I lost my network connection.  When I view the Network
Adapter in device manager says not installed correctly.  
When update driver the wizard returns:
"There was a problem installing the hardware.

In device manager under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers ->
Primary Controller for Device 0 under advanced settings
the transfer mode is set to: DMA if avaliable, the
Current Mode is: PIO Mode.The hard drive is a 80G western Digital i

Hello in there.
Recently - after downloading sp2 but not sure that caused it - my HP
zd7000 stopped reading and writing data and audio CDs. It still reads
DVDs - both movies and data.

I installed XP Pro over Windows 98 without any problems.  Then, on starting
up the machine, my monitor doesn't work.  The power is on and, when i unplug
the signal lead from the back of my pc, the monitor comes up with 'no signal'
on the screen.  When i plug it in again, it goes ...

Since removing my camara without dismounting it first none of my removable
storage devices work.  Is there a way of reinstalling drivers or another fix
for this problem.  My scanner and printer work but datapen, camera and card
reader dont.  The system recognises the devices but ...

I don't know if there is a connection, but I am using a PCI card for the
purpose of adding usb and firewire ports. They seem to work. Sometime after
installation, I began to have the typical restart instead of shutdown
syndrome. I decided to live with it. Suddenly the syndrome ...

Help!!!  I notified Dell and was given instructions on how to delete
partitions and work in dos mode to format my drive.  I use to run Windows 98
SE, but for the last three years I have had Windows XP.  I got a virus and
the rest is all downhill from there.  I wanted to restore ...

I recently recieved a Maxtor 40 GB Hard drive. i have installed
everything Correctly ie. Power, Cable, ect. I have tried every single
configuration of Jumper settings.
It was reconized in bios, but it wouldn't come up as an icon in Xp.

For some reason i cannot access my administrator account i load it and a
blank screen comes up as though it was loading but it does not load. Every
time i log on to a different account i recieve the following message about
task manager

I sure hope somebody here can suggest something to the following problem
because it is starting to drive me insane.
I have a motherboard with 2 normal IDE connectors and 2 SCSI IDE connectors
via a Promise Ultra 100 onboard controller.  I have 4 hard drives, all with a

I currently have 2 x 256 MB memory chips on a mobo with only 2 slots &
I want to add a 512 MB chip.
I don't much about this stuff but I thought if I left 256 MB in slot 0
& put the 512 MB in slot 1 then it would stop all the 'work' being

hey ppl, i dint use the diagnostic program, i found the problem, it was
that my hard drive use to over heat n switch it self off so i left one
side of my case open and now it works fine
thanx again ppl :) .

When I first installed XP on my computer, it was fine going into and coming
out of standby.
Since then I have installed new hardware, configured the BIOS and had to
reformat then reinstall XP due to a crash.

One of my pc’s monitor port is not working. How can i connect my
monitor through any other port like USB or RS232 serial port or
printer port etc. What kind of addtional software it requires to do
such connectivity?

Hi to all,
Is it safe to format HardDisc larger then 100GB with FAT32 filesystem???
I'm going to install new 160GB drive and i dont know what kind of file
system i have to choice.