Is it possible to install multiple soundcards in an XP
machine in order to assign a different source to each
sound card?
(ex. SC1-MP3 Playback, SC2-DVD Playback, SC3-CD Playback,

I have a motherboard with a VIA chipset.  IT is said to have USB 2 ports,
but whenever I plug in my USB2 dvd RW drive, I get a message telling me it
will function much better in a USB 2 port!
Eventually I bought a new PCI card with USB2 ports and tried that.  I still

I hope this is the right forum but if its not perhaps you can point me in the
right direction.
The kids played a game called Casino Empire on their own PC which would
freeze every time it was played. After contacting the manufacturers I was

I am working on a computer with the above MB and OS.  The system will down
completely shutdown or restart.
It goes all the way through the shutdown process except when it attempts to
turn off the power supply, it doesn't..  Monitor goes black but not off and

The question has been asked here before, but none of the given answers  
work for me. The situation: I have 4x 1024MB corsair memory in an Asus  
a8n-sli deluxe. The bios recognizes the full 4GB, if I install a bèta  
version of xp pro 64 bit, I can use the full 4GB, but I don't ...

ok i have a toshiba satelite pro 4600
it has 5 lights at the front, battery, hard drive, on, another one im not
quite sure of and the plug light, now when i turn the laptop off the plug
light stays on, quite sure it didnt do this before, is this a battery problem

Bought a new barebones PC and want to transfer my old hard disk with XP pro
on it to the new machine.
Back in the good old / bad old days of Win98 etc, it was easy to do this as
Windows saw IDE as IDE and made no other requests to the system to fine tune,

My computer keeps shutting off on me in the middle of work I am doing.  I
have taken the computer to be checked out and I am always told that the
hardware is fine.  I have noticed that before the computer shuts down every
time the screen goes black and a little blue box says DPMS ...

I have noticed that the Volume Serial Number of the same CD is displayed
in different byte order on machines with XP and Win 98 - either using
"dir e:" command or by GetVolumeInformation() function from Win32 API.
But the VSN of a floppy disk is identical on both machines.

My computer, running XP Home, has two HDs installed.  When the second has
been idle and there is a call for data from it, the computer freezes and has
to be rebooted.  The Event Viewer shows a string of errors, over a period of
about 30 seconds.  All are the same and read "The ...

i would like to reformat my computer.  i already have nfts and just
want to reformat then install win xp pro.  what are the command
promps.
thanks hajacan

My DVD Rom used to read original dvds (DVD-9), but now, it will only read
burnt dvds. I reads everything else but DVD-9 (Original). What can be the
problem?

I have several XP PCs, and all the sudden one of them can't find the
network printer. I did yesterday, but today it won't work. I thought I
would delete the printer, then use the Add Printer Wizard to just
reinstall it. But now it can't even find it. It can connect to the

My OS is Windows XP Home SP2
The reader is lighted up.  
It flashes when a finger is placed on the scanner.
But, it never scans.

this happened a while ago, and now i realise that its getting worse..
occasionally, but now more frequently the screen flashes and its a small
tint of blue, like the entire screen remains the same, but now with a tint of
blue.. several seconds later it will revert back to white.. ...