I have chosen Intel 915 GAV mobo for my PC that I am building. But I
heard it comes as OEM product and not the boxed one. I read few
discussion regarding OEM vs boxed. I guess, OEM comes without "Intel
Inside" sticker :-) and with less warrenty. I am confused. What do I do

I added 512mb of memory to my Toshiba Tecra TE2300 laptop and rebooted.
I can't open any programs.  The task manager lists explorer.exe as
taking 99% of mmory but it never goes away.  I removed the memory and
rebooted but the problem still persists.  Any ideas how to fix this?

The Microsoft Fingerprint Reader seems to work with only the IE
browser. Should I be surprised? Is it true or is there something I can
do to make it work with Mozilla?  It works on the other API's I have
tried, but I haven't tested all of the ones I use as yet.

i am trying to connect a serial device (gps) to my xp laptop USB port but xp
won't even recogize the cable. this cable worked just fine on windows me.
I've tried a couple of different drivers manually but nothing works and xp
can't find anything on its own. thanks for any help.

I have a Presario 2100 laptop which has a Com 1 serial port.  This port was
working fine until I did some upgrades like installing SP2, using a cell
phone on the USB port and a wireless device in the pcmcia slot.  Anyway, the
Com 1 port stopped working even after I uninstalled ...

Whenever I shut or reboot my computer I get the following errors in the
Event viewer's System log:
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Ftdisk

My Sony Vaio Desktop PCV-W30 screen flickered for a few seconds and blacked
out.  I was reading many different forums with screens blacking out, problem
could be monitor/video card/backlight/etc. Well I decided to turn the pc on,
turn off all the lights and use a flashlight to ...

Using Win XP SP2 with drives formatted in NTFS.
Disk 1 is divided into two partitions each approx 19GB, using the size
manager in Powerdesk 6 shows 4.65Gb free, 10.5Gb used with a drive capacity
of 18.8 Gb. This leaves around 3.7Gb unaccounted for.

I have been trying to find a solution to a sound recording problem but
cannot find the right forum to browse. If anyone knows of a source of
info for my issue...discussed next...please post the link. Thanks.
Issue: I occasionally use Total Recorder to capture a broadcast. The

Hi, not sure what the problem might be, obviously...  I cleared my harddrive
and reinstalled windows XP.  I updated all my drivers, or at least I think I
did, but my speakers suddenly no longer work.  I didn't change any of the
hardware connections on the computer.  When I plug a ...

I have a 'C-Media AC97 Audio Device' speaker.  It's been working fine but
then one day it just stopped working.  
I checked its status in Device Manager and it only says:
This device cannot start.  (Code 10)

when i boot up my computer and i see my windows desktop for the first time,
there are no desktop icons or a start menu/bar at the bottom ofmy page.  the
only window that comes up is MY COMPUTER.  i am not able o right click on my
desktop or make any changes to its appearance.  ...

Why should a computer reset sometimes when the Num Lock or Caps Lock
key is pressed? I have tried turning Num Lock off in the Bios to see if
that would help. But same thing happens
The system is as follows

I have a new Western Digital 120 GB hard drive that I have slaved.
I have formatted this drive in Windows XP.
When I boot up sometimes the second drive is not there (D: Drive)
I go to:

I recently received a GPS tracking device. The device allows data to be
downloaded to my laptop. However, the cord the connects my GPS to my lap top
is the large pronged connector. It connects into the port with the printer
picture underneath it. The GPS software does not ...