Hi, can anyone help with a problem i have with my computer crashing, my
computer starts up fine then on entering any account holder it crashes,
the second attempt usually lets me in but it has taken up to 8
attempts, it started after i started to use an external DVD rewriter

I have been having this problem for about a month.  Both my CD and DVD Rom
have disappeared from my Device Manager.  I have done a search in the forums
and found some users with similar troubles, and I tried the fixes to no
avail.  My wife and I had some visitors here from ...

In two of these CPUs, which one is more powerful than the other?
Im buying in one of these two so i need to know which one will run the
windows better, more reliable, and safe.

My cd rewriter isnt working at all. It was working but no i cant get it to do
anything. When i go to Device Manager every thing is working correctly. I
dont know how to fix this problem or it could be that my rewriter went out.

I consider buying a notebook.  From the specification, it mentions that they
make use of Pentium M Processor 750.
I would like to know what is the difference between the Pentium Processor
with the Pentium IV Processor ?  Besides, it mentions that the speed is only

I will be moving to a new computer with WinXP home installed. It currently has one IDE hard drive. There is a slot for a second drive, which I plan to fill with my slave drive out of my old computer. Both my primary and secondary drives in the old computer are just months old.
I ...

I have installed a language system that uses IBM ViaVoice. You are supposed
to be able to speak and record your voice to compare to the language you are
learning. It is not recording my voice. I have tried checking the micrphone
in the  audio section of the control panel. When it ...

A series of everything  going wrong, but my determination not to revert to
new install has resulted in some new tools being acquired.  I'll not list
what wasn't working but state that I was disappointed in not being able to
use the suggestion by "Gamma" when using the Recovery ...

I'm ordering additional system ram for a new computer. What does the unbuffered in the description below mean?
VIKING 256MB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM Unbuffered DDR2 400 (PC2 3200) System Memory - OEM
My thanks, as always, for your assistance.
~Mary

I have gont ot XP fro 2000 and had my 2 Maxtor slave drives on a SI l680 ATA
133
controler card.  I was unable to get XP to load with the card so I removed
it and after replacing it the drives do not show up.  They are in the Bios

I'm working on a computer running Windows XP Pro SP2.  The system has a
Pentium 4 1.5GHz processor, 512MB 133Mhz SD RAM.  I've installed a USB 2.0
PCI card, a Sony CD/RW-DVD-Rom Drive and a Samsung DVD +/- R/RW drive.  The
computer sees all of these devices OK (in harward ...

I just got a new vaio notebook and am having trouble. The
DVD/CD player works for software and music but won't play
DVDs. When I put a DVD in nothing happens. I can't play
it in Windows Media Player or the Intervideo player that

The "safe hardware removal tool" has gone missing from
the taskbar.  I have a USB ADSL modem always connected,
so it should be there... but it still doesn't appear when
I plug in my USB data key.

I have just installed 2 more 1GB DIMMs (Kingston) into my system.  Boot shows 4 GB, but
Cool Beans, Sandra Lite, & Belarc show only 3GB
Belarc report;
3072 Megabytes Installed Memory

I have a laptop with XP pro and I keep getting the following message in my
event log every 30 minutes:
Event Type: Information
Event Source: OMCI