My computer refuses to start up. When powered on, the
monitor light flashes (as though it is on but receiving
no signal) and the num lock, caps lock lights flash. The
cpu fan is working, and i have tried with a different

I am looking for systems requirements date regarding
various MS operating systems from Win 95 on up. This is
for a report I am writing. Anyone know of a specific area
that would have this information? I have been all over

OK, so I don't seem to be able to get XP to use DMA mode
for my Maxtor HDD. If I select "DMA if available", it's
still using PIO mode. I tried Microsoft manual
toglle/reboot that doesn't work.

My Atapi CD Rom has up and died.  When I tried to load
Roxio EZ CD Creator, it didn't load properly and quit.  I
have not been able to use any of my 3 CD Roms since, saying
that I don't have the proper drivers.  I was able to get a

I installed an external fire wire hard drive and ran it
for a week, it caused my system to slooooow down. When I
removed the drive the system was OK. T
There are no newer drivers that I can see, and the drive

Is there any way to FORCE XP to change the drive letter
back to C:\ I tried the obvious stuff so far.

i just installed xp professional and on my previous system
(me) my modem used com 4 but now you can only select 1 or
2 and neither register the hardware, how do i get come 4
to appear in the selecction?

I installed on this system a fresh install of XP, did all the updates and got everything up to snuff.  My HDD was shown at 137gb and I saw the unpartitioned 23gb.  I can partition it and use it as another drive but that's not what I want.  I want XP to recognize it as 160gb the ...

I have a computer with a Intel mobo Model : D845GBV. It has the 2.53GHz
processor on board, and I'm wondering if it makes any sense if I upgrade to
a faster CPU. I have no idea if this is worthwhile, but I'm asking here to
find out. I had a small windfall, and thought I spend it on ...

Installed new harddrive, installed XP Pro, does not
recognize onboard audio device realtek-AC97. Device
manager message no audio device installed. If I put my
old drive back in which also has XP pro everything is

Is it possible to connect  a win XP and a WIN 2000
computer to a usb hub to share printers.

Hi, first sorry for my poor english.
I have a problem with the bluetooth mouse and keyboard. I've installed 3
months ago this hardware and all worked fine since yesterday. Suddenly the
mouse and keyboard stopped working without any apparent reason. I have

Hi, for some reason my computer thinks that a device
installation is continuously underway. I'm lost for
options and this is preventing me loading the software
for a new printer I have just bought. Any ideas on what I

Installing 120gb hard drive, after partitioning trying to reinstalling win
XP(only os on old hd) receive
Searching for boot record from IDE-0 then NTLDR is missing.
with win xp upgrade cd tried the below

We picked up some super cheap CD's at a local computer show.  But were
having one problem with them.  Data CD's seem to work just fine but when we
make an Audio CD it seems to literally fall apart when played.  Are the
Cheap CD's no god for Audio or is something else wrong?