Need to reset my controllers. Willnot switch to dma mode
stuck in pio. Of course I have had some problems with
power outages that caused this problem.

I am looking at getting a new USB Game Pad.  Do you have
any recommondations?
I have also read that in order to use the rumble feature,
the game that you're playing must have the programming for

OK this is my situation i was having problems on my last computer with installing windows xp sp1. Because when i did my computer instantly was taking 5 to 10 minutes to boot up. I thought it was my cotroller card i was using for my sata hd. Well i bought a new cpu and mb w/ sata ...

I bought a new 120GB hard drive this week so I could copy
my camcorder tapes to DVD's. I noticed that the new drive
is showing 63GB used even though I have deleted the
temporary avi files and there is nothing visible in

I have an IBM NetVista (first part of my problem) that I
attempted to rebuild from a Windows 2000 machine to a
Windows XP machine.  I ended up having to Low Level
Format the hard drive.  Since then, I have been unable to

i bought a toshiba laptop already installed with a chinese
(mandarin) version of Windows XP Pro, when i upgraded it
to an english version of XP Pro (that i bought) all the
sound and video drivers stopped working. Whenever i now

I have been running xp pro on my dell and I have decided
to format the hard drive and do a re install of xp pro.
When I put the cd in and reboot everything goes fine,
however it seems as though the cd runs very very slow. I

Ok,
I have recently attained a computer from an office. I
have absolutely no interest in anything that is on the
comp, and I want a fresh start. The ideal thing is to

i have tried to connect my epson photo 880 printer under
winxp using parallel port. it finds the hardware in
taskbar area and tries to install software. i use either
the original cd or latest from epson web site. however it

After installing a routine windows update, my computer
now seems to have lost its CD-drive.  It does not show up
under my computer nor does it recognize me putting a disk
in it.  Under the device manager, it is displayed as

My window xp will not register all of my memory
I have a 64 and 128 chip  the cmos and nortons system
information will show the total physical memory
windows xp information will only show the chip in the

i have a usb printer but in windows me there is no usb
port to configure it to.

I have XP pro without SP1. My new HD is 160 IDE. Since I wanted the largest
partition and since XP without SP1 is limited to 137 gig I installed Server
2003 instead.
The wife hated Server (lots of programs would not load and Norton Anti-virus

I have a Dell inspiron 5100 2.66GHz P4, 512mb ram, 60GB
hdd, 2 usb 2.0 ports. The problem is that if a USB device
is connected to the computer while it is running it will
not be recognized at all. Restarting the comp allows SOME

I have a Dell inspiron 5100 2.66GHz P4, 512mb ram, 60GB
hdd, win xp pro and a 24x CD-R\RW+DVD-ROM Drive. When a
data CD is inserted into the drive the computer does not
recognize it. The autorun never works and when you click