My nephew who is 4 came to stay for the weekend whilst his dad and I went
fishing.
Yesterday I discovered that my desktop wont boot up...at all.I took out the
HDD

i have a P3 that runs a dual boot....i run windows 2000 and windows xp but
when i start up windows 2000 everything works perfect...all hardware works
and all harddrives work.but when i startup XP it gets to the XP loading page
then goes to a blue screen saying hardware ...

I have a matshita DVD-ram UJ-811 drive (slimline drive in a laptop).  More
and more frequently, it will fail to read disks when they are put into the
drive.  
When a disk is inserted and you close the drawer, the activity light will

it may sound silly to ask this question. i do not know if this is the right
place to post this question. maybe you can direct me if needed.
this is a PIV 2.4Ghz, GA-81r2300 motherbord with hyperthreading
capabilities, 40GB HD, AGP graphic Card, 256MB memory.

I try to load a game on to my xps, and i get a pop-up thats says:
C:/proga 1/symantec/s32evnt1.dll an installable device driver failed Dll
initialization
i don't know what that means and i don't know how to fix it, can someone

None of my USB ports are working. I believe that it was the cause of a
thunderstorm.  I already uninstalled all drivers and ports in the device
manager and let windows reinstall them, and still none of my hardware is
recognized, not even my mouse. All drivers seem to be installed ...

I have a Samsung Laptop.  Whenever I tray and boot up I get the following
message:
PXE-E61 Media Test Failure, check cable
PXE-MOF Exiting Intel Boot Agent

For some strange reasons, I am struggling to remove the faulty floppy drive
from the PC.  The case type is ATX Midi and it should just slide out from the
front when one screw is removed.  What else is likely to stop it from sliding
out?

Every time I plug my jump drive (USB drive) in, windows pops up and tells me
it could perform faster, but my laptop doesn't have any faster USB port.  Is
there a way to stop this annoying pop up?  I'm using XP Professional on a
laptop.

Just discovered that along with Local Disk "C", DVD-RW "D" and "CD" E drive.
I now have 4 new "Removable" drives FGHI. Dont know where they came from, but
every time I start or re-start my PC the "SafelyRemove Hardware" icon appears
in the right bottom of my screen. Cant get rid ...

Hi,
This is my first attempt to use this site for help so please bear with me.
I have a laptop computer. The bottom 1/4 of the screen is freezing and at
time it flickers in that area. If I slightly twist the upper left corner of

I added a generic PCI card to my SOYO P4i865 mobo running under XPPro.
This card is not working nor is it showing up in Device Manger. The onboard
USB is working fine. I've checked the BIOS and all the appropriate devices
are enabled.

I've just been making a few prints on special glossy paper, using the
highest quality colour setting of my Epson C82 Stylus (on a PC under
Win XP).
They were pretty good, but definitely all a bit *lighter* than the

do you know when you set a  point to which you can go back to if your
computer goes wrong i have forgooten how to if someone could help me i would
be very greatfull.

The cd-rw looks like burn a blank disk, perharps when I want watch the files
copied the system shows "this is a blank disc" but the files are copied. what
can I do? The cd-rw doesn't work? do I need to reinstall the drives? Thanks
for your time and help.