I have 2 USB flashdrives (a Memorex and a Kingston). Both drives work
flawlessly in both of my notebooks.
The problem occurs only with my desktop pc: it will recognize the drive, and
I can read and copy from the drive. When I try to write to the drive, though,

What effect does removing the battery from my lap top computer have while
using it on A/C and then storing the computer with battery left out?

I have problems installing an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 256 Mbs video card.
The problem is that the monitor stays allways in stand by mode and it
doesn't start even if i try to turn it on manually, if i do that, it come
back to stand by mode.

I've hit a strange problem with a friends laptop that I was asked to
sort out.  A standard Powerpoint or any other display displays fine
onto an attached data projector.  When displaying moving video, it
displays fine on the laptop screen, but will ONLY display on the

How do i found out what type DVD-RW interface i have?
Interface: IDE (ATA/EIDE/ATAPI)
   IDE (Ultra ATA/66)

I have XPSP2,
My sound card is sharing IRQ 11 with my
graphics card and I believe it is slowing
down performance.

Well, I've tried resetting the BIOS as suggested, loading defaults, and

I have been here a few times before mostly asking questions about
memory etc. This time I have a different question …..
I currently have two External USB HDD's sitting at 40GB each which I
record shows and sports onto using my TV Tuner card. The only downside

I wish to buy the, "Hauppauge, MODEL WINTV-RADIO # 401", PCI card for
my DELL 2400, Pentium 4 -2.4MHZ, 512MB Ram, . The specs list the opsys
as WIN 95.  Should I move up to the next higher model for my PC with
WIN XP home, or will the unit work as well with my WIN98XP.

I've ghosted my IBM laptop drive and am trying to get to the Diagnostics
partition.   It does not seem to be an option.
I cant boot from the original boot partition either.  The Drive works great
when I put it in another machine as a second drive.

my cd burner appears to have disabled itself.when i try to enable it it keeps
saying windows cannot perform your request.its a code 22.any ideas how to get
it enabled again?

This is not really a Windows question, but I hope somebody heare knows the
answer.
I have a hard drive making a sound like a rachet wrench as soon as power is
applied.

I have this stuttering sound when I play MP3, WMA, and MPEG files but it
seems to be most noticeable when playing MP3 files in Winamp. The computer
is XP Pro SP2 with the latest patches etc. I have tried many things to
resolve this stuttering but nothing seems to work. It seems ...

when i got to device manager and click modem and properties it gives me the
error message.  "Windows could not load the installer for modem.  Please
contact your hardware vendor for assistance." what can i do to fix this
problem

Upon my return from vacation I found my motherboard had blown so I purchased
a new computer. This one has SATA drives rather than the IDE like my earlier
one.  I wanted to get some files off the old hard drives so purchased an
Adaptec USB 2 Hard Drive Enclosure.  I installed my ...