I have a desktop with an MSI MS-6380E mainboard. I am looking at buying
another HDD, say 160-200GB.
Does anyone know if the board will support this size, or where I can find
this information.

During the installation of XP I think I selected the wrong country when
configuring the keyboard and now the @ and " characters reversed.
In control panel, keyboard option.....here is no facility to change this.
Can anyone suggest how I do this without reinstalling XP?

For the last couple days my mouse will shut off and I'll get a system message
that USB device is not recognized and from the Hardware Device Manager I can
see that the mouse is no longer shown as an installed device.  If I unplug
the mouse from the USB port, wait about 10 seconds ...

I am trying to replace my Pentium 4 1.8GHz (socket 478) and
motherboard (PCChips M930 series) with a new AMD athlon 3000+ (FSB
333)and motherboard Gigabyte (7NF-RZ).
I installed just the basics to see if I can get that to work, memory,

Opening the biggest NTFS HDD partition (55GB) in Explorer takes ~30 sec each time. After it is read, files and folders are opened quickly. Opening new Explorer window does the same thing when opening this partition. How can I resolve the problem? Thanks.

I pulled my WD 80 GB hard drive out of my old desktop and successfully used
it as an external drive on my Toshiba laptop.  I then installed SP2 and
didn't try the drive for awhile; now, the drive appears in my Device Manager,
which claims it is working correctly.  The "Safely ...

  I got all the data back.  I tried the technique of keeping the HDD
in to the freezer (max freezing point) for 2 days packed (airtight) in
a plastic cover (with tight ropes on the package). After the HDD got a
dead cool temperature, I connected it and found that my PC detected

I have a Hitachi SATA drive with Windows XP Home installed. I have 2
lite-on optical drives, a CD-RW and a DVD-Rom. I have always been able
to boot off the cd drives. That's how I installed Windows in the first
place. I wanted to format my C drive and reinstall Windows. I put the ...

Since installing xp sp2 on my Sharp laptop, the keyboard has become erratic -
unless I type very slowly, depressed keys do not always register.
In additon, the touchpad sometimes selects when it should be hovering.
I have checked the accessibility options and they are all disabled ...

I've been having an intermittent problem since I installed SP2 with my
laptop hanging when I change from battery power to mains power.
Can anyone suggest a remedy, it is starting to become very frustrating.
Kind regards,

How do i fix this, it wasworking a while ago.

Alright heres my problem, my Gravis connections in the Game controllers
Settings in the control panel have been deleted.... this i dont know how it
happend but they just disappeared. Anyway i recently reformated my computer
and was putting everything back on and well apparently ...

My computer won't boot, do I need boot cd's?
I'm trying to use 8 cd's from hp for recovery.  I don't care about saving
data, I'll start fresh.  When the 8 cd's are done loading, I get the
message, "cannot

I have a Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop with XP Home, Intel 82845 Graphics card in
a notebook and I need to know how to configure it for Dual Monitor Support.
Please help me thanks.

Is there any cable converting iLink port to a mini USB 2.0 device?
Thanks,
Ray