No changes were made to the OS or hardware, but when I unplugged my speakers
from the card, then re-attached, the sound stopped playing.  Here are the
facts:
1.    The speakers work on another computer, and power is always on, and I

i have a onboard Nforce2 Sound card. i was using windows Xp previously and
had to format the harddisc. i installed windows xp again but this time the
sound device didnt seem to work. i detects Nvidia nForce sound device and
installs 3 files,

There should not be a compatibility issue as i have tried it in a standard Xp
machine. The problem is the screen flickers and sometimes causes Windows to
crash and restart. It returns the error that it was caused by the driver.  I
have been in contact with nVidia and Inno3D. I ...

I am getting ready to Upgrade the Motherboard and Processor of my computer.  
My Copy Of windows XP home edition is an upgrade that i purchased a couple
years back.  I understand that when you do a major hardware change, you have
to re-activate XP .  I plan on Formatting my hard ...

I was wondering about defrag and the page files.
Defrag
Does anyone have any statistics on the performance gains? Personally, I
think that today's hard disk drives are so fast, that a difference between a

I might be off in some newsgroups but nonetheless this is an emergency. I
ran Norton Speed Disk on my external HD last night.
This morning when i woke the speeddisk had an error, couldn't finish. The
explorer message said couldn't write some file (msg.ft?). And the message

how do i turn on a hard disk that has accidently been turned off

I have just installed WinXP MCE on a test computer with a ATI Radeon 9250
video card. When I launch Media Center, I get "Your card or driver is not
compatiable" error. I have tried both the supplied driver from Microsoft and
the updated MCE driver from ATI. Any suggestions on how ...

I  have a Dell inspiron 8200 1.8 GHz 128 MB Sdram , 40 gig H.D , NVidia
GeForce2 Go with 64MB. I turn on the computer this  morning to find out , it
couldn't boot to windows, it saids there is not HD on this laptop. Here the
message =*** Stop:0x0000000f4 (0x00000003,0x82170B00 ...

I wonder if someone has experienced problems during the installation of a
Zyxel ADSL modem on SP2. I know that this driver (newest available) is not
windows-certificated so i disabled this security check. Is there anything
else I could do? (since sp2 has so many security updates) ...

I have a desktop running WinXP Pro, and a notebook running WinXP Home.
I have my network and file sharing set up but I'm having a problem. If
I'm on my desktop, I can transfer files in from my notebook, but not
out. My desktop computer seems to lock up any time I sent files. This

I am trying to access my memory stick but it does not appear on the computer.
Nothing happens when I plug them in. USB ports are working fine (I checked on
Device Management) but they do not appear in Disk Management. The memory
stick works on other computers. I know there were ...

Hi from Shanghai. I have bought a new USB flash drive, 128MB, Lenovo brand,
but there is a file on it I suspect to be a virus. Everytime I delete the
file it change of name and come back under another; names are in chinese,
and some of them are Japan, Chicago, Popo, West Day, Look ...

Nick Burns Wrote:

i just bought a ps/2 optical A4tech mouse. I had a standard serial mouse
installed before. Now when i plug the new mouse and start winXP (SP1) it
stucks when entering. I only can enter in secure mode, and the mouse appears
installed and working fine in control panel. I even ...