Both my Samsung CD-RW and my Sony DVD Drive worked perfectly for a while after I first installed Win XP S/P 1. Then suddenly both mysteriously developed the following quirk
If I boot up normally, with no media present in the drives, they refuse to read the data on any CD (music or ...

I have P4C800-E motherboard with Promise RAID controller, which I have
configured as RAID 0 (striping) 2 x160GB harddisks as the bootable (Windows
XP) connected to Promise SATA_RAID1/SATA_RAID2 interface. Now I like to add
2x160GB disk on the PRI_RAID interface to set RAID 0+1 ...

hi can you help i am having trouble running games on my
pc. I am also finding it inpossable to run windows update

My Microsoft Multimedai Keyboards hot keys do not work at
all,  I have looked at the on line manual and it still
will not work. Dont know what to do. Can anyone help.

I have a natural multimedia keyboard. It's new and I have
Microsoft Me OS.  The problem is that the hot keys do not
work.  I have looked at the online manual and can not get
it to work.

I just changed motherboards and redid Windows XP. Most of
my software and hardware came over but I lost the setup
for the modem. It is a modemBlaster Ext. Windows
recognizes it and says it is working properly, but when I

Microsoft kb 303013 states that if sp1 is instaled 48 bit
lba is enabled. Have partitioned the drive but the
partitions only add up to 137GB

i have reinstalled microsoft xp and the sound card
program hasnt been installed...
and i don't know where my sound card was made
how do i find this out?

I have an HP  notebook with a 3.2 P$ with hyerthreading technology and
witndows home sets the pagefile at custom,  1536 min, 3072 max and i have
a total of 1.5 gigs of ram. Should i leave these figures or let windows
manage the pagefile? I want the best performance. Your advise ...

I HAVE FITTED A NEW HARD DRIVE WHICH IS 160 GB. XP WILL
NOT RECOGNISE THE WHOLE DRIVE. SP1 IS INSTALED AND SO IS
ATAPI DRIVER VERSION NO 5.1.2600.1135 FOR 48BIT LBA
SUPPORT BUT I DO NOT KNOW WHERE TO GO FROM HERE.

I am trying to set up a wireless network at home between
my laptop and PC.
My laptop has Centrino wireless technology and my PC is
connected to a wireless broadband router using an

Can anyone help.
I have been running Windows XP for some time with a PS2
mouse and keyboard.
I have just bought a Genius Wireless Optical Kit (USB

Hi i'd like some advice please. for some unknown reason when I now boot up I
am told that I have to press F1 to resume.  This has never happened to me
before and I would prefer it if it simply booted to windows automatically.
On screen I get the following information :

Can anyone help?, ive just got a panasonic x70 mobile
phone and have installed the handset manager software and
driver, when i connect the phone to the usb cable win xp
pro shuts down pc and restarts saying ive recovered from

My laptop computer (HP Pavilion) is having a problem w/
the letter "c". Whenever I hit the key, it comes up with a
captial "C". The only way I can get it to lower case is by
activating the Caps Lock. It only happens with this