I have a Samsung SATA hard drive, a Sony CRX225 CD-RW and a Plextor PX-708A
DVD-RW.  I hadn't used the burners for a while, now they aren't working (can
read from them but most of the time won't write).  In the device
manager\drive\properties, Win XP sees them all as SCSI devices ...

A CD-recording driver is installed that might cause stability problems,
including problems shutting down and problems using a CD/DVD drive. This
driver will be disabled.
i have been getting this message ever since i upgraded to xp. i have deleted

I have a problem with getting my monitor to display 1280x1024
in windowsXP.  Here is the story:
I have used this monitor (A4033, multisync) for years on 98SE
at 1280x1024 (and even for a while at 1600x1200), and it works

After reinstalling XP, my DVD player no longer plays sound. CD and system
sounds are fine. (I had this problem when I first installed the DVD, but
re-installing DVD software (PowerDVD) fixed the problem. Now no media player
plays DVD sound.

Posted in this group a few weeks ago regarding a machine check exception 9c
crash I was getting when playing Doom 3.  If I had an NVidia 6600 AGP video
card installed I didn't get the crash but as soon as I installed my 6800GT
card the system would crash during Doom 3 (whether ...

Evolution54 Wrote:

I set up a software raid 0 on two 80 gig seagate drives a while ago and
everything was going swimmingly, I was getting great transfer rates and
not much CPU usage using the raid.
Recently, I'm not sure exactly when, but the CPU usage needed to

Hello!  I have found a lot of articles sort of close to my problem, bu
mine's a bit better (?) than most.  
I have a 10 GB Windows partition on my internal HD and it is attache
to an 80GB external HD, where I have my iTunes songs, various game

Recently I placed a dvd into the HP dvd writer dvd400i and i think that after
I couldnt run that dvd..its stopped working.  When i put a dvd into the drive
now, the light blinks about 5 seconds then stops.... and the computer seems
unable to read it at all.

Hi, I am looking for a HDD so that I can take the board from it and install
it onto mine that has stopped working. The only problem is that I am having
trouble locating this model. If anybody knows where I can get one from or
has a second hand one it would be most appreciated.

My computer crashed and when re-started I'd gone down to the lowest
resolution and lowest colour setting possible. This was fine and just needed
adjsuting I thought, but when I boosted the resolution and colour I've now
got a squashed screen! By this I mean imagine that the ...

Am using an HP wireless keyboard and wireless mouse.  HP has replaced
the receiver, mouse and keyboard, and I'm still experiencing this
problem:
About 10 times per day, I will be typing away, and I'll look up to see

I have a e-machines running on windows xp, and i have a toshiba cd/dvd
burner.  When i try to burn a MP3 cd the burn process failes and it says
"invalid block address" and "invalid write state". The funny thing is that i
burned some of the same song on other discs and they worked ...

I am using a Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook.  It has worked great for
a few weeks, and suddenly my volume control disappeared, and I
noticed that I have no sound.  I checked my general hardware
configuration under Help and Support, and everything else is fine,

My Acer TravelMate TM802LCI notebook touchpad and left/right click buttons
are not responding to any user inputs. Have tried reinstalling Synaptics
driver to no avail. Currently using a wireless mouse connected via USB port.
Touchpad version is v5.8 and hardware properties show ...