I recently took delivery of a new PC from Mesh computers which is
working fine.
However, I'm puzzled by the inclusion of a Promise FastTrak 378 RAID
controller to which a single 250 GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 SATA disk

I have developed a strange USB problem. Using WinXP Home / SP2.
Several times per day, the system 'loses' the mouse and keyboard. The USB
symbol pops up on the taskbar and I get an audible telling me 'something' has
been disconnected. But they are still connected firmly in the plug.

   I got the Asus A8V Deluex and putting it together and need to know
If I use the Raid for Faster Drives, (SATA 150), ans set it as JBOD, is it the
same as like a eide would be, in other words, not sharing wruting and readin
between two drives ?

I work on computers every once in a while, and always wonder what the proper
way is to get rid of the static electricity. I always thought that I had to
be grounded to the little screw that holds the wall socket on. Also I
noticed one guy stick a banana plug into the neutral hole ...

Please people,
I need upgrade my HD and I do not want to reinstall everything again!
I know I can mirror the old and new HDs and remove the old one.
Is there another way?

I have an iRiver IFP-190 that is failing to connect via USB on Windows
XP.
It *was* working fine for a long time but now, trying to connect it
after a 2 month hiatus, it simply is not recognized by the plug and

My internal floppy A drive is checking for information at just about every
access I request to my C drive.  I noticed the additional checks, but since
they were short in time, I didn't do anything about it.  But now that I wish
to do a full virus scan using installed software, the ...

I'm having problems installing a sata hard drive using a
Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 mobo . When I try to install XP
after installing Sata drivers first I still get the
message no hard drives installed.

This is on two clean SP2 Home and Pro installs - same problem.
Power management properties aren't even available on the USB mouse and
keyboard, despite ACPI being enabled, and power management properties being
available on USB root hub and other places.

I had a motherboard going bad, so I replaced it.
Had to do a repair reinstall of XP by booting the XP disk.
Now I can't do an update of Windows XP.
Whenever I try, the screen locks up and the only way out is to kill it

Hello I reformatted my hard drive and reloaded Windows XP Pro on it.  Once
that ws done I ran Windows Update and installed all the update and rebooted.
Everything was ok.  I ran the Windows Update and installed service pack 2.
The system rebooted and I got my bios screen and then ...

I made a DVD disc of data on my XP computer and wanted to copy it to
my 98 computer.
Its DVD drive tried and tried to read it but it wouldn't.
Nero said if I did not make it a multi session drive 98 should be able

I have a 17"CRT monitor with a screen resolution of 1024*768 pixels (Color
quality 16 bit). What is the best suitable frequency to choose for the
screen refresh rate? frequencies available are 60, 70, 72, 75 and 85.
Thanks.

I had a device problem in windows XP and saw that several device drivers did
not install properly so i started removing them to re-install, everything
works except I no longer have the "Plug and Play Software Devive Enumerator"
under system devices and windows does not recognize ...

I bought a XP Pro disc off of eBay and tried to load it over my Win ME
system.  The damn thing only loads to about 27 - 31 % then repeatedly drops
out of the setup to re-boot and start the whole show over again, and again.
Is there anyway to rescue all the "good" files still left on ...