carried out a system recovery (xp home) now i have lost my sound.
no audio device is detected. (on board sound card)
i've checked the soundcard (AC'97) is set to 'auto' in the bios.
have installed new up to date driver.

I'm using windows xp home addition on a notebook from gateway with an HID
Compliant mouse. It freezes constantly. No new driver device available.
Gateway can't seem to help. bogus info. any suggestions?

I've had a Promise Fasttrack 2000 for years and today I bought another
raid card in hopes of creating another mirror.  The problem is either
one or the other card shows up but not both.  I have swapped the cards
around in the PCI slots and still only one or the other.  I presume

The only way I can get my external media to be recognized is by inserting
them and rebooting. Once I remove the cd, dvd, or camera and re-insert it, it
isn't recognized. Windows Explorer asks me to insert a cd into the drive,
although the cd is already inserted. Same with dvd+rw ...

I have a vivitar vivicam 3915.  It did not come with drivers, and vivitar's
website says that drivers are not available for XP (which i have).  Rather,
as the camera is plug and play, the camera will automatically use windows
scanner and camera wizard.  This has always been the ...

Hey all,
Recently i bought a webcam to chat to friends over MSN but when i came to
install the software from the cd rom i was provided an error message popped
up saying that the disk is not formatted and that windows couldnt read from

Canon on Monday refreshed its lineup of digital cameras, ranging fro
the basic point-and-shoot camera to a professional digital camer
capable of 12.8-megapixel resolution. The new models will be availabl
in September and October, just in time for the holiday shoppin

i have compaq lap top Model: EVOn1000v , in my company network
few days ago i tried to install a PCMCIA smart card reader, as a first step
of bulding a VPN connection , but after all my attempts its still give code
10 error in the device manager

At work people ask me this all the time, they would like two displays on the
screen. One that shows Excel, and one that shows another application. They
like to go back and forth, but on a split screen. Any help is
appreciated.........Peter

I can't figure out how to set up my laptop to accept an external mouse and
keyboard. Any suggestions?

i'm having an issue with my DVD drive.
the drive is supposed to be used internally in a desktop but i want to use
it with a laptop.
the dvd drive is an IDE device.

After my stone age CD/DVD drive finally died.  I decided to replace it with a
DVD+RW drive.  I plug it all in (it is my only cd drive) my darn computer
wont recognize it existence!  It isnt even listed in "my computer"!!  It has
power, but nothig else.  I stried installing the ...

I have been using DVD+RW disks for years but found it unsafe to store data.
The main issue is unreliable readability.  The disk cannot be read by other
DVD ROM drive or DVD writer or the one that created the disk.  Is there any
particular points I need to pay attention to improve ...

Whenever I connect my new USB card reader to a USB port on my desktop PC the
computer immediately shuts down and begins a reboot.  It does the same if I
plug it in prior to startup. If I leave it connected the computer will
continue to reboot when it finds the card reader. It ...

i updated my pionear dvd writer with the new fireware off pionears
website  my dvd writer is a pionear 106D i have updated it with the
right fireware but now my dvd will not write at 4 speed  i am sorry i
updated it in the first place was working fine until i updated it ? . I