I've got a test cell built around an XP box, with one huge problem.  The core
of the issue is this.  I have some flow meters hooked up to serial ports that
are being identified by XP at bootup as pointing devices.  The flow meters
stream data into the serial ports, which they are ...

I have an old PC running Windows XP with a socket 7 board and an AMD K6 chip
running at 500 MHz with 320 MB of RAM.  I had expected it to have run XP
reasonably well.  Unfortunately it is intolerably slow.  I would like to
replace the CPU with something faster without replacing ...

Hi all , the stand by option  not working it is off how to make it active
i have windows XP Pro. with SP2 .
thanks

For some reason I am unable to boot to the BIOS or interact with my PC until
the GUI kicks in.  I cannot choose between profiles, I cannot "Press any key
to boot from CD", etc.  Dell says a usb keyboard cannot be used in this way.
I'm near positive that I've been able to do this in ...

ive only had my notebook for a couple of weeks, but ever since i got it, it
has been really picky about recognizing cds.  when i insert a cd to play or
rip it often says no disc in drive.  I know it's not a security or copyright
program warning.  Any ideas??

Dear Posters
I am have problems with my keyboard. It is a Fujitsu laptop and all the keys
are typing a different letter. How do I restore factory defaults so the keys
will type the characters they are supposed too. To write a letter, I have to

I am installing a mmc card reader that has to use the oem drivers. The
problem is when I plug in the device windows automatically installs its own
windows drivers. When I try to install the oem drivers I get a message saying
that the current drivers are a better match and the new ...

I have one GB of PC3200 DDR SDRAM installed now on XP Pro system. I am a
hard core gamer and wonder is it worth it to add another 1GB stick?
System is:
P4 3.06 GHz cpu HT

I just built a new system.
The system runs very fast and nice but,
XP Pro only sees 2GB of memory.
The Bios sees all 3GB and checks OK.

I have WinXP SP2 and I tried to install a Maxtor One
Touch USB drive.  I install the software, reboot, install
the backup software, remove the install cd, and then plug
in the drive to USB.  It says "found hardware: Maxtor One

If have a 90 Gb NTFS partition on my harddisk. After deleting a large
avi file of 18 Gb the disk space is no longer correct.
The system shows there are appr 60 Gb Free.
Chkdsk says: 29,8 G in 10.850 files

Report back from new RAM install; took system from 1GB of PC3200 DDR
SDRAM to 2GB of same - big increase in speed across the board!
Using Page File Monitor (thanks Ron Martell for that link - great
program) I now have peak page file usage of 5 MB vs. 97 MB after playing

The CD rom (Atapi-CD 50max) will not read any cds suddenly.
Windows XP detects the opening and closing but asks for the disk to be put
in. I've tried all types of disks, audio and data,  but nuffink.
The pc is Elonex.

I put a cd in the cd drive, and it didn't load so i double clicked the drive
to open and it says "please insert disk into drive". The managers say the
device is working fine, and just a few hours before the drive would read
cd's. Now it wont read any cd, but I've uninstalled and ...

I have built and upgraded quite a number of PCs in the IBM ATX
architecture.
Today, I moved the internals of a computer that has been successfully
running Windows XP Pro for 2-1/2 years.  That computer's internals include