I currently have a few problems in that I can not use my CD drive or my DVD
drive.
I also am unable to place a memory stick into my usb port and not be asked
to format it. My printer and mouse work fine in the other usb ports and I

When I try to load the software for my scanner, I get the following an error
message: "failed to set scsi found status"  I have alternately tried directly
to install the software from the HP site, but I also get another message
"Error 1606: could not access network location ...

I just bought a KVM swith (JustCom) for 2 XP machines, and it worked
for a bout 10 seconds )as both machines were booting) then one of the
PCs "found new hardware" and "installed" it, and it stopped working.
There is a key combination to make it toggle, and it simply doesn't

Like a dummy I ran both FIXBOOT and FIXMBR to try and solve problems I
was having with booting up very slowly.
After reboot, my D: drive will not appear in My Computer, Windows
Explorer, or from DOS.

creative sound Blasther,,, instructions say to delete files " ctdetect "  
they wont all delete.. What do I do? I am trying to uninstall and reinstall,
I went to add remove, and there are some of the creative sb that I cant
delete. my situation is that the speakers never did work ...

My CD-ROM and CDR drives have disappeared like many others randomly one day.
They do not show up in my computer, and they will not read any cds either.
Only the CD-ROM appears in Device manager and shows no errors. It says the
device is working properly. All drivers are up to ...

I am trying to do a clean install of XP onto my machine but each time all
the setup files have been loaded and I have pressed enter and F8 to accept
the microsoft terms my computer reboots straight away and starts all over
again.

(Let me start out by saying, World of Warcraft's technical support did not
help me at all, so I came here, where I trust the people I talk to, and who
are very kind and generous in offering their help to dummies like me)
I am having a problem with my video card. Lets start at the ...

To whomever can help, I am trying to install four pieces
of hardware to my Dell system via USB port.
- Kodak Digital Camera: DX3500
- Samsung Digital Camcorder: SCD23

Hi. my computer has 3 hard drives. 2 are RAIDed and set as C:, 1 hard drive
is partitioned into 2 (D: and E:)
I recently reinstalled XP due to computer errors. Now my computer sees my
RAIDed drive as D:. This is causing some programs to 'look' for it's files on

I bought a memory stick from computerstop its a 512DDR 266. and I need to
know if it can go with the motherboard or not.

A bit of background first:
I had 3 hard disks - C, E and F.  C is a 6GB holding Windows, E is 80GB
holding all programs/documents etc, F is 40GB holding Flight Simulator.
C was running really slow so as it is a really old disk, so I decided

I have Gigabyte DSP2 P4 mobo (GA-8KHXP) with Intel 875P chip and 3ghz
processor on CPU 478 Socket.
At this point, the only thing my computer can do is to turn on and spin all
its fans and hard drives, and light its neon lights. That's it. I don't here

My computer recognizes that its plugged in and hardware wizard pops up. It
doesn't display the make of the burner so I can download the driver. I just
need help getting this burner to work. Thank you Phil

Bizarre problem and solution.
Well, normally this group has just the problem questions. I thought I'd
post a problem and solution for someone that may be looking for answers
by searching the newsgroups.