I Have a HP pavilion as20a with a liteon DVD+RW SOHW-802S drive. The label on
my PC say that I can play DVD's on this computer. But the drive won't read
any DVD's. I have Intervideo Platium on my PC to play my DVD's. Please help
me and be  really clear about it cause I'm a newbie ...

Have two brand new Dell OptiPlex machines with WinXP Pro that reboot when
you do a shutdown.  They go through the normal shutdown and then start
booting again.  I've tried everything I can find on the web about power
management settings and such, and have contacted Dell who ...

I have recently got Win XP Pro installed onto my desktop machine. I now want
to get it networked. I have a PCI<-->PCMCIA adaptor card which I plug into a
spare PCI slot.
The "found new hardware" wizard detects it, but I don't have any XP drivers

my PC came with a Sony CDRW/DVD ROM. I have now installed an LG DVD burner.
When both are connected, windows will not recognise either. However Windows
will recognise either  device if only one is connected. How do I get Windows
to recognise both devices so I can copy CD's & DVDs ...

I have recently got one of my desktops running WinXP Pro. I want to connect
it to my home network using a PCMCIA wireless network card and a PCI to
PCMCIA bridge adaptor to slot into one of the free PCI slots in the PC.
I know this card works because it was previously running in a ...

I recently bought a Radeon 9600SE AGP Graphics Card. I am having
difficulty installing it. My PC is running Win XP Home Edition and my
motherboard is an MSI 745 Ultra. When I
try to install from the disc I get the following message.

I am trying to use my DVD recorder to do some backups, something I have done
successfully in the past. When I put a blank DVD-R in my drive the drive
indication changes (in Windows Explorer) to CD-ROM. If I do the same while in
Windows Backup or other program, it says invalid ...

Hi, I recently got hold of a Battlefield 2 demo and its subsequent
nVidia driver card update.  Installed the game, everything running
fine, just a frame rate drop in high density areas (my card is the 128
fx5200, not supposed to be compatible!).

I have a 10,000 RPM HDD attached to my computer by using USB port. Do I
loose any HDD speed?
Is IDE HDD faster than USB HDDs?
Thanks,

I just read a review of my PC online which may sound like what I have been
experiencing wrong with it. The reviewer stated that the video and sound
card share an IRQ causing the PC to momentarily lock up which is exactly
what mine does. Is there some sort of a solution to ...

I successfully connected the UPS to my desktop via USB port and now
it's recognized as a "Battery", just as if it was a laptop. However, on
a laptop, I have an option to set up "power alerts" to shut the box
down if there's too little juice left -- but the "Alerts" tab won't

I'm trying to save to a CD for the first time.  I click on a folder, click
save to disk, specify to save to CD drive, and a message comes up to insert a
disk.  There already is a blank CD-R in the drive.  Does it need to be
formatted before use?  Why is the drive not recognizing ...

I have the problem, that I want to access under WinXP SP2 a harddisk which
contains a NTFS-Partition created with Windows 2000 SP4. I thought, that this
is no problem as NTFS should be the same in that two Windows versions but it
isn't easy. If I look into the computer ...

please Help?

I had been using an iWill 5-in-1 usb 2.0 card reader for quite a while now.
Lately, when I plug the card reader into the same usb slot, it doesn't work
anymore.  What happens, it says it is a USB 2.0 device and can support
higher speed.  Check the Drives lettering and only 1 drive ...