appears which says that it is my
ATI card causing the error. I have all the latest drivers

I am having a problem with my DVD+RW drive. The drive
will no longer pick up DVD+RW's but has no problem
picking up any other type of disc (DVD+R, CD-R etc). This
has only happened recently and the drive has picked up

We had to reinstall Windows XP, and after installing the
modem again, we get Error 633. I have checked to see if
anything else was in conflict with the modem, or anything
else was active, but it isn't. I made sure all the

After periods of no activity, I'll come back to a blank
screen with the message "Invalid boot diskette, insert
boot diskette in a:".  Is this a sign of a failing floppy
drive a:?

I just built a new system using 2 SATA 80GB Western
Digital hard drives.  I did NOT configure them to use
RAID.  My BIOS recognizes both hard drives.  But when I
installed XP, the operating system is only recognizing 1

How do I put a CD into the drive?  The hole is too small on the CD's to fit into the drive.  What am I doing wrong?

I have two questions here about notebook memory
1) My notebook currently has a 256Mb DDR SDRAM Memory Module (so it seems) in one slot and one empty slot. I want to add some memory to the empty slot; but are all notebook memory types on the market compatible? For instance, if I ...

I've installed a 16 bit PCI soundcard on my machine, and whilst the sound is
there, it's very low. I've done all the usual volume checks, but am told
this is some kind of 'conflict'
The chipset is ESS 1969.

My DELL PC has a built-in option under its BIOS to boot from a USB HD and it
also allows me to hit F12 key during power-up and select to boot from the
internal HD, CD drive, or a USB HD.
Has anyone been able to get this to work?  If yes, Can you please tell me