I have a problem with external USB drives. They maps to the next drive
letter after the fixed disks (cd-rom HDD etc.). Problem is that those drive
letters aren't available (they are used by network drives). So it maps to an
existing drive letter, thus rendering the USB drive or ...

I've tried burning to both TDK & LiteOn Burners using Premiere Pro, Nero 6, &
Adobe Encore. The transcode seems to work, the burn starts and then stops
part way through with the message "DVDErr, 338944"
I'm running Windows XP, Pentium 4 3.2G, with 1G of RAM

I have installed an SIIG USB 2.0+Firewire+Ethernet combo adaptor and now
find that when the PC boots it hangs, it will not even boot into the
recovery consol.  If I try to boot into safe mode it stops on
windows\system32\drivers\mup.sys.  I have swapped the card with one from

What is considered a good temp for a CPU to be running before it is
considered too hot?

When I plug my SanDisk compact flash card reader into my D-Link USB hub
Windows recognizes the device and starts the Found New Hardware Wizard but
then tells me there was a problem installing the device. THE SPECIFIED
SERVICE DOES NOT EXIST AS AN INSTALLED SERVICE. The card ...

I have an Intel motherboard that has built in graphic card & audio card -
Stereo only.  To get 5.1 playback is it just the case of getting a new sound
card & dropping it into one of the vacant PCI slots?  If not what's
involved?

I have a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical in a new Windows XP system.
In Excel when I scroll with the wheel each increment of the wheel advances
10 rows. In my old Win 98 PC it advanced only 3 rows which is what I want.
Can I set it to change back to 3?

I have a dual HDD dual boot PC, one disk running win2k, on the other I
just installed XP home (I had another install of win2k there previously
but formatted & installed XP).  Since my larger HDD (win2k) is
partitioned, I have C, D & E drives.  When I installed XP on what had

I have had a 60G external hard drive that has worked flawlessly for 2 years
with both my desktop computer running Win98SE, and my newer laptop with
Windows XP. This external drive was formatted with FAT 32 and NO PARTITIONS
for all 60G.   Because I have a Lot of music files and ...

Can anyone help here. I am trying to transfer my Windows xp os and all my
relavent programs from a 40GB hard drive to a larger 160GB one. This is
basically for upgrading my PC and the larger hard drive will be replacing the
lesser one internally in my machine. Any suggestions ...

Is there anyway to test the speed of the USB ports?  I have received several
'older' motherboards and would like to find out the speed of the USB ports
on the motherboard.
Thank You,

I have recently had to reinstall XP.  Before this I could not record using my
'Line in' and now my 'Mic' is unavailable as well.  I have a C-Media 5.1
CMI8738 with what I believe are the latest drivers.  I have Tomb Raider -
Angel of Darkness and this game will not detect the EAX ...

I have two computers and two USB memory sticks.
When I plug in the sticks to the USB socket nothing happens.
The USB sockets are working OK with other appliances.
I must have something wrong

This message is similar to the previous post about devices not showing up in
Explorer, however I am not sure if it is really the same issue or not...
I have a USB Hard Drive that I recently reformatted using Partition Magic
7.0. Before reformatting the drive, the file system was ...

   Over the years I have put 4 together, and now 66 and going for my most
likely last one.
   I'm Really doing some research on my most likely last Home brew computer.
I have a DV 16.9 widescreen Mini canon Camcoder and a Cannon Digital 4.1 Pixel