I recently had my system crash and was beyond all known help to repair.  I
ended up formatting the drive which started with 14 GB and once reformatted
it shows only 2 GB of storage space.  I have talked with a few IT
porfessional who have told me that I can use Windows XP to ...

I need to do a complete system uninstall of Windows XP Home edition and
delete my partitions and then reinstall Windows XP again.  However, my PC
will not let me boot up from my Windows XP disc.  I put the disc in the
drive, turned the PC off and restarted and it goes thru a ...

Trying to connect HP Deskjet 6540 to a vanilla Dell USB port.  Expecting the
"New Hardware found" dialog but there is no reaction.  Trying to add the port
type myself doesn't work - even though HP provides a driver.  Device Mgr
shows all the USB ports and controllers no problem, ...

I'm having problems installing Ram in a computer I'm building.  I'm a novice
builder and don't know too much about DDR Ram.  My problem is that I can get
the system to Post with one stick of ram installed but when I try to add
another, the system won't Post.  The MB is a ...

   I have two seperate cards , a firewire and usb 2.0 (I also have usb 1.1
on the mb) in my computer. Everything is fine unless I turn on both my
external firewire and usb 2.0 drives. When I do this the computer locks up,
it will resume working if I turn one of the devices off. ...

hey everyone,
Every time i Try to burn a dvd using  benq DW1610.. it reboots my pc..
This problem started recently and was fine for about 6 months.. This
problem started since i installed the drivers for Nvidia GeForce Fx5500

   I worked on a persons XP Home PC and the User Name and Password worked
fine for the 3 days I worked on it.  She called Yesterday morning and said
she couldn't logon and it was her first try.  She brings the PC back and
sure enough I can't logon as her.  I tried the ...

I've got a strange problem, first when I put a auto running CD in my DVD ROM
from Toshiba it just brings up a command prompt with a blinking cursor.  
The same thing happens with setup files I try to open as well that I've put
on my desktop, anyone know what's going on?

i was listening to music earlier and got back on my computer and all the
sudden i cant switch from my windows classic view when i was set on xp.  and
when i try to play music it says it cant open my audio device and say it
might be being used by something else although no ...

I just installed a 9-in-1 card reader on a winXP machine, and it works
fine, but only when logged in as Admin. In fact, when I switch users to
the public user, and then switch back to Admin, it's as if it
uninstalls and no longer works even as admin. The strange thing is

I now have Ghost 9.0, but when I try to enable network services through
the recovery to restore a WinXP image, I get a winbom error.  My NIC
card is on the accepted list - Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit.  Anyone else
have problems?

I'm in a network environment, and my computer has several network drives
mapped (F, G, H, O and R).  These, obviously, resolve after login (WindowsXP
Professional).  I've recently purchased a 12-in-1 media card reader.  If I
plug the device in before the computer is on, it maps 4 ...

How do I reset my Cd-Rom Drive back to when I first got it. Right now the
settings are all messed up and when i put a program or game in the drive it
does not auto play, and there is no option for those types of cds in the
autoplay section of the properties window. I have to open ...

I have an MS775DVI-BK realsync 17" lcd monitor.  It lets me play games for
about an hour or so (approx. sometimes more sometimes less). Then it puts
itself on standby or gives a frequency error, or crashes my system entirely.  
Sometimes when it crashes entirely my comp will not ...

Question
     Question: I am replacing an onbaord video controller, (Intel 8254GVCH)
(which
eats shared memeory like candy) with a PCI NVida card on the wifes computer.