I have a cdrw dvdrom in my machine and then I installed a
Sony DVD writer and now the cdrw DVDrom does not read
DVD's, but it reads cd's.  How do I fix this.  I tried
the cdrom gone reg fix and it didn't do anything.

does anyone know how to install a web camera? i know
which hole to put it in, just it keeps on coming up with
new hardware instalation required, and the computer
doesn't recognise it. please help me someone!

Hey there,  I am running XP home and added a radeon 7000
vid card with hydravision...card works great with one
monitor tried to add the 2nd monitor(oh my puter is a
compaq presario 5420us amd athalon 1700).....the

I updated my pc a while ago and decided to get a new hard
drive, i can't remember exactly what the hard drive is
but it was something like a 80 gig maxtor (i think).
When i conected to my Motherboard (Gigabyte GA-7VT600

Are BIOS updates cumulative?  TIA
shaka

Hello group.
I have Samsung SyncMaster 957MB monitor which has a USB control feature
(for adjusting geometry, brightness, contrast, etc.)
The problem is that this thing (USB) doesn't work on my WinXP. I've tried

I have a system running windows XP sp1. This system has multiple hard drives
the OS drive is 40gb and I have another drive that is 200gb (both NTFS). I
recently reformatted the OS drive and reinstalled XP. The OS installs
fine... but after reboot it looks at my 200gb drive and runs ...

I had this virus that made my computer very slow.  So I thought it would help to reset my bios settings to performance settings.  As soon as I did that i heard "Beep             Beep             Beep             Beep             Beep...".  So I flashed the CMOS (reset my bios to ...

My Epson 875DC printer will not read cards (Smartmedia or
compact flash ) since I installed windows XP Home.
I have downloaded the latest drivers, and the actual
printing works fine, but when I try to access the card

My disk drive is a dvd/cdr drive.   I tried your
suggestion and uninstalled the USB controllers and
DVD/CDR driver.   nothing changed.
However, windows explorer does recognize that I have a

Build new computer pentium 4 3.4ghs with windows xp pro. I
have 12 usb ports but some of my hardware that did work on
another computer running windows xp home edision will not
work. Will say new hardware found but will not load

Can someone please assist me. I just bought a new Gateway E4100 computer
and
it came with a Microsoft PS/2 mouse, driver 5.1.2600.0 dated 7/1/2001. When
I send e-mail and go to select names from my contact list it does not

I have an LCD monitor which clicks loudly at 2 to 3 minute intervals for
the first two hours after it is turned on.  Because it uses only 30 watts
the obvious solution would be to avoid this warm-up period by leaving the
monitor always-on.  Unfortunately, it seems that modern ...

I'm tryint to write to a CD-RW but when I put in a blank
cd I get F:\ is not accessible.  Invalid function.
The drive works OK when I use Backup-My-PC.

Hi, I've had my game pad for sometime, everything was ok
untill I plugged it when a game was loading up and then
it started to behave badly:
the d-pad is not functionning anymore, it stays on the