Last week, after doing a restart of my computer, I noticed that it started up
slowly and yahoo messenger that starts up automatically did not come up. I
found that suspicious so I restarted my computer. That's when I got 'Disk
Read Error. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart'. I ...

I have been using my SATA disk drive for the last six months when XP crashed
without any salvage hope.
Had to reinstall, but XP cannot create the system folders.  Tried to
reformat but unsuccessful.  XP got to 100% but came out with an error.  The

Ok when i first got my computer, it was build by me, it worked great. then
after a couple of months, when i would connect to AOL by dail-up ( yes i know
dial-up blows!), my modem would still connect but it wouldnt play the
annoying dialing in sound. I also noticed how when i ...

I had my (only) hard disk replaced and now it calls itself F:. The Zip drive
is C: and the rest is CD etc. As many installing programs default to C:, this
is annoying. Where do I change it? The boot order in BIOS is floppy then hard
disk...Is this is in Win XP?

Hi, I was cleaning inside the box and noticed there are two fans on the
mobo. I left the case open for the hell of it and noticed one of the fans
never comes on (the smaller one which says cpu cooler); the larger one has a
heatsink beneath it but no writing on the actual fan and ...

I reinstalled XP Home, and now my 2nd hard drive won't show up.  I can see it
in the device manager as Healthy (Active), but there's no drive letter
assigned, and when I right click on it, the only options are delete partition
and help.  I'd like to avoid deleting the partition, ...

Hello, I have a Microsoft Bluetooth wireless optical desktop. It has the
wireless keyboard and optical mouse both using bluetooth and obviously the
Bluetooth reciever that fits via a cable into the back of my pc with a USB
port. I want to use a bluetooth headset so i can use the ...

When i was playing Doom 3 I set it to Ultra quality and it warned me it was
going to use 500 megabytes of Texture memory. Can someone PLEASE PLEASE
PLEASE tell me what this is.

I am trying to install a program and I am getting a popup with
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. The system file is not suitable for running
MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the
application. What can i do for this program to work? is there a ...

Why doesn't my Windows XP Professional have the dual view option in the
Display Settings? Can i get it from anywhere?

ran PC Doctor on my computer and it froze at 65%.  I waited for aprox. 2
hrs and it was still frozen.  I couldn't do ctl-alt-del so I did a hard boot.
Problem is that I can an unreadible or recognizable disk.  It gives me the
options F10 Menu and F2 for setup.

I'm having with XP.  I removed Novell from the laptop.  I rebooted the
laptop and I was able to get to the login prompt to type in the username &
password.  After that my laptop just sits there.  About 5 seconds later I
see a box that flashes really quick and I hear the XP login ...

Hi all...
I just bought a Seagate ST3200822 200GB hard drive to replace my Maxtor 40GB.
I installed it and mapped it in BIOS, and started the PC.
When Windows gets to the desktop, it works on detecting it, but after about

During startup, (before Windows is loaded) my other pc, says
Pri Master HDD Error
Pri Slave Drive ATAPI Incompativle
Run Setup

I am searching for a gaming notebook. Which is going to give me better
performance? A Pentium M processor or AMD 64?