We have an Asus P4SGL-VM which has just had a clean reinstall of XP Pro and
when we play a music CD using Media Player 10 or try and play a game which
used to work the sound or game just stutters all the way through.
Changed the CD drive thinking that could be at fault but it ...

When I plug in the USB jump drive, it mounts, and a drive letter is
assigned, usually "F". However, it doesn't show up in explorer. I have to go
thru my control panel to the Portable Media Icon. I can transfer file too
and from, but can't open a file directly from the jump drive. I ...

Anyone know why Windows stopped playing both the starting and ending sounds.
Control Panel - Sounds and test and verify both work fine but do not play as
they used to. Soundcard seems fine (musicmatch etc.) however, I noticed this
coincides with a tremendous amount of hard drive ...

I repaced my main boad and processor as my old 1 died and now windows boots
up to a blue screen with a hardware issue. Help

Using a multi-port USB hub with Windows XP. When trying to format/xcopy files
to 2-3 USB Drives recieve an error message: "Error in IOCTL call." Any ideas
on what might be causing this to happen? If I connect the USB Drives to a
different computer they work fine.???

It's been unseasonably warm here in the east, and my computer hasn't taken
it very well. It's gotten loud--real loud. I sniffed around this morning,
and it seems to be fan noise coming from the power supply, although this is
a highly unscientific diagnosis.

Windows won't start -- error message says hal.dll missing.  I can do a
checkdisk but the directories like Windows and Documents and Settings say 0
when I type a dir at the C prompt.  The bat file is there but the config.sys
says 0.  Any suggestions on what I can do to "recreate" ...

For two days my hard drive has been chattering away with constant activity.
I ran task manager, the only process using CPU cycles is System Idle, I ran
spybot and adaware to remove any possible spyware, I ran virus checks for a
trojan horse. Nothing was there, I disconnected my ...

When I play audio files my XP wil freeze and when I turn the computer off I

I have a floppy drive that I want to use on an XP Professional SP2 PC.  The
box says Windows 2000 or NT, but the manufacturer says it is fully
compatible with XP.  When I connect the drive, it does work in XP.
If the drive was not compatible wouln't XP give me some type of message ...

Since I got my computer I got the problem of the computer restarting by
itself.
When I first installed it, the Intel chipset drivers didn't work well with
my Nvidia FX5200 drivers.

When running in Safe Mode I am able to access my CD and DVD drives as well
as my Photo Card Reader and Pen Drive.
However when I re-boot and load up Windows XP (Home) I am only able to
access them if the same disc/card/Pen Drive has been left in the device.

Trying to install XP on a SATA W.D. Raptor I've did it before but now when I
put the floppy in for the Drivers, I keep getting TXTSETUP.OEM missing I've
checked the floppy for its contents and it is there, The drive has XP Pro on
it now but been running it for a year and like to ...

I've been experiencing intermitent computer freezes that completely lock up
my system so that Alt-Tab doesn't even work and I have to reset boot.  They
occur at any given time but most frequently when playing WoW.  There is no
common activity that triggers the freeze, it just ...

Just upgraded my CPU from a 2600  to  2800  i checked the setting in the
motherboard bios and I have the settings the same  The 2600 i had running at
2.1g  the 2800  will only go to 1.2g  Is there something else I need to
change?   I'm using a  Gigabyte  GA-7NNXP  MB  ..