I recently experienced a serious problem, in which my PC
would not boot when I powered it up, no beeps or display
or anything, just a black screen. I got around this by
replacing my AGP graphics card with a PCI one. However,

My Compaq notebook, EVO n1015V, does not recognise the
DVD-ROM and it is saying that the driver is corrupt or
missing (driver is GDR8081N). I have searched for the
driver on the net but cannot find it. Any suggestions?

Is there anyway to set the F LOCK to default to ON when
the PC is switched on.
It is most annoying to find the keyboard resets the FLOCK
to off everytime the PC is restarted (even if I use

I have tried to change permissions in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\.....
I assigned Full Control to the current user,
administrators and even

Sometimes, when I boot up my PC, I get a "Found New
Hardware" message for my (installed) default printer!  
Does anyone else get this message?

I just installed a DLT2000XT tape drive, and while the
computer has installed the proper drivers, and it works
with a back-up program, I want to use it for video
editing and want to import some media files that are on a

I have a HP6653C series computer, when I install WIN XP
Upgrade my ethernet no longer works and I have no
connection with the Internet.  Any suggestions? I
uninstalled and restored to WIN98 2nd edition.  Thank

I am a private pilot of small planes which are not pressurized.  I find that when I fly (computer with me) above 8000 ft. after landing I find my computer disoriented.  The date reverts to the earliest system date, most programmes have to be booted at least twice
In older versions ...

Just put a new PC together; hard drive light is constantly
on, no virus, since I've not connected it to the internet
yet. Drives and cables connected correctly; tested new and
old Hard Drives, does that mean it's Win XP Pro causing

Usually preceded by the mouse becoming more
and more sluggish, the mouse cursor will hang for up
to ten minutes, though I can sometimes still use the
wheel on the mouse to scroll pages the cursor will not

I bought a USB 2.0 pci card with a via chipset a few months ago. I have been trying for the few months that I have had this card to get it to work. I have installed xp service pack 1a and tried everything I can think of but I can't get it to work. In device manager it says that ...

can anyone help?
for no apparant reason it takes win xp about 5 mins to
open a folder on etiher of my dvd/cdrom dives, on task
manager they show as not responding. no new hardware or

Hello, I need to upgrade the video card on my computer.  
However, since I am a student I don't have a whole lot of
cash.  So, I researched some "budget" cards and came up
with the following:

I've been searching for a solution for 2 weeks, and all I've found is more people with the same problem. I got a Seagate UDMA 66 hard disk on a PC Chips M598LMR mobo (SiS 530 chipset). I just can't make the drive operate on DMA mode; even with the option "DMA if available" ...

Can anyone help my pc is displaying a blue screen with an
error saying it has detected a problem and windows has
been shut down to prevent damage this are the error codes
I get Stop 0x 0000ed ....0x823ab030 and oxc000032 can