My computer went down when the AGP video controller failed.  It will take a
month to replace it (fortunately under warrantee).  Temporarily I installed
an old S3 Trio32 PCI video controller.  I changed the BIOS setting from AGP
to PCI for the video controller.  

I have two hard drives in my computer, one is on slave mode, so I can save
files in case virus crashes my master HHD. and that's what happened, so I
formatted my master drive and installed winXp again. But I think I deleted
partition for my slave drive by accident. Now I want to ...

When i put a cd in my D:\ drive absolutly nothing happens.  When I go into My
Computer and click on the D:\ drive icon it says"the drive or network
connection is unavailable".  I don't know whether the D:\ drive has been
reassigned to a different letter or if I need to do ...

I'm configuring a new Micron Computer (had one for years and love it).  I've
always thought that 1 GB Memory was minimum for a great XP experience
(multitask, not a gamer).  The one I'm looking at comes with:
Ballistix 512MB Dual Channel DDR2 533 SDRAM 2-DIMMs

I am having trouble burning more than 6 songs on my cd writer. after  6 songs
are burnt alot of noise and skipping occurs.......any ideas

I bought a new LaCie USB 2.0 100 Mb external drive. It is quite small
and does not require power adapter.
The thing is that when the drive is plugged in to my laptop it produces
very quite, soft vibration, which is noticeable only if you touch the

Can I make a copy of my XP cd for backup in case the original gets
scratched or something. Will it work just like the original?

My USB2 ports have stopped recognizing USB1 devices. I shhould be grateful
for any suggestions as to what can be done to solve the problem.
AA

I put an older Samsung CD ROM in a computer I just built,  then
installed Win Xp on it using this same drive to do the install.   After
installation I tried to use the CD ROM to install software, and it will
not load the disc. When a disc is loaded the cursor shows a disc as if

I have an auxilliary hard drive installed in my Sony RS320 that was formerly
used in a DOS machine and has four tiny partitions.    I want to wipe it
clean and use it to backup some vital personal files.  Is there a way to do
this and eliminate the partitions?

Our desktop computer running XP Home is turning itself on at 1:00 in the
morning after being placed in hibernate.  The scheduler had items for this
time (which I am now changing).  Isn't the computer completely OFF when
hibernated?  What mechanism does it have for turning itself ...

I have put a new HD in my pc and the bios can find it. But for some reason it
is listed as unreadable. What can I do to change that?

I put an older Samsung CD ROM in a computer I just built,  then
installed Win Xp Home on it using this same drive to do the install.
After
installation I tried to use the CD ROM to install software, and it will

I just purchased a new computer running XP that came with a 160GB HD,
and picked up a 2nd
160GB HD as it was only $39 (after rebates).
I have a few questions re partitioning -

Whenever I plug something in to the usb port, my computer doesnt pick it up.
In the device manager all my USB stuff has yellow exclamation points by it.
The General USB touble shooting just says something about making sure its set
to IRQ 9 but I dont know how to check that.