I don't find a newsgroup for fingerprint reader, I'll try here.
I just bought Microsoft USB fingerprint reader. It works fine in my laptop.
But when I connect it to my desktop at work I can't login on it ( PC
connected with Windows 2003) , I can only logon manually, I can use the

Purchased a 160 gig drive as my 20 is getting quite full.Pc does not see
this new drive
as master or slave.Set it up as slave to begin with intention of using Ghost
to tranfer everything.

i'm running a fully updated XP on a amd1600 with a gig of ram. mobo i
a k7 from msi. 3 hdd and a dvd-burning drive.
i'm using the daemon tools "virtual daemon manager" for mounting dis
images. right now with 2 virtual drives.

Its a Dell computer Pent 3 790 Mhz
Windows xp Pro sp-2
The problem started suddenly ,no apparent reason with WinXp Home
isnstalled .

I have an ASUS motherboard with a mixture of USB1 and USB2 ports. The ports
have worked fine until recently when they stopped working.
Device Manager shows all USB devices with a yellow exclamation mark and the
Properties tab reports "The drivers for this device are not installed. ...

hi i have an ata 160gb maxtor diamond plus 9 and im building my ow
computer, and i got everything in, i updated my bios, and i used th
maxblast software and i partitioned it to be a 60gb and a 100gb. bu
when i am trying to install windows xp pro w/ sp1 it shows an unknow

Hi:  I have an old (1999?) Acorp AT form mobo.  It BIOS doesn't support
48-bit LBA.   I have a new 200G ATA drive.
I DO have wXPpro & SP2.
I've run into problems partitioning the drive (after installing SP2).  In

Windows XP Pro SP2, USB 1.1.  I have a RCA Lyra 2010 mp3 player for which I
am consistently receiving "Delay Write Failed" error messages.  I am not sure
what the problem is or how to correct it.  I have tried rebooting, switching
USB ports, disabling the anti-virus, testing to ...

Have got a couple of problems that may or may not be connected.
Have got Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 mobo, Maxtor 6Y160M0 SATA HD, Philips PCRW1208
& LG GSA 4081B DVD writer.
Previously all was well running Windows XP pro with SP2 on a 40gb Samsung

Aloha,
I have an older Gateway G-6, 333 computer with XP Home, 2 Hard drives and
512 mem. I've had XP Home running on this computer with both of these Hard
Drives for a long time, needed to do a Fresh Install due to other problems.

My eMachine 1860, running WXP,  has been flakey on boot for a year now; once
it is on it is fine, but it hands on boot about 20% of the time.
Monday it simply wouldn't come up, hanging on "IOM.SYS" everytime.
I took it in to the shop.  They found a cable was nicked and the jumpers

Have tried installing Intel Accelerator, correct version for my board.
It installs then on reboot I'm stuck on the Blue Caterpillar screen and
after 15 minutes chickened out , rebooted F8 and used last known
configuration that worked. Then I removed Intel Accelerator.

I am running XPHome SP2 fully updated. I have 2 HDs, both set to Auto in the
BIOS for DMA detection.
HD C is correctly detected but D comes up as PIO in System Devices.
Can anyone tell me how I can set it for the DMA settings to be correctly

my internet connection has gone wired.
no online games will work
windows media player wont play online content
games that can be used online cannot detect servers

I received a windows error (Code 19) after installing the new drive. The
error said it was a registry error and it cannot operate the drive. Any idea
how to fix the registry error?