Up until recently my dvd drive has worked perfectly. All of a sudden if a
disc is in the drive windows will not start properly and if a disc is
inserted after windows has started it will not load properly. It doesnt even
show up on my computer what disc is inserted. Any ...

Ok, you might say Im having a slight problem installing the necessary drivers
for the 64bit xp version. I just bought new parts for my precious computer,
and I hate it when it won't work properly. This is the hardware:
Motherboard:

suddenly, after a year or so of no probs. computer won't complete boot.
nothing was changed overnight but today gets stuck with the win logo screen
showing. in safe mode it gets as far as loading  agp440.sys then freezes.
tried removing agp video card and inserted trusty old pci ...

I have a dead system. I have gone through all my diagnostic tests, including
replacing the PSU, removing all the components, testing HDD on another
system (which is fine).
The motherboard powers up, but goes no further than that. I get no beep code

I am in the process of upgrading my pc and I alreadyy have two WD Raptors in
a RAID 0 Array on an Intel D875PBZ motherboard, which as far as I know takes
up both SATA ports on the mobo (unless there is a better way to connects
them, using only one of the SATA connectors on the ...

I have a HP Pavilion Laptop Computer running Windows XP Home and just bought
a Microsoft  Digital Media Pro Keyboard and cant get the number pad on the
right side to work. It has a USB connector. Everything else works great ,
even the arrow keys on the number pad work but when I ...

Anyone know of a good effective way of removing Intel retail thermal tape
from the processor?
I'm just going to remove it and replace with Arctic Silver.

I'm not sure whether this is the right NG for this, but here goes!
I have WinXP Homeand a Geforce4 MX4000 video card with the most recent
drivers. The monitor is a 14inch TFT of "unknown" origin, but performs
well for my purposes.

I placed a 2.5" disk into a USB 2.0 Case - after writing some files to  it -
when I went to re open those folders - I got a drive or folder corrupted
message.
Since then I can't even format that drive.  To the extent that EXPLORER now

I had installed a GeForce FX 5200 PCI several months back and it has just
recently come to my attention that it has been installed incorrectly. It was
my first install and I don't know how to fix the issue. The problem seems to
be that the Integrated Intel Extreme Graphics was ...

I have a large amount of mapping data on a portable USB hard disk. I use the
data with a desktop mapping program that is installed on two separate
computers. Can I get each computer to recognise the portable drive by the
same letter each time I plug it in? That way, I can ...

Got 2 sticks of new RAM. Exactly same as my other 2 sticks except
different make.
No matter what combination i try, i cant get them to work. The pc
powers up, with the green and orange light on constantly, but the

After a recent motherboard catastrophe, I am trying to fine tune my
back-up system.
I use a reliable back-up  utility to keep regular nightly backups of
all of my files, which are on my D: partition, - easy enough. They are

My friend said it is possible to overclock a DVD burner, which I was told to
get your drive to write faster than what it's suppose to do.
Anyone hear about this?

Whenever I'm on this pc you can hear the hard drive rev up at random times
and Im not sure if this is normal. I have run adaware se, spybot, yahoo
antispy, avast antivirus and everything is clean. I just want to know if this
action is normal and/or is there a way I can make it ...