Je cherche un moyen de changer d'IRQ pour certain de mes peripheriques car la
carte graphique, le concentratuer USB et Firewire partage l'IRQ 9 et j'ai des
problemes avec mon modem ADSL sur port USB...
Any Ideas ?

Updated the bios and new ribbon cable installed and bios immediately
detected my 160 gig drive.Created partitions and started the format to NFTS
but after 2 hours format had not proceeded beyond 0 per cent.Shut down
and now,bios does not see the drive.how do I proceed?

Folks,
Machine is a Abit KT7A-RAID (VIA KT133A chipset) with an Athlon 2ghz cpu.
ATI Radion 9700 graphics card, 750mb memory.
Machine has been working fine for ages. I turn it off for a couple of hours,

....i get a "ntfs.sys is missing or corrupted" error at boot, one morning.
I have an Asus P5GDC Deluxe Mobo with two Maxtor disks in a RAID0
configuration. Windows XP Pro is (doh!) installed on this raid volume.
I have tried to do a repair with my WinXP cd, but have had no luck ...

Hi all. I have an MSI 915P Neo 2 Platinum M/Board which supports 4SATA &
1Parallel ATA 100 by ICH6R. It also supports 2 Parallel ATA 133 by VIA Raid.
I have 2x 160GB SATA drives as well as an 80Gb ATA drive, seperate DVD
writer, CD writer, and a DVD Rom drive. I have set up XP ...

I just built a new system with an asus A8V-deluxe, AMD 64 bit processor,
Sony ATA DVD/CD/RW, and a serial ATA maxtor 250 gig harddrive.  The harddrive
serial ATA controller is part of the chipset on my motherboard.
The hardware is all working just fine.  But I need to install ...

Currently, i have 2 paralled ATA disks. 40 GB for windows & other
applications and 80 GB for data. Can i use a new SATA disk instead of this
80 GB with a 40 GB parallel ATA disk?
Regards, Rohit

OS WINDOWS XP PRO SP2 (32 bit version)
The client's machine has 2 HDs each with a Terrabyte
capacity and with at least 50 gig free but the OS is
sending the notfication that the disk is nearly full. Can

I am trying to boot in Dos mode, either using a Ghost generated disk, or a
system disk created in Win XP. Either way, I can not see the hard drives
properly. I can´t access them via the drive letters, for instance.
What is happening? How can I correct this?

Having scanned this BB I realise I'm not alone with this problem but none of
the solutions I have seen have worked for my PC. Specifically, I cannot
access my "A" drive (actually a LS-120) nor my DVD or CDRW drives. All I get
is the dreaded  "A:\ is not accessible Incorrect ...

By chance is there a command prompt command that can be run from a
batch file that allows removing a connected USB device safely?  I'm
thinking of using a USB HDD for unattended backup.  The drive will be
connected via a USB cable but AC power to it will be turned ON and OFF

A fairly new 200 gig external firewire hard drive was working fine in my
daughter's laptop (win xp pro)  she lent it to a friend to retreive some
files and the friend got some error messages..now on my daughter's laptop
she gets "disk structure is corrupted and unreadable"

Running xp pro. Suddenly I have no beeps, bonks, honks or oink noises. All
other sound features work great ie: CD's, Media Player. Have re-installed
media players and drivers and eliminated odd drivers and reinstalled about
everything I can think of. IN "Sounds" I can select new ...

I'm trying to install XP with SP1a (also tried XP with SP2) and I'm getting
a bunch of errors
Sometimes it tells me that XP can not format the drive in a new partition
and if it gets past this point then it fails to copy some of the files.

I Just formatted my HD and clean-installed win XP PRO,
and I encountered 2 little problems: the system hangs for
a short while with blackout screen right before the XP
logo with black background appears (appx 20 seconds),