Okay, I don't know what OEM means. I have all the same hardware from my old
computer yet just a new motherboard. I've tried to repair it and it never
asked for a key so at least that much is good, or very very bad. My XPPro cd
is the same. Repairing leads me to errors such as not ...

I have Windows XP Pro, 1 IDE HD, and 1 SATA drive. After Reinstalling
Windows XP Pro , my SATA drive is not being recognized in Windows or in the
BIOS. The SATA HD is my secondary drive and not the boot drive. I downloaded
what I think is the proper software from Intel's web site ...

My computer has a cd player installed in it form the manuf. I purchased a
SD-R5372 Dual layer dvd burner to install in an external Housing to hook up
to my unit by USB 2.0.  Do I need to change the jumper from master to slave
or just leave it alone? Don't really understand the ...

I have a problem installing hardware and games throught this drive.  It seems
that it doesnt recognize the CD's.  They are the regular CD's.  I can put in
DVD's and DVD games in and run just fine.  Since it is CDRW too, shouldn't it
be able to play regular CD's too?  Is there a ...

For some reason my computer is not taking the repair, or new setup of windows
since I've had a new motherboard installed. . I would just format the HD ,
but I don't have the original xp cd key. Any thoughts as to why this might
be. Also if there is a way to get the key without ...

I am installing a new WD 80 gig. Can I copy the old hard drive to the new
hard drive? I dont want to load WIN 98 and then use my XP upgrade. Is there
a way to run the upgrade without installing WIn 98 first?
thanks

I have both a CD Burner & a DVD burner on the same ribbon..  On the other
ribbon I have 2 hard drives which get a lot of use.  The CD burner never
gets used.  Should there be any problem if I were to put a 3rd Hard drive on
the same ribbon as othe DVD burner?

I need to Reboot my entire computer, but I lost my XP disk. We have the
software registerd to us. Is there a way to get replacement disks?

When I plug my camera in to either front or back USB port nothing happens.
The computer does not detect anything connected. I know it is not the camera
because it works on other computers. My printer is connected be the USB port
in back of hard drive. Have tried to Uninstall USB ...

I have just installed a new 200GB hard drive and Windows XP Pro keeps telling
me that it is only 127Gb in size!
When I enter Setup on booting that tells me it is a 207GB drive, why does
Windows tell me it is only 127GB and how do I get around this?

I just put a hard drive with windows xp installed on it into an athlon 64
machine.  The hard drive came from an emachine.
It begins to boot then blue screens.  The last file accessed when starting
in safe mode is ipvmon.sys

I'm trying to install windows XP SP2 on an external WD 160GB
harddrive. But when Im partitioning the drive, I dont get the
alternative to format the drive, and the installtions program says
that the drive not is a compatible windows XP partition.

   I get this message in the system section of the event viewer:  "The
following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
viaagp".
   I have an ASUS P4C800-E deluxe motherboard and an NVIDIA Geforce4 MX420

how/where can I see what motherboard my PC has? I have to know for
compatability.

I have a broadband connection.  I have just installed Win XP Pro on a new
computer and want to connect to install the initial updates.  The new
machine is based on a Gigabyte motherboard and has 2 on-board LAN Ports, one
Gigabyte Ethernet and the other Gigabyte Ethernet (PCI-E ...