My DVD drive wont recognise any of my disk any more , why
is this it worked fine before now it  just says pleese
instert a disk into the drive,its not the disk because i
have tried it on my friends computer and it works so why

I added new hard drive in my system
It seems to be working correctly, BIOS detects it, but...
How do I format it and take it in to use?

An explanation of the following error codes appreciated.
"A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent
damage to your computer.
   Techinical information:

If faulty, where do i return to?
regards
K moore

has anyone ever had there cd-rw drive just disappear from
the computer? well today i went to use my cd-rw drive and
it is nowhere to be found the drive wont even open.... i
went into my computer to where the drives are and it isnt

Why does my CD-RW drawer eject for no apparent reason. It does this
sometimes at bootup and at other times right in the middle of a session? I
merely close the door and continue, but it's aggravating.
Is this a hardware or software problem? It also exhibits the same behavior

I finally upgraded my system to 2 identical sticks of Crucial (Micron)
PC3200 400Mhz DDR 512 megs (total 1 gigs) of RAM. The part number of the
modules are CT6464Z40B
In my P4C800 Deluxe (not-E) BIOS 1015, I have the settings as:

Recently, my dvd player on my pc stopped working.  It
works when you turn it on, but only once.  Then the tray
won't open and the dvd player, when accessed in my
computer, no longer respones.  Is there a new driver or

My computer has crashed. I have Windows XP Home Edition. I
also have a VPR Matrix computer. The CD that my computer
came with for restore is not a window's xp disk. It is
their version of restore. It's "Easy Restore 5.0" by Power

Hello Friends
I have a motherboard  PIII Soyo SY-7VBA133U and a video card GeForce2 MX400
with 64MB, the problem is: Windows XP SP1 only recognizes 32MB
Please Help me!!!!!!

I'm running a Dell Latitude C600 Laptop with a Teac CD-RW drive.  When i boot into windows, it is not in My Computer.  I go into Device Manager but it says
"Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)
But I KNOW it ...

i once heard that with windows xp professional you can
only change your hardware configuration 3 times before it
stops recognizing whatever u've changed past that
limit...now i don't know if this is true, or if there's

After trying to boot my machine, I get past the XP screen
and my computer just reboots. Then continuously tries to
start up only to reboot. If I try to enter into safe mode
or any other the same thing happens. When I disconnect my

XP and HAL: HELP MVP
RE: Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - Q309283
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=30928
The article referenced above states the following:

I recently transferred my 120gb hard disk into my new
computer. The problem is that my old computer could only
recognise the hard disk as 32gb capacity. When I put it
into my new computer and formatted the drive it was still