How do I get my usb cd-rom to show up when I reboot using a floppy boot disk.
I am trying to boot to a floppy, then load win98 from a cd to another
partition.
thanks

I have a windows based computer. My computer repeatedly restart after
detected my IDE device, before it go to boot device.
Is anyone have any ideas how it can be like that.
Reallr appreciate,

I need to convert a PCI-X bus into an old PCI bus.
Can someone recommend on how to do it?
Thanks in advance
Mansi

In the computer browser or Windows Explorer the description for my floppy
drive is "5¼ Floppy". All I've ever had in it is a 3.5. I know I can rename
it, but why is it automatically labelling it as "5¼ Floppy"? I've uninstalled
it and let Windows re-detect it, but still the same ...

Intellipoint 5.0 does not allow me the option of programming the
wheel-button as "last window" (ALT+TAB). Instead it offers "next window",
which steps through every open window. I need to toggle between the last two
windows. (I see that "backspace" is also missing).

Thank you Joshua for reply and for registry key (i will remember it i
the future), but my PCI audio card is disabled and i use a Soundblaste
Live's gameport
'Joshua Smith [MSFT Wrote:

how do i find out weather i have pci bus or pci-e? i wnat a new ghapics card
and the one i want is pci-e but the one i have is pci. any ideas?

I recently started experiencing a problem that my CD-RW and DVD-Rom stopped reading data on my CD's. They see the CD's but don't read the data,  the CD's appear not to contain anything. I've posted the particular problem twice on this forum, but got no answer. For users ...

We are a business with approximately 110 Dell Latitude Laptops, D550, D600,
D610 all running XP Pro which is continually updated.  For unknown reason
after use for several days the Metrologic bar code scanners attached to the
USB quit working.  The USB in device hardware shows no ...

I need transfer important data from one PC to another. The data amount is
not large: portions near 120 -150MB. Using FTP is not
conveniently since there are slow internet connection.
Is the copying data into flash memory (removable drive) reliable way for

My CD/DVD-r drive has suddenly stopped burning CDs but will
still burn DVDs. There have been no software changes
recently. I find the drive also has trouble
recognizing/playing CDs sometimes though it's perfectly

I am trying to install the printer driver for a Lexmark X5270 and keep
getting the message printer spooler is not running. Any ideas? Thanks.

Evolution54 Wrote:

I recently purchased a USB DVD burner.  All of a sudden, my USB ports are not
functioning properly.  I have 3 ports on my laptop, and have tried all of
them.  Also, my mouse works, but only if it is plugged in when I start my
computer.  If it is unplugged, and then plugged back ...

I've had a S.M.A.R.T warning for over a year now (disc about to fail,
replace immediately) but have (foolishly?) ignored it - reducing the data to
irrelevant, and waiting amusedly until it failed.
Since it hasn't, I wondered if I might "retrieve" it for real work. What