Whats the difference between replacing a power supply with one that has no
switch like the one that had?

I have a Toshiba Satellite 1805-S204 laptop with
a TEAC DV-28E-B DVD-Rom.  I have twice just re-loaded
XP onto my laptop and  updated to SP2.  Now my DVD
drive does not recognize any dvds.  I re-loaded due

This morning when I turned my PC on it failed to boot up saying that my
"Secondary Master drive" was ATAPI incompatable?  What ever does this mean?
This drive has worked every day for at least a year.  As if to proove the
point I tried booting up again by pressing reset & this ...

I have a IBM ThinkPad R30 and when I switch it on with the power adapter in
it switches off after 5 seconds, it also does the same with only the battery

Last time I used my USB video capture device, everything worked fine.
Now, I get an error message that an enhanced USB port can't be found.
Yet, the enhanced USB controller is in Device Manager as it should be.
Why can't my hardware find it, especially since it has found it ...

I am attempting to stick in a smart media card into my copmuter, the card is
from a modified Sandisk card, It was modified by a copmany inorder to work in
a telephone switchboard for memory storage. I am trying to access the
recordings stored on the disk and perhaps to allow a ...

I have read many posts about this problem, it would seem it is well
known (and yet another indication of poor quality from Microsoft).  I
used my PC for over a year with Windows XP without a hitch, but only
recently it started to give me the blue 'Windows has been stopped to

I selected the NVIDIA audio drivers from Windows update after I had already
installed the Universal drivers for my motherboard.  After installing from
Windows Update I did not have any audio and received a message that my
motherboard drivers could no longer be found.

I have an NF7-S v2.0 Motherboard and AMD Barton 2500+ processor running
Windows XP Professional..  I use the NVIDIA Unified Drivers and ATI catalyst
drivers for my S80 Stealth ATI compat video card.
Even on a clean install, I noticed that if my PC locks up and the error

I have an HP laptop with WinXP Home (SP1 but I'm downloading SP2) on
our workgroup that had been working fine for months, but has suddenly
sprouted an odd networking problem.
It can "see" all the other PC's on the workgroup, but all of a sudden

I just built a new PC based on MSI's new "RS480M2-IL" motherboard (with
integrated ATI Graphics). Since I've built the thing, I've been plagued
with System hangs and the infamous BSOD (Spontaneous reboots, followed
by "Windows has recovered from a serious Error" dialog.)

Freshly installed WIN XP Pro with SP (without updates) and D-Link
wireless network card. (I have nothing else installed.)
Why is it that I cannot get a connection to my wireless router when
running in NORMAL mode, whereas when running in safe mode with network

Wireless Optical Mouse installed on PC. Problem is that we have two of the
exact same wireless mouses within 3 metres of each other. When PC 1 moves
his mouse, mouse on PC 2 also moves.
How can we solve this? There is no button to change channels - only a small

When I try to play a CD in my drive I get this error....
Restriction
"This operations has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this
computer. Please contact the Administrator."

I just installed Win Xp Home edition and am having trouble with the system
rebooting. It seems to only happen when I am accessing the DVD writer. I
would suspect a power supply issue, but when I had Windows 98, I ran
basically the same system and had no problems. I am new to Win ...