The keys on my keyboard are giving me unusual CharaCters.
The C button presents a Capital C. The right Shift Key
gives Capital C's also. The Shift f gives me nothing. Same
for several other keys. HP says they don't have a fix and

i have 2 home computers and want to upgrade to xp can i
load the xp onto both com.

I can't get my Mustek 600 III EP Plus flatbed Scanner to install.  I have windows Xp home version and this old scanner that we bought 5 years ago and haven't used.  I don't have an disk for it and plug n play is not working it's not reconizing it on my emachine computer.  I have ...

I have tried everything I can think of to get this mouse
working. I have gone through troubleshooting and users
guide. And I still can't get it to work. Any help would be
appreciated.

Hey all,
I had three disks in a dynamic spanned array.  (160GB,
30GB, and a 10GB).  I was doing this more to test and
play around than out of neccessity as the 160 GB is

using roxio easy cd recording prgrm.
I can burn audio using this pgrm.
I can't burn video for some reason.(did at one time)
I can only burn video using my windows explorer options in the right column but for some reason it's not finding the empty cd.

does anyone know how exactly does winXP get the info for
the HDD? i mean, i don't think it has anything to do with
bios...do u by any chance know any tutorials or
documentation i could use? i am interested in HOW exactly

My pc does not recognize my cd drive it is installed but
it is not listed in windows exployer

had a problem trying to install a game an error window
came up saying "an error occured during a seek operation"
when installshield was running does anyone know how to
sort this out?

I have no trouble reading my 3.5" floppy drive in Windows
XP. But when I try to save - write to it, the screen
displays "drive is Write protected". I made sure the tab on
the floppy is not on write protected. Any ideas? Thank you

I have two burners, LiteOn 52x32x52, and MadMax 52x24x52. New at Chritsmas.
Both were working flawlessly until recently. Both will burn data (mp3's,
files ect). Both won't burn Audio anymore. Using click n' burn, and Nero
6.0.0.19.

Could someone tell me how to check if my hard drive uses a
E-IDE or a S-ATA cable?

Basic symptoms:  New 120 gig hard drive (Maxtor 6Y120P).  Is recognized by
BIOS by not by Windows XP Install CD (message to the effect that it can't
find a hard drive after getting the the point where I press "Enter" to
install XP) on my Dell Dimension 4400 Desktop.  Nor can it be ...

I have two physical hard drives installed on my WinXP
computer.  On first boot the second IDE drive disappears
occasionally.  I use it mostly for backup and little used
applications, so this is not a big problem.  I've

I installed SP1 last night, and all my USB devices
stopped
working. Device manager showed no problems with the ports
and hubs. I uninstalled SP1 and everything is back to