I have an HP pavilion 9600 running Win XP Home.  I have two CD drives and a
Maxtor hard drive.  I want to install a second Maxtor hard drive that was
used as a win 95 startup disk and which has four partitions.
I can get the PCs BIOS to recognize the second drive (listing it by ...

Several times I've come across references to Microsoft offering a
(unofficial?) lifetime warranty on their mice. If this is true it
would be very nice for me; I have a couple of high-end dead Microsoft
mice I bought several years ago (a wireless intellimouse explorer and

When i insert a pre-formatted or pre-loaded disk into my floppy drive, it
reads it.  However, when i erase/format one and/or try to put data on a
disk, it indicates an error during format, copy, etc.  Once removed, disks
are no longer accessible or formattable.  Is something ...

I have a Windows XP Pro edition, with SP2 et. al.  I have a Mitsumi
Electronics mouse.  I have an AMD K6 processor.
Problem: I had to shutdown the computer improperly because of a rare hang
up.  Upon rebooting the mouse did not work.  Additionally, the mouse did not

CompUsa is selling a 160 gig HD for $70.00.
Is that a good deal?

I don't know where the problem lies, but my computer's time keeps changing.  
When I turn on the computer, the time is wrong.  I just changed it to the
right time, 1:50am.  Last I looked it was correct and said 1:32am.  It is
currently 1:40am, and it now says 1:07am.  Any ...

I have an external hard drive which I have formatted and appears in disk
management as working ok. I can access the drive through a program but it's
not listed under my computer. Any ideas how I can make the computer see the
drive in my computer?

I've got a 6 in 1 USB card reader.  A while ago I somehow configured my
computer up to only show the Smart Media slot and name it drive D: (so I
wouldn't have to keep selcting different drives until I found the one
corresponding to the smart media slot).

hello I have an E-machine computer T2742.  my dvd drive does not appear on my
computer. on the device manager it says. Windows cannot start this hardware
device because its configuration information [in the registry] is incomplete
or damaged. [code 19]. I can't reinstall the ...

Hello.  I am very new to computers and I would appreciate any help.  I just
bought this product:  
A Dell 8X/4X/12X DVD+RW and 32X/16X/40X CD-RW Internal Combo Drive for Dell
Dimension 2350 / 2400 and 4600 System

I am currently using AT&T dial-up, so everyone out their probably can
understand my desire for high-speed.  I have been trying to decide on what
high-speed to go with.   Both AT&T DSL and Comcast Cable have the potential
for 3 Mbps download for the package I am looking at.   The ...

My Nikon CoolPix2100 is not recognized when connected to my computer.  I run windows XP home.  The camera does not come w/ installation software because apparently it uses the system drivers.  As well, I've connected a Nikon D100 camera to my computer and not had any problems.  ...

My CPU fan turns off when I turn my computer on. If I reset computer
everything is fine. Does this everytime. I have tried all the bios stuff and
reinstalling XP. I think Motherboard but not sure. System is AMD Athalon 64,
K8Ns Pro Motherboard, LG DVD Writer (which does not work ...

I have a computer that when you attempt to print to a printer set to "Spool
print documents so program finishes printing faster" it fails if the print
job is greater than 9 pages in length.  When it fails the printer never acts
like it even receives a signal from the computer so ...

When I turn on my computer I get:
Secutity accounts manager initialization failed. Handle is invalid. Error
status oxe0000008.
It then tells me to boot up in safe mode but when I try the exact same