WinXP Pro - SP2 installed.
I have DVDROM drive, DVDRAM and CDRW drives installed. All were working fine
but now Windows Explorer can't see the files on disks inserted (neither DVD
nor CD) . A dialogue box asks for a disk to be inserted.

When I put a disk into either of the drives I get a message " Please insert
disk into drive" when I try and access the disk. The drive icon in explorer
changes from CD-RW drive to CD-R or CD Rom depending on the disk inserted,
but explorer will not open the disk, get message as ...

I have a dell computer with  two cd rom drives. If I put a disk in the D
drive it tells me there is no disk present. Any Ideas?

i unplugged my artec dvd cd-rw combo drive the other night. to find out which
chipset it had but when i turned on my computer it doesnt reconize the drive.
i have looked for drivers on the artec website, and i have tried using the
search for new hardware tool in windows but i ...

My Philips CDRW1610A door keeps opening and closing, randomly, for no
reason, and the reading and writing light sometimes comes on, when the door
closes, though there is no disc in it.  I've checked the connections to the
drive and they seem ok.  The troubleshooter says it's ...

I have just upgraded my Win XP Pro installation to SP2 and everything worked
fine after re-booting until I noticed that Explorer does not show my floppy
drive or DVD drive nor do these devices appear in Device Manager.  I have
tried rebooting to see if the system identifies them ...

At my job we have older software that communicates to controllers through com
ports.  This will work fine with Windows 98 but not with XP.  We have
VirtualPC to recreate a Windows 98 environment on a computer with XP, and
that still worked.  I understand that XP has given the ...

Is it possible to setup multiple hardware profiles on a desktop?  And how do
I go about doing this?
Thanks

   I just picked up the All in Wonder 9600, no xt though.
Question: I have the sony 19 inch LCD that has three inputs.
1 HD 15
2 HD 15

I bought an upgradeable Compaq Presario 5310US 3 years ago with 40 GB HD and
256 MB RAM. Now  I want to upgrade to 512 MB RAM. I have read all the
documentation but I still don't understand if I am supposed to replace the
256 MB module that I have with a 512 MB module or add 256 ...

Win XP SP2, DigitaPersona 1.0.1.624 installed.  Welcome screen and Fast User
Switching both turned on.
Have the new keyboard with the fingerprint reader but can only get it to work if
an account has admin rights.  If not then all I get is

I have two Sony CD drives that after installing SP2 will no longer correctly
recognize writeable media
I've already checked out the Registry
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CD

I'm running windows 2000 professional and have 2 xeon processors and 2gb
ram...1 for each processor i suppose.
however, when i check the performance via task manager, it shows the 2
processors but only that i have 1 gb of physcial memory...

I've been testing a combination of external USB 2.0 box and a Western
Digital 250 hard drive for use as a backup device. Initially I was testing
this on a computer configured with Windows 2000 server with SP 4 installed.
Windows would recognize the drive, but far too often when I ...

I just installed SP2 and now when I click on Control Panel, Game Controllers
and click on Properties I get an error message This Program Is Out Of Date! I
can not find any updated drivers for this game pad. It was working fine
before I installed SP2. What can I do?