Can not shut computer down nor reboot.Computer is hard locked. Has a blue
sceen with the following message: "A problem has been detected and windows
has shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
Drive_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL.

My OS is Windows XP SP1 and all updates.
Yesterday, my Epson GT7000 scanner was working perfectly. The Twain
program was working correctly, enabling me to scan-in photographs, while
the Microsoft Greetings software allowed me to print them up.

My mobo is ASUS A7V333 Socket A + Via KT333 chipset which should take up to
3Gb 333MHz DDR ram.
I had 1.25Gb ram and an ATHLON XP2000+ processor which apparently was
operating with FSB of 266MHz (not sure) and clock speed of 1.67GHz (true), I

I have a need that is distinct from ghosting a drive. I configure about a
dozen new systems each year, and I have a specific set of utilities and
tweaks that I want to put in place. For instance:
- Batch file that assigns drive letters to folders (which needs to be added

Hey all,
      Hello, a friend of mine isrunning win XP SP 2 and has an
external 160 gig Maxtor Drive.  All was working fine until he decided
to defrag the Drive.  Now, the drive will not respond correctly at

I Have just installed service pack 2, My control panel no
longer works. i get an error message verytime I try to
open up any settings.I hyave run Virus scan from my
antivirus prog and found no problems so please help

I dont have a hardware problem but Idont know which group to ask, but
Im sure someone will advise. I run sisoft on my system and it tells me
that Hyperthreading is not properly installed. Im useing a p4 3.2ghz
with hypertheading. Ive read through several posts that say to check

Since installing SP2 I am unable to use the Seagate Hornet 40 Travan IDE
internal tape drive (STT2401A).
Is there a known problem with the Hornet and SP2, or is the timing just a
coincidence?

I have a Soyo dragon system, with XP pro installed.
An Adaptec Dual-connect card does USB 2.0 and Firewire for me (not using the
MB USB)
When I burn CDs on my IDE drive, the USB bus re-enumerates, and/or shuts

I can't get the new hardware wizard to stop coming up. I
have tried everything short of that which will fix it. I
read everything I could find, tried the Microsoft Base
article-298370. Found and installed the update driver for

Hey. Everytime I turn on my PC a window on the bottom right pops up that
says "The software you are installing for this hardware has not passed
Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility with Windows XP." The
software or hardware is called "ACPI Multiprocessor PC" Is there ...

I put a new  Sony dual layer DVD burner in my PC and I found that the system
freezes when I try to play a DVD.  This happens for my other DVD-ROM as well.
It doesn't happen all the time, but it does happen.  I insert the DVD and
autoplay tries to start the disc.  It quickly ...

Bottom two thirds of screen flicker left-to-right when certain applications
are open, or several windows are lying on top of each other.
Particularly bad when viewing IE windows on top of full-screen iTunes.
Interestingly, only certain web pages cause the flicker to occur.

hi sorry to trouble
But some time ago i brought a dell lap top latitude 600 second handwas
pretty sure all things worked now for a long time only the usb port has been
in use this computer struggles to run xp pro the pins in the com port were at

How can I turn-off the automatic "New Hardware found Wizard" in Win XP Pro
Edition?
I want to install a LAN card, I also have the driver of it. But Win XP
automatically install some other driver which is not working. When i try to