I tried to use a Hard Drive pack with USB 2.0 but my XP does not have
SP2/SP1.  I dont want upgrade to SP2 due to problems.  Is there any USB 2.0
driver that will install on Original XP? thanks.

Hi all...
I've been reading through older messages in this group, but I can't
find an answer to this particular problem.
My brother's computer has two hard drives, a 200 gig and an old 30 gig

I have installed a Maxtor 200gig disk as a secondary drive. The BIOS
recognises the disk and size and is shown in the disk manager (diskmgmt.msc)
as drive 1 - but it says "not initialised."
However, it does not show as Drive D (or anything else) on the "my computer"

I am thinking of buying a new ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard  for my
Pentium 4 chip with HT as I fried the old board. But does it make any sense
to go out now and buy something  without PCI express?  Should I wait a
couple of months?

I have two computers: a laptop on which I do almost all of my work,
and a desktop that I terminal into for management purposes. Because of
the Remote Desktop capabilities, I have a monitor for the desktop, but
I don't have it plugged in. I would like to get rid of the monitor to

When I plug a WinXP compatible device into my USB port my system sees the
device but categorizes it as an 'Unknown Device".  Repeated efforts to
manually select the correct drivers have fail (the oem web cite does not
provide separate drivers because it's winxp compatible and ...

I have a compaq Evo and when ever I put a CD in the cd rom the computer will
all of a sudden restart.   And as long as the CD is in the CDROM it will not
boot back up it will get to the windows splash screen and then restart and it
keeps cycling until I take the CD out of the ...

Today , I noticed two scratches on my HP 1730 LCD monitor (this is Windows
XP plug&play monitor) , that didn't appear when I bought the screen in
August 2nd :
these 2 scratches look like two vertical medium-sized lines ,

had Alcohol 120% installed on my computer prior to installing
XP SP2. After installing I've been getting errors in my event viewer
that say this:

P/c keeps crashig, not responding to keys or mouse,and I
have to restart by disconneting power and battery.On
restart it checks for disk consistency,says Fat 32
file,volume serial no 1808 E75E and then starts up.Anyone

BIOS can not recognize the second hard disk. I changed the cable from hard
disk to motherboard, Falsh the BIOS, jumper setting is correct, and hard disk
has vibration when window starts , so what is the problem? BIOS shows just
the first hard disk and shows NONE for the second ...

Can anyone help? I've just upgraded to Athlon 64 (XP3500+ socket 939
on MSI K8T Neo2 motherboard, 2 x 512Mb PC3200 DDr RAM)and took the
opportunity to install a new OEM XP Pro on a new hard disk. Everything
works well but I have just realised that I omitted to copy all my data

I on Windows XP Home. How can I burn a data CD that can be read on both a PC
and a MAC?
Thanks, John.

My computer clock has suddenly started losing large amounts of time when the
computer is turned off and not connected to the internet. I use an atomic
clock sync program when connected and it keeps accurate time.  Is it possible
that the battery on the motherboard is dying, and ...

1 - I hook up my Dell laptop to a CTX projector and
    when I start the laptop, the win XP logo appears, blank
    screen, doesn't start and "no signal" appears on projector screen.
    All this time, XP appears ok on the laptop screen. It just