PC- Dell
CPU: Pentium4 1,7GHz
HDD: 40GB
RAM: 256MB DDR

Greetings all,
I have a USB to serial converter cable. When installed it assigned this to
COM4. Is there any way I can re-assign this to COM1 or COM2? (I have no
serial port on this notebook, and my software reconises only COM1 and COM2)

I woke up this morning and windows acted as if it were in standby or
hibernation mode (I didn't put it in this mode), the blue light on the front
of my HP was blinking and the screen blank.  I moved the mouse and hit a
couple keys and the computer did not respond.  I then hit the ...

I have just upgraded to XP.  During the upgrade I had issues installing XP
after troubleshooting I came to the conclusion that it was because of the
HLDS GCE-8160B 16X CDRW.  I removed the drive and ren the XP update over the
network.  The update was sucessful.  

I am looking for someone that has had experience swapping Harddrives from
one system to another!  I have built a new system P4 3.2.   I have been using
a PIII 800mz with windows XP on an 80GB drive.  I want to take the Windows XP
HDD from the  old Computer (PIII) and install it ...

I tried to do some research on the web, but could find nothing of any
use, so thought that posting here may be my best bet.
I am attempting to rebuild a Dell SmartStep 100N laptop, Yet for some
reason, the system will only see 1,397 of the folders in the i386

Searched here as I thought it would have already been asked.  Maybe my
search terms were not exactly correct to find it.
I want to slow the boot screen temporarily so that I have time to read
the messages.  I knew how to do it years ago in DOS.  How do I do this

I've had a 4 port 2.0 high speed USB hub connected to my computer for almost
a year now without any problems, then I noticed the other day that the
devices hooked to this hub were no longer working.  I went to the device
manager and discovered my hub was now listed as an "unknown ...

Hello... I am trying to connect a printer and a new Mustek scanne
through a Kensington PocketHUB USB 2.0 to a Sony Vaio PC running XP
Originally, the Lexmark printer was plugged into the remaining USB por
in the back of the Vaio (there's a DSL modem plugged into the other US

I was using an extermal keyboard & mouse for quite a while on my Sony Viao
PCG-GRT390ZP laptop (Win XP Pro). Suddenly for no apperant reason both
stopped working. If I plug them into the USB-port nothing happens (normally a
sound indicated its presence). The mouse is a MS ...

My ASUS DVD/CDROM player (E616P) cannot read (any kind of) disks if I log on
with a limited account (on Windows XP Home Edition SP2, but there is no
difference with SP1 as far as this issue is concerned).
I get the following messages:

ok bear with me on this one b/c i am totally stumped...
My friend calls me and says his comp is not working ( Windows XP P4
2.0 mhz, pci vid card 1Gig ram... ) thinks its his processor, wants to
try mine out. When he boots up his computer get to the windows xp

I own a Dell Dimension 8250, purchased in 4/03.  It's my understanding that
the
Intel chipset (850E) supports UDMA 4 on the secondary IDE channel. However,
my new Plextor 16x DVD burner shows up in Device Manager as UDMA 2, with no

As soon as I want to start some CD-ROM programs that I have already loaded
and used many times, a placard titled "16 bit Windows Subsystem" shows the
following message:
"C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. The system file is not suitable for

My notebook computer just died, with lots of info on it.  Before I send it
out to be fixed, I pulled out the hard drive to try to pull the data off.
However, I cannot seem to access the drive.
The notebook used Windows XP Home, and the hard drive, which was formatted