My new DELL has a bad network card (integrated) and they are coming to rplace
the motherboard.  Teh service tech has told me I will need to reactivate my
XP license once the motherboard is replaced.  Any idea how to this?

Not sure what newsgroup to use!
I bought a new case and need to know where to hook everything up at. I moved
the motherboard to the new case.
I have a HP 512N and I am looking to find the pin and jumper settings. I

hi
is there a way by which i can hide the connections tab
of IE(Tools->internet options) or if not hide the internet options menu
under Tools of IE as i want to put proxy

at  the last time I take my computer to  Clean on C drice  and my  Modem it
lost How I can  to  Install it
 thanks you

I regularly take copies of my own user data but I now want to protect my
entire pc against a hard disk failure.
I have bought a 160GB external hard disk and I want to know what is the best
approach for protecting against failure of my c: drive.

Hi, I have a 40gb HD with windows xp Pro and I am trying to install a new
200gb HD. The problem is that Windows detects my new HD, but I do not see the
HD when I enter on "My Computer".  I had the 40gb HD as a slave and I changed
the jumper to set it as Master with the new HD as ...

I am having issues with installing USB devices. I have a USB card (from my
old motherboard) and integrated USB on my new one. Whenever I try to install
the card, or any USB device, it tells me that it cannot install the hardware
because "The data is invalid."

Hi, I had a 40gb HD splitted in C and D.  C contained windows and D was for
downloads and data, etc. I installed a new 200gb HD, but when i tried to copy
the content of my D drive into C or the new HD with windows it wouldn't let
me.  I could only see one file and the rest ...

I just got SP2 for WinXP Pro and whenever I plug in my USB
mouse my laptop instantly reboots. My Extigy and Palm work
fine with USB. The problem isn't port-specific. My laptop
doesn't even start-up with the mouse plugged in not even in

I installed a new hard drive on my WinXP Home system.  Instead of restoring
the system from a disk image, I used Western Digital's Disk Copy utility
that came with the new drive.  After a few minor tweaks everything runs
normal except System Restore.  When I try to start the ...

I have a 250GB SATA hard drive and just lately, everytime I boot up windows
it says that the drive needs to be checked for errors.  This is not the main
harddrive where windows is stored... it's just an additional storage drive
and I've had it for quite some time with no problems ...

Hi! I've bought two memory modules (2x512Mb DDR400 Kingston CL3). So, after
removing the old one, I put both of them in their slots, but the motherboard
(MSI 845E Max) didn't start working. Then I came into BIOS (with the old
mem), and set SPD Timmings to Disabled and SDRAM ...

Hi, I have problem with my DVD/CD-RW-drive...  My computer detects
the drive but when I insert a CD the drive is empty, I have tried many cd:s
but nothing work.
Please help me...

I have XP and in Explore all info has dissappeared from the first
partiotion of a drive and it asks to format it.
In Computer Mgmt is says it is healthy but lists no FAT or NTFS.
It has been suggested I put ther MBR back on but before i do I don't

I have an HP Pavilion model 8756c.  Recently I am unable to access the CD
drives.  (The failure is probably related to recently running a defrag and
disc-cleanup.)  When I go to Device Manager is see two drives listed - LG
CD-ROM CDR-8483B and Mitsumi CR-4804TE.  There is an icon - ...