I recently purchased a PCI USB 2.0 controller card for my system.  It
has the ALi M5273 chipset, and I am running under WinXP SP2.  I have
found that the transfer speeds are about the same from my digital
camera to my hard drive, whether I use the new USB 2.0 ports or the USB

Hello again,
I have an IBM R32 Laptop, and i have upgraded quite a bit since i got
the machine, i am looking to now upgrade my processor, at the moment i
have a P4 1 Ghz and would like to get between 1.6 - 2.0ghz if these are

Hello all;
Okay, I seem to be going through a "stupid spot" in my awareness that I
can't seem to penetrate.  Due to a recent mobo failure, I ended up wiping my
disk in the process troubleshooting down to that (don't ask!).  No problem,

how can I find out what Ram is on my PC,   sdram or ddr
I have p4,2.0gz, 512ram
I hit <del> key on boot up and get bios info but I cant find ram anywhere
ecept dram setting of 100hz.

i have recently formatted my h/drive and replaced the mobo. now it wil
only boot if i attatch a 2nd h/drive as a slave to the primary master
if i try to boot from just my main h/drive, the bios wont detect th
drive and i have to go through the auto detect everytime, whereas wit

i have recently formatted my h/drive and replaced the mobo. now it will
only boot if i attach a 2nd h/drive as a slave to the primary master.
if i try to boot from just my main h/drive, the bios wont detect the
drive and i have to go through the auto detect everytime, whereas with

If my CMOS battery fails what will happen to my system? Is it just a case of
replacing the battery and everything will be OK?
Thanks

On the PC I have been working on today (XP Home edition) for a friend there
are some very strange happenings.  His CD drive (internal) will play a music
CD using Media Player but if I put a data CD in I can log onto the drive but
not see any tracks.

I ad a Multimedia Natural board for years, but it bit the dust last week
(the enter key stopped working). As I suffer from RSI (in the form of CTS)
and I wanted something just as good to replace it. The only thing that
looked remotely close was the above. Well I received it this ...

was trying to take off the case off my p4.
at the back where the ports are I see some screws I can take off connected
to the case but what are the small round holes? how do I unscrew these
things.

I am running Windows XP Professional.  Video driver is 9200SE S80
Stealth--ATI compatible.  I downloaded the 5.3 drivers with integrated WDM.
Usually since I have a dial up connection, I download the drivers in parts
and only load the Driver and Control center since my card is ...

I have a one month old 120 gig IDE/ATA Western Digital 7200 hard drive
slaved as a second drive in my current WIN XP, SP2 computer. Can I pull it
and install it as a second drive in my new Dell Dimension 8400 computer
which came with a 160 gig SATA hard drive (also WIN XP, SP2)?

For IDE Hard Disk, what brand do you think is the most reliable?

I have 2 hardrives on windowsxp 20 gb samsung harddrive and 40 g
seagate.
samsung harddrive works fine under xp but seagate is not gettin
detected.

I tried installing window xp integrated with sp2 in a computer in my office,
and the installation failed with a blue screen saying that windows has
stopped the computer as an essential service was unexpectedly terminated or
something like that. The blue screen appears when setup has ...